(a.) Of or belonging to the summer; as, aestival diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contrastingly, the hepatopancreas of aestivated snails when treated with ganglionic extracts of active snails showed increased specific activities of both enzymes.
(2) A wide size range of both species of snail were found to aestivate, but there was differential mortality of young B. rohlfsi soon after the lake re-filled, and the optimally surviving size group of B. globosus was 9 mm.
(3) Upon entering into aestivation, Protopterus aethiopicus develops a respiratory acidosis.
(4) On re-activation of some aestivating snails, betion of ATP and Mg2+ to the isolated gut contents or to extracts from washed gut walls led to the formation of higher-molecular-weight forms of the enzyme, beta-glucosidase A (mol.wt.
(5) Snails in the aestivated group were completely inactive for 8 weeks beginning at age 23 weeks.
(6) The cessation of water intake from the start of aestivation results in hemoconcentration and marked oliguria.
(7) This was not correlated to metabolic rate suggesting that glycolytic rate was reduced in this tissue in the early stages of aestivation, possibly due to a change in fuel use.
(8) The molluscicide would then be released at the unpredictable start of the next wet season and kill any snails which survive the drought by aestivation.
(9) Infective larvae aestivate in the faeces or in the soil of the lucerne pastures in the dry, hot summer months and migrate on to the herbage during the cool, wet autumn.
(10) X-ray microanalyses of ultrathin frozen sections from aestivating and non-aestivating snails have shown gradients of chloride and potassium ions in the apical microvillus region of the regulating mantle collar epithelium.
(11) A cocoon formed from a single cell layer of shed stratum corneum may reduce water loss from the skin of desert-dwelling frogs while these aestivate in soil-filled burrows.
(12) The possible roles of these ions, pH and substrate in the modulation of fructose diphosphatase and gluconeogenic activity in the lungfish are discussed in relation to aestivation and temperature adaptation.
(13) The activity levels of both enzymes decreased in aestivating snails.
(14) Aestivation patterns in Bulinus rohlfsi and B. globosus were studied by digging transects across the floor of their dried habitats and by monitoring changes in snail population structure during the period when the habitats were flooded.
(15) As aestivation continued, the number of breaths per tachypneic period increased gradually to reach a steady level at about the 3rd mo.
(16) The beginning of aestivation in B. rohlfsi did not correlate with any of the physical parameters measured, but it coincided with the dying off of a bloom of unicellular algae.
(17) The importance of stimuli other than desiccation in the aestivation process of bulinids is stressed.
(18) X-ray microanalysis of unfixed thin sections shows that there is a concentration gradient of ions within these cells in aestivating animals which is not present in stimulated snails.
(19) Bulinus rohlfsi, which inhabited a small man-made lake, was found to aestivate towards the bottom of its habitat, aestivation occurring during the last six weeks before the lake dried.
(20) A. nuchalis thus appears to be an opportunistic vernal breeder, limited only by the availability of resources, whereas A. caudicinctus, which apparently displays the greater reproductive effort of the two species, has a typical aestival pattern of breeding which is uniquely attuned to the enormous burst of productivity occurring in this arid region following the substantial and predictable summer cyclonic rains.
Summer
Definition:
(v.) One who sums; one who casts up an account.
(n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
(n.) The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.
(v. i.) To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.
(v. t.) To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(2) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(3) In London, diesel emissions are now so bad that on several days earlier this summer, children, older people and vulnerable adults were warned not to venture outside .
(4) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(5) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(6) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
(7) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(8) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
(9) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(10) Two epidemics of meningoencephalitis caused by echovirus type 7 and coxsackievirus type B 5 in the summer and autumn of 1973 in Umeå in Northern Sweden were compared.
(11) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
(12) Read more Grabban, who moved to Carrow Road from Bournemouth in 2014 for around £3m, has been a target for Eddie Howe for some time and the manager had three bids for him turned down in the summer.
(13) Summers was not a popular choice among many of the World Bank's developing country members.
(14) High degress of multinucleation were observed least frequenctly in the summer both in patients with and without known malignancy.
(15) Son was signed from Hamburg for €10m that summer to replace Schürrle.
(16) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
(17) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(18) McNear was in New York that summer after her junior year and for nearly two months they were lovers in Manhattan.
(19) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
(20) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.