What's the difference between jellyfish and manubrium?
Jellyfish
Definition:
(n.) Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance. See Medusa.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
(2) In-hospital resuscitation from unresponsive circulatory arrest should now involve intravenously-administered verapamil (or its equivalent) and additional box-jellyfish antivenom, while the patient is being monitored.
(3) The ultrastructure and major soluble proteins of the transparent eye lens of two cubomedusan jellyfish, Tripedalia cystophora and Carybdea marsupialis, have been examined.
(4) I was sitting in the room, reading all the negativity and death threats, and by now the helium balloons were half-full, hovering like jellyfish.
(5) I know a little about the jellyfishes of Australia because when I worked there for the Guardian, poisonous species such as the box jellyfish would occasionally kill a luckless swimmer off the tropical north coast.
(6) The survey for the UK, which asks people to report jellyfish they see in the sea or on beaches, comes after a mass invasion of thousands of miles of the Mediterranean coastline by millions of jellyfish in June, affecting tourists who head there in the summer.
(7) Both women reported having been stung by jellyfish a month earlier.
(8) These cases corroborate the vascular and neurogenic injury, which previously have been reported in experimental animals and in human patients, that may result from jellyfish venoms.
(9) Contact with the tentacles of the jellyfish had produced characteristic whiplash-like weals on the skin.
(10) Among the newly created MCZs are Mounts Bay, covering St Michael’s Mount and the Marazion where seagrass, stalked jellyfish and crayfish live, and Greater Haig Fras, the only substantial area of rocky reef in the Celtic Sea.
(11) The few skin reactions obtained confirm the low dermototoxicity of the jellyfish studied.
(12) Jellyfish stings should be recognised as an unusual variant of the numerous causes which have been described for Mondor's disease.
(13) From intrepid turtles to pioneering jellyfish, a host of animals have made their mark as the unsung heroes of space exploration.
(14) Mechanisms that cause reentry were defined in rings of tissue cut from jellyfish as early as 1906 by Mayer.
(15) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(16) It's hard not to describe this creature without resorting to multiple similes – it's like a mushroom, an umbrella, a beating heart, an alien lifeform – all of which diminish its glory, as indeed does the word "jellyfish".
(17) This isn’t just about the effect on other species,” said Stefano Piraino, a jellyfish expert at the University of Salento, and one of the 18 signatories.
(18) Jellyfish appear to be on the increase globally, which may be part of a natural cycle or linked to factors caused by humans such as pollution, over-fishing or even climate change, experts said.
(19) Aequorin, a Ca(II)-sensitive bioluminescent protein from jellyfish, emits light at 469 nm from an excited state of a substituted pyrazine (oxyluciferin) which results from the oxidation of a chromophore molecule that is noncovalently bound to the protein.
(20) A new cytolysin has been isolated from the nematocysts of the jellyfish, Rhizostoma pulmo, and named rhizolysin.
Manubrium
Definition:
(n.) A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.
(n.) The proboscis of a jellyfish; -- called also hypostoma. See Illust. of Hydromedusa.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have used a partial median sternotomy extending from the manubrium to the level of the second intercostal space with extension into that space.
(2) The L-glucose treatment did not produce changes in maternal blood D-glucose levels but did produce fetuses with small urinary bladders, microphthalmia and abnormal ossification limited to the manubrium.
(3) The authors hypothesize that aortic isthmus lacerations result from a pinch of the aorta between the spine and the anterior bony thorax (manubrium, clavicle, and first ribs) during chest compression caused by abrupt deceleration.
(4) Authors describe their own experience of Sundaresan anterior approach and exposure of the upper thoracic vertebrae (T1-T2) including resection of the internal third of the clavicle and manubrium sterni.
(5) It consists of connective tissue and is not integrated into the manubrium.
(6) In the present clinical study, laser Doppler flowmetry was adapted to identify changes in blood supply to the left half of the divided manubrium sternum during separation of the left internal mammary artery from its chest wall attachment.
(7) The area of the thoracic inlet below the clavicle was defined as a radiolucent area surrounded superiorly by the lower border of the clavicle, inferiorly by the inner margin of the first rib and medially by the lateral margin of the manubrium (CRM area).
(8) The use of the sternal manubrium as zero reference point did not allow comparison of values in standing and recumbent animals and it was considered that serial measurements were of more value than isolated determinations in assessing the circulatory state of an animal.
(9) Of these patients, three had osteomyelitis of the manubrium and sternum, two had osteosarcoma of the sternum, and one had osteomyelitis and radionecrosis of the manubrium and sternum.
(10) All catheters were tunnelled from the point of insertion to the midpoint of the manubrium or upper sternum.
(11) We studied the usefulness of the olecranon-manubrium percussion (OMP) test, a physical diagnostic procedure performed in shoulder trauma.
(12) This case presents several particularities: semi-emergency salvage procedure, use of a saphenous vein graft to revascularise the intestinal artery using the lingual artery as nutrient artery, venous drainage of the transplant via the intrathoracic left brachiocephalic vein, necessity for resection of the left half of the manubrium sterni and the head of the left clavicle.
(13) In addition to the sternal bands, the "paired suprasternal Anlage" takes part in the shaping of the manubrium sterni as reported by Klima (1968) for other mammals.
(14) Oligohydramnios led, within 48 hours, to significant reductions in the transverse dimension (5.9-6.1%) and in the distance between the manubrium and the dome of the diaphragm (1.7-2.2%).
(15) The thickness of the manubrium, the width and thickness of the body of the sternum at the level of second intercostal space as well as the thickness of the spongiosa and outer and inner compact layers have been measured in 67 human cadavers.
(16) In this paper, a more realistic model of the manubrium is incorporated into an existing finite-element model of the cat eardrum.
(17) The anterior part of the manubrium is surrounded by a polaroplast consisting of a "spongy" (vesicular) and a lamellar zone.
(18) On the basis of our findings, we conclude that surgical removal of the sternum and manubrium in conjunction with muscle flap repair is a well-tolerated procedure.
(19) Similarly, the manubrium would move posteriorly in manubriosternal dislocations.
(20) Finger to floor distance and chin manubrium distance improved significantly for at least six months (p less than 0.05).