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  • 91catalogue number — usually all specimens caught at one place and one time are given the same catalogue number. Some museum catalogue numbers use the same number as the accession number. The numbers take various forms, e.g. a series of numbers or a year followed by… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 92extrinsic sonic muscles — usually a pair, two pairs or more rarely three pairs of muscles inserted on the gas bladder and a neighbouring structure such as a bone (ribs, parapophyses), perhaps via ligaments. Insertions vary with the species and family. The muscles produce… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 93fishery biological interactions — usually fishing activity influencing interactions between two or more populations or species, e.g. between predator and prey, when the former is caught by fishing, stocks of the latter will increase …

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  • 94more than one way to skin a cat — usually applied to felines but in the southern United States where eating catfish (Ictaluridae) is common, applied to a fish and also meaning there is more than one way to do something …

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  • 95yeel fish — usually a smoked haddock, a special delicacy at Christmas (Scottish dialect. from yule) …

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  • 96azide — Usually the sodium salt NaN3, an inhibitor of electron transport that blocks electron flow from cytochrome oxidase to oxygen. Frequently used to prevent growth of microorganisms in eg. refrigerated antisera or chromatography columns …

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  • 97calcium ATPase — Usually used of the calcium pumping ATPase present in high concentration as an integral membrane protein of the sarcoplasmic reticulum of muscle. This pump lowers the cytoplasmic calcium level and causes contraction to stop. Normal function of… …

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  • 98cell growth — Usually used to mean increase in the size of a population of cells though strictly should be reserved for an increase in cytoplasmic volume of an individual cell …

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  • 99dermoid cyst — Usually benign cyst, the walls of which are of dermal origin. Many ovarian tumours are dermoid cysts …

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  • 100humanized antibody — Usually a mouse monoclonal antibody directed against a target of particular therapeutic value that has been modified to have all regions except the antigen binding portion substituted by human immunoglobulin domains. The procedure should make the …

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