(n.) An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.
Example Sentences:
(1) The composition of animal communities developing from planktonic larvae in aquariums.
(2) Some groups of receptor axons possessed a selective sensitivity to histamine and to water from aquarium with fishes.
(3) Five cases of amebiasis were diagnosed in goldfish (Carassius auratus) from home aquariums and from a laboratory aquarium.
(4) By these methods unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS) was detected quantitatively as silver grains on epithelial cells of mouse skin after treatment with chemical carcinogens or UV irradiation, and on cerebral ganglion cells of aquarium fish after treatment with various chemical carcinogens.
(5) The analysis of the incidence of induced tumors, period of their appearance and Iball index shows high sensitivity of the aquarium fishes to the carcinogenic action.
(6) The organism was isolated from the lesion as well as from infected fish taken from his home aquarium.
(7) Many of our best zoos (particularly those associated with the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums) have boundless energy for the conservation cause.
(8) Lebistes reticulatus (guppy) was subjected to a continuous treatment of a 500-G homogeneous magnetic field within a specially designed horseshoe magnet encompassing a small aquarium.
(9) As the Reuters news agency reports: With a 100 percent record so far, the British-born aquarium dweller at Sea Life in Oberhausen, western Germany has become a celebrity having correctly predicted a series of German wins and even Germany's surprise group stage loss to Serbia.
(10) Seahorses are threatened by overexploitation for traditional medicines, aquariums and curiosities, accidental capture by fishing fleets, and degradation of their habitats.
(11) The present cases were the first report of morbillivirus infection of aquarium seals in Japan.
(12) A successful aquarium system with recycled sea water was used for squid maintenance.
(13) Care for the Wild notes that public aquariums – first introduced in the 19th century – are now a global tourism phenomenon, their number rising steadily despite the occasional boycott.
(14) Two species of coarse fish that are relatively resistant to cadmium poisoning were exposed to sub-lethal concentrations of the metal in their aquarium water.
(15) Rainbow trout were exposed to defined levels of cadmium in their aquarium water for differing periods at a variety of near-lethal concentrations that ensured the survival of the majority of the fish.
(16) Liver neoplasms including trabecular hepatoma and cholangioma were induced in medakas (Oryzias latipes) by the addition of methylazoxymethanol acetate to their aquarium water at levels of 0.1-3 ppm for periods ranging from 1 to 120 days.
(17) The aquarium consisted of a 7-liter plastic outer shell.
(18) The presence of either 3 or 9 L. carinatus or 3 M. cornuarietis per 40 l aquarium did not reduce the population size of B. glabrata below levels attained in control aquaria lacking ampullariids.
(19) The diagnosis, treatment, and control of parasites and nonparasitic pests of aquarium fish are covered.
(20) 3 biopsies of 3-5 week-old nodular lesions in 2 patients with so-called swimming-pool (aquarium-) granuloma have been examined by electron microscopy.
Vivarium
Definition:
(n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mitochondrial respiration rate in various metabolic states was similar in flight rats and vivarium controls.
(2) Rabbits treated as described and housed in a conventional vivarium environment were found to be free of mites during a subsequent 33 to 139 day observation period.
(3) The incidence of the condition was high in rabbits kept for 2 mo or more in the vivarium.
(4) Testes from rats flown on Cosmos 1887 were compared with vivarium control and synchronous control samples.
(5) In the "Cosmos-1887" biosatellite experiment, the plasma samples obtained two days after the landing as well as plasma of synchronous animals exhibited the higher fibrinogen levels when compared to those of vivarium animals.
(6) A total of 48 infections was discovered, 31 in staff of the radiation therapy area, 12 in the staff of the Vivarium facility, and 5 in other individuals who worked in the Medical Center.
(7) A single introduction of vitamin E and D,L-methionine to rats kept on the vivarium ration or their addition to protein-free diet separately does not affect the glutathionperoxidase and glutathionreductase activities in the liver.
(8) Control animals were maintained in usual atmosphere of vivarium.
(9) The plasma protein spectrum of flight and synchronous groups of animals in "Cosmos-1887" experiment where plasma samples were prepared in the period of time from 5 to 10 hours after spaceflight coincided with the pattern of vivarium animals.
(10) In in vivo tests subject to enquiry was incorporation of I--14C-acetate in non-saponified lipids, ubiquinone and sterines in the liver of rats receiving the usual ration of the vivarium or the one short of aromatic amino acids, and on this basis the relative rates of both the biosynthesis and decomposition of these compounds were determined.
(11) By use of age-matched vivarium controls (normal cage environment) and synchronous controls (simulated flight conditions), as well as a basal control group (killed before lift-off on the 1st day of flight), the combined influences of growth and space-flight could be examined.
(12) The effect of social isolation, consisting of individual housing in the vivarium under standard conditions and imposed on male rats older than 90 days, was assessed on tactile startle reactivity, nociception, resting heart rate and arterial blood pressure, and on intercorrelations among these variables.
(13) On the other hand, cells from rats flown in space showed no significant differences from vivarium and synchronous control rats in cytotoxicity for K-562 target cells.
(14) Control groups included vivarium, synchronous, and antiorthostatically suspended rats.
(15) Plasma melatonin was low at the time of euthanasia (lights on) and was not different among the experimental groups (flight animals, synchronous controls, and vivarium controls).
(16) The experimental group of rats were subjected to pure HK, that is, without the use of any preventive measures, and the control group placed under ordinary vivarium conditions and served as control.
(17) To examine the effects of spaceflight on the proliferation and turnover of jejunal mucosal cells, we compared the percentages of mitotic cells present in the crypts of Lieberkühn in the proximal, middle, and distal jejunum in each of five rats flown on the COSMOS 2044 mission and in rats included in the vivarium, synchronous, and caudal-elevated groups.
(18) In rats of three age groups (one month-old rattlings, young 3-month old and adult rats not younger than 5 months) receiving the usual vivarium food the exhalation of C14O2 substantially decreased with the age and the maximum radioactivity of the air following intraperitoneal introduction of citric acid-3-C14 was greatly delayed.
(19) They were compared to five female rats kept in vivarium and five female conditioned rats in synchronised way.
(20) As a control the ovaries of immature offspring of the females, living in the vivarium have been studied.