(v. t.) To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acclimation to 10 degrees C or 30 degrees C resulted in large differences in the dimensions of villi.
(2) Therefore, the hypothesis of a fetal sensori-neural hearing loss due to oxygen lack was tested in the following animal models: a) Adult cats to which feline red blood cells were infused thus causing a polycythemia similar to fetal conditions; b) Adult rats acclimated to altitude in a hypobaric chamber, inducing erythropoiesis with elevated hematocrit and hemoglobin; c) Neonatal guinea pigs and goats studied when they were less than 12 hours old so that the fetal compensatory mechanisms were still present.
(3) Thermogenic response to noradrenaline was markedly increased in cold-acclimated brown adipocytes, while it was reduced in heat-acclimated ones.
(4) Adult males acclimated to an LD 14:10 photoperiod were distributed in five experimental groups: intact controls (NO), sham-pinealectomized (S), sham-pinealectomized with black plastic shielding of the pineal region, pinealectomized (PX), and pinealectomized with the operated region shielded.
(5) In the cold-acclimated rats acute cold exposure increased k as well as turnover rate, but not acute immobilization stress.
(6) No or only a slight increase in sweating activity was observed following the acclimation procedures with face fanning, whereas similar procedures without face fanning had resulted in substantial enhancement of sweating activity in most of the cases, which had been attributed mainly to adaptive changes in central sudomotor activity (as indicated by a shift of the regression line relating Fsw to Tb).
(7) G. cahawbensis cytosol malate dehydrogenase activity increased significantly with increasing acclimation temperature, while G. cochliaris malate dehydrogenase activity remained unchanged.
(8) In hypoxia-acclimated guinea pigs, specific VE was 30% higher than that of control animals due to an elevation in VT; however, VO2 was similar in both groups of animals.
(9) The results of these experiments suggest that the enhanced cold-tolerance of diabetic cold-acclimated rats could be related to the increased sympathetic activity and enhanced insulin sensitivity in thermogenic tissues, such as brown fat.
(10) This species preferred a higher temperature than its acclimation temperature for those acclimation temperatures ranging from 6 degrees to 26 degrees C. When acclimated to 30 degrees and 33 degrees C, the crayfish preferred a lower temperature than its acclimation temperature.
(11) It was suggested that the extent of participation of these factors was not necessarily the same between the cold-acclimated and the stressed organisms.
(12) Maximal response in total epididymal fat cells to noradrenaline was increased in cold acclimation and not changed in heat acclimation at increased numbers of adipocytes in both cold-acclimated and heat-acclimated animals.
(13) NA-induced increase in the plasma NEFA level was less in extent in cold-acclimated rats than in warm-adapted ones.
(14) The role of the rabbit's ear in cold acclimation was studied by varying the temperature of a climatic room in the range from -10 to +30 degrees C; The skin temperature in a nonanesthetized rabbit's ear showed a characteristic response to changes in ambient temperatures; plotting the ear temperature against the ambient temperature yielded an S-shaped curve.
(15) In accordance with data taken from literature, this finding suggests a compensatory enhancement of in vivo protein synthesis to occur in trout during cold acclimation.
(16) To investigate the role of neurohumoral factors in acclimation of mussel muscle to a lowered salinity, studies have been made on the reaction of the intact mussel muscle and that of isolated muscle to change in the salinity from 26% to 10%.
(17) Lugworms, Arenicola marina (L.), acclimatized at 16-17 degrees C, were acclimated at temperatures between 5.3 and 25.7 degrees C for 96 h. Whereas in vitro Arenicola blood behaves like a Rosenthal system, in vivo prebranchial blood does not: the higher the acclimation temperature, the lower the pHv and [HCO3]V, PVCO2, remaining practically constant.
(18) In acclimated dehydrated rats, CO distribution to thermoregulatory areas did not change while perfusion of the splanchnic area decreased.
(19) In the hamster, heat acclimation reduces liver weight more than it does body weight.
(20) The above findings suggest that skeletal muscle Mb may be partly involved in an enhanced thermogenesis in cold acclimation by favouring an oxidative capacity of muscles.
Acclimatise
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) According to Wangchu Sherpa, an official from the Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, Upadhyay had arrived at the Everest base camp in mid-April and had been waiting for good weather to start acclimatising for his ascent.
(2) These changes seem to be due to an incomplete acclimatisation, which future mountaineering teams should take into consideration to avoid health problems and improve performance.
(3) The circulatory levels of T4, T3, rT3, TSH as well as TSH response to TRH, thyroid hormone binding proteins and T3 concentration of erythrocytes were studied in (i) healthy euthyroid sea level residents (SLR) at sea level, (ii) during three weeks of stay of SLR at an altitude of 3500 m (sojourners, SJ), (iii) SLR staying at high altitude (HA) for 3 months to 10 years (acclimatised low landers.
(4) The whole family has taken time to acclimatise to new surroundings, but such adjustments accompany the nomadic life of a football coach.
(5) Breathing pattern in response to maximal exercise was examined in four subjects during a 7-day acclimatisation to a simulated altitude of 4247 m (barometric pressure, PB = 59.5 kPa).
(6) Tricky, who had nowhere to hide, admits he had problems acclimatising to attention, repeatedly clashing with journalists, record executives and audiences.
(7) Milan's immediate breakthrough disrupted an acclimatisation process that had scarcely begun.
(8) The three climbers – Ueli Steck from Switzerland, Italy's Simone Moro and British alpinist Jon Griffith – had been moving without ropes more than 7,000m (23,000ft) up the mountain's Lhotse face, which leads to the South Col, acclimatising for a later attempt on a new route.
(9) Twelve young rhesus monkeys weighing 1.5-2.0 kg were acclimatised for a month in the animal house of the Institute.
(10) Reticulocyte count reached maximum level by the fifth day, both during acclimatisation and reinduction.
(11) Only acclimatisation programmes, however, are effective in preventing heat stress during prolonged exercise in hot environments.
(12) The morphology and lipid content of adipose tissue from sheep subjected to cold acclimatisation were examined.
(13) There was an acclimatisation effect with better sleep on the second night.
(14) The fibrinolytic response at high altitude seems to be fluctuated during the process of acclimatisation though being maintained at a plateau higher than that in the plains.
(15) In Iran, putting back the deadline could have some beneficial effects – the longer the talks go on and appear to be heading in a positive direction, the more people on the hardline side become acclimatised to the idea of a rapprochement with the west.
(16) The work was carried out on two resting subjects acclimatised to humid heat.
(17) It is probably inevitable, therefore, that the question that has been heard most at Spain's media events has been of how Del Bosque's men will acclimatise to the different pressures that accompany no longer being merely dark horses but the team that is expected to prick our senses, play the most unforgettable football, put on a peacock-like spreading of feathers.
(18) It helps them make that decision and to acclimatise quickly.” The Stoke revolution has not just been confined to former Barça players.
(19) Amiloride increased the slope in unacclimatised muscle to 1.39(0.09), p less than 0.001 and in muscles acclimatised to hypercapnia to 1.03(0.13), p less than 0.05.
(20) I took some acclimatising to the double act In Cahoots , whose show opens at an inhospitable pitch of self-assertion, without the consistent material to back it up.