(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.
Microform
Definition:
(n.) A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microform cleft lip is a mild expression of cleft lip and may be difficult to repair.
(2) Variation in surgical repair is reported for each type of microform cleft lip.
(3) Microtia should be considered a microform of hemifacial microsomia because of similar (1) asymmetrical nature of the defects, (2) incidence and pattern of seventh nerve paresis, (3) correlation of the degree of seventh nerve weakness with grade of auricular deformity and not with the severity of mandibular hypoplasia, (4) right-sided preponderance, (5) incidence of associated cleft lip and palate, (6) male predilection, and (7) equivocal mode of inheritance.
(4) Acetylsalicylic acid influences the yak platelet plasma membrane inducing fragmentation, which is attended by a rise in the total number of platelets, by the appearance of a great number of microforms, and by the reduction of functional activity.
(5) The macroform occurred in 10%, the microform in 56%, and both types in the same patients in 31%.
(6) The patients' erosions were divisible into macroform and microform types.
(7) Correlation of hypodontia with systemic disease leads to the hypothesis that this frequent dental anomaly may in some cases be a microform of systemic ectodermal dysplasia.
(8) There was a positive correlation between levels of certain amino acids and the number of pathologically motile spermatozoa, particularly microforms and head alterations.
(9) Most conspicuous are microforms, nuclear-cytoplasmic disorganization and nuclear inclusions.
(10) An increase in the number of platelet microforms due to the fragmentation of the normal-sized platelets has been noted along with the ultrastructural signs of platelet activation, degranulation and alterations of plasma membrane structure.
(11) Further atypias involved megakaryopoiesis which displayed microforms probably as an evidence for maturation arrest.
(12) Some problems related to genetic counselling and identification of microforms are illustrated by cleft lip and palate.
(13) There was no hypernasality of speech in 27 of the 30 patients with submucous CP or its microforms, and the spontaneous speech of the other three was good.
(14) This would facilitate both classification and diagnosis of microforms.
(15) Both AFP-concanavalin A microforms showed identical fatty acid composition.
(16) Nurses are encouraged to survey and report cases concerning microform cleft lip.
(17) In hyperthyroid rats, a significant reduction (37% relative to controls) in the concanavalin A-non reactive microform of AFP, was observed.
(18) Dental anomalies are viewed as a microform of cleft lip and palate, produced by different modulations of the same operating mechanism.
(19) The results indicate a close relationship between type and degree of the cleft and the arrangement of the muscle bundles: In microforms like lip indentations and minor clefts of the lip the natural anatomy is almost unaltered.
(20) The macroform was more commonly related to trauma than the microform.