(n.) Fixed and strong desire; esp. natural desire; a craving; an eager appetite.
(n.) Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism.
(n.) Natural tendency; affinity; attraction; -- used of inanimate objects.
Example Sentences:
(1) A kung pao chicken appetizer was made with chicken McNuggets doused in sweet and sour sauce and garnished with parsley.
(2) Host-tick contact is possible when ticks are hungry, when ticks exhibit a positive appetence response, and when ticks and host animals are together in time and space.
(3) Further, no significant changes in whole-mouth secretion rates were observed when subjects viewed photographs of two appetizing foods, or of fresh doughnuts in a plastic box, even though subjects knew they could eat the doughnuts after the experiment.
(4) Food stimuli were rated as more appetizing by the nonobese after high-calorie meals, but not so by the obese.
(5) Subjects chewed and spat out an appetizing steak and french-fried potato meal (modified sham feeding), with the increase in the weight of the meal during sham feeding taken to represent salivary secretion.
(6) They present the basic four types of children who incline to failure in this respect: markedly extrovert subjects with good intellect, markedly submissive children, more introvert subjects with inferior intellect, neglected children with poor intellect and behavioural disorders and children with a high appetence for the drug.
(7) Oliver then detailed a plan to air commercials that actually educate the president on important issues, such as explaining the nuclear triad, how to use appetizer forks and what his other daughter is called.
(8) Results showed a progressive and statistically significant rise in gastric acid secretion when an appetizing, self-selected meal was anticipated.
(9) Cephalic stimulation was induced by a modified sham feeding (MSF) technique, during which subjects chewed and expectorated appetizing food.
(10) These differences were related to disparities in the spatial distribution of the hosts, their activity patterns and the specific appetence responses of the two tick species.
(11) The sight of appetizing food (without smell or taste), the smell of appetizing food (without sight or taste), or the combination of sight and smell (without taste) also increased acid secretion and serum gastrin concentrations significantly.
(12) The ewes were given intravenous fluid therapy, and 90 minutes after the onset of signs, the ewes were standing, dull, and appetent.
(13) Nausea in response to an appetizing food stimulus was assessed in bulimic women and healthy control subjects.
(14) The dominance of appetency is caused by the favourable social and pedagogic conditions in socialist society and is regarded as a prerequisite of successful therapy.
(15) A summary of investigations concerning changes in the sexual life due to the psychiatric illness is divided into results on the changes in the frequency of sexual activities and changes in sexual appetence, results on sexual deviant acts, on sexual activities of psychiatric inpatients, and results on sexual orientation, especially for patients with paranoid symptoms.
(16) The contrast between frequent behavioural disorders in school on the one hand, and the general positive attitude towards school is interpreted as a appetency-aversion conflict.
(17) This may have been the moment when a bid began to look truly appetizing to the Premier League.
(18) Salivary flow was measured in response to six appetizing odours: peppermint, vanilla, chocolate, beef, tomato and lemon.
(19) Lifting of dietary restrictions, which results in a more appetizing and nutritious diet, does not cause symptomatic deterioration or precipitate intestinal obstruction in Crohn's disease.
(20) The authors express the view that changes in the orgastic capacity of women are rather than sexual appetence a sensitive and useful indicator of psychological influences.
Appetite
Definition:
(n.) The desire for some personal gratification, either of the body or of the mind.
(n.) Desire for, or relish of, food or drink; hunger.
(n.) Any strong desire; an eagerness or longing.
(n.) Tendency; appetency.
(n.) The thing desired.
Example Sentences:
(1) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(2) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(3) In the appetitive passive avoidance task, only the substantia nigra lesion group exhibited a deficiency.
(4) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(5) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
(6) These results suggest that ammonium ions influence the appetite through their effect on prepyriform cortical areas.
(7) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.
(8) It reveals just how China's appetite for wood has grown in the past decades as a result of consumption by the new middle classes, as well as an export-driven wood industry facing growing demand from major foreign furniture and construction companies.
(9) Other manipulations that induce an appetite for NaCl in the F344 strain are summarized.
(10) Corticosteroids have been shown to increase appetite for a brief period of time, but they do not appear to improve caloric intake or nutritional status.
(11) In Study B, V3V cannulae were implanted in rats after a captopril-induced appetite for NaCl was established.
(12) These results were discussed with respect to a possible relationship between changes in sodium chloride responsivity and changes in sodium intake, differences between methods of inducing sodium appetite, coding of taste quality and intensity, and mechanisms which might effect the responsivity change.
(13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
(14) There’s just not a big appetite for even talking about guns at the moment in the state of Connecticut,” he said.
(15) Thirteen percent of physicians are still prescribing the anabolic steroid Durabolin (nandrolone phenylpropionate) as an appetite stimulant long after promotion for this purpose has been dropped.
(16) F1 hybrids differ from normotensive controls in their behavioral activity and in salt appetite.
(17) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.
(18) Bailey said foreigners' appetite for London's best housing stock had helped push up the average price of prime central London property by 57% over the past four years.
(19) Voluntary salt intake did not peak until 6-12 hr later reflecting the characteristic delay in the genesis of salt appetite.
(20) The present study investigated the possible genetic co-determination of blood pressure and salt appetite in this animal model of hypertension.