What's the difference between pinfish and pinkish?
Pinfish
Definition:
(n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides).
(n.) The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).
Example Sentences:
(1) After 28 days exposure, oysters bioconcentrated an average of 218 X the BHC measured in exposure water, while pinfish bioconcentrated 130 X in their edible tissues and 617 X in offal.
(2) Copper was accidentally introduced into seawater entering a circular outdoor tank used to culture 610 pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides) and other marine teleosts.
(3) In an effort to determine the subcellular localization of sodium- and potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase (Na(+), K(+)-ATPase) in the pseudobranch of the pinfish Lagodon rhomboides, this tissue was fractionated by differential centrifugation and the activities of several marker enzymes in the fractions were measured.
(4) Two BHC bioconcentration studies were conducted with the oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and pinfish.
(5) The pseudobranch of the pinfish Lagodon rhomboides is an unusually homogeneous and structurally simple tissue, well suited to cell fractionation studies.
(6) After one week in BHC-free sea water, no detectable residues were measured in oysters or pinfish.
(7) The activity of the electrolyte transport enzyme, sodium, potassium-activated adenosine triphosphatase (Na+,K+-ATPase), in the gills of the pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, increased markedly following transfer of fish from brackish water to seawater.
(8) In comparing the sensitivities of the two genera of grass shrimp and the pinfish (Lagodon rhombroides) to the ARM, the grass shrimp were more sensitive.
(9) Electrolyte imbalance, apparently resulting from impaired osmoregulation and hemolysis, was a serious terminal condition in copper-poisoned pinfish.
(10) Cytochemical localization of Na+,K+-ATPase via its potassium-dependent phosphatase (K+-NPPase) activity in the branchial epithelium of pinfish adapted to seawater demonstrated that chloride cells are the major sites for the enzyme.
(11) The pinfish were lethergic by 6 hours after copper was introduced into the tank.
(12) Deaths stopped 11 hours after copper concentrations decreased below 0.2 ppm and signs of distress stopped in surviving pinfish by approximately 6 hours after the last death.
Pinkish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat pink.
Example Sentences:
(1) During atriotomy of the right atrium, a large sausage-shaped mass of milky-pinkish color was found.
(2) Mutation TTR1 causes additional phenotypic characteristics which do not appear in mutants TTR2 and TTR3: (1) Pinkish coloration of colonies which is more pronounced after a long growth period.
(3) Within minutes Björn has got us in and out of a ski rental place and is cruising out of town in the pinkish morning light.
(4) A 50-year-old man presented with a reddish, well-vascularized mass in the region of a nasal iridodialysis of his left eye, pushing the whole iris in this sector forwards; the mass had a pinkish, partly cystic appearance in the pupil.
(5) The visual pigment with 3-dehydroretinal (lambda max approximately 500 nm) was located in the pinkish proximal area, giving high sensitivity at longer wavelengths.
(6) Dentyne The pinkish coloured gum, the first available in a slab format, is 110 years old.
(7) The appearance of the uterotubal papillae reflected the changes in the cervix, being relaxed, pinkish and oedematous during oestrus but remaining pale, tight and erect in dioestrus (between Days 7 and 12 after ovulation).
(8) At operation, a pinkish-gray discolored mass at the hematoma wall was found.
(9) Column chromatography on aluminium oxide revealed 6 fractions in the extracted carotenoids: light-yellow, dark-yellow, brown, reddish-brown, pink and pinkish ones.
(10) Nerve tissue from leprosy patients showed (i) small linear pinkish translucent crystalloid bodies, (ii) small round structures in relation to filamentous strands, (iii) short pieces of filaments with round spaces within them and (iv) miscellaneous structures like pink granules, brown bodies and dark masses.
(11) The glands looked whitish and pale and similar to the controls at 12 and 48 hours but were pinkish and oedematous on the sympathectomised side at 24 hours.
(12) A 17X15X6 cm3-sized pinkish gray-coloured medullary tumor occupying the mesenterium with no evident capsule, invaded the small intestine and pancrease head.
(13) In the third layer, pinkish-purple in color, purple photographs (Chromatium sp., Thiocapsa roseoparsicina) and filamentous green phototrophs (Chloroflexus sp., Oscillochloris sp.)
(14) He tells his audience that Miliband's reforms will work only if his people see "a Labour party our members want to support… not a party that is a pinkish shadow of the present coalition".
(15) Section of the sac revealed a pinkish-grey formation that occupied the entire lumen of the sac.
(16) The outer segment of the long photoreceptor cells consisted of two strata, a pinkish proximal area and a yellow distal area.
(17) Massive pinkish foamy sputum and butterfly shadow on chest x-ray strongly suggested an association of neurogenic pulmonary edema (NPE).
(18) Sporobolomyces lactosus, isolated from activated sludge treating petrochemical wastes, produces pinkish-coral to pink colored colonies, assimilates lactose and has Q-10 as the major ubiquinone.
(19) The transposed grafts have retained the pinkish appearance of the vascular donor sites.
(20) Mutant shrews were characterized by light-gray coat, pinkish skin and red eyes.