(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.
Milt
Definition:
(n.) The spleen.
(n.) The spermatic fluid of fishes.
(n.) The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.
(v. t.) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
(2) Although these findings strongly support the hypothesis that 17,20 beta-P is a preovulatory female sex pheromone in goldfish which stimulates male GtH levels and milt production prior to spawning, the milt increases occurred earlier than predicted, suggesting either that preovulatory 17,20 beta-P release begins earlier than the data indicate or that other steroids known to have pheromonal activity are released before 17,20 beta-P.
(3) This stimulatory effect lasted from 20 min to at least 2 hr for GtH (20 degrees) and from less than or equal to 1 hr to greater than or equal to 24 hr for milt (14 degrees).
(4) Testicular contractions may, however, serve to load the SD with milt.
(5) A large amount of milt was observed during spawning, and the amount was correlated with plasma levels of GtH.
(6) Twenty-five males survived the whole experimental period and were divided into four groups according to the amount of milt and endocrine profiles.
(7) Plasma levels of DHP were higher in males that were producing milt than in any other group of males.
(8) Time of ovulation, fecundity, and egg size were recorded in mature females, and sperm counts were carried out on the milt from the male fish, from both the stressed and control groups.
(9) The increase in milt may be due to both neurally and hormonally mediated events that ensure milt availability for imminent spawning activity.
(10) We can propose that the synchronous GtH surge in both sexes causes ovulation and milt production to occur at the same time, favoring a higher rate of fertilization of the eggs.
(11) An ATP-dependent purine deoxyribonucleoside kinase activity is known only in salmon milt extracts (H. L. A. Tarr, Can.
(12) Males held with these females, or exposed to their odors, had increased GtH levels and milt volumes at approximately the time when increased 17,20 beta-P release by ovulatory females commenced.
(13) The 17,20 alpha-[3H]P label was produced by incubating place milt with 17 alpha-hydroxy [3H]progesterone.
(14) In male salmon with expressible milt, 17 alpha,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one was present with a gradual increase of both free and conjugated form at the advent of spawning, suggesting that this steroid may also play a role in reproduction in male fish.
(15) Milt was obtained only from fish held at 6 and 12 degrees.
(16) Disney animator Milt Neil said it took "20 Disney drawings to produce the movement Trevillion captures in one".
(17) Although males had increased GtH and milt levels after 1 hr of spawning, males allowed to interact with nonspawning females also had elevated GtH; thus, behavioral interactions appear capable of elevating GtH in the absence of either pheromone.
(18) After juvenile rats had been X-rayed, organ cultures of their milts and kidneys showed alterations analogous to those of "old" donor animals.
(19) In goldfish, the gonadal steroid, 17 alpha,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (17,20 beta-P), functions as a potent preovulatory female sex pheromone which stimulates rapid elevations in serum gonadotropin (GtH) levels and subsequent increases in milt production in males.
(20) Glycolipids were purified from the total lipid extract of the testis or milt of a kind of puffer (Fugu rubripes rubripes) by adsorption column chromatography using silicic acid and magnesium silicate and by preparative silica gel TLC.