(a.) Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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.
Marionette
Definition:
(n.) A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
(n.) The buffel duck.
Example Sentences:
(1) The original referred to Punch and Judy as marionettes.
(2) Now, they have Miliband as a helpless marionette, with Sturgeon pulling the strings .
(3) Nobody has, and in the final last night Clay, like some loosely strung marionette, put his punches together in combination clusters and pummelled the Pole about the ring.
(4) Naomi Watts, whom he directed in the American remake of Funny Games , broke down in tears and protested that she was not a marionette as he bossily choreographed a scene in which she bustled about the kitchen.
(5) Hillary was attached, like a marionette, to strings held by a large disembodied hand.
(6) His Makers shop opened on a high street in Sheffield in September to bring craftspeople together by hosting workshops where participants can learn skills such as laser-cutting or marionette-making before selling their creations from the shop.
(7) For over three hours he flapped his hands in every direction, like a marionette being worked by a flock of butterflies.
(8) Thatcher appears, looking like a possessed marionette, her bossy elocution a declaration of intent, as if she means her voice to carry, to be heard generations on.
(9) But how many people saw them from an angle that made them look like distressing Soviet-era east European marionette puppets ?