Did you by any chance mean Xenopus?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various aquatic, tongueless, clawed frogs of the genus Xenopus, native to southern Africa, especially X. laevis, widely used in the study of vertebrate development.
Etymologies
- New Latin Xenopūs, genus name : xeno- + Greek pous, foot; see octopus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The type of frog, known as a xenopus, is a major model used in U.S. biomedical research.”
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“(A) Vertebrate Ugt5 genes in teleosts and xenopus.”
“The ancestral xenopus Ugt1 cluster contains the Ugt 1aI and 1aII variable exons.”
“Time, Voltage and ionic concentration dependent of rectification of h - erg expressed in xenopus oocytes.”
“A Quantitative analysis of the activation and inactivation kinetics of HERG expressed in xenopus oocytes.”
“Please take a look at optic tectum (and xenopus laevis which I have stopped working on for the same template-related reasons).”
“Houlston and colleagues then focused on the novel variant most strongly associated with colorectal cancer, and found that it resides in a DNA sequence that is conserved in many other species - so well conserved that they were able to use xenopus frogs as a model organism to test the biological consequences of this SNP.”
“Please take a look at optic tectum (and [[xenopus laevis]] which I have stopped working on for the same template-related reasons).”
“Collart C, Smith JC (2007) Xnrs and activin regulate distinct genes during xenopus development: activin regulates cell division.”
“T (2000) Activation of protein kinase a modulates trafficking of the human cardiac sodium channel in xenopus oocytes.”
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Terms of Enfrogment
Names I'm called on Wordie.
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Papageno's Words, Pt. II
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science words that are fun to say
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