(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.
Porcupine
Definition:
(n.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
(n.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is apparent that seasonal acclimatization of the Cape porcupine is also reflected by these parameters.
(2) The parasites in these and eight cases previously reported from the northern United States and Canada are classified as resembling Dirofilaria ursi, a primarily subcutaneous parasite of bears, or D. subdermata of porcupines, in the same region.
(3) Overall minimal thermal conductance was calculated for newborn and paired adult porcupines.
(4) Trypanosoma cruzi-like parasites were found in 13 different species, and were particularly common in a variety of marsupials (Didelphidae), porcupines (Coendou spp.
(5) The woodchuck had a higher threshold and significantly smaller slope to its CO2 ventilatory response compared to the porcupine, but showed no difference in its hypoxic ventilatory response.
(6) It is suggested therefore that the Caviomorpha (guinea pig-like rodents) and possibly the Hystricomorpha (porcupine-like rodents) should be elevated in taxonomic rank and conferred an ordinal status distinct from the Rodentia.
(7) Aureobasidium pullulans was repeatedly isolated from a cutaneous infection of a porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).
(8) The Quill Location: Southwark | Floors: 31 | Height: 109m | Architect: SPARRC | Status: approved | Use: student accommodation The Quill What would a building look like if it had a fight with a gigantic porcupine, and the porcupine won?
(9) The results indicate that plasma progesterone-binding proteins in Cape porcupines (Old World hystricomorph) are similar in composition to those in guinea-pigs (New World hystricomorph).
(10) The reproductive tract of the male Cape porcupine is morphologically and histologically similar to that of New World hystricomorph rodents.
(11) The constituent cell types of the ovary of the porcupine were similar to those of New World hystricomorph rodents and accessory corpora lutea and luteal bodies were formed through the luteinization of the membrana granulosa or theca interna of antral follicles.
(12) The woodchuck P50 of 27.8 was hardly different from the porcupine value of 30.7, but the Bohr factor, -0.72, was greater than the porcupine's, -0.413.
(13) This is the first report of notoedric acariasis in the porcupine.
(14) Sled dogs from five native villages on the range of the Artic caribou herd, but not from two villages on the the range of the Porcupine caribou herd, are commonly infected.
(15) Methods used to produce wounds included insertion of porcupine quills, application of constrictive rubber bands, mascara injections and excoriation of healing wounds.
(16) Mass-specific food and water intake of control and lactating porcupines was examined throughout the 68-78 days of lactation.
(17) Sexually mature female Cape porcupines kept under natural conditions of illumination and temperature did not conceive while housed within their natal groups.
(18) The reproductive pattern of porcupines is associated with low juvenile mortality and long adult lifespan (both of which reflect the porcupine's protective morphology), and may be related to the quality of winter diets.
(19) Six of 16 porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) live-trapped in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania were infested with the mite Notoedres douglasi.
(20) To assess the effect of huddling, these parameters were also measured in adult pairs of porcupines (Ta = 15 and 25 degrees C) kept together in the metabolic chamber and the values were compared with those obtained from single porcupines.