What's the difference between leatherback and luth?
Leatherback
Definition:
(n.) A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gold award • Jean Wiener – Haiti "Lifetime achievement" award for 25 years conserving Haiti's coastal ecosystems and securing its first marine protected areas Whitley Fund for Nature awards • Shivani Bhalla – Kenya Warrior Watch: enabling the coexistence of people and lions in northern Kenya • Luis Torres – Cuba Building a national movement to save Cuba's amazing plant life • Fitryi Pakiding – Indonesia Uniting coastal communities to secure the Pacific's last stronghold for nesting leatherback turtles • Marites Gatan-Balbas – Philippines Taking local action to save the world's rarest crocodile • Melvin Gumal – Malaysia Protecting Borneo's iconic great apes: conservation of orangutans in Sarawak • Stoycho Stoychev – Bulgaria The imperial eagle as a flagship for conserving the wild grasslands of south-eastern Bulgaria • Paula Kahumbu – Kenya Hands off our elephants: delivering African leadership to address Kenya's poaching crisis
(2) When hatchling leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, are unilarerally blindfolded, some circle toward their open eyes and some toward their covered eyes.
(3) According to projections from Brazil’s environment ministry, the tide is expected to spread along 5.5-mile (9km) stretch of the coastline, threatening the Comboios nature reserve, one of the only regular nesting sites for the endangered leatherback turtle.
(4) These turtles prey upon bigger jellyfish, and two leatherbacks have already been sighted off Cornwall this summer.
(5) Necropsy of a stranded adult leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) determined that the animal died as a result of valvular endocarditis and septicemia.
(6) Endangered loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles are also found in the area.
(7) By suspending lights in the nasal visual field of unilaterally blindfolded green and leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) it was possible to produce circling in the direction of the covered eye; in contrast, with the light suspended in the temporal field, turning was always in the direction of the uncovered eye.
(8) Sea temperatures of 29.2C determine a 50:50 sex ratio in green, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead and olive ridley turtles .
(9) Leatherbacks, which are also in jeopardy, live more in the open ocean where increased ship movements will take their toll through greater injury and death.
(10) A jellyfish boom is good news for they are usually followed by other stunning marine animals, including the ocean sunfish and the leatherback , the largest marine turtle in the world.
Luth
Definition:
(n.) The leatherback.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four hundred and twenty faecal specimens from patients with acute gastroenteritis and apparently healthy persons who reported at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) between October, 1988 and May, 1989 were investigated for faecal carriage of Listeria monocytogenes and other related species.
(2) The common primary causes of deaths in eclampsia in the LUTH during the period under study were renal failure (14.5%), cerebrovascular haemorrhage (12.7%), cardio-pulmonary failure (12.7%), disordered intravascular coagulation syndrome (DIC) (10.9%), and cardiac failure (8%).
(3) Comparison of the data from the recent decade to that of the previous decade (1966-1976), shows that the number of eclamptic patients treated in the LUTH, over the recent decade (1977-1986) more than doubled the number of eclamptics treated in the previous decade (1967-1976) (572 as compared with 273 for the previous decade).
(4) Three patients admitted to the Accident and Emergency Unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) after eating a cassava based meal 'Gari' died shortly after admission.
(5) A retrospective study of the primary causes of maternal deaths in the eclamptics treated in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) over a 20-year period, from 1st January 1967 through 31st December 1986, was carried out.
(6) Branhamella catarrhalis and other commensal Neisseria species were isolated from 200 out of 500 sputum samples from patients with lower respiratory tract (LRT) infections at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
(7) Over a 10-year period, between 1st January 1977 and 31st December 1986, a total of 572 eclamptic patients were treated in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
(8) The Post Mortem Rate (PMR) in the dead eclamptics in the LUTH was 60%.
(9) From 1973 to 1986, 30 cases of sacrococcygeal teratomas were seen at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).
(10) Of 2,780 specimens of midstream urine (MSU) collected from patients of Medical out-patient Unit of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), and examined between March 1989 and February 1990, 780 (28.1%) had bacterial colony counts greater than 100,000 per ml.