(n.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
(n.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
(n.) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
(n.) a rock breaker
(n.) a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
Example Sentences:
(1) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
(2) Cholecystokinin and bombesin cells previously reported in the small intestine of the alligator were not detected in this study.
(3) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
(4) Maximum-parsimony analyses of the total data set of 67 vertebrate alpha A sequences support the monophyletic origin of alligator, tegu, and birds and favor the grouping of crocodilians and birds as surviving sister groups in the subclass Archosauria.
(5) Blood samples from male alligators collected in North and South Carolina, south Florida, and in south Louisiana in two consecutive breeding seasons were also assayed for testosterone and corticosterone.
(6) Plus, my friends in Baltimore are quite happy for me to maintain my record of backing against them only to be proved wrong.... 9.49pm GMT More on the alligators... Paolo Bandini (@Paolo_Bandini) For what it's worth I've actually had alligator a couple of times this week.
(7) Both animals disposed of free or food-derived amino acids more rapidly than could be accounted for by catabolism alone, but the transient increases in turtle plasma concentrations consisted mostly of essential amino acids, whereas the alligator plasma showed little increase in essential amino acids and considerable rises in four nonessential amino acids, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine and alanine.
(8) Occasionally, I have been invited to try exotic meats, ostrich say, or kangaroo or alligator.
(9) The synthesis and presumably the mitochondrial import of glutamine synthetase in alligator liver are thus very similar to the same processes in avian liver.
(10) In four such cases, we were able to remove the IUDs from inside the uterine cavity using a small alligator forceps guided by high-resolution ultrasound.
(11) The architecture of the jaw muscles and their tendons of Alligator mississippiensis is described and their function examined by electromyography.
(12) The auditory (cochlear) ganglion cells of the alligator lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus) give rise to two types of peripheral fibers: tectorial fibers, which contact hair cells covered by a tectorial membrane, and free-standing fibers, which contact hair cells without a tectorial membrane.
(13) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
(14) In teleostei, amphibians and reptiles (except alligator) spongy myocardium is avascular and receives its nutrition from the ventricle.
(15) One hundred and twenty-three alligators ranging in age from six months to over 10 years were captured from five locations in the southeastern United States and sampled for A. hydrophila.
(16) Cowhide and goatskin are used to make Mulberry goods, as well as ostrich leather and alligator skins.
(17) He might throw in some information on the alligator population of Louisiana or what snakes you are likely to find in the wilds of Panama.
(18) Eight alligators were trained to escape heat by traversing an 8-ft runway containing right or left approaches to a water tank.
(19) We obtained cultures from the mouth of ten alligators to characterize their oral flora.
(20) Wall Street traders impressed with his cut-throat tactics prefer the moniker "swamp alligator".
Clip
Definition:
(v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
(v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
(v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
(v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
(n.) An embrace.
(n.) A cutting; a shearing.
(n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
(n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
(n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
(n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
(n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.
Example Sentences:
(1) A neck clipping of the aneurysm and an aneurysmectomy were performed on September 27.
(2) Case 1 and 2 were operated on through the ipsilateral pterional approach and the aneurysm was successfully clipped.
(3) Baroreflex function was studied in conscious early phase (less than 6 weeks) two-kidney, one-clip hypertensive rats before and 24 hours after surgical reversal of hypertension by removal of the constricting renal artery clip or after pharmacological reduction of blood pressure by an infusion of hydralazine or captopril.
(4) In order to study the vascular and adrenal renin angiotensin system in the chronic phase (4 months after clipping) of 'two-kidney, one-clip' hypertension in rats, systolic blood pressure, plasma renin activity, and tissue renin-like activity in both aorta and adrenal have been measured.
(5) We have studied the effect of chronic ACE inhibition with enalapril on renal structure and function in rats with the two-kidney one-clip model of renovascular hypertension.
(6) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
(7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
(8) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
(9) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
(10) An overgrowth of bacteria was observed over the entire surface of the clips.
(11) The Lactomer clips showed very little sign of degradation in vitro even after 10 weeks of incubation.
(12) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
(13) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
(14) In this study, Y-27152 was compared with a K+ channel opener lemakalim and a Ca++ channel blocker nifedipine for antihypertensive activity in conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and two-kidney, one-clip renal hypertensive dogs (RHD).
(15) 6 weeks after clipping, hemodynamic profiles of these molecules [Heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), filling parameters, peripheral vascular resistances (PR) and cardiac output (CO)] during 90 minutes, were determined in the anesthetized animals.
(16) Patients were sterilized by electrocautery, by applying Silastic bands (Falope rings), and by means of Hulka-Clemens clips.
(17) The increase in peripheral resistance of the renal area including the clipped and removed arteries was greater than that in peripheral resistance of the superior mesenteric area or hindquarter area.
(18) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
(19) All patients had at least one laparotomy, at which time a biopsy was obtained, radio-opaque clips were placed to define the extent of the gross tumor, and usually some form of bypass procedure was performed.
(20) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.