(n.) A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
(n.) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus, of which one species (T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribbaeus, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
Example Sentences:
(1) 14C-labelled ouabain was found to bind to the garfish olfactory nerve with an equilibrium dissociation constant of about 0.5 muM.
(2) The interaction between the purified [(3)H]tetrodotoxin and membrane suspensions from the olfactory nerve of long-nosed garfish has been investigated by equilibrium dialysis.
(3) Assays for acetylcholinesterase in axon plasma membrane fractions isolated from different nerve sources showed a wide variation, ranging from a specific activity of 2.4 for garfish nerve to 312.5 for lobster nerve membrane.
(4) The binding of this toxin to rabbit, lobster and garfish olfactory nerve fibres has been re-examined.
(5) Tritium labelled saxitoxin has been prepared and purified, and its binding both to intact rabbit vagus nerves and to a solubilized preparation of garfish olfactory nerve membranes has been examined.2.
(6) The use of the long garfish olfactory nerve has revealed that neuronal death is not an inevitable consequence of an axonal injury and that the extent of cell death depends on the distance between the site of injury and the perikaryon.
(7) Garfish Lepisosteus osseus olfactory nerve, because of its large size and the unusually high concentration of axonal membrane, is an excellent source of axonal membrane.
(8) In the garfish olfactory nerve proteins labeled with [3H]leucine are transported by slow axonal flow as a well-defined crest of radioactivity.
(9) To this end, tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin, which bind specifically to sodium channels, have been triated and their binding to rabbit, lobster and garfish non-lyelinated nerve fibres examined.
(10) The movements of labelled phosphate were measured in garfish olfactory and in rabbit vagus nerves at rest and during activity.
(11) Using the garfish olfactory nerve, the time-courses of lateral expansion (swelling) and birefringence changes in nerve fibers have been examined at the site of application of electric current pulses.
(12) Comparisons between slow transport in garfish olfactory axons and other vertebrate nerves indicate that despite major differences, the basic characteristics of slow transport are conserved.
(13) The role of phospholipids in the binding of [3H]tetrodotoxin to garfish olfactory nerve axon plasma membrane was studied by the use of purified phospholipases.
(14) With the solubilized preparation of garfish nerve membranes the saxitoxin-receptor reaction rates are almost four times faster than those of tetrodotoxin.
(15) The axon plasma membrane fraction isolated from garfish olfactory nerve was analyzed for its polypeptide composition by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(16) Based on electrophoretic mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel, eight of the major polypeptides found in garfish nerve membrane appeared to be also present in the axon plasma membrane isolated from lobster walking leg nerve.
(17) A study has been made of the temperature changes associated with the passage of a single impulse in the non-myelinated fibres of the garfish olfactory nerve: and the time course of these temperature changes has been compared with the time course of the electrical events during the action potential.
(18) The long, large olfactory nerve of the garfish, as an easily accessible source of nonmyelinated axons, is uniquely suited for such a comparison.
(19) The recovery heat production of the non-myelinated fibres of garfish olfactory nerve has been measured.
(20) Mechanical and thermal changes associated with a propagated nerve impulse were determined using the garfish olfactory nerve.
Garish
Definition:
(a.) Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention.
(a.) Gay to extravagance; flighty.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can use absolutely anything - an unwanted T-shirt, some old curtains, something you picked up in a charity shop ... Garish 70s-style prints you probably wouldn't dream of wearing work surprisingly well in soft toys: they are cute, they can pull it off.
(2) I told them that the ladies prefer a man in a suit to one in baggy trousers, with visible underwear and garish "trainers".
(3) For every cinephile that delights in Quentin Tarantino's penchant for opulent dialogue and magpie film-historian's eye, there's another who sees the US director of Reservoir Dogs , Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies as a garish charlatan who survives on a habit of plundering the past.
(4) The resort, the party and even the coal mines are all co-branded, with a trademark background colour of garish bright yellow.
(5) The Telegraph reports : "Brighton was criticised for its 'right-on' attitudes, awful parking and clubbers wearing garish outfits.
(6) Mistakes – bad manners, poor taste, an excess of high spirits – could put you, your parents, and your people at risk Too many Negroes, it was said, showed off the wrong things: their loud voices, their brash and garish ways; their gift for popular music and dance, for sports rather than the humanities and sciences.
(7) Kabul For the crowd gathered for a second day of festivities at one of the Afghan capital's garish wedding halls this afternoon there was widespread cynicism at the news of Barack Obama's Nobel peace prize .
(8) At 38, she still looks like a little girl: beautiful, garish, loud, a handful.
(9) The garishly designed camera mount complete with huge straps has faded into obscurity after launching to big press at the end of 2012.
(10) Yet Canary Wharf is this big, swell, ugly, garish, comforting exception, a place so consummately about banking that the escalator from the tube runs straight into a bank, the bank runs straight into the Waitrose and I have never found out how you get to the street (is there a street?).
(11) Dozens of trams, lit up as trains, planes and cruise ships, rattle underneath miles of garish light bulbs, dozens of arcades playing every kitsch anthem there has ever been, from Agadoo to the Nolans, while families in daft hats eat candy in the shape of giant penises.
(12) Dortmund are a fortnight away from the start of the new Bundesliga season and started without their German World Cup winners but that was no excuse for Klopp, who appeared on the touchline in a garish yellow baseball cap to berate his players.
(13) Using an order usually reserved to force owners to clean up derelict or shabby properties, Kensington and Chelsea council has told owner Zipporah Lisle-Mainwaring that she must repaint the garish design back to its original white.
(14) It has been called garish, ugly and doomed but the musician Will.i.am thinks fashionistas will persuade Americans to love his $475 iPhone camera accessory.
(15) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
(16) The Mexican, best known for his garish jerseys, managed to score on 35 occasions when playing as an attacker during his career in the Mexican league and the MLS across the border.
(17) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
(18) In Sheffield, Our Cow Molly’s garish pink vans have become a common sight as the dairy delivers its free-range milk to the city’s doorsteps.
(19) Here he is on Sonia and Robert Delaunay's paintings of 1912-14: "Others were intent on exploiting colour too, notably Matisse and Kandinsky, but the Delaunays made great paintings out of nothing but colour; soft-edged slices and shapes of colour that give each other rhythm and life on the canvas, vibrant colours without garishness, affirmative visual statements."
(20) Crude, barefaced, garish, gimmicky - yet joyous and exuberant like a funfair or a day at the seaside - at first glance, the art of Tim Noble and Sue Webster consists merely of cheap thrills and end-of-pier illusionism.