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  Carapace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diagram of a prawn, with the carapace highlighted in orange
In crustaceans, the carapace is a part of the exoskeleton that covers the cephalothorax.
The carapace is the dorsal, convex part of the shell structure of the tortoise, consisting of an external layer of horny material, divided into large plates known as scutes, which overlie a layer of interlocking bones.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carapace   (166 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - carapace (Zoology: General) - Encyclopedia
In lobsters, shrimps, crayfish, and crabs, the carapace is the part of the exoskeleton that covers the head and thorax and protects the dorsal and lateral surfaces.
In many crustaceans, the term carapace is also used to describe the hard, protective covering of the cephalothorax, as that of the horseshoe crab.
The carapace of a turtle's shell is composed of expanded ribs and vertebrae overlain by dermal plates and horny scales.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/carapace.html   (193 words)

  
 carapace on Encyclopedia.com
CARAPACE [carapace], shield, or shell covering, found over all or part of the anterior dorsal portion of an animal.
The joy of rust: clad in a coarse carapace of rusted steel, this housing block is a startling urban presence.
Can't stand the carapace: if you thought the concept of the shell company was a thing of the 20th century, think again.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/c1/carapace.asp   (1050 words)

  
 Wildlife & Natural History Q-line - Critter Field Guide - Turtles of Michigan
carapace brownish or grayish-brown (sometimes, with yellow ray-like markings), with deep circular growth rings crossed by ray-like ridges on each scute; also note: head fl, with yellow or orange skin on lower neck and under legs and tail...
The carapace is usually brown with a radiating pattern of yellow or orange markings in each scute.
The rounded tan, brown, or olive carapace is marked with fl dots or circles in juveniles and males, and dark blotches in adult females.
critterguy.museum.msu.edu /FieldGuide/Turtles.html   (2091 words)

  
 Carapace, Inc
Just as there are specialists in the medical profession, CARAPACE is a specialist in the making of a superior plaster bandage.
Carapace is the “Mercedes Benz of bandages” due to the high quality of chemicals used in the mixture.
Carapace is “organic.”  It doesn’t have formaldehyde which the lower cost bandages use so it smells better and is less likely to cause skin irritation.
www.montana.edu /cob/BUS341/Distrib.htm   (1766 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Carapace® is a self-regulating heater high-density polyethylene water pipe designed for use in municipal and domestic water supply applications.
Carapace® offers a more cost effective and efficient alternative to blasting and excavation as the pipe can run above ground over rocky terrain and be exposed to free air with the addition of insulation.
The self-regulating heating cable is extruded directly onto the outer surface of the pipe with a layer of high density polyethylene providing protection from mechanical injury and ensuring constant contact between the heater and the pipe.
www.heatline.com /CARproducts.htm   (442 words)

  
 Postings from Carapace Completed Umber
Although I am well known to have no sense of humor whatever, my alter ego, Carapace Completed Umber, is silly enough for both of us.
The problem is getting the bike to stand up on the scale; can't use a kickstand...too heavy, so the pros tie a bunch of helium balloons to the saddle and handlebars.
Yeah, and to use the "ATM machine," they have to enter their "PIN number." I really hate, loathe, detest and despise un-neccessary redundancies that serve no useful purpose or function of any kind, whatsoever.
sheldonbrown.com /carapace.html   (2778 words)

  
 Hydrodynamic stability of swimming in ostraciid fishes: role of the carapace in the smooth trunkfish Lactophrys ...
Characteristics of the carapace of a CT-scanned smooth turnkfish (17.0 cm total length, 12.3 cm carapace length) plotted as a function of percentage of carapace length.
Dimensions (carapace width, carapace height, and eye ridge width) are depicted on the left y-axis, while mean ventro-lateral keel angle and dorsal keel angle are depicted on the right y-axis.
of the carapace that are exposed to oncoming flow) (Fig.
jeb.biologists.org /cgi/content/full/206/4/725   (8468 words)

  
 More Postings from Carapace Completed Umber
Carapace Completed Umber Hoople, N.D. Certainly the game is rigged.
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Carapace Completed Umber, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska +------------------------------------------------------+
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 Search Results for carapace - Encyclopædia Britannica
The groups indicated by a dagger (†) are extinct and known only from fossils.
Box turtles have a high, rounded upper shell (carapace) that grows to a maximum length of...
Sclerotin is found in the cuticle (external covering) and egg cases of insects, the body shell (carapace) of certain...
www.britannica.com /search?query=carapace&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (321 words)

  
 Carapace specializes in the provision of high-level strategic and tactical technology consulting and project management ...
Carapace specializes in the provision of high-level strategic and tactical technology consulting and project management servic
In general, you can visit Carapace, Inc. on the Web without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself.
Carapace, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
www.carapace.com /cilegal.htm   (788 words)

  
 Meet Mark Stevenson of Carapace Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
ere at our Carapace Arts studio outside of Port Townsend, Washington, Sarah and I make our art and cast it into bronze.
I continue also to mold and cast the work of some of the finest artists in the Northwest.
Carapace Arts website and content copyright © 2003-2006 Mark Stevenson.
www.carapacearts.com /the_artists.htm   (1397 words)

  
 Carapace Arts Home Page
Carapace Arts is Mark Stevenson and Sarah Ohman, artists.
A turtle's upper shell is called the carapace.
We call ourselves Carapace Arts because of our enduring interest in the forces that mold the surface of this earth, and the intersection of earth's forms with human imagination, culminating in the series Turtle Island.
www.carapacearts.com   (96 words)

  
 Carapace Objects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Carapace also allows you to define your own objects using the Carapace script.
A worked example of a Carapace object is a good place to start when discussing objects.
Since Carapace is designed to make COM easier to use, the design of a Carapace object closely follows that of a COM object.
www.carapace.co.uk /objects.htm   (223 words)

  
 Mechanisms underlying the production of carapace vibrations and associated waterborne sounds in the American lobster, ...
accelerometer attached to the carapace and a hydrophone.
carapace with cyanoacrylate glue and squares of duct tape.
In this example, the left antennal muscles (both remotor and promotor) were lesioned at their insertion into the musculature of the dorsal carapace, while the right antennal muscles were kept intact.
jeb.biologists.org /cgi/content/full/208/17/3421   (4713 words)

  
 AllaKhazam's Magical Realm - Your Everquest Community
The one carapace I did get was from a spider back on the ramp.
Carapace dropped on about spider number 10 near the zone in.
I was able to solo the Spiders with KEI as a level 58 beastlord, it was alot easier at 60 and now they are almost a joke at 65.
everquest.allakhazam.com /db/item.html?item=4795   (2088 words)

  
 SharpE: Content / Carapace
Carapace is a shell manager that was started as a hobby project some years ago now.
Using Carapace you manage multiple shell environments, and effectively run SharpE and Explorer together with very little effort.
It can also be used to execute any application or game without first loading a shell, this way you have maximum memory available.
www.sharpe-shell.org /content.php?content.12   (329 words)

  
 CVBDB Chinese Mitten Crab: Identification
maximum carapace width (distance across the back) is approximately 80 mm (3 inches)
claws may not be hairy if carapace width is less than 20 mm (¾ inch)
Small mitten crabs may be confused with the Harris mud crab, because of their similar size and appearance.
www.delta.dfg.ca.gov /mittencrab/identification.asp   (107 words)

  
 Carapace - carapace on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The top shell is the carapace while the bottom is called the plastron.
COSEWIC Some turtles have a keel down the centre of their carapace.
A carapace, or cephalothorax, is similar to a cephalic shield but is fused further Group or taxon, Body regions (# segments), Carapace, Appendages
vmhu.com /?q=carapace   (158 words)

  
 carapace vol 3 / no 3 - gila monster sighting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
While her bite can overpower the normal-sized predators and prey, it is rarely fatal to us humans.
Carapace Spring 99 vol 3 / no 2
Carapace Autumn 99 vol 3 / no 4
www.ugwa.org /cp0303/cp0303_monster.htm   (243 words)

  
 Carapace Pitting in Terrapene - Darrell Senneke
One of the most common health questions relating to wild caught captive American box turtles relates to the presence of small pits on the carapace.
It is the opinion of this author that mating and combat does have a partial responsibility for the pitting but that there is something else specific to the environment of T.
triunguis that capitalizes on the scratching of the carapace resulting in the pits.
www.chelonia.org /Articles/Terrapene_pitting.htm   (402 words)

  
 VN Boards - Carapace Breastplace (Lv.61)
Apperently the receipe @ ffxi.allakhazam.com and ffxi.somepage.com (which is the same receipe) and the receipe posted by someone @ alla under Carapace Breastplate are all wrong.
Carapace Harness x1 (also tried without this, because the poster didn't include it, but didn't work either)
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 carapace - OneLook Dictionary Search
Carapace : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
carapace : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
Carapace : Terms of Paleontological Endearment [home, info]
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 carapace - Find, Compare, and Buy carapace at Shopping.com
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 Carapace Press Worldwide Online
Welcome to the Carapace Press online store where our complete range of books, DVD's, VHS videos and other products are available to our UK and international customers.
If you are looking for the very best Tortoise and Turtle publications and instructional materials available, Carapace Press offers a complete range of titles to meet your requirements.
Carapace Press is the sole publisher/distributor of TORTOISE TRUST approved publications.
www.vidi-herp.com   (148 words)

  
 Thottbot World of Warcraft: Chromatic Carapace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
i hate people who roll on stuff like the carapace, the chroamtic scales, or the skin of shadow and dont even know what it does...
Since im in a guild that only has 2 other regular players both of whom are only early level 40s, my chances to go on molten core raids are very limited and so its hard for me to get many items as good as the hunter leggings that the carapace would of let me make.
But if Mail/Plate people roll on this while not having the quest...I agree with the other poster that its easy enough to get, and the carapace is not.
www.thottbot.com /?i=24602   (1890 words)

  
 Agence France Presse French: Dents de dinosaures et carapace de Glyptodont aux enchères@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Des dents et oeufs de dinosaures, un oeuf fossilis d'Aepyornis maximus, oiseau gant de Madagascar disparu au 17e sicle, ou encore une carapace de Glyptodont, mammifre disparu la fin du quaternaire, seront vendus aux enchres dimanche Moulins.
La carapace de Glyptodont, mesurant 1,70 m de long et 1,50 m de large, "star des muses d'histoire naturelle",...
This material is published under license from the publisher through ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:68756969&refid=holomed_1   (204 words)

  
 Carapace quotes & quotations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. ”
In the far region of the unforeknown I dream a tortoise upon every throne.
I wish in Eden you'd brought this about By slouching in and chasing Adam out.
en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/carapace   (372 words)

  
 Carapace - Changes in Chela Heights and Carapace Lengths in Mature Male Red
Carapace - (kâr´pās), shield, or shell covering, found over all or part of the anterior dorsal portion of an animal.
The last and possibly most important of all implants, Points are then cut into the Carapace which allows a Marine to directly
Here we describe an experimental carapace tag that was developed as an This turtle suffered a deep wound on the carapace, probably caused by a propeller
www.spiderarea.com /q/carapace.htm   (195 words)

  
 Changes in Chela Heights and Carapace Lengths in Mature Male Red King Crabs After Molting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
A management goal for the commercially important red king crab is to protect newly matured males from the fishery to allow them a chance to breed.
The objective of this study was to provide data on carapace and chela allometry of individual males known to be mature, and to test for changes in ratios of chela height to carapace length after molting.
This growth information is useful because it reports the magnitude of changes in chela allometry that can occur in individuals.
www.uaf.edu /seagrant/bookstore/pubs/RP-96-06.html   (117 words)

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