What's the difference between mollusk and octopus?

Mollusk


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the Mollusca.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A significant proportion of the soluble protein of the organic matrix of mollusk shells is composed of a repeating sequence of aspartic acid separated by either glycine or serine.
  • (2) Low concentrations of cercaricides are toxic both for cercariae and parthenites from the liver of mollusks and for freely swimming cercariae.
  • (3) The neuroendocrine bag cell neurons of the marine mollusk Aplysia produce prolonged inhibition that lasts for more than 2 hr.
  • (4) Changes in the membrane properties of the oocyte of the mollusk, Patella vulgata, were analyzed following the induction of meiosis reinitiation by paleopedial ganglia extract or by the weak base ammonia.
  • (5) Fossil glycoproteins of the soluble organic matrix are present in an 80-million-year-old mollusk shell from the Late Cretaceous Period.
  • (6) 12-Hydroperoxy-5,8,10,14-eicosatetraenoic acid (12-HPETE), a lipoxygenase product, simulates the synaptic responses produced by the modulatory transmitter, histamine, and the neuroactive peptide, Phe-Met-Arg-Phe-amide (FMRFamide), in identified neurons of the marine mollusk, Aplysia californica (Piomelli, D., Shapiro, E., Feinmark, S. J., and Schwartz, J. H. (1987) J. Neurosci.
  • (7) A number of observations, as listed below, suggested a cholinergic basis for inhibitory interactions between photoreceptors of the eye in the nudibranch mollusk Hermissenda crassicornis.
  • (8) Some vital functions of mollusks (nutrition, oviposition, and support substratum) are closely related to vegetation.
  • (9) Localization of catecholamines in the nervous system of 12 species of Trematodes parthenitae from marine mollusks has been studied using the method of glyoxilic acid-induced fluorescence.
  • (10) We tested this idea using the simple nervous system of the marine mollusk, Aplysia californica.
  • (11) Attempts to introduce infectious or foreign material into oysters and other bivalve mollusks usually involve force or trauma because of immediate, prolonged adduction of the tightly closing valves.
  • (12) Chromatin organization in the sperm of the bivalve mollusks results from the interaction between a discrete number of protamine-like proteins (PL) and DNA.
  • (13) Psilotrema simillimum has one intermediate host, the mollusk Bithynia leachi.
  • (14) Appropriate preparation of food, control of mollusks and planarians, and elimination of rodents are important measures in limiting the further spread of eosinophilic meningitis caused by A. cantonensis.
  • (15) were found in the land mollusks Bradybaena duplocincta and Jaminia potaniniana asiatica collected on the slopes of Tien-Shan.
  • (16) Diagnosis of neoplasia in the living mollusk was achieved rapidly and accurately by cytologic examination of circulating blood.
  • (17) The small hydrotechnique objects, such as irrigation and drainage systems, fish cultivating ponds, isolate and cascade artificial water reservoirs, channels considerably change the ecological conditions of mollusks of the genus Codiella, the first intermediate host of Opisthorchis felineus.
  • (18) The control measures consisted of the prohibition of the harvest and sale of all bivalve mollusks as well as a public warning to avoid the consumption of such shellfish.
  • (19) It is expedient to use mollusks, both for testing of N-nitroso compounds and as a biologic indicator of hydrospheric pollution.
  • (20) Octopamine may have functions of its own in the central nervous system of mollusks.

Octopus


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish,

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The chromophore of octopus rhodopsin is 11-cis retinal, linked via a protonated Schiff base to the protein backbone.
  • (2) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (3) Lens crystallins were isolated from cephalopods, octopus and squid.
  • (4) Thus, these alternatives are acceptable as the octopuses end their exponential growth phase at an age of 3 - 5 months.
  • (5) Treatment of cells with 2,4-D (2.5 mM) or 2,4,5-T (1.25 mM) for 20 h resulted in severe MT aggregation and the appearance of large bundles, which were organized in a rope-like structure in the former and a dramatic octopus-like pattern in the latter.
  • (6) Anatomical components of afferent innervation in the rim of the octopus sucker are described.
  • (7) I have reported the development of characteristic clinical and histologic lesions of granuloma annulare at the site of an octopus bite, with early signs following the bite by two weeks.
  • (8) The first thing she made me was an octopus, which I used in a picture of a fisherman.
  • (9) Experts say there are other arms of the federal octopus that could be squeezed in a bid to thwart Obama’s deferred action schemes, but even that would not affect the directive that tells immigration officials to focus on deporting “felons, not families”.
  • (10) Somata types of neurons in category III could not be identified morphologically, but somata were located in caudal parts of the posteroventral cochlear nucleus that correspond to the octopus cell area.
  • (11) The length of examination (which varies with the programs used as far as the Octopus is concerned, and with the patient's reaction time) is usually long with the Octopus and the Friedmann, but short with the Baylor.
  • (12) A temporary lowering of body temperature by means of cold drinks, tried on a group of 18 patients with acute optic neuritis, led in 14 cases to a significant improvement in the 30 degree visual field, which the authors tested with the Octopus 201 automatic perimeter.
  • (13) Peptides belonging to the tachykinin family have been isolated from molluscan (Octopus) salivary glands and from insect nervous tissue (Locusta migratoria).
  • (14) The C-terminal domain, Od-1, of the 7-domain subunit of Octopus dofleini hemocyanin has been prepared by partial trypsinolysis followed by ion-exchange chromatography.
  • (15) But it was sociable, too – Roberto organised a barbecue (with steaks from his cattle-farmer friend) and a fish supper (with octopus stew from his fisherman friend).
  • (16) Visual acuity, IOP, Visual field (Octopus program G1), Arterial pressure, Plasma viscosity have been recorded at 0, 12 and 24 weeks.
  • (17) One of the sharing plates at Polpo in London sees moscardini (aka baby octopus) cooked for 10 minutes in stock, left to cool and then marinated for 24 hours in a powerful mixture of olive oil, red-wine vinegar, fennel seeds, shallots, fresh oregano, garlic and finely sliced chilli.
  • (18) ID7720613 Restaurante da Praia, Praia da Arrifana, Algarve Stewed octopus with sweet potato is the speciality at this restaurant, which sits alone at the bottom of the steep access road that winds down to one of Portugal’s most beautiful and geologically interesting beaches.
  • (19) The authors prefer to follow up campimetric evolution of glaucomatous patients with the Octopus because it offers more sensibility and precision in quantifying losses.
  • (20) The visual field in 30 degrees was measured by an automated perimeter Octopus.