(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.
Grazer
Definition:
(n.) One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ciliates were found in the colon of three of these free-living hindgut-fermenting grazers that were shot in widely spaced districts in southern Africa.
(2) Grazer's first task will now be to secure the services of a new host, though there is no huge rush – Oscars MCs have, in the past, been announced as late as January for a ceremony that usually takes place in late February or early March.
(3) I do love reading books, watching films, listening to music, but it tends to all come back to what I do.” (A big movie fan, he counts Alex Garland, who directed the recent AI film Ex Machina , as a friend; and mentions that he’s just had a meeting with the US film producer Brian Grazer, a “really cool guy”, in which they talked about, you guessed it, AI.)
(4) In the same 12-year period, we also performed abdominoplasty in 108 patients, using the Pitanguy and the Grazer procedures.
(5) Ironically, the man who stepped into Ratner's shoes was one of his Tower Heist producers, Brian Grazer; as yet, there's no word on Murphy's replacement, but traction is gaining for the Muppets , who have a new movie in production.
(6) In summer, they decline after exhausting nutrients or being eaten by ocean grazers.
(7) These ‘grazers’ are leading a major shift in shopping habits, which marks a return to the way people used to shop before the advent of larger supermarkets.” Murrells is fighting to turn around the fortunes of the Co-op’s grocery stores – a key plank in the reinvention of the troubled Co-operative Group , which includes food, insurance and funeral care businesses.
(8) "It's very gratifying to be part of a show that honours excellence in the medium to which I have devoted so much of my career," said Grazer, who will work with Oscars veteran Don Mischer.
(9) "Brian Grazer is a renowned film-maker who over the past 25 years has produced a diverse and extraordinary body of work," Academy president Tom Sherak said.
(10) A further distinction has been made between grazing animals, e.g., cattle, sheep, horses, and non-grazers such as swine and poultry.
(11) Grazer, who won a best film statue in 2002 as a producer of A Beautiful Mind, worked with both Ratner and Murphy on the film Tower Heist, and appears to have been recruited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of his working relationship with the latter.
(12) The Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer has stepped in to host the 2012 Academy Awards following the departure of Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy in a damaging 24-hour period for the world's most famous film ceremony.
(13) Portland's food carts have fed millions, launched careers and contributed to urban regeneration: a no-go square once known as "crack park" is now full of happy lunchtime grazers.
(14) The anatomy of the lechwe stomach is similar to the stomachs of other water dependent grazers such as Bohor Reedbuck, Waterbuck, Uganda Kob and Puku.