(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.
Talon
Definition:
(n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.
(n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
(n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.
(n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
Example Sentences:
(1) It angled and twisted, talons probing down on a swallow.
(2) When Adele recently collected her Grammys with long talons painted on both sides (pale on top, pillar box red beneath), it seemed even nail art had gone truly mainstream.
(3) There are three typical types of manicure: the regular polish; the gel or acrylic spatula-shaped talons beloved of the tabloid Wag; and the super-cool, bejewelled nail art more commonly seen in either east London or Japan.
(4) Talon for Twitter (£1.21) Looking for an alternative to the official Twitter app for Android?
(5) What was first diagnosed as an endodontic lesion was, in all probability, a primary periodontal lesion caused by the advance of bacteria from the gingival crevice to the apex along the radicular groove between the main tooth and the talon cusp.
(6) However, the unique feature of the TALON Catalog may be its machine-readable form which offers the potential for quantitative analyses of health sciences library collections.
(7) In that 42 tonnes of bait in the proposed eradication program, there will actually be less than 1kg – 840g – of brodifacoum, a poison in common pesticides like Talon which is found in most supermarkets.
(8) The beak made from what looked to be a bear claw, the feet with their worn-down, pedestrian talons: I mean, please!
(9) #Pistorius May 8, 2014 Wolmarans says the ammunition used was not Black Talon bullets , as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
(10) Plath was killed by what she described as "the owl's talons clenching and constricting my heart".
(11) Only recently have reports of talon cusps on primary teeth appeared.
(12) The methods of treatment of talon cusps are reviewed.
(13) Day 28: 8 May 2014 Ballistics expert Thomas ‘Wollie’ Wolmarans, told the court that the ammunition used to shoot Steenkamp was not Black Talon bullets, as previously heard , but ranger bullets.
(14) The prevalence of talon cusp was found to be 0.6 per 1000, and for ankyloglossia 8.3 per 1000.
(15) I spoke to Avery the day after he had travelled to Margate to admire Jeremy Deller’s painting of an enormous hen harrier grabbing a Range Rover in its talons, which Avery saw as a powerful statement about class-based power still defining what lived and died in the British countryside.
(16) Clinical observations suggest that the incidence of talon cusps in the primary dentition may be not lower than that in the permanent dentition in Chinese children.
(17) He noted the Black Talon brand of ammunition was often used for self-defence because while it caused significant damage to a human target, it was less likely to penetrate the first target and hit other people.
(18) Captain Mangena, the state ballistic expert, maintains the bullets were Black Talons .
(19) CCI's Blazer JSP bullet (developed in conjunction with the UK distributor, Edgar Brothers) is "specifically designed for bone penetration in head shots and to create maximum expansion inside the cranium without exiting"; and then there is Winchester's Black Talon.
(20) An unusual example of anterior tooth fusion is presented in which the involved tooth had one crown, one talon cusp, two roots, and three root canals.