All About Lobsters. The New England lobster is a fairly terrifying-looking sea-green creature that's cannibalistic, reclusive, rather nasty, and very good to eat. The New England lobster (Homarus Americanus) is a crustacean related to crabs, shrimp, crayfish and barnacles. An arthropod, it is more closely related to insects than to animals (hence the jocular term bugs for lobsters).
Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS) PLS is the term for a group of upper motor neuron disorders that cause cause progressive spasticity (stiffness) and weakness in the legs, arms, and speech and swallowing muscles. See PLS. Also considered a benign variant of ALS.
What Does SOS Stand For? A lot of people think that the distress signal is an abbreviation for âsave our soulsâ or âsave our ship.â But in reality, save our souls and save our ship are backronyms, and the letters donât actually stand for anything. In fact, the signal isnât even really supposed to be three individual letters.