What's the difference between animal and fossorial?
Animal
Definition:
(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.
Fossorial
Definition:
(a.) Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that the urine of the species that show a higher degree of fossoriality, the mole rat and the hamster, contain high values of calcium and magnesium bicarbonates when compared with the white rat.
(2) These data indicate that adult acute ventilatory responsiveness to CO2 in birds may be in part determined by CO2 exposure during early development and may help explain the observation that fossorial and semifossorial species of birds and mammals, that naturally encounter high CO2 conditions in their burrows, have a blunted hypercapnic ventilatory response.
(3) Two kinds of experiments should be undertaken: (a) physiologic-acoustic experiments in a fossorial to determine the effect of the recesses and (b) acoustic experiments varying the dimensions and positions of a tube and a porus leading into a resonator.
(4) In order to assess the mechanical properties of xenarthrous vertebrae, and to evaluate the role of xenarthrae as fossorial adaptations, in vitro bending tests were performed on posterior thoracic and lumbar vertebral segments excised from specimens of the armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus and the opossum Didelphis virginiana, the latter being used to represent the primitive mammalian condition.
(5) Semi-fossorial species among rodents and insectivores are scratch-diggers.
(6) Females of two parapatric chromosomal forms (2n = 52 and 2n =58) of the fossorial mole rat, Spalax ehrenbergi, in Israel, were tested for mate selection between two alternative, a homo- and a heterochromosomal, males.
(7) This study involves old and new material of 184 small mammalian species both insectivores and rodents; 111 living aboveground and 73 species living partly (fossorial, N = 28) or totally (subterranean, N = 45) underground.
(8) The mole rat Spalax ehrenbergi is a fossorial rodent.
(9) The morphology of the external and the middle ear (auditory ossicles) in Chlamyphorus truncatus is influenced by its fossorial life.
(10) The high oxygen capacity and oxygen affinity and the low Bohr factor may have adaptive significance to this fossorial amphibian.
(11) Results show that these four species exhibit higher levels of genetic variability (He = 0.11-0.17) than those reported for most other fossorial rodents.
(12) To examine the adaptations to low O2 and high CO2 among fossorial and nonfossorial rodents, hematological parameters were determined for laboratory rats, the valley pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) from 250 m, and the mountain pocket gopher (T. umbrinus melanotis) from 3150 m. Hematocrit, hemoglobin concentration, and O2 capacity were higher in pocket gophers than in rats.
(13) These three species represent different degrees of fossoriality.
(14) The PiO2 threshold for the ventilatory response to hypoxia and position of the ventilatory response curve in the ground squirrel were closer to the semifossorial echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) than the completely fossorial mole rate (Spalax ehrenbergi); both the ground squirrel and echidna had a higher PiO2 threshold than the mole rat.
(15) The respiratory sensitivity to inspired CO2 of pocket mice was, despite their being semi-fossorial, typical of other mammals.
(16) Male Syrian hamsters were housed in simulated burrows in order to investigate (a) how these nocturnal, fossorial rodents entrain to the prevailing light:dark cycle in this semi-natural habitat and (b) the response of the reproductive system to environmental illumination.
(17) The oxygen capacity values of Ctenomys blood are similar to those of other fossorial mammals.
(18) Comparisons with functional data from other digging mammals indicate that the modified mechanical properties of the Dasypus column are consistent with an interpretation of xenarthrae as digging adaptations and lend support to the idea that the order Xenarthra represents an early offshoot of placental mammals specialized for fossoriality.
(19) Some remarks are made on the digging techniques in the Aardvark and other fossorial mammals.
(20) Four types were recognized, in order of increasing VO2: (a) fossorial; (b) sit-and-wait (including A. stellio); (c) cruising, and (d) widely foraging.