What's the difference between animal and postaxial?
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.
Postaxial
Definition:
(a.) Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal; caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior (that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome is an uncommon dysmorphic syndrome characterized by preaxial and postaxial polysyndactyly and minor craniofacial anomalies.
(2) The observations gathered in mouse embryos collected 4, 24 and 48 hours after the administration of a teratogenic doses of acetazolamide to their pregnant mothers strongly suggest that the resulting postaxial defects in the anterior limbs can be the result of a selective perturbation of the inductive process responsible for the genesis of the apical ectodermal ridge, probably secondary to a transient acidosis.
(3) A new "postaxial polydactyly-progressive myopia" syndrome of autosomal dominant inheritance is delineated on the basis of nine affected persons in four generations of one family.
(4) This maps Hox-1 and Hox-1.7 close to two mouse loci that affect morphogenesis, postaxial hemimelia (px) and hypodactyly (Hd).
(5) Eleven patients with hypoplasia and partial or complete aplasia of the ulna (examples of a complex spectrum of postaxial forearm and hand abnormalities) were reviewed.
(6) The triad of the syndrome consists of occipital encephalocele, polycystic kidneys and postaxial polydactyly.
(7) Independent of the degree and location (pre- or postaxial) of the anomaly the creation of one single unit, which corresponds to the functional as well as to the cosmetical demands is the main purpose of the operative correction.
(8) Ectrodactyly induced by ethanol was primarily of the forelimb and exclusively postaxial.
(9) Clinical and genetic aspects of the postaxial acrofacial dysostoses are discussed.
(10) The postaxial region with the hypoplastic AER became defective.
(11) We report mother and son with the ulnar-mammary syndrome type Pallister: both had postaxial polydactyly in one upper limb and absence or hypoplasia of the axillary apocrine glands bilaterally.
(12) These disorders have generally been separated on the basis of their limb anomalies into preaxial, postaxial, lethal, and atypical types.
(13) In addition to facial changes strikingly similar to that of the Teacher-Collins syndrome and a cleft soft and hard palate, symmetrical postaxial limb deficiencies with absence of the fifth digital rays in both the upper and lower limbs were present.
(14) Male and female second cousins with short limbs, postaxial polydactyly and cardiac malformations are described.
(15) There was also postaxial polydactyly, flexion contractures of the digits, hypotonia, and a congenital heart anomaly.
(16) Postaxial ectrodactyly was more frequent in the forepaws, and sidedness was not significant.
(17) Postaxial deficiencies observed in 12-15-day embryos and affecting preferentially the right forelimbs were classified in nine morphological types according to increasing amounts of missing parts.
(18) All cases of both preaxial and postaxial (polyaxial) polydactyly were inherited and bilateral.
(19) Laryngeal cleft may be a component manifestation of several syndromes, eg, the G syndrome, and the Pallister-Hall syndrome of congenital hypothalamic hamartoblastoma, hypopituitarism, imperforate anus, and postaxial polydactyly.
(20) Postaxial polydactyly was predominently right sided and mostly involved the forepaws.