What's the difference between animal and nursling?

Animal


Definition:

  • (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.

Nursling


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the peak of the infectious phase, myocardial replication of coxsackievirus was increased 530 times in nurslings which had been forced to swim.
  • (2) Clinical results (1) Clinical effectiveness Of 318 evaluable patients including 175 boys and 143 girls, 18.2% were nurslings and 61% were young children under 4 years of age.
  • (3) The cited data allow the method of disc-electrophoresis in the polyacrylamide gel to be employed for improving the fractional composition of the serumal proteins in the nutrients intended for nurslings and infants of the first year of life.
  • (4) Three nurslings are described with diffuse mast cell disease characterized by blisters on widespread skin involvement.
  • (5) The amount of chloroquine estimated to be consumed by a nursling over a 24-hour period is about 0.55% of a 300-mg dose consumed by the mother.
  • (6) In studying the pathogenicity of nonagglutinating vibrios it was established that the majority of the strains isolated from the patients suffering from enteritis possessed enteropathogenic properties which were revealed in the trials on nursling rabbits and on the isolated intestinal loop a of an adult rabbit.
  • (7) The pancreatic responses were compared in two groups of 38 normal male adults and in two groups of nine normal nurslings (less than 1 year).
  • (8) This study was designed to provide baseline information on the development of internal visceral and endocrine structures of nursling collared peccaries (Tayassu tajacu) from birth to six weeks of age (weaning).
  • (9) A high energy-high protein ration was fed ad libitum to lactating females, and absolute and relative mass of selected visceral organ, endocrine, and fat depots were measured in various aged nurslings.
  • (10) The second hypothesis is, however, the most probable because the pancreatic secretion was similar in both groups of nursling subjects.
  • (11) The results of contact experiments indicated that the organisms were not readily communicable either in weanlings or nurslings.
  • (12) Nursling rats were given a lethal dose of corynetoxin and the sequential morphological alterations in the cerebellum were examined at daily intervals up to 3 days post-inoculation.
  • (13) It was shown that in intraintestinal injection of cholera vibrios of the El Tor biotype to nursling rabbits neuraminidase could be revealed in their intestine 5 to 8 hours after the infection.
  • (14) As nurslings, rat pups reared in large litters showed reduced frequencies of returns to their nest from other parts of the home cage and reached maximum levels of nest returns at older ages than control animals from small litters.
  • (15) Body weight and age were similar in the two adult groups and in the two nursling groups.
  • (16) We review 68 cases of ureterohydronephrosis in the newborn and nursling due to high urinary tract abnormalities, like ureteropelvic junction obstruction, obstructed megaureter, vesicoureteral reflux, renal duplication and simple ureterocele.
  • (17) A characteristic peculiarity of the cholera vibrios revealed after their passage through the intestine of nursling rabbits was the presence of microcapsules and protrusions of the areas of the wall membranous apparatus.
  • (18) El Tor vibrios were divided by their enteropathogenic properties into three categories: 1) the highly enteropathogenic (cholerogenic) ones causing the death of all the biotest nursling rabbits with a characteristic syndrome of cholerogenicity, and failing to lyse sheep erythrocytes; 2) enteropathogenic ones, causing death of some of the biotest animals without any characteristic cholerogenicity syndrome, but with the intestinal lesions; strains of this category are hemolytic; 3) nonenteropathogenic, causing no death of the animals even when their high doses are administered; these bibrios are hemolytic (cause lysis of sheep red blood cells).
  • (19) A study was made of the pathogenic properties of NAG-vibrios on various experimental animals (917 guinea pigs, 609 nursling rabbits, and 203 rabbits aged from 20 to 24 days).
  • (20) Growth coefficients of lungs, kidneys, pituitary gland, and thyroid gland during adulthood greatly exceeded respective values in developing nurslings.

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