(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.
Wag
Definition:
(v. t.) To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
(v. i.) To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate.
(v. i.) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
(v. i.) To go; to depart; to pack oft.
(v.) The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head.
(v.) A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cell-free protein-synthesizing systems containing an S30 extract from liver and brain cortex tissues of 22-day-old fetuses and of male WAG rats (1-900 days old), the minimal rate of protein synthesis was observed in the fetuses, while the maximal one - in 7-day-old animals.
(2) And yet, when it comes to the Wag obsession, we seem to have regressed many decades.
(3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
(4) Afterwards, the scourge of corrupt politicians wagged his own clean finger in front of the cameras.
(5) The wag added the line "these allegations are completely unsubstantiated and have no basis in reality," which was duly tweeted out by the account.
(6) The long-term surviving AUG rats from both the CsA alone group and the CsA plus 250 rads pretreated islets group were challenged with WAG dendritic cells (DC).
(7) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
(8) It is the media that has chosen to describe them as Wags and define them by their marital status.
(9) (There was the notorious Manchester United Christmas party in 2007, when the Wags were apparently told to stay at home, 100 handpicked women were brought in to party with the players, and the night ended with a rape allegation that was later dropped.)
(10) In her speech, Morgan conceded: “I’m a firm believer that, alongside ensuring the rigour of our assessments, we must never let the assessment tail wag the dog of what is taught in school.” Glenys Stacey, Ofqual’s chief regulator, has argued that practical work would not be ignored.
(11) Tempting though it is to lecture President Hu on human rights (and it is right to keep the spotlight on the persecution of the pro‑democracy group Charter 08 and the imprisonment of Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo), the wagging finger rarely works in diplomacy.
(12) – or, as it's known among production wags, The Eggs Factor .
(13) Using rats of the inbred BN and WAG strain, we tested the hypothesis that chronic dietary choline supplementation would especially affect the timing behavior of BN rats because of their lower cholinergic activity and their poor performance in aversively motivated learning and memory tasks.
(14) The coupling constant between the C11H and C12H wags as well as the C12H wag force constant are unusually low compared to those of retinal model compounds.
(15) 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.
(16) infusion) to WAG rats bearing hind limb solid colonic adenocarcinoma implants.
(17) At 30 to 40 minutes after injection, tail wagging was the only adverse reaction (EEG artifact) observed.
(18) Examination by use of WAG syngeneic female rats was made on 4 rat rhabdomyosarcoma sublines expressing different metastatic potentials for their abilities to degrade proteoglycans and glycoproteins of the extracellular matrix (ECM), deposited by corneal endothelial cells and metabolically labeled with [3H]glycosamine and [35S]sulfate.
(19) The low-wavenumber lines are enhanced in the resonance Raman spectrum by conformational distortion, and the uncoupling of the 11- and 12-hydrogen wags is caused by additional protein perturbations.
(20) "They're going into this world of glamour modelling because it's the only route they can see to wealth and success, and the Wag culture is bound up with that.