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Definition of "sea anemone" []

  • Any of numerous flowerlike marine coelenterates of the class Anthozoa, having a flexible cylindrical body and tentacles surrounding a central mouth. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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  • "The same University of California, Irvine researchers working with sea anemone extract have likewise found that a compound from the rue shrub plant—known as PAP-1—delayed the onset and reduced the incidence of disease in diabetic rats and helped to improve the joint function of rats with rheumatoid arthritis."
  • "In what sounds like something straight out of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, researchers from the University of California, Irvine recently found that natural compounds derived from a Cuban sea anemone extract—referred to as SL5—block the autoimmune disease response in type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis."
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