(n. pl.) The mouth parts of an insect, collectively, including the labrum, labium, maxillae, mandibles, and lingua, with their appendages.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(2) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
(3) Europe produced the greatest comeback in the tournament's history to reel in the US and retain the trophy.
(4) Moyes is relishing the visit by Chelsea and said: "I came for this sort of level but I came to win trophies and if you are going to win them then you do need to beat teams like Chelsea and Manchester City because that's the way our league is.
(5) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
(6) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(7) After that attack, he said, body parts of some of the dead and wounded had been hung in trees as a "kind of trophy for the world to see".
(8) Löw’s side became the first from Europe to claim the trophy on Latin American soil courtesy of Götze’s fine 113th-minute finish from André Schürrle’s delivery.
(9) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(10) The overthrow of the Greek government so that (German finance minister Wolfgang) Schaüble could claim Tsipras’s head as a trophy.
(11) He had to watch her score a hat-trick and lift the trophy on television instead.
(12) England will still return home having retained, for what it is worth, the Wisden Trophy.
(13) Chelsea have an unorthodox way of gathering trophies but it is a successful one – and they will cherish this as one of their great nights.
(14) Before things get out of hand, the trophy is presented to Steven Gerrard, who hoists it skywards with a loud roar.
(15) The modern era has seen numerous format changes for the trophy.
(16) The winner in the 94th minute, from Jonathan Woodgate, came through a mistake by the Chelsea goalkeeper, Petr Cech, but the result itself was no accident and Tottenham earned their first trophy in nine years.
(17) This wasn’t about him; this first part of the event, before he headed out to the pitch where the trophies and the fans awaited him, was not much of a goodbye.
(18) They won the Supporters’ Shield in 2013, the club’s biggest trophy to date.
(19) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(20) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
Trophic
Definition:
(a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of postnatal methyl mercury exposure on the ontogeny of renal and hepatic responsiveness to trophic stimuli were examined.
(2) We therefore conclude that the protective effect displayed by solid grafts might be a local process dependent on the release of diffusible trophic agents.
(3) The flounder developed renal and pancreatic neoplasms and hepatotoxic neoplastic precursor lesions, demonstrating trophic transfer of sediment-bound carcinogens up the food chain.
(4) Taken together, our results have demonstrated direct trophic effects of RA on spinal cord neurons and have suggested another role for astrocytes in the maintenance of normal neural physiology by regulating RA concentrations through the oxidation of retinol.
(5) Under conditions of disturbed blood supply, irrespective of the method of anastomosing, the trophicity of tissues in the zone of suture is sharply disturbed.
(6) The transformations described are interpreted as a response of the immune system to the nerve cut, and as a result of it--denervation of the crural tissues, disturbance of their nervous trophic, as well as--to transplantation of the allogeneic nervous trunk.
(7) The present study examined trophic activities in normal and injured brain which affect the survival and growth of central neurons in culture.
(8) Most of the patients were delayed cases showing mild to severe degrees of trophic, sensory and motor disturbances in the limbs without gangrene.
(9) Although no specific trophic or regulating factors for placental function have been described as yet, it is possible that prostaglandins which are synthesized in decidual tissue could play such a physiological role.
(10) In this study, uninjured basal forebrain cholinergic neurons did not die after excitotoxic ablation of their target neurons in young adult rats, indicating that they are either not dependent on neurotrophic factors for survival or can obtain trophic support from other sources after target neurons are lost.
(11) However, the trophic influence exerted by the effector organ on the nerves is not of the kind, that the innervation density and NA-concentration of the organ always are maintained at a constant level.
(12) Finally we propose a new theory of the etiology of Parkinson's disease, based on a postulated deficiency in the important trophic function upon catecholaminergic neurons of A.P.U.D.
(13) All the other kinds of therapy try to reduce the principle symptom as pain and to produce an improvement of the general condition of the trophic situation.
(14) To study the trophic requirements of adult rat dorsal root ganglia neurons (DRG) in vitro, we developed a purification procedure that yields highly enriched neuronal cultures.
(15) Such changes may be driven by both trophic and mechanical forces and may be important in altering the architecture of the myocardial cell and surrounding cardiac interstitium.
(16) These results indicate that a trophic substance which is capable of regulating the electrical properties of excitable cells is released into the culture medium by spinal cord explants.
(17) Because gastrin has a trophic effect on the oxyntic mucosa, the hypergastrinaemia results in a reversible hypertrophy of the oxyntic mucosa and an increased capacity to produce acid following maximal stimulation with exogenous secretagogues after discontinuing treatment.
(18) Extracts prepared from either the hippocampus or the entorhinal area of the injured brains contained more non-polylysine-bindable trophic activity than extract prepared from normal brains.
(19) These results indicate that homeostatic mechanisms modulating myocyte growth in visceral smooth muscle can respond to mechanical stimulus in the absence of other trophic factors.
(20) From these results it may be concluded that pentagastrin has a trophic influence on gastric mucosa in man.