(n.) Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The known range of the Primates is extended down from the middle Paleocene to the early Paleocene and late Cretaceous by a new genus and two new species from Montana, Purgatorius unio and P. ceratops.
(2) Some experiments including glucose loading, insulin or antiinsulin serum injection and in vitro investigations on bivalve freshwater molluscs Anodonta cygnea and Unio pectorum were carried out.
(3) Fragmentary mandibles of Purgatorius unio Van Valen and Sloan from the Puercan (approximately early Paleocene), Garbani Locality, Montana, preserve associated postcanines.
(4) Etching with the glutaraldehyde-acetic acid solution reveals that the nacreous tablets in Mytilus, Nucula, and Unio are composed of four crystal individuals which occur in two structurally different pairs and which are probably cyclically twinned.
(5) This report uses the classification and nomenclature adopted by UICC (Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum) in 1965.
(6) Isolated, demembranated Unio gill cilia that have been activated and fixed for thin-section electron microscopy in the presence of 2 mM MgSO4 have 87% of their outer dynein arms attached to an adjacent B subfiber.
(7) A combination of hplc in the silver ion mode and gc-ms of picolinyl ester derivatives was used to identify the fatty acids in a fresh-water mussel, Unio tumidus, from the Danube in Bulgaria.
(8) In the less-soluble crystal pair of Nucula and Unio, the lamellar structure is absent.
(9) The osphradial organ has been studied in Lamellibranchia--Unio pectorum--by means of scanning and transmissive electron microscopy.
(10) Transepithelial ion transport was studied in three types of shell-facing mantle epithelia of the freshwater clam, Unio complanatus.
(11) Diethylnitrosamine (DENA) and dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) dissolved in tank water induced neoplasms in bivalve mollusks Unio pictorum.
(12) Cadmium dosing experiments were carried out with the freshwater clam Unio pictorum in flow-through micro-streams in order to obtain additional information on the kinetics of cadmium accumulation and elimination.
(13) We studied the differentiation of the polarized site of sperm entrance in the egg of a freshwater bivalve, Unio elongatulus.
(14) The concentrations of toxic heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Cr, Cu, Zn and Pb) were measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in the gills of mussels (Unio pictorum L.) both living in Lake Balaton as well as transferred to various parts of tributaries of the Lake.
(15) A substance with insulin-like activity was obtained from visceral organs (excluding foot, gills and mantle) of the freshwater bivalve molluscs Unio pictorum and Anodonta cygnea.
(16) Insulin-like immunoreactivity can be localized in the cells of the mid-gut of Unio pictorum Lam.
(17) A study was made of changes in the heat resistance of spermatozoa during their incubation in Ringer's solution, using two species of frogs (Rana temporaria and R. ridibunda) and of bivalve molluscs (Unio crassus and U. tumidus).
(18) Cells of the Unio tumidus gill ciliated epithelium were exposed to a supraoptimal temperature of 40 degrees C for the period from 30 seconds till a complete cessation of ciliar beating.
(19) We studied the organization of the egg of a freshwater bivalve, Unio elongatulus.
(20) However, it has no influence on the vitality of the coelomocytes of Lumbricus terrestris and other lumbricides, nor on the hemocytes of the snail Helix pomatia, the mussels Anodonta cygnea and Unio tumidus, free cells of the turbellarian Euplanaria sp.
Union
Definition:
(n.) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.
(n.) Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord.
(n.) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union.
(n.) A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
(n.) A large, fine pearl.
(n.) A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain.
(n.) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection.
(n.) A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on.
Example Sentences:
(1) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
(2) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(3) The night before, he was addressing the students at the Oxford Union , in the English he learned during four years as a student in America.
(4) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(5) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(6) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(7) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(8) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(9) Anna Mazzola, a civil liberties lawyer who advises the National Union of Journalists and whom I consulted, told me that in general if police can view anyone's images, they can only do so in "very limited circumstances".
(10) Solzhenitsyn was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974 and returned to Russia 20 years later.
(11) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(12) Both face and paw receptive fields are unions of a certain set of skin areas called compartments.
(13) If wide notice is taken of a current spat over what we can read about Shakespeare’s sexuality into the sonnets in the correspondence columns of the Times Literary Supplement, Sonnet 20 may be a future favourite at civil unions.
(14) As the US and the European Union adopted tougher economic sanctions against Russia over the conflict in eastern Ukraine and downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 , Russian officials struck a defiant note, promising that Russia would localise production and emerge stronger than before.
(15) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(16) • Queen Margaret Union, one of the University of Glasgow's two student unions, says 200 students there are marching on the principal's office at the moment to present an anti-cuts petition.
(17) Whatever else Scott is about, Waverley ends with a vision of Britishness and a British union.
(18) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
(19) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(20) Thatcher made changes to the UK's tax system, some changes to welfare, and many to the nature of British jobs, both through privatisation and economic liberalisation – not least in her battle with the unions.