(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.
Haunch
Definition:
(n.) The hip; the projecting region of the lateral parts of the pelvis and the hip joint; the hind part.
(n.) Of meats: The leg and loin taken together; as, a haunch of venison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Minimal thresholds of IM reached 3-10 microA for the MR of the shoulder and forearm, but were as high as 30-200 microA in the MR of the haunch and lower leg.
(2) At full-time, he crouched on to his haunches and stared blankly at the turf.
(3) The Croat kicked every pass, jumped to head every high ball into the box, railed at the Polish referee, sank to his haunches when Liverpool attacked and leapt up and down as Besiktas formed a wall to defend a Jordan Henderson free-kick from 25 yards.
(4) She wouldn't be able to support her own weight, sitting on her haunches, after the bullet wound to the hip, says Nel.
(5) We did not observe a geometrical pattern of organization in the more caudally placed MR of the hindleg, where IM elicited isolated responses in the muscles of the lower leg and the haunch.
(6) Others, sitting on their haunches, carefully swirl the dust in shallow plastic buckets.
(7) The latent periods of the EMG responses lasted 25-52 msec for the shoulder, 24-73 msec for the forearm, 32-54 msec for the haunch, and 36-71 msec for the lower leg.
(8) The fox slunk down, raising its haunches and pressing its chest to the ground.
(9) D id you hear that?” Dafne Schippers says with a grimace after her knees make a loud cracking sound when she sinks down on to her haunches to have her photograph taken.
(10) The Republic of Ireland's players sank to their haunches as the Austrian supporters massed behind the goal pierced the sub-zero evening with their celebrations.
(11) It was noticeable at full-time that a few of their players sank on to their haunches, their glaze fixed upon the turf while the visiting Tottenham fans clapped their , and Arsène Wenger articulated the frustration.
(12) Your sudden craving for venison haunch can be satisfied that very day, and without the horror of being told off by the self-service checkout.
(13) It sits on its haunches in the crook of a girl's arm, gently licking her skin.
(14) At the final whistle Steven Gerrard was on his haunches.
(15) As men and women find a quiet and secluded corner and start going down on their haunches, Pradeep and his friends spring out whistling and topple their dabbas of water.
(16) Within 3-4 hours of birth they were able to walk supporting their full weight, right themselves rapidly, sit upright on their haunches, or rear upright with support, and vocalize.
(17) It has either been dormant, the subject of bids from people like Charles Saatchi, who wanted to open his gallery there, or occupied by commercial gallery tenants, including Haunch of Venison and, currently, Pace.
(18) Polly Morgan's latest show, Psychopomps, is at Haunch of Venison, London W1, until 25 September.