Selective disruption of gap junctional communication interferes with a patterning process inhydra.
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According to legend, if one of the hydra's heads was cut off, two more would grow in its place.
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The nervous systems of the radially symmetric organisms the ctenophores (comb jellies) and cnidarians (which include anemones, hydras, corals and jellyfish) consist of a diffuse nerve net.
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We have heard a great deal about the frightful dangers of monopoly, about thishydra-headed monster, this tyrant.
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Thehydra-headed monster of nationalism is a rapacious beast which, when given the opportunity to feed, tends to devour peoples, populations and nations.
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However, those challenges are diffuse andhydra-headed in their profusion—and they are likely to become more so as digital services come on stream.
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As soon as one false statement is knocked on the head then, like ahydra, another one appears and has to be refuted.
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We do not have this at the moment: we have ahydra-headed structure for community regeneration, lifelong learning and family support.
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If one reads the citizens charter, one realises that it will spawn more charters than thehydracould grow heads.
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The problem of spurious qualifications is rather like dealing with a many-headedhydra.
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I look upon it as a thing like thehydra; you can knock off several heads but more spring up in their place.
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I do not know whether the new clauses have created a hybrid or ahydra, but it seems that a third way is being sought.
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Television can be ahydra-headed monster and unless we cut off some of its heads from time to time, we shall be in danger.
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I hope he will not think that we have now solved thishydra-headed problem, for it will go on until 1965 and thereafter.
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The idea that the fertiliser industry is one greathydra-headed trust with which there is no competition is quite fanciful.
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