In Greek mythology, Proteus ( Πρωτεύς ) is an early sea-god, one of several deities whom Homer calls the " Old Man of the Sea ".

Proteus ' name suggests the " first " ( from Greek " πρῶτος "-protos, " first "), as protogonos ( πρωτόγονος ) is the " primordial " or the " firstborn ".

Proteus of Egypt is mentioned in an alternate version of the story of Helen of Troy in the tragedy Helen of Euripides ( produced in 412 BC ).

The play's king ( never seen ) is only marginally related to the " Old Man of the Sea " and should not be confused with the sea god Proteus.

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

John Barth's novelette " Menelaiad " in Lost in the Funhouse is built around a battle between Proteus and Menelaus.

Because of the great diversity of forms found in this group, the Proteobacteria are named after Proteus, a Greek god of the sea, capable of assuming many different shapes, and it is therefore not named after the genus Proteus.

* Krista Reese, The Name of This Book is Talking Heads ( London: Proteus Books, 1982 ).

Silver-footed Thetis ( Ancient Greek: ), disposer or " placer " ( the one who places ), is encountered in Greek mythology mostly as a sea nymph or known as the goddess of water, one of the fifty Nereids, daughters of the ancient one of the seas with shape-shifting abilities who survives in the historical vestiges of most later Greek myths as Proteus ( whose name suggests the " first ", the " primordial " or the " firstborn ").

Proteus is the largest irregularly shaped moon.

It is likely, however, that Merrick suffered from the very rare Proteus syndrome.

The father of Phrygian Dymas is given as one Eioneus, son of Proteus, by some ancient mythographers ( scholiasts on Euripides ).

Mr. Boyer works for Proteus and is a member of Kiwanis.

Image: Proteus ( Voyager 2 ). jpg | Proteus also 400km is non-spherical

Haydon-Baillie is the owner of the super yacht Brave Challenger and uses the same Rolls-Royce Proteus Marine engines as the SRN4s.

Unlike neurofibromatosis, Proteus syndrome affects tissue other than nerves, and it is a sporadic disorder rather than a genetically transmitted disease.

Proteus (; Greek: Πρωτεύς ), also known as Neptune VIII, is the second largest Neptunian moon, and Neptune's largest inner satellite.

Discovered by Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989, it is named after Proteus, the shape-changing sea god of Greek mythology.

Proteus is the largest of the regular prograde satellites of Neptune.

Proteus is the second largest moon of Neptune.

The surface of Proteus is dark — its geometrical albedo is about 10 %.

Proteus, like the other inner satellites of Neptune, is unlikely to be an original body that formed with it, more probably having accreted from the wreak rubble that remained after Triton's capture.

The pineal gland in Proteus probably possesses some control over the physiological processes.

As this animal stays neotenic throughout its long life span, it is only occasionally exposed to normal adult hearing in air which is probably also possible for Proteus as in most salamanders.

The first English-language adaptation of the original manga The Ghost in the Shell was released in December 1995 in the United States, published by Dark Horse Comics and translated by Studio Proteus.

Given Poseidon's connection with horses as well as the sea, and the landlocked situation of the likely Indo-European homeland, Nobuo Komita has proposed that Poseidon was originally an aristocratic Indo-European horse-god who was then assimilated to Near Eastern aquatic deities when the basis of the Greek livelihood shifted from the land to the sea, or a god of fresh waters who was assigned a secondary role as god of the sea, where he overwhelmed the original Aegean sea deities such as Proteus and Nereus.

In the original series, on the prison planet of Proteus, Starbuck encounters drawings of star systems on the wall of a cell once occupied by a mysterious prisoner.

From the middle of the eighteenth century, even if staging Shakespeare's original play ( as opposed to Victor's rewrite ) it was common for directors to cut the lines in the final scene where Valentine seems to offer Silvia to Proteus, who has just attempted to rape her, as a sign of his forgiveness and friendship.

Taken together, these various productions, with their frequent use of music, their geographical and temporal relocations, and their general modifications of the original serve to lend credence to Stanley Wells ' claim that the play " has succeeded best when subjected to adaptation, increasing its musical content, adjusting the emphasis of the last scene so as to reduce the shock of Valentine's donation of Silvia to Proteus, and updating the setting.

The original cast included Clifton Davis as Valentine, Raúl Juliá as Proteus, Jonelle Allen as Silvia and Diana Dávila as Julia.

Because of the results of Proteus ' actions, including the premature death of Justice, it is completely divorced from the original New Universe continuity.

7 becoming aware of each other's existence and abilities long before the characters did so in the original continuity ( due to the Exiles gathering them to combat Proteus ) and Connell beginning to develop a greater sense of responsibility towards the Star Brand after Proteus threatens his life and the lives of people he cares for.

Robot's original body is destroyed by Space Spiders on the Proteus, but its " mind " is downloaded by Will and eventually placed into a new body.

In the original movie, the crew ( apart from the saboteur ) manage to leave Benes's body safely before reverting to normal size, but the Proteus remains inside, as do the remains of the saboteur's body ( albeit digested by a white blood cell ), and several gallons ( full scale ) of a carrier solution ( presumably saline ) used in the injection syringe.

However, by the end of 2002, Smith was convinced that his belief that readers would have difficulty adapting to read manga " backwards " ( also known as " unflopped ", reading right to left as in the original Japanese publication ) was incorrect, citing the fact that an entire generation of new manga readers have grown up since he had started Studio Proteus and they did not have the mindset of early manga readers, most of whom came to manga from regular comics.

Septic shock can be caused by Gram negative bacteria such as ( among others ) Escherichia coli, Proteus species, Klebsiella pneumoniae which release an endotoxin which produces adverse biochemical, immunological and occasionally neurological effects which are harmful to the body, and other Gram-positive cocci, such as pneumococci and streptococci, and certain fungi as well as Gram-positive bacterial toxins.

The shape of Proteus is close to a sphere with a radius of about 210 km, although deviations from the spherical shape are large — up to 20 km ; scientists believe it is about as large as a body of its density can be without being pulled into a perfect spherical shape by its own gravity.

When the Exiles visit the future, Longshot tries to stop Maestro's rampage and stop Proteus from taking over Maestro's body.

The Exiles finally corner Proteus at the Heroes Reborn world, and trap Proteus in Morph's body.

After Proteus leaves Mimic's burnt husk of a corpse, the Exiles put his body into stasis.

Proteus syndrome, also known as Wiedemann syndrome ( named after the German paediatrician Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann ), is a congenital disorder that causes skin overgrowth and atypical bone development, often accompanied by tumors over half the body.

After observing this world, Proteus becomes determined to retrieve the most powerful weapon in the known universe, the Star Brand, by attempting to take the body of Ken Connell.

Stornoway features heavily in the initial stages of the X-Men comics Dark Phoenix Saga due to its proximity to the ficitonal Muir Island and Proteus ' attempts to find a new host body.

The Exiles chase Proteus through several realities, including an alternate version of the New Universe, an alternate version of 2099, Squadron Supreme, Future Imperfect, and Heroes Reborn, before finally bringing Proteus down by trapping him in Morph ’ s body, which does not decay, unlike all of Proteus ’ other host bodies.

They also discover that Proteus is possibly immune to metal while in Morph ’ s body.

This version has the crew of the Proteus explore the body of a dead alien that crash-lands on earth, and updates the story with such modern concepts as nanotechnology ( replacing killer white cells ).

The non potability of the water body is indicated by the high degree of faecal contamination with organisms that produce H2S that may include forms of Salmonella, Proteus, Citrobacter and some strains of Klebsiella. The distribution pattern of plank tonic forms, for the decade ending 2001, as per laboratory tests of lake ’ s water samples provides the values of parameters such as the Chlorococcales, Desmids, Diatoms, Blue-greens and Euglenoids, as the biological indicators of water body, as given in table below which testify to the lake ’ s eutrophication status.

The new model also appears to have the same body as Proteus, who appeared in Season 9.

Proteus expresses concern for her diet ( it has prepared her a " nutritionally exquisite " breakfast ), and Susan asks why it is interested in her body.

Recently, the Exiles visited Counter-Earth to save it from Proteus, in their teammate Morph's body.