(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.
Satiety
Definition:
(n.) The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Duodenal infusions of glucose inhibited FI calorically, and generally inhibited GE calorically; but gastric volume at satiety was always equal to control volume.
(2) We considered that if CCK-induced reductions in food intake occur through the mechanism of normal satiety, CCK-induced satiety and normal satiety should respond in the same way to a pharmacological challenge.
(3) The results are consistent with the view that satietin acts by activating a satiety mechanism.
(4) This suggests that brain 5-HT may influence primarily the induction of satiety rather than the suppression of hunger.
(5) It is concluded that at the first central synapse of the taste system of the primate, neural responsiveness is not influenced by the normal transition from hunger to satiety.
(6) The results of these studies, considered as a whole, support the view that McCleary's osmotic postingestional satiety signal acts as an intestinal distention signal rather than by inducing thirst.
(7) Acarbose significantly reduced the satiety effect of corn starch in lean rats (p less than 0.001), and further attenuated satiety in obese rats (p less than 0.02).
(8) Attention to focal stimulation did not mediate differences in sensitivity to satiety cues within the C group.
(9) Eating, in turn, activates inhibitory signals to produce satiety.
(10) Intracarotid administration of isotonic glucose (0.5 ml of 5.4%) in the starving albino rats produced an increase in the multiunit activity (MUA) of ventromedial hypothalamus (satiety centre) and a decrease in the MUA of the lateral hypothalamic area (feeding centre).
(11) Under the conditions of this study, energy density of foods seemed to play a significant role on the occurrence of satiety.
(12) The satiety-inducing effects of centrally and peripherally administered cholecystokinin (CCK) in experimental animals have been well documented.
(13) It is suggested that the ventromedial and lateral hypothalamus are connected by reciprocal circuits, so that activation of the ventromedial center results in stimulation of the lateral beta receptors which inhibit the lateral "feeding" cells, and activation of the lateral center results in stimulation of the ventromedial alpha receptors which inhibit the ventromedial "satiety" cells.
(14) These results suggest that endogenous CCK causes satiety by an agonist action on CCK-B receptors in the brain.
(15) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
(16) These tablets undergo expansion in the stomach and are expected to cause early satiety.
(17) These results indicate that 5-HT exerts its anorectic effect only after some food has been ingested, and support the hypothesis that 5-HT accelerates the development of satiation and satiety.
(18) Thus, CCK concentrations in specific areas of the hypothalamus increased with feeding, supporting the potential role of CCK in the central nervous system as a satiety peptide.
(19) Closing the gastric cannula increased the potency with which ip glucose inhibited eating, suggesting synergy of postabsorptive glucose with other postgastric satiety signals.
(20) The results are discussed in terms of a possible role for peripheral 5-HT in the control of satiety, and implications for the mode of action of serotonergic anorectic agents such as fenfluramine.