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PRONUNCIATION OF SHELL GLAND

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHELL GLAND

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Shell gland is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SHELL GLAND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

shell gland

Gladius (cephalopod)

The gladius, or pen, is a hard internal bodypart found in many cephalopods of the superorder Decapodiformes and in a single extant member of the Octopodiformes, the vampire squid. It is a vestige of the ancestral mollusc shell, which was external. The gladius is located dorsally within the mantle and usually extends for its entire length. Composed primarily of chitin, it lies within the shell sac, which is responsible for its secretion. Gladii are known from a number of extinct cephalopod groups, including teudopseids, loligosepiids, and prototeuthids.

Definition of shell gland in the English dictionary

The definition of shell gland in the dictionary is a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHELL GLAND

shell
shell bean
shell company
shell game
shell jacket
shell out
shell program
shell shock
shell star
shell suit
shell-less
shell-like
shell-shocked
shellac
shellac varnish
shellack
shellacked
shellacker
shellacking
shellback

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHELL GLAND

adrenal gland
Bank of England
Church of England
Deutschland
endocrine gland
England
gangland
gland
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England
Lord Chief Justice of England
mammary gland
Middle England
New England
parathyroid gland
pineal gland
pituitary gland
prostate gland
salivary gland
sweat gland
thyroid gland

Synonyms and antonyms of shell gland in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «shell gland» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHELL GLAND

Find out the translation of shell gland to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shell gland from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shell gland» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

蛋壳腺
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

glándula de la cáscara
570 millions of speakers

English

shell gland
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खोल ग्रंथि
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الغدة قذيفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оболочка железы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

glândula shell
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শেল গ্রান্ড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

glande coque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelenjar shell
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Schalendrüse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

卵殻腺
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쉘 선
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kelenjar cangkang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vỏ tuyến
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஷெல் சுரப்பி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेल ग्रंथी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kabuk bezi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ghiandola del guscio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gruczoł powłoki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оболонка залози
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

glanda coajă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κέλυφος αδένα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dop klier
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skal körtel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shell kjertel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shell gland

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHELL GLAND»

The term «shell gland» is used very little and occupies the 185.920 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHELL GLAND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «shell gland» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «shell gland» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shell gland

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHELL GLAND»

Discover the use of shell gland in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shell gland and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sturkie's Avian Physiology
Arginine vasotocin administered to hen shell gland musclein vitro increases tissue content of prostaglandins and stimulates shell gland muscle contractility, while concomitant treatment with indomethacin blocks the production of ...
G. Causey Whittow, 1999
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Biomineralization and Biological Metal Accumulation: ...
Upon arrival of the egg in the shell gland region of the oviduct the deposition of the mammillary cores and the nucleation of the crystals have already started. Thus crystal growth and matrix deposition occur in the shell gland lumen. It is not  ...
P. Westbroek, E.W. de Jong, 1983
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Egg Quality: A Study of the Hen's Egg
obvious suggestion is that it is a phosphate and it is interesting to note that the shell gland contains an alkaline phosphatase (McCallion, 1953)- (ii) The shell gland could increase the calcium ion concentration in the region of mineralization .
Thomas Christopher Carter, 1968
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Spiralian Embryology
and occurs in the viscous material between the periostracum and the shell gland. Specificity and histogenesis Combinations of ectoderm and endo- derm from any half- or quarter-embryo are capable of shell histogenesis. The present studies ...
‎1972
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Comparative Veterinary Histology with Clinical Correlates
Once received by the 'uterus' or shell gland (12.81), the egg remains in this region for about 20 hours, during which calcification of the shell and formation of the cuticle take place (12.82 and 12.83). Watery fluid is also added to the albumen.
Elizabeth Aughey, Fredric L. Frye, 2001
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Guinea Fowl Production
Shell gland (uterus) The histology of the uterus differs slightly in guinea fowl compared with hens. Ovocleidin and ovalbumin are both secreted by the tubular glands. The shell gland (uterus) is characterized by a pouch-like section joined to the ...
Dr. Ross Gordon Cooper, Dr. Shahram Golzar Adabi
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Calcium-Regulating Hormones and Cardiovascular Function
Parathyroid hormone-related protein has been shown to stimulate the placental transfer of calcium in sheep,99-102-172 and because of its potential importance in eggshell calcification, the expression of PTHrP by the oviduct shell gland of the  ...
M.F. Crass, III, Louis V. Avioli, 1994
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Folia Biologica
In the shell gland the number of mast cells was moderate while that of these cells in the magnum and the isthmus was rather small. Histamine determination Concentration of histamine in chicken oviductal parts is shown in Fig. 8. The highest ...
9
Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives
The shell gland appears as a slight swelling on the anterior part of the oviduct in immature animals, and as a well-differentiated gland several times the diameter of the oviducts in mature animals. The shell gland secretes an egg membrane or  ...
Jeffrey C. Carrier, John A. Musick, Michael R. Heithaus, 2004
10
Atlas of Chick Development
Early cleavage. Germinal disc 3.5–4 mm diameter, (c.fur = cleavage furrows: p.b. = polar body; su.sp. = supernumerary sperm: vac. = large vacuoles). Stage II ( about 2 h in shell gland, Figures 3 and 4). About 14–16 laterally closed cells raised ...
Ruth Bellairs, Mark Osmond, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHELL GLAND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shell gland is used in the context of the following news items.
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Science Briefs: Markings let birds ID their own eggs
The colors and patterns are created in the shell gland of the mother bird hours before the egg is laid. The parasitic cuckoos produce a wide variety of egg ... «News & Observer, Jun 15»
2
Elaborate patterns on eggs help thwart cuckoos
The colours and patterns are created in the shell gland of the mother bird hours before the egg is laid, but the specifics of the system are still a mystery. Variation ... «Bird Watch, Jun 15»
3
Raising chickens is easier than city folks might think
Chickens can also produce wrinkled eggs if they're squeezed or stressed, or eggs without shells if the shell gland doesn't work correctly, Falco said. Bumpy ... «The Olympian, Feb 15»
4
10 not-so-perfect eggs
It's caused when the first egg gets held up in the shell gland, or it may reverse back up, only to meet another yolk and albumen arriving and the new shell is ... «Stuff.co.nz, Feb 15»
5
'Cracking' good shell indicator of good egg quality
They want the classical egg shape and certainly not eggs which have an 'equatorial' bulge that typically occurs in eggs which are broken in the shell gland and ... «Far Eastern Agriculture, May 14»
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Jane Says: Eggs Are Weird and Wonderful
From shell color to unlaid eggs, there's a lot to consider and understand when ... colored eggs is added to the shell at the end of its formation in the shell gland. «TakePart, Apr 14»
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Dietary Manganese Strengthens Eggshells in Chinese Study
... the mode of action is through the synthesis of compounds in the shell gland. ... quality by enhancing the synthesis of key compounds in the eggshell glands, ... «ThePoultrySite.com, Feb 14»
8
Circadian incubation for broiler quality and robustness
As the embryo grows, the number of cells increases and when the egg arrives in the shell gland, the first important steps of development are initiated. During ... «WorldPoultry.net, Dec 13»
9
Scientists Explain Why Snails Have A Twisted Shell
One morphogen, Dpp, makes most snail shells coil to the right as described in a recent ... Left-coiling-snail dpp was expressed in the left half of the shell gland (a ... «The Munich Eye, Sep 13»
10
Snail shell coiling programmed by protein patterning
Dpp is also found in the shell gland of gastropods, an early structure which begins to form a developing shell. However its presence in the mantle, which takes ... «EurekAlert, May 13»

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