(v.) Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to Crangon and various allied genera, having a slender body and long legs. Many of them are used as food. The larger kinds are called also prawns. See Illust. of Decapoda.
(v.) In a more general sense, any species of the macruran tribe Caridea, or any species of the order Schizopoda, having a similar form.
(v.) In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.
(v.) Figuratively, a little wrinkled man; a dwarf; -- in contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eukaryotic ribosomes were isolated from the cryptobiotic embryos and from the further-developed free-swimming nauplii of the brine shrimp Artemia salina.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Invasive freshwater killer shrimp ( Dikerogammarus villosus ) are likely in increase in number in the UK.
(3) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.
(4) Larval salt glands isolated from the naupliar brine shrimp (Artemia salina) were examined using light microscopy and scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
(5) The radioallergosorbent inhibition test, however, suggested that there may be no cross-reactivity or, if any, only very low cross-reactivity between midge allergens and mite, house dust (HD), silk, shrimp, or mosquito allergens.
(6) Shrimp-water extract was fractionated by chromatofocusing with pH and NaCl gradients.
(7) Shrimp-sensitive subjects also had significantly elevated serum levels of shrimp-specific IgG and IgA as compared to control individuals.
(8) We investigated the toxicity of 32 different mycotoxins, 7 macrolides, not 3 other fungal metabolites to Artemia saline (Brine Shrimp) larvae.
(9) Shrimp-specific IgE and IgG, but not IgM and IgA, were significantly higher in the group with shrimp hypersensitivity as compared to the control subjects.
(10) Both shrimp and bovine DNases are sensitive to iodoacetate inactivation under the same condition.
(11) In our experience the occurrence of urticaria, angioedema or anaphylaxis after meals in Chinese or Indonesian restaurants is more often due to IgE-mediated Type I food allergy, caused by consumption of shrimp, peanut or spices, in particular those of the parsley family (e.g.
(12) As to the foreign body, the patient remembered eating a shrimp, which was probably the foreign body in question.
(13) It is reliable and simple--The coefficients of variation for 1.0-5.0 micrograms As (III), kelp and dried small shrimp samples are 1.5-5.6%, 4.4% and 9.5%, respectively.
(14) Brine shrimp growth under these conditions was monitored by measuring body lengths during a 7-day exposure period.
(15) A variety of marine biota, including zooplankton, sargassum, surface plankton, squid, shrimp, and fish collected along the south Texas Outer Continental Shelf, were analyzed for Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Cr, Ni, Fe, and Mn.
(16) Wild P. monodon exoskeleton contained on average 26.3 ppm total carotenoid; normally pigmented farmed shrimp had a similar concentration (25.3 ppm).
(17) Subjects were classified by a history of food allergy (shrimp hypersensitivity) and atopic status.
(18) In the cities of Oasis and Riverside, Calif., tadpole shrimp significantly reduced the abundance of immature mosquitoes (Cx.
(19) Findings of our study, therefore, suggest the potential of shrimp by-catch for the preparation of fish portions in view of its high acceptability and simple processing technique, by using marine resources not fully utilized at present.
(20) The luciferin of the bioluminescent decapod shrimp, Oplophorus gracilorostris, was purified and studied with respect to u.v.
Unimportant
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Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
(2) For example, we hypothesize that competition can be unimportant even if it is very intense: no such hypothesis is possible unless importance is distinguished from intensity.
(3) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
(4) Nucleotide pyrophosphatases seem to play an unimportant role in guanylyl imidodiphosphate conversion, while alkaline phosphatase is possibly of more importance.
(5) Moreover, M1-muscarinic receptors appear to be relatively unimportant in mediating the effects of carbachol on short circuit current (ISC).
(6) Cl measured with each method exceeded Crs (p less than .05), but the magnitude was clinically unimportant.
(7) According to these results the acetylator phenotype seems to be an unimportant factor in therapy with dihydralazine.
(8) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
(9) Analysis of this time delay as a function of the factor Xa concentration indicates that the gain of the feedback loop of factor V activation by thrombin is so high that the contribution of factor V activation by factor Xa is relatively unimportant for factor Xa concentrations in the nanomolar range.
(10) This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described.
(11) But he is warm and sharp, and the punchlines begin to feel unimportant when the journey there is so much fun.
(12) Since this phenomenon is associated with high concentrations of contrast media in nonflowing blood, the high shear rate in arteries and arterioles make it unimportant in the in vivo situation.
(13) Didn't they realise how unimportant it all was, compared with what we'd been through?"
(14) The contribution made by cytotoxicity to the overall antiviral effect (measured by 24 h yield) was negligible in Flow 2002 cells, and was relatively unimportant in BHK cells.
(15) Safety was very satisfactory: patients complained only rarely of trivial and clinically unimportant side effects; no variations in laboratory tests were noted.
(16) Our results suggest that the osmotic and free-radical scavenging properties of hexoses are relatively unimportant in relation to their antiarrhythmic effects.
(17) Items loading on the first three factors were thought to be generally important, and those on the last three relatively unimportant.
(18) The basis of the program is a valid 'partial' statistical description of the EEG; that description is then used to produce a digital representation of a signal which, if plotted sequentially, might or might not by chance resemble an EEG, that is unimportant.
(19) The involvement of General Practitioners in the care of epilepsy was found to be small, but not unimportant.
(20) Pocket elimination by the use of surgical procedures (gingivectomy, flap operation with bone surgery) may be preferred in regions of the mouth where the aesthetic result is unimportant and where the removal of alveolar bone does not jeopardize the periodontal support of neighbouring teeth.