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Whelk


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe.
  • (n.) A papule; a pustule; acne.
  • (n.) A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cadmium-binding proteins were shown to exist in the hepatopancreas of three molluscs, a whelk, Buccinum tenuissimum, a turbo, Batillus cornutus, and a squid, Todarodes pacificus.
  • (2) Several experiments designed to count the number of tryptophan and methionine-containing peptides in the hemocyanin from the whelk Busycon canaliculatum indicate that sequence homology within the polypeptide chain of the mollusc hemocyanins accounts for their large size.
  • (3) While their double-shelled relations (clams, mussels, oysters, scallops, etc) specialise in filtering water to remove food particles, and their single-shelled little cousins (periwinkles, whelks, limpets, conches) specialise in, well, adorning a seafood platter, cephalopods (octopus, cuttlefish and squid) specialise in a seriously impressive form of self-defence.
  • (4) The Food Hygiene Laboratory and the Torry research station of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food provide a reference service for scombrotoxin, ciguatera, DSP, PSP and red whelk poisoning in the UK.
  • (5) Most of the currently known FMRFamide-related peptides (FaRPs) of molluscs were tested in a radioimmunoassay (RIA) and in the two standard bioassays for FMRFamide: the radula protractor muscle of the whelk Busycon contrarium, and the isolated heart of the clam Mercenaria mercenaria.
  • (6) The ventral pedal gland in the foot of the mature female whelk Buccinum undatum L. consists of a shallow pouch containing a layer of elongated cells which partially penetrate a basement membrane overlying layers of smooth muscle.
  • (7) The difference between London and a lot of other places is that London has been through it.” Neighbouring the Olympic stadium is Stratford indoor market, where West Indian yams sell alongside Polish sausages, cockles and whelks.
  • (8) The hemocyanin of the Californian whelk, Kelletia kelleti, investigated at pH and ionic conditions close to physiological, has a molecular weight close to 9.0 x 10(6) and a sedimentation constant of 114S, characteristic of the di-decameric structure of molluscan hemocyanins.
  • (9) (Her father told her she was mad for eating whelks when she could have been eating oysters.)
  • (10) She didn't have a big party because she couldn't afford it - instead she went to Whitstable for the day with two girlfriends and ate whelks.
  • (11) For weeks after fishing resumed, octopus and whelks were sold only at supermarkets in Fukushima prefecture.
  • (12) Four patients developed symptoms within 1 h of consuming whole whelks.
  • (13) Hemocyanin (Hcy) from whelk, Busycon canniculatum, has been developed as an immunospecific marker for virion and cell surface labeling in the electron microscope.
  • (14) The haemocyanin of the left-handed whelk Busycon contrarium (Conrad) exists largely as six or more multi-decameric aggregates characterized by sedimentation coefficients of approximately 105S, 132S, 155S, 170S, 185S and about 200-220S.
  • (15) Last month, the recovery reached another milestone when whelks and octopus went on sale in neighbouring Miyagi prefecture.
  • (16) He is "dour", "workaholic", "opaque", once described by historian Peter Hennessy as "having the social skills of a whelk".
  • (17) Low concentrations (10(-9)-10(-8) M) of this substance not only excite the isolated clam heart, but also produce tonic contractions of the isolated radula protractor muscle of the whelk, Busycon contrarium.
  • (18) The nation that never ceases telling the world how to govern itself – even taking admonition as far as war - cannot run its own whelk stall.
  • (19) A polysaccharide sulphate has been isolated from the hypobranchial mucin of the whelk Buccinum undatum.
  • (20) The enzyme activity from the whelk (Buccinum undatum) is stable for several hours after homogenization of the radular muscle, whereas that from insect flight muscle is very unstable.

Whelm


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To cover completely, as if with water; to immerse; to overcome; as, to whelm one in sorrows.
  • (v. t.) To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five asplenic persons with no other detectable underlying disease had over-whelming pneumococcemia.
  • (2) A series of analyses conducted within two studies indicated: (1) a relationship between elevated daily stress, concern over being over-whelmed by inner feelings, and a loss of discrimination regarding sources of inner feelings, (2) a tendency to narrow attentional focus when overloaded with excessive internal stimulation, and (3) diminished sensitivity to hunger sensations for women generally at-risk for anorexia nervosa given a narrowed attentional focus.
  • (3) Distancing herself from such attitudes, Caroline Hiscox describes the results of her staff survey which demonstrates an over-whelming endorsement of the need for support groups to help health care workers cope with the stressors they encounter in their professional and domestic situations.
  • (4) Three distinct groups-problem drinkers (many of whom do not have blatant alcoholism), teenagers, and heavy social drinkers-make up the over-whelming majority of persons in alcohol related crashes, and countermeasures specific to each group must be applied and evaluated.
  • (5) The potent mu-deteminant located within the amino end of dermenkephalin is over-whelmed by the powerful delta-directing ability of the carboxy end.
  • (6) Thus, splenectomy per se is associated with an increased risk of over-whelming pneumococcemia.
  • (7) As a result, the female tortoises remarkably over whelm the male ones in number, which leads to a drop in the natural rate of breeding.
  • (8) A case of acute myelogenous leukemia is reported in a child who presented with acute ileotyphlitis and died of an over-whelming Clostridium septicum sepsis before the chemotherapy was administered.
  • (9) Autologous reimplantation of splenic tissue does not offer complete protection against over-whelming infection.
  • (10) In acute necrotizing gastritis all four major gastric vessels are patent, but gastric gangrene occurs secondary to an over-whelming necrobiotic infection.

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