What's the difference between marsupial and possum?

Marsupial


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones.
  • (n.) One of the Marsupialia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
  • (2) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
  • (3) This is believed to be the first reported case of degenerative cardiomyopathy in a captive marsupial in Nigeria.
  • (4) In contrast to many eutherian (placental) species, this marsupial was found to lack histamine in blood leukocytes and platelets.
  • (5) When the patient experienced discomfort, an incisional biopsy and marsupialization were performed.
  • (6) These findings are discussed with respect to similarities and differences between marsupial and eutherian females and between male and female gray opossums in the hormonal control of sexually dimorphic behavior and morphology.
  • (7) DNA sequences from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained from a museum specimen of the presumed extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and were compared with homologous sequences from 13 representatives of the Australian marsupial family Dasyuridae.
  • (8) Surgical marsupialization of the lymphocele with drainage into the peritoneal cavity proved to be an effective treatment.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
  • (10) Thin blood smears were collected from 126 mammals representing four genera of marsupials and six genera of murid rodents.
  • (11) The development of righting was studied in the young of Dasyurus hallucatus, a small marsupial from northern Australia.
  • (12) This report contains the first description of a salivary gland tumour in a dasyurid marsupial; the same animal also had a mammary carcinoma.
  • (13) 53 cases were all marsupialized into the oral vestibulum.
  • (14) The effect of destruction of some blastomeres on subsequent cleavage in vitro was investigated in the marsupial Antechinus stuartii.
  • (15) One had bilateral ureterostomies and the subsequent four had marsupialization of the bladder.
  • (16) The effects of ambient temperature and of sex on nest-building behavior were studied in a laboratory colony of gray short-tailed opossums, small, Brazilian marsupials.
  • (17) This paper reviews the recent literature on odontogenic keratocysts and reports our experience with three cases successfully managed in three different ways: marsupialization, decompression followed by enucleation with primary closure and finally by enucleation with packing for secondary intention healing.
  • (18) Treatment by excision, marsupialization, or injection of absolute alcohol (95% ethanol) is discussed.
  • (19) We have found evidence in a marsupial mammal for extensive sexual dimorphisms which precede any morphological differentiation of the gonads.
  • (20) Oxygen carriage and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) levels have been measured in the blood of seven species of Australian marsupials ranging in size from 35 to 0.03 kg.

Possum


Definition:

  • (n.) An opossum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
  • (2) In the possum a marked sex difference has been found in the steroids in adrenal venous plasma.
  • (3) Clinical signs, necropsy findings and histopathological changes are summarized for 43 macropods, two common wombats, two koalas, six possums, 15 dasyurids, two numbats, eight bandicoots and one bilby.
  • (4) By contrast, the PKC-IR rod bipolar cells in the rabbit and in the brushtail possum, a Metatherian (marsupial) mammal, have no Landolt's clubs and their axons form terminal lobes in the innermost stratum of the inner plexiform layer.
  • (5) The distribution of ganglion cells in the retina of the adult brush-tailed possum was determined by light microscopy of Nissl stained retinal whole mounts.
  • (6) A comparison of possum retinal cell generation with that of other marsupials adds support for the "homochrony theory."
  • (7) They were Red and Grey Kangaroos, Wallaroo, Tammar Wallaby, Brush-tailed possum, Potoroo, and Brown Marsupial Mouse.
  • (8) The brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula, displays an unusual amount of phenotypic variation within its central nervous system.
  • (9) Twelve possums were anaesthetized with ketamine and chloralose-urethane, and recordings were made of extracellular unit discharges in the inferior colliculus during monaural and binaural tonal stimulation.
  • (10) The microscopic agglutination (MA) test was utilised to study the prevalence of antibodies to Leptospira interrogans serovar hardjo in 4 populations of brush-tailed possums (Trichosurus vulpecula).
  • (11) Immunoreactive mesotocin cells were also found in both hypothalamic nuclei of the possum but not of the bandicoot.
  • (12) In brushtail possums there were no significant differences in MRT among the three digesta markers.
  • (13) To ascertain whether this seasonality in breeding is manifest in the male reproductive system, body weight and plasma testosterone concentrations were examined in five possums.
  • (14) It was concluded that oxytocin receptors in the possum have similar characteristics to those of placental mammals.
  • (15) POSSUM lists 84 syndromes with any of the above 3 main traits.
  • (16) The involvement of oxytocin receptors in these changes was examined in the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula.
  • (17) The cytology and ultrastructure of the hypertrophied special zone, which is formed spontaneously in the adrenal cortex of adult female brush-tailed possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), was compared to the adrenocortical tissue in adult males in which the special zone, normally absent, was induced following castration alone or by additional treatment with follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).
  • (18) POSSUM was superior to APACHE II in prediction of mortality in patients admitted to a high-dependency unit after general surgery.
  • (19) The findings suggested that infection was maintained in possum populations by direct transmission, probably associated with breeding.
  • (20) We have studied the distribution of astrocytes in the ganglion cell and nerve fibre layers of the retina in cat, rat, rabbit, and possum using anti-serum and a monoclonal antibody against glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and our own monoclonal antibody against glial filaments.

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