Donald Triplett was an American male who was the first person diagnosed with autism. Triplett was the eldest son of an affluent family; his mother’s family had founded the local bank in Forest, Mississippi, and his father was an attorney. It became apparent at an early age that social interaction

Donald Triplett was an American male who was the first person diagnosed with autism. Triplett was the eldest son of an affluent family; his mother’s family had founded the local bank in Forest, Mississippi, and his father was an attorney. It became apparent at an early age that social interaction

Bob Dylan: Dylan in the 21st century: …Angels (2016), and the three-disc Triplicate (2017)—earned Dylan praise for his deeply felt interpretations. He returned to spectacular lyrical form yet again with Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020).

War of the Triple Alliance, (1864/65–70), the bloodiest conflict in Latin American history, fought between Paraguay and the allied countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Paraguay had been involved in boundary and tariff disputes with its more powerful neighbours, Argentina and Brazil, for

astrology: Astrology in the Hellenistic period (3rd century bc to 3rd century ad): …are further divided into four triplicities, each of which governs one of the four elements. Numerous pairs of opposites (male-female, diurnal-nocturnal, hot-cold, and others), based on the speculations of the followers of Pythagoras, a Greek mystical philosopher of the 6th century bc, are connected with consecutive pairs of signs. Finally,…

triplite, phosphate mineral, consisting of manganese, iron, magnesium, and calcium phosphate [(Mn, Fe, Mg, Ca)2PO4(F,OH)]. It occurs as brightly coloured (brown, salmon, flesh-red) masses in granite pegmatites, notably in Bavaria, Ger.; Kimito, Fin.; Karibib, Namibia; and Maine, Connecticut, and

circulatory system: General features of circulation: …defined tissues and organs) are triploblastic (i.e., their members have three layers of cells), with the third cellular layer, called the mesoderm, developing between the endoderm and ectoderm. At its simplest, the mesoderm provides a network of packing cells around the animal’s organs; this is probably best exhibited in the…

chromosomal disorder: …can be duplicated three (triploidy) or more (polyploidy) times; or one arm or part of one arm of a single chromosome may be missing (deletion). Part of one chromosome may be transferred to another (translocation), which has no effect on the person in which it occurs but generally causes…

American literature: Multicultural writing: Her first novel, Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), was set in the bohemian world of the San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s. Other important Asian American writers included Gish Jen, whose Typical American (1991) dealt with immigrant striving and frustration; the Korean American Chang-rae Lee, who…

sea urchin: …Indies, sea eggs—the ovaries of Tripneustes ventricosus—are eaten raw or fried; in the Mediterranean region, frutta di mare is the egg mass of Paracentrotus lividus (the best known rock borer) and other Paracentrotus species; and, on the U.S. Pacific coast, the eggs of the giant purple (or red) urchin (Strongylocentrotus…

motion-picture technology: Camera supports: …form this is a heavy tripod structure, with sturdy but smooth-moving adjustments and casters, so that the exact desired position can be quickly reached. Often a heavy dolly, holding both the camera and a seated cameraman, is used. This can be pushed or driven around the set. When shots from…

tripod, any piece of furniture with three legs. The word can apply to a wide range of objects, including stools, tables, light stands, and pedestals. The tripod was very popular in ancient and classical times, largely because it was associated with religious or symbolic rites in the form of an

Tripoli, (“The Eastern Tripoli”), city and port, northwestern Lebanon. It lies on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Abū ʿAlī River, 40 miles (65 km) north-northeast of Beirut. Founded after 700 bc, it became in the Persian period (300 bc) the capital for the Phoenician triple federation

Tripoli, capital city of Libya. Situated in northwestern Libya along the Mediterranean coast, it is the country’s largest city and chief seaport. The city was known as Oea in ancient times and was one of the original cities (along with Sabratha and Leptis Magna) that formed the African Tripolis, or

tripoli, porous, friable, microcrystalline siliceous rock of sedimentary origin that is composed chiefly of chalcedony and microcrystalline quartz. Although the name tripoli was chosen because of the rock’s superficial resemblance to tripolite, a diatomite or from Tripolitania region, Libya, the

Second Battle of Tripoli Harbor, U.S. blockade and attack on Tripoli, Libya, on August 3, 1804, as part of the larger Tripolitan War (First Barbary War), which was fought 1801–05. Pirates based in the ports of the Muslim north African coast were a serious threat to international shipping in the

Tripoli: Universities in Tripoli include Al-Fāteḥ University, founded in 1957 and previously part of the former federal University of Libya before its split in 1973, and Open University, founded in 1987. Libya’s Department of Antiquities, which oversees the country’s museums and archaeological sites, is also located in Tripoli, as are…

Tripoli, (“The Eastern Tripoli”), city and port, northwestern Lebanon. It lies on the Mediterranean coast at the mouth of the Abū ʿAlī River, 40 miles (65 km) north-northeast of Beirut. Founded after 700 bc, it became in the Persian period (300 bc) the capital for the Phoenician triple federation

First Barbary War, (1801–05), conflict between the United States and Tripoli (now in Libya), incited by American refusal to continue payment of tribute to the piratical rulers of the North African Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis, Morocco, and Tripoli. This practice had been customary among

Tripolitania, historical region of North Africa that now forms the northwestern part of Libya. In the 7th century bce three Phoenician colonies were established on the shores of the Gulf of Sidra, which was originally inhabited by a Berber-speaking people. These cities—Labqi (Leptis Magna, modern

Trypillya culture, Neolithic European culture that arose in Ukraine between the Seret and Bug rivers, with extensions south into modern-day Romania and Moldova and east to the Dnieper River, in the 5th millennium bc. The culture’s characteristic pottery was red or orange and was decorated with

Monica Lewinsky: …was befriended by a coworker, Linda Tripp, who secretly recorded telephone conversations about Lewinsky’s affair with Clinton. In January 1998 Tripp turned the tapes over to independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who was investigating business dealings by Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, with an Arkansas housing development corporation known…

Juan T. Trippe was an American pioneer in commercial aviation and one of the founders of the company that became Pan American World Airways, Inc. Trippe was the son of a New York banker and broker of English descent, but he was named for Juanita Terry, the wife of a great-uncle. He graduated from

Juan T. Trippe was an American pioneer in commercial aviation and one of the founders of the company that became Pan American World Airways, Inc. Trippe was the son of a New York banker and broker of English descent, but he was named for Juanita Terry, the wife of a great-uncle. He graduated from

Joe Trippi is an American political consultant who worked on political campaigns for many prominent members of the Democratic Party. He is best known for his work on the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2003–04, which was an early successful example of online grassroots

Vandana Shiva: …the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement, which allowed for the patenting of life forms and would therefore make it possible for corporations to essentially require farmers to continue to purchase their seeds after local varieties had been eliminated. She spoke out against the agreement at…

perciform: Annotated classification: Family Tripterygiidae (threefin blennies) Pliocene to present. Much like clinids but dorsal fin divided into 3 distinct parts, the first 2 of spines only; small bottom fishes of reef and rocks. About 150 species mostly in warm seas. Family Dactyloscopidae (sand stargazers) Body elongated. Shape of pelvic…

Napoléon: …filming process known as a triptych, an early precursor to today’s IMAX that required shooting with three synchronized cameras. This allowed the right and left portions of the screen to at times present different images from what was being shown in the centre of the screen. At other times, the…

altarpiece: …of two painted panels, a triptych has three panels, and a polyptych has four or more panels. A winged altarpiece is one equipped with movable wings that can be opened or closed over a fixed central part, thereby allowing various representations to be exposed to view. The term reredos is…

Giacomo Puccini: Mature work and fame: …study emerged Il trittico (The Triptych; New York City, 1918), three stylistically individual one-act operas—the melodramatic Il tabarro (The Cloak), the sentimental Suor Angelica, and the comic Gianni Schicchi. His last opera, based on the fable of Turandot as told in the play Turandot by the 18th-century Italian dramatist…

Tripura, state of India. It is located in the northeastern part of the subcontinent. It is bordered to the north, west, and south by Bangladesh, to the east by the state of Mizoram, and to the northeast by the state of Assam. It is among the smallest of India’s states and is located in an isolated

Bangladesh: Ethnic groups: …Marma (Magh or Mogh), the Tripura (Tipra), and the Mro; the Khomoi (Kumi), the Kuki, and the Mizo (formerly called Lushai) are among the smaller groups. Since the mid-1970s ethnic tensions and periodic violence have marked the Chittagong Hill Tracts, where many peoples long resident in the area have objected…

Tripura Hills, hills in eastern Tripura state, northeastern India. The Tripura Hills, by way of the Mizo Hills of Mizoram state on the east, form a low western extension of the Purvachal, a strategically located highland region fronting the border with Myanmar (Burma). The region belongs to the

Tripura Plains, plains in southwestern Tripura state, northeastern India. The Tripura Plains, extending over about 1,600 square miles (4,150 square km), are located on a section of the greater Ganges-Brahmaputra lowlands (also called the Eastern Plains), west of the Tripura Hills. They are dotted

Triratna, in Buddhism the Triratna comprises the Buddha, the dharma (doctrine, or teaching), and the sangha (the monastic order, or community). One becomes a Buddhist by saying the words “I go to the Buddha for refuge, I go to the Doctrine for refuge, I go to the Order for refuge.” In Jainism the

triregnum, triple crown that was either worn by or carried in front of the pope—the leader of the Roman Catholic Church—at ceremonies such as papal coronations and at nonliturgical functions such as processions. From about the 12th century to the mid-20th century each pope was presented with at

trireme, oar-powered warship that reached its highest point of development in the eastern Mediterranean during the 5th century bce. Light, fast, and maneuverable, it was the principal naval vessel with which Persia, Phoenicia, and the Greek city-states vied for mastery of the seas from the Battle

Trisecting the Angle: Archimedes’ Method: Euclid’s insistence (c. 300 bc) on using only unmarked straightedge and compass for geometric constructions did not inhibit the imagination of his successors. Archimedes (c. 285–212/211 bc) made use of neusis (the sliding and maneuvering of a measured length, or marked straightedge) to solve one…

Euclid’s insistence (c. 300 bc) on using only unmarked straightedge and compass for geometric constructions did not inhibit the imagination of his successors. Archimedes (c. 285–212/211 bc) made use of neusis (the sliding and maneuvering of a measured length, or marked straightedge) to solve one of

Hippias of Elis (fl. 5th century bc) imagined a mechanical device to divide arbitrary angles into various proportions. His device depends on a curve, now known as the quadratrix of Hippias, that is produced by plotting the intersection of two moving line segments, as shown in the animation.

Kostís Palamás: His play Trisevgene (1903; “The Thrice Noble”) has lyric rather than dramatic merits. Palamás also wrote short stories, and his criticism significantly raised the level of modern Greek literary criticism.

Trishala, mother of Mahavira, the most recent of the Tirthankaras (“Ford-makers,” i.e., saviours) of Jainism, a religion of India. Trishala, like the mother of the Buddha, was a member of the Kshatriya (warrior) caste. According to Jain tradition, Trishala lived some 2,500 years ago and, like the

Hemachandra: …and several poems, including the Trishashtishalakapurusha-charita (“Deeds of the 63 Illustrious Men”), a Sanskrit epic of the history of the world as understood by Jain teachers. He was also a logician. Although derivative in many ways, his works have become classics, setting high standards for Sanskrit learning.

triśikṣā, in Buddhism, the three types of learning required of those who seek to attain enlightenment. The threefold training comprises all aspects of Buddhist practices. Arranged in a progressive order, the three are: (1) śīla (“moral conduct”), which makes one’s body and mind fit for

Hermeticism: …La poesia ermetica (1936), after Hermes Trismegistos, reputed author of occult symbolic works and inventor of a magical airtight seal.

alchemy: Latin alchemy: SalomonTrismosin, purported author of the Splendor solis, or “Splendour of the Sun” (published 1598), engaged in extensive visits to alchemical adepts (a common practice) and claimed success through “kabbalistic and magical books in the Egyptian language.” The impression given is that many had the secret…

tetanus: …stiffness of the jaw, or trismus. The muscles of the mouth are often affected, pulling the lips out and up over the teeth into a grimace, the mixture of smile and snarl that heralds the onset of the generalized convulsive stage of tetanus. Spasm of the muscles of the throat…

trisomy, abnormality in chromosome number (aneuploidy), characterized by the existence of an extra chromosome, resulting in three copies of the affected chromosome, rather than the typical two copies. As a result, individuals with a trisomy disorder carry 47 chromosomes, instead of the normal 46.

trisomy 13, human chromosomal disorder that results from an extra (third) copy of chromosome 13. Trisomy 13 can be present in all cells of the body but can also occur as mosaic trisomy 13, in which the extra chromosome is in only some cells. It can also occur as partial trisomy 13, in which only

trisomy 18, human chromosomal disorder that results from an extra (third) copy of chromosome 18. Infants born with this disorder are smaller than average and usually do not survive longer than a few months. Characteristics of the syndrome include severe mental and growth retardation; congenital

Down syndrome, congenital disorder caused by the presence in the human genome of extra genetic material from chromosome 21. The affected individual may inherit an extra part of chromosome 21 or an entire extra copy of chromosome 21, a condition known as trisomy 21. British physician John Langdon

trisomy X, sex chromosome disorder of human females, in which three X chromosomes are present, rather than the normal pair. Although trisomy X can be inherited, it most often is caused by a random failure in chromosome separation. When the error occurs via nondisjunction—the failure of chromosomes

bib, common fish of the cod family, Gadidae, found in the sea along European coastlines. The bib is a rather deep-bodied fish with a chin barbel, three close-set dorsal fins, and two close-set anal fins. It usually grows no longer than about 30 cm (12 inches) and is copper red with darker bars.

fungus: Sexual pheromones: …interplay between mating types produces trisporic acid, a pheromone that induces the formation of specialized aerial hyphae. Volatile intermediates in the trisporic acid synthetic pathway are interchanged between the tips of opposite mating aerial hyphae, causing the hyphae to grow toward each other and fuse together. In yeasts belonging to…

Gian Giorgio Trissino was a literary theorist, philologist, dramatist, and poet, an important innovator in Italian drama. Born into a wealthy patrician family in Vicenza, a cultural centre in his time, Trissino traveled widely in Italy, studying Greek in Milan and philosophy in Ferrara and

Andrea Palladio: Early life and works: The Villa Trissino was rebuilt to a plan reminiscent of designs of Baldassarre Peruzzi, an important High Renaissance architect. Planned to house a learned academy for Trissino’s pupils, who lived a semimonastic life studying mathematics, music, philosophy, and classical authors, the villa represented Trissino’s interpretation of…

Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the war’s legacy: Polk had assigned Nicholas Trist, chief clerk in the State Department, to accompany Scott’s forces and to negotiate a peace treaty. But after a long delay in the formation of a new Mexican government capable of negotiations, Polk grew impatient and recalled Trist. Trist, however, disobeyed his instructions…

Mexican-American War: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the war’s legacy: Polk had assigned Nicholas Trist, chief clerk in the State Department, to accompany Scott’s forces and to negotiate a peace treaty. But after a long delay in the formation of a new Mexican government capable of negotiations, Polk grew impatient and recalled Trist. Trist, however, disobeyed his instructions…

Tristan, novella by Thomas Mann, published in 1903 as one of six novellas in Tristan: Sechs Novellen. The plot concerns three individuals: Anton Klöterjahn, a prosperous, unimaginative businessman from northern Germany; his tubercular wife, Gabriele; and Detlev Spinell, an effete, eccentric writer.

romance: Arthurian themes: A 13th-century prose Tristan (Tristan de Léonois), fundamentally an adaptation of the Tristan story to an Arthurian setting, complicates the love theme of the original with the theme of a love rivalry between Tristan and the converted Saracen Palamède and represents the action as a conflict between the…

Henry Cavill: First onscreen roles: …the Castle (2003) and an adaptation of the Celtic romance Tristan + Isolde (2006). During this period, Cavill auditioned for several iconic roles, including Superman and James Bond, which ultimately went to Brandon Routh in Superman Returns and Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (both 2006), respectively. Those setbacks led him…

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

Tristan da Cunha: Five of them—Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible, Nightingale, Middle, and Stoltenhoff—are located within 25 miles (40 km) of one another, and the sixth, Gough, lies about 200 miles (320 km) south-southeast of the group. The territory is located approximately 1,300 miles (2,100 km) to the south of St.…

Tristan da Cunha, island and group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, about midway between southern Africa and South America. The island group is a constituent part of the British overseas territory of St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The six small islands of the Tristan da Cunha

Luis Tristán was a Spanish painter who was in the vanguard of early Baroque painting in Spain. A student of El Greco from 1603 to 1607, Tristán came under the influence of another El Greco pupil, Orazio Borgianni. Tristán occasionally borrowed from the works of El Greco, as can be seen in his

romance: Arthurian themes: A 13th-century prose Tristan (Tristan de Léonois), fundamentally an adaptation of the Tristan story to an Arthurian setting, complicates the love theme of the original with the theme of a love rivalry between Tristan and the converted Saracen Palamède and represents the action as a conflict between the…

diving petrel: …and most widespread is the common diving petrel (Pelecanoides urinatrix), about 16 cm (6.5 inches) long; the largest is the Peruvian diving petrel (P. garnotii), about 25 cm long, restricted to the west coast of South America from about 6° to 37° S.

Tristan l’Hermite was a dramatist and poet, one of the creators of French classical drama. Long overshadowed by his contemporary Pierre Corneille, he was rediscovered in the late 19th century and continues to excite scholarly and critical interest. At the age of 11, Tristan was attached as page to

Karl Leberecht Immermann: …found expression in his epic Tristan und Isolde, which was left unfinished at his death.

Gottfried von Strassburg: …German poets, whose courtly epic Tristan und Isolde is the classic version of this famous love story.

counterpoint: The Romantic period: In Tristan und Isolde Wagner set the leitmotifs in counterpoint against one another. Similarly, in the Prelude to Act III of Siegfried, a motive known as the “Need of the Gods” is cast against one associated with the “Valkyries.”

Luis Tristán was a Spanish painter who was in the vanguard of early Baroque painting in Spain. A student of El Greco from 1603 to 1607, Tristán came under the influence of another El Greco pupil, Orazio Borgianni. Tristán occasionally borrowed from the works of El Greco, as can be seen in his

Tristan, novella by Thomas Mann, published in 1903 as one of six novellas in Tristan: Sechs Novellen. The plot concerns three individuals: Anton Klöterjahn, a prosperous, unimaginative businessman from northern Germany; his tubercular wife, Gabriele; and Detlev Spinell, an effete, eccentric writer.

Luis Buñuel: Life and work: His later French films—including Tristana (1970), again starring Deneuve; Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie); and Cet obscur objet du désir (1977; That Obscure Object of Desire)—all trade in Buñuel’s first and only real belief system, surrealism. In this world, society rests…

Brisbane box, (Tristania conferta), evergreen tree, of the family Myrtaceae, native to Australia and commonly cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of North America as a shade tree. It grows to more than 45 metres (about 150 feet) tall, and it has oval or lance-shaped leaves 7–15

Lennie Tristano was an American jazz pianist, a major figure of cool jazz and an influential teacher. Tristano, who became totally blind as a child, began playing piano in taverns at age 12. He grew up in Chicago, where he studied at the American Conservatory of Music (B.Mus., 1943) and was a noted

Lennie Tristano was an American jazz pianist, a major figure of cool jazz and an influential teacher. Tristano, who became totally blind as a child, began playing piano in taverns at age 12. He grew up in Chicago, where he studied at the American Conservatory of Music (B.Mus., 1943) and was a noted

Claude Lévi-Strauss: …recognition with Tristes tropiques (1955; A World on the Wane), a literary intellectual autobiography. Other publications included Anthropologie structurale (rev. ed., 1961; Structural Anthropology), La Pensée sauvage (1962; The Savage Mind), and Le Totémisme aujourd’hui (1962; Totemism). His massive Mythologiques appeared in four volumes: Le Cru et le cuit (1964;…

Jack Kerouac: On the Road and other early work: … (1959), Maggie Cassidy (1959), and Tristessa (1960) among them.

plant disease: Biological control: …with an attenuated strain of tristeza virus, which effectively controls the virulent strain that causes the disease. An avirulent strain of Agrobacterium radiobacter (K84) can be applied to plant wounds to prevent crown gall caused by infection with Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Many more specific antagonists are being investigated and hold much…

Ovid: Works of Ovid: The Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto were written and sent to Rome at the rate of about a book a year from 9 ce on. They consist of letters to the emperor and to Ovid’s wife and friends describing his miseries and appealing for clemency. For…

tristimulus system, a system for visually matching a colour under standardized conditions against the three primary colours—red, green, and blue; the three results are expressed as X, Y, and Z, respectively, and are called tristimulus values. For example, the tristimulus values of the emerald-green

tristimulus system: …Z, respectively, and are called tristimulus values.

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

Tristram Shandy, experimental novel by Laurence Sterne, published in nine volumes from 1759 to 1767. Wildly experimental for its time, Tristram Shandy seems almost a modern avant-garde novel. Narrated by Shandy, the story begins at the moment of his conception and diverts into endless digressions,

Icelandic literature: Romances: …earliest romance was probably the Tristrams saga (1226), derived from a late 12th-century adaptation of the Tristan and Isolde legend by the Anglo-Norman poet Thomas. This was followed by the Karlamagnús saga (“Saga of Charlemagne”), a collection of prose renderings of French chansons de geste, including a Norse version of…

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

Tristan and Isolde, principal characters of a famous medieval love-romance, based on a Celtic legend (itself based on an actual Pictish king). Though the archetypal poem from which all extant forms of the legend are derived has not been preserved, a comparison of the early versions yields an idea

trisvabhava, in Buddhism, the states of the real existence that appear to a person according to his stage of understanding. Together with the doctrine of storehouse consciousness (alaya-vijnana), it constitutes the basic theory of the Vijnanavada (“Consciousness-affirming”) school of Buddhist

rhyme: …rhyme (profession / discretion), and trisyllabic rhyme, in which three syllables rhyme (patinate / latinate). The too-regular effect of masculine rhyme is sometimes softened by using trailing rhyme, or semirhyme, in which one of the two words trails an additional unstressed syllable behind it (trail / failure). Other types of…

protagonist: …added a third actor, the tritagonist, and was able to write more complex, more natural dialogue. That there were only three actors did not limit the number of characters to three because one actor would play more than one character.

colour blindness: Types of colour blindness: …blue cones are absent; and tritanomaly (reduced sensitivity to blue), which arises from the abnormal function of blue cones.

colour blindness: Types of colour blindness: …blue-yellow colour blindness are known: tritanopia (blindness to blue, usually with the inability to distinguish between blue and yellow), which occurs when blue cones are absent; and tritanomaly (reduced sensitivity to blue), which arises from the abnormal function of blue cones.

isoprenoid: Triterpenes: The acyclic triterpene hydrocarbon squalene constitutes more than half of the liver oil of certain species of sharks and is otherwise rather widely distributed in nature. It has been found in other fish liver oils, in vegetable oils, in fungi, and in human earwax…

Nymphaeales: Hydatellaceae: The sole genus, Hydatella (formerly Trithuria), has about 10 species native to India, New Zealand, and Australia. They are clumped grasslike aquatic herbs that may be submerged, with tiny flowers aggregated into stalked headlike clusters. Four of the species are dioecious (separate male and female plants), and the others have…

triticale, wheat-rye hybrid that has a high yield and rich protein content. The first cross was reported in 1875 and the first fertile cross in 1888. The name triticale first appeared in scientific literature in 1935 and is attributed to Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg. In favourable environmental