(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.
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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.