(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.
Entomology
Definition:
(n.) That part of zoology which treats of insects.
(n.) A treatise on the science of entomology.
Example Sentences:
(1) An entomological survey was therefore undertaken in September 1973 in 6 areas in the north-west of Nigeria to determine the prevalence of Stegomyia populations in the villages.
(2) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(3) The entomology of this parasite is discussed along with the pathologic manifestations of human infestation and a description of the various modes of treatment.
(4) Some arboviruses are highly pathogenic for Men or animals, Arboviruses epidemiological patterns in Madagascar were determined by entomological, serological, and virological surveys.
(5) A one year entomological was carried out the survey in the coastal town of Cotonou to study the urban transmission of malaria.
(6) It follows, from the entomological, parasitological and clinical data, that the transmission is high inside this focus and therefore, it seems necessary to take, all measures in order to eradicate the focus.
(7) Village Jethuli is bound by the river Ganga on the north and separated from neighbouring endemic villages on other three sides by agricultural land, is isolated entomologically (as regards sandflies).
(8) In entomological survey, Anopheles maculatus was collected more than other 10 anopheline species encountered.
(9) The author gives the results of an entomological survey in neo-caledonian archipelago (New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands), november-december 1972.
(10) The entomological method was found statistically more reliable and superior when compared to other prevalent methods.
(11) The CS anti-(NANP)n antibody level and prevalence during a 25-month period paralleled the pattern of seasonal transmission consistent with conventional parasitologic and entomologic measurements.
(12) Method contributes to reliable scientific estimation of postmortem interval on the basis of entomologic studies performed.
(13) There was no apparent reason for this cluster of cases, but geographical, climatic, and entomological studies are being carried out.
(14) Estimates of the entomological inoculation rate (EIR) ranged from 0.00006 to 0.005 in different samples and vectorial capacity (VC) was 0.0005 for the 1990 sample.
(15) This indicates that the introduction of native people into a populated malarious area will increase the percent of gametocyte carriers and may, thereby, increase the entomologic inoculation rate.
(16) In the cattle spaces 478 specimens (7 species) were caught, with use of the light trap--554 specimens (16 species), with the help of entomological net--79 specimens (5 species) as well as from the soil samples by the method of the laboratory rearing 1077 specimens (24 species) were obtained.
(17) The entomological indices confirm perfectly the epidemiological findings in the central region as well as in the marginal zones.
(18) Their impact on the entomological parameters is remarkable with a reduction of more than 98% of ma and the rate of entomological inoculation (REI) in the houses.
(19) An entomological survey conducted at the international airports of the Fiji Islands showed Aedes albopictus breeding in the protective area of Nadi airport.
(20) The baseline clinico-parasitological parameters collected during the initial survey and the entomological observations made during the first year as a part of a longitudinal study undertaken in a brugian endemic rural community are presented in this paper.