(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.
Derm
Definition:
(v. t.) The integument of animal; the skin.
(v. t.) See Dermis.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, a strong connection was established between the wound base and the covering material when using the three foam substances Coldex, Epigard and SYSpur-derm, through the formation of granulation tissue.
(2) Fundoscopy showed bilateral angioid streaks and histological examination of a eruption in her right neck revealed degeneration of elastic fiber and calcium deposits in the derm, which findings were verified to be PXE.
(3) SYSpur-derm has a different fine structure than Epigard, which hinders the growth of granulation tissue, so that there are only cone-shaped connections between the wound base and the covering material.
(4) Between the base of the wound and Coldex, an intermediate layer often formed and, because of the rapid drying-out process, there was appreciably less infiltration with leukocytes and granulation tissue than with SYSpur-derm.
(5) By means of quantitative morphological analysis tissue basophils (TB) (mast cells) in the derm and in the subcutaneous loose connective tissue have been studied at various degree of thermal lesion of the skin.
(6) SYSpur-derm should be changed regularly in order to remove the detritus and exsudate from the wound.
(7) The action of both pressure and shock waves is very significant, more so than ts and derm and so causing their rupture.
(8) Fine structure of the cement sheath, peculiarities of its connection with host's tissues, fine structure of derm at different feeding stages of the tick are studied.
(9) As components of indoor aeroallergens, cat, dog, and Derm.
(10) In a rat study, an occlusive double-layer transparent hydrocolloid dressing, Duo-DERM, was compared with a rice paper dressing in the treatment of tympanic membrane perforation.
(11) In the experiments performed on white male rats (150-170 g of body mass) effect of total deep hypothermia has been studied in macrophages of the skin and regional suprascapular lymph node of various localization: Langerhans cells of the epidermis, histiocytes of the derm and hypoderm, macrophages of medullary sinuses, interdigitating cells of T-zones in the lymph node.
(12) The results suggest that biphasic differentiation of pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma diagnosed by light microscopy may not originate from different cells of different derms, but may be derived from a common stem cell of the bronchial epithelium which possesses the ability of multipotential differentiation.
(13) Also, we carried out a pathological experiment on a rabbit and a patch test of the derm of seven people.
(14) We are of the opinion that SYSpur derm is chiefly indicated for temporary covering after tumor excision until definite reconstruction by flaps or, occasionally, by primary surgical suture, because of its minor adhesion to the granulation tissue.
(15) Twenty-three dogs received chlorpheniramine in combination with a fatty acid supplement (DVM Derm Caps).
(16) The histochemical data on the protein and carbohydrate exchange of fibroblasts in the period of intensive formation of fibres of the rats derm in the process of postnatal development are presented.
(17) Toxicological significance of the hepatic and derm floral carboxyesterase was discussed in regard to the specific deacetylation of T-2 toxin.
(18) The ranges of allergen detection limits for HR were equal for cat and Derm.
(19) Polyurethane foam (SYSpur-derm) showed bleeding into the implant due to spikes of the material.
(20) The data of the correlative analysis give evidence on the presence of a strong positive connection between inhibition of the synthetic apparatus of fibroblast development under hydrocortisone effect and decrease of the derm thickness, forming during the postnatal period of ontogenesis.