(n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
(n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
(a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
(a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
(a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(3) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(4) The animals were sacrificed every 12 hr from D12.0 through D17.0.
(5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
(6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
(7) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(8) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
(9) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(10) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
(11) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
(12) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(13) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(14) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(15) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(16) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
(17) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(18) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(19) In the present investigation we monitored the incorporation of [14C] from [U-14C]glucose into various rat brain glycolytic intermediates of conscious and pentobarbital-anesthetized animals.
(20) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
Anomal
Definition:
(n.) Anything anomalous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of the results with beta-anomers seem to suggest on the whole a lack of conformational variability or the restricted nature of alpha-stereoisomers.
(2) Crystalline derivatives of the amino sugar i. e. methyleremosaminide and methyl-N,O-acetyleremosaminide (alpha- and beta-anomers) were prepared.
(3) A 3-azidoproflavine derivative was covalently linked to the 5'-end of an octathymidylate synthesized with the [alpha]-anomers of the nucleoside.
(4) Their relative levels of impairment on the COW were reversed: The anomic aphasics' performance (z = 1.79) was worse than that of the DATs (z = -0.66).
(5) The modes of binding of alpha- and beta-anomers of D-galactose, D-fucose and D-glucose to L-arabinose-binding protein (ABP) have been studied by energy minimization using the low resolution (2.4 A) X-ray data of the protein.
(6) However, as judged from the oxidation of D-[1-14C]glucose and D-[6-14C]glucose anomers, the fraction of D-glucose catabolism occurring via the pentose cycle was higher with beta- than alpha-D-glucose.
(7) Neither anomer of ribose 1,5-bisphosphate affected 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase or fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, indicating that the configuration of the C-2 (C-3 in Fru 2,6-P2) hydroxyl group is important for biological activity.
(8) The finding that glucokinase is inactivated by alloxan and protected by glucose with discrimination of its anomers similar to inhibition of glucose-stimulated insulin secretion by alloxan supports this hypothesis and appears to explain the mechanism for inhibition of hexose-stimulated insulin secretion by this agent and the unique role of glucose and mannose as protecting agents.
(9) Anomic aphasics produced the fewest phonemic errors and the most multiword circumlocutions; this pattern suggests minimal word-production difficulty in anomic aphasia relative to the other aphasia syndromes.
(10) The beta-anomer of the glucoside was similarly converted to 12.
(11) The availability of different semantic relations between mild anomic dysphasic and nondysphasic subjects was investigated using a picture description task.
(12) Conduction, global, and anomic aphasics had different lesion sites.
(13) Since all glycosides produced by transglycosylation have beta-glycosidic linkages between the sugar and the acceptor moieties, the lysozyme-catalyzed reaction has been classified as an anomer-retention reaction.
(14) In the expanded states the alpha anomers are slightly less tightly packed than the beta anomers, as is indicated by the somewhat higher areas per molecule of the expanded states and the lower transition temperatures.
(15) Isolated rat islets were incubated in media containing either the alpha or beta anomer of D-[1-3H]glucose for 5 min at 37 degrees.
(16) This study compared the facilitative values of six types of cue for eliciting picture naming responses from Brocas, Wernickes, and anomic aphasics.
(17) The equilibrium compositions of 1 and 2 (furanose anomers and acyclic keto forms) in 2H2O were determined from 13C-n.m.r.
(18) (1) Two sets of proton signals were observed, corresponding to the alpha and beta anomers of these disaccharides, except those containing N-sulfated GlcN (2-deoxy-2-amino-D-glucose), in which only one set of signals appeared, corresponding to the alpha anomer.
(19) The effects on insulin secretion of alpha and beta anomers of D-glucose were studied in the in vitro perfused rat pancreas.
(20) Agrammatic Broca's and fluent (Wernicke's and anomic) aphasics were asked to name objects depicted in outline drawings as a means of testing their ability to identify and to name objects at the basic (e.g., "chair") and subordinate (e.g., "beach chair") levels.