(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.
Microchip
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a small silicon microchip in a USB, a 'lab on a chip' as it has been coined, DNA data can be analysed within minutes and outside a laboratory.
(2) It's not useful, except in minute quantities for making microchips.
(3) ARM, whose microchip helps power Apple’s iPhone, rallied to a 12 year high after reporting a 19% increase in Q4 revenue whilst BP’s shares were seen trading as high as £4.7175, following adjusted profits that beat the market’s expectations.
(4) He did this initially by being the first to see that "the analogue world of biology" had to be transformed by the "digital world of the microchip".
(5) Microchip technology now makes it possible to view jaw movements in three dimensions while impeding physiological activity minimally.
(6) With direct video endoscopy, the microchip camera is mounted on the distal tip of the endoscope; with indirect video endoscopy, a miniature camera is coupled to the eyepiece of a standard fiberoptic endoscope.
(7) His invention uses small silicon microchips which can identify genetic differences which dictate a person's inclination to hereditary diseases like diabetes or how they will react to a drug like warfarin, which is used to treat blood clots.
(8) The major potential cutaneous hazards of each step in the production of microchips are the subject of this article.
(9) Rather than following the traditional model of extracting complex raw materials from the earth, AMD is producing microchips and solar cells that take plentiful raw materials like silica and inscribe on them a value-creating design, building value up .
(10) Hybridization of fluorescently labeled DNA fragments with microchips may simplify sequencing and ensure sensitivity of at least 10 attomoles per dot.
(11) The idea of a team at the University of Manchester, it combines the best of analogue and digital computing and replaces neurons with custom-designed microchips powered by low wattage ARM processors designed to mimic the spiking patterns seen in the human brain.
(12) When he started at Imperial in the late 80s, Toumazou's main interest was in microchips.
(13) A two-year study to determine the stability of and tissue reaction to a microchip glass-sealed device implanted in subcutaneous tissue of mice was conducted.
(14) This apparatus, which is operated by microchip controls, permits simultaneous collection of as many as 20 eluted samples directly into standard- or small-size scintillation vials contained in manufacturer's shipping cartons.
(15) Because phosphine is also used as a dopant in the microchip industry and is generated in waste treatment, the possibility of more widespread exposure and long-term health sequelae must be considered.
(16) A new intravital capillary microscopic technique is described using intravenous indocyanine green (Cardiogreen) in combination with a special filter set, an infrared sensitive microchip videocamera and a television-recording system.
(17) He believes the war in eastern Congo – which began in reprisal against perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and has evolved into a frenzied scramble for mineral wealth, especially for the prized colombo-tantalite (coltan), crucial for the production of microchips – has been allowed to continue because of discrimination by the international community.
(18) Despite the Note 7 safety scare, Samsung is expecting its fourth-quarter operating profits to reach their highest level in almost three years thanks to healthy microchip sales.
(19) It features magic mirrors that transform into screens when triggered by microchips hidden in the garments.
(20) To improve health monitoring, Toumazou decided to try to put pieces of DNA in microchips and in doing so found he could make devices that would trigger signals when they came in contact with a particular DNA sample.