(n.) A laborer who is employed to load or unload vessels when in harbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Certificates showing the occupation on fisherman (or similar term) or lumper were extracted.
(2) The cysteine residues are distributed on six CNBr fragments of the catalytic domain [Vogel and Lumper (1984) Hoppe-Seyler's Z. Physiol.
(3) The structural data required to complete the sequences published previously [Vogel, Kaiser, Witt & Lumper (1985) Biol.
(4) 1) While it is possible only one type of second-degree AV block exists electrophysiologically, the available data do not justify such a conclusion and it would seem more appropriate to remain a "splitter," and advocate separation and definition of multiple mechanisms, than to be a "lumper," and embrace a unitary concept.
(5) There was no indication that the mortality pattern differed significantly between the two groups or from that of the community from which the lumpers and fishermen came.
(6) There are two main schools of thought: the "lumpers" do not recognize specific syndromes within the spectrum of mitochondrial "cytopathies", the "splitters" try to identify specific syndromes while recognizing the existence of borderline cases.