(v. t.) To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
(v. t.) To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.
(v. t.) To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.
(a.) Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.
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.
Virile
Definition:
(a.) Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early prenatal suppression of the fetal adrenal cortex with fluorinated corticosteroids can prevent virilization of female fetuses with 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
(2) The patient showed no virilization, but did show elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels.
(3) In histologically proven hyperthecosis, signs of virilism were absent in 6 cases.
(4) Lacl of masculinization in female infants whose virilized mothers have h. luteinalis is in contrast to the common finding of fetal masculinization when maternal virilization occurs with luteoma of pregnancy.
(5) Cognitive studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) patients have revealed (1) the presence of an IQ advantage in patients, siblings and parents due to socioeconomic status, genetic, hormonal, or other factors; (2) an IQ disadvantage in salt wasters compared with simple virilizers, probably due to early brain damage secondary to salt-wasting crisis; (3) a possibly increased incidence of learning disabilities, particularly in female patients and particularly for calculation abilities, due to disease-related early androgen exposure; and (4) a possible post-pubertal spatial advantage in CAH women, also due to early androgen exposure.
(6) The genetic, biochemical, clinical and endocrinological features of four distinct syndromes are described in which defective virilization in genetic and gondal men appears to result from resistance to androgen action.
(7) Testosterone, 5alpha-androstane-3alpha, 17beta-diol (3alpha-diol), and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) virilize the anlagen of the mammary gland by suppressing nipple formation but 5alpha-androstane-3beta, 17beta-diol, androsterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate do not affect female mammary differentiation.
(8) Beside the hypertension, an extreme virilization appeared.
(9) We describe a case of adrenal myelolipoma that simulated clinically and biochemically a virilizing adrenal tumor.
(10) After removal of the luteoma in week 32 of pregnancy, the virilizing symptoms of the mother completely regressed.
(11) Two enzymatic defects in the zona fasciculata, 11 beta- and 17 alpha-hydroxylase deficiency, can be first readily identified by the virilization in the former, hypogonadal features in the latter.
(12) An adrenal carcinosarcoma is reported in a 29-year-old female presenting with clinical signs of virilization.
(13) Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors of the ovary are rare neoplasms of young women and are best known for their frequent virilizing effects.
(14) The reconstruction of the virilized genitalia in females with adrenogenital syndrome (AGS) is carried out sparing the dorsal neurovascular bundle either through clitoral recession or reduction with simultaneous vaginoplasty and clitoroplasty.
(15) The most active virilizing steroid in this group was stanozolol followed by oxymetholone, methyl-testosterone and dimethysterone.
(16) The absence of a virilizing action is duly pointed out.
(17) A Leydig (Hilus)-cell tumor of the ovary was diagnosed in a 54-year-old woman with severe hirsutism and virilization.
(18) Its breeding programme is probably doomed by a combination of regulation (Californian authorities last year refused redevelopment plans for its San Diego site unless it stopped breeding orcas) and the fact that its virile male, Tilikum, appears to be dying .
(19) However, the basal s HY Ag value is sometimes increased in the absence of any testicular tissue, as in virilized females (21-hydroxylase deficiency, idiopathic or ovarian hirsutism).
(20) The combination of a myelolipoma and a true adenoma has only been described once before (in a case of virilization) and never in connection with Cushing's syndrome.