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Definition of Mussels

1. mussel [n] - See also: mussel

Medical Definition of Mussels

1. Marine bivalve mollusks especially of the genus mytilus or freshwater bivalve mollusks, especially the genera unio and anodonta. The edible mussel is mytilus edulis. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mussels

Literary usage of Mussels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"The writer has often noted this inequality between the mussels of the ... mussels are by no means unique in the occurrence of the smaller members of a ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1886)
"POISONING BY mussels. A committee appointed by the German Government, and presided over by Virchow, has recently completed its investigation of a number of ..."

3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"This was justified by the rapid and astonishing development of the pearl button industry in America which is dependent upon the shells of mussels for its ..."

4. Water Resources, Present and Future Uses by Frederick Haynes Newell (1920)
"This has tended to make engineers ignore fishes. Why should they consider them when the fish expert cannot tell what consideration is required? mussels. ..."

5. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"strychnin or an extract from poisonous mussels, acquire the poisonous quality of the water. Savage is impressed with the incompleteness of our knowledge ..."

6. Poisons: Their Effects and Detection by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1906)
"The Poison of mussels.—Annually a certain number of people are seriously ... A number of the men collected mussels adhering to some of the vessels in the ..."

7. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1914)
"THE FEEDING HABITS OF mussels. CONTENTS. Introductory The Cilia and their Action 128 ... With the increasing commercial demand for mussels and the rapidly ..."

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