(n.) Any one of numerous species of tortoises living in fresh and brackish waters. Many of them are valued for food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the superficial fibres in both tortoise and terrapin muscles were multiply innervated, but end-plates were focal rather than diffuse.6.
(2) Photograph: PR We followed her advice, walking down to the stream in search of terrapins and otters, or through clusters of cork oak trees, their branches hairy with lichen like the ancient trees of a fairytale forest.
(3) Gastrotomy is even feasible on terrapins through a partial detachment of the stomach from the liver, enabling a sufficient presentation of the stomach.
(4) Two terrapins excreted the organism throughout a nine month observation period.
(5) We present observations on the multicyclic scratch reflex in spinal terrapins as produced by electrical stimuli applied to the shell at the specific regions at which a mechanical stimulus produces the reflex.
(6) The isolation of Salmonella java (phage type Worksop) from the water of a terrapin tank is described.
(7) Scolecobasidium humicola, a soil fungus and etiologic agent of phaeohyphomycosis in fish, is herein reported to cause cutaneous lesions in a tortoise, Terrapine carolina var.
(8) Southern blotting using a human 7SK pseudogene probe illuminated a series of multiple restriction fragments in mammalian genomes, with generally fewer fragments in the genomes of birds and reptiles and a single reactive fragment in DNA from terrapin (Pseudemys scripta elegans) and Xenopus laevis (South African clawed toad).
(9) These biochemical and histochemical observations indicate that these glands have a function in salt secretion in both species and are also consistent with a function of mucous secretion exclusively in Malaclemys terrapin.
(10) When you visit you'll probably find me back in the 7 Estrellas, discussing the finer points of terrapin keeping, spending lazy days on Culatra's beaches, and my nights on Olhão's tiles.
(11) The effects of the local application of glutamate, aspartate, glycine, GABA and dl-alanine were studied upon the intact and isolated cortices of barbiturate anesthetized cats and upon the intact cortex of similarly anesthetized terrapin turtles.
(12) Rostro-caudal ramification of terrapin hindlimb afferent nerves have been studied by cord dorsum potential analyses.
(13) Thus, the retractor capitis muscles of both terrapin and tortoise appear to be composed largely of ;twitch' fibres.
(14) The average amplitude was 0.78 mV in the tortoise and 0.54 mV in the terrapin.
(15) Limited signs of hypotrophy are not accompanied by changes in concentrations of sulfolipids in Malaclemys terrapin adapted to fresh water; only the reactions for enzyme activities are less intense.
(16) Fibre types in the iliofibularis muscle of the freshwater terrapin Pseudemys scripta elegans have been characterized on the basis of their histochemical characteristics, nerve endings and contractile properties.
(17) The present study, one of a series of studies on reptile tongues, aims to demonstrate the three-dimensional structure of the dorsal lingual surface of a turtle, the Japanese terrapin Clemmys japonica, and to clarify the ultrastructural features of the lingual epithelial cells.
(18) could be recorded at junctional regions in either tortoise or terrapin muscles.
(19) A total of 122 terrapins (freshwater chelonians) of 36 species and seven turtles (marine chelonians) represented by three species, all of which had died in captivity, were necropsied.
(20) In addition, the supranuclear region of the gland cells in Malaclemys terrapin is filled with mucin granules.
Tortoise
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
(n.) Same as Testudo, 2.
(n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
(n.) a tortoise-shell cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(2) Fingerprint analysis and S1 nuclease mapping analysis also showed that sequence boundaries of tortoise repetitive units exactly corresponded to RNA species.
(3) Such changes of EEG and behaviour were not found in tortoises that committed errors at first presentations of the task and only gradually learned correct solving.
(4) The phase of quick tension recovery was found to take place more rapidly in frog than in tortoise fibres: it was completed in approximately 30 msec (after stretch) and in approximately 20 msec (after release) in frog fibres (3 degrees C).
(5) However, monoamine storage organelles have not been found in tortoise thrombocytes.
(6) Both groups of goats were infested with small numbers of immature stages of the tortoise tick, Amblyomma marmoreum, and the yellow dog tick, Haemaphysalis leachi.
(7) A theory to explain its underlying physiology is presented, based on studies of the seasonal and cyclic variations in the tortoises' blood composition.
(8) It has been demonstrated that in the tortoise after hatching the round nucleus and its neurons are rather small, neuronal density is high.
(9) Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman star as neighbours Mrs Silver and Mr Hoppy, who are brought together when Hoppy whispers a magic growth spell to Silver’s pet tortoise, then attempts to bring the incantation’s power to fruition.
(10) The fatty acid composition of sphingomyelin (Spm) was studied in the total brain, the forebrain and the brain stem in frogs (Rana temporaria and Rana ridibunda), the tortoise (Emys orbicularis), the hen and the cat.
(11) Measurements have been made of heat production and changes in levels of phosphorylcreatine (PC), ATP and lactic acid resulting from contraction of tortoise muscle under anaerobic conditions.2.
(12) Pasteurella testudinis was cultured from the nasal cavity of all ill tortoises and one of four control tortoises.
(13) The development of the intramural plexuses in the tortoise, Geoclemys reevesii was inferior to that observed in the fowl: the meshes of both Auerbach's and Meissner's plexuses were coarser, and consisted of less number of nerve fibers.
(14) Most of the superficial fibres in both tortoise and terrapin muscles were multiply innervated, but end-plates were focal rather than diffuse.6.
(15) The amplitude of the delayed rectification current, when expressed either as normalized to the calculated membrane capacity or to the initial background current, is significantly larger in the frog than in the tortoise.
(16) Appearance of transversal and circular anastomoses between the afferent and efferent arterioles of the glomeruli, as well as transformation of their capillaries into nutritional capillaries in the tortoise kidneys under the alimentary dehydration ensures realization of the periglomerular and aglomerular renal arterial blood circulation.
(17) Periods of breath-holding are interrupted by episodes of continuous breathing in the aquatic turtle Pelomedusa subrufa, whereas single breaths and short periods of breath-holding alternate in the terrestrial tortoise Testudo pardalis.
(18) The primary and secondary immune responses to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) have been characterized in the tortoise Mauremys caspica in terms of circulating antibodies and PFC response in two different seasons: summer and autumn.
(19) The tortoises did not develop fever in response to any of the pyrogens we tested.
(20) The report that Sendai virus was implicated in the genesis of rhinitis in tortoises could not be substantiated.