(a.) Pertaining to water; growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.
(n.) An aquatic animal or plant.
(n.) Sports or exercises practiced in or on the water.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a number of bacteriological drinking water analyses, this property was confirmed insofar as aquatic myxobacteria could regularly be demonstrated when inspecting hygienically deficient wells or springs.
(2) While the combined O2 uptake changed by a factor of 2, within the weight range under study, the aquatic O2 uptake changed 8-fold within the same range.
(3) Heavy metals are well known pollutants in the aquatic environment.
(4) In contrast to widespread distribution of PCBs in the environment, PCT residues were seldom found in samples from aquatic environments such as water and sludge and waterfowl and fish, and, if found, the levels of PCTs were so low as to be practically negligible.
(5) Neither the stock cultures nor the aquatic strains were capable of growth in autoclaved river water taken above the sewage outfall at the three temperatures tested.
(6) Hydrotherapy is based on several important bioengineering principles that permit the design and development of aquatic exercise devices, techniques and programs.
(7) Using zoospore capture technique, 361 colonies of aquatic freshwater fungi were recovered from sewage effluents, out of which 341 reached sexual maturity.
(8) Based on this concern, the objectives of this study were to: (1) compile, review, and synthesize literature on the fate, persistence, and environmental concentrations of DFB in both freshwater and saltwater environments; (2) compile, review, and synthesize acute and chronic aquatic toxicity data on DFB effects on freshwater and saltwater organisms; (3) assess possible risk to aquatic biota associated with the use of this insecticide in one specific area (Maryland); and (4) recommend future research based on the data gaps identified from this study.
(9) Monthly mean concentrations of dieldrin in river water and most aquatic organisms were highest in June and July, soon after aldrin had been applied to corn land in the watershed.
(10) Thus, the fern bioassay may be an inexpensive means of detecting both chronic low dose and episodic high dose inputs of mutagenic pollutants into aquatic ecosystems.
(11) Concentration factors of strontium-90 in aquatic organisms and substrates are higher in a dystrophic lake than in the other types.
(12) A minimal kinetic scheme is derived, in which a transient monodentate DNA-platinum(II) adduct is formed in a bimolecular reaction between DNA and aquated platinum(II) compounds.
(13) The substances released by algae in the profundal are taken up by aquatic bacteria which explains the lower release and PER measured.
(14) Eggs contained first-stage larvae in 23-26 days at 25 C. Seven species of aquatic oligochaetes were exposed experimentally to eggs of E. tubifex containing first-stage larvae.
(15) A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method is described for determining residues of Bayer 73 (2-aminoethanol salt of 2',5-dichloro-4'-nitrosalicylanilide) in fish muscle, aquatic invertebrates, mud, and water by analyzing for 2-chloro-4-nitroaniline (CNA), a hydrolysis product of Bayer 73.
(16) The oral communications and posters were divided into five subsections, covering systematics at supraspecific, specific and subspecific levels, evolution, and life cycles of parasites with hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
(17) Their stabilities were studied in water and the influence of chloride anions, pH, temperature and time was discussed and rate constants of the aquation reactions at different conditions were calculated.
(18) Since sediments from the habitats occupied by the fish in this study have been shown to contain multiple hepatocarcinogens, the findings strengthen cumulative evidence that English sole are useful as indicators of exposure to hepatocarcinogens in aquatic environments.
(19) Aquatic plants are notoriously difficult to study systematically due to convergent evolution and reductionary processes that result in confusing arrays of morphological features.
(20) Tryptic peptide comparisons of 125I-labeled virion proteins showed that five viruses are different from each other, although there was considerable overlap in the peptide maps of the three aquatic viruses, indicting a degree of relatedness.
Watery
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water.
(a.) Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful.
(a.) Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors.
(a.) Hence, abounding in thin, tasteless, or insipid fluid; tasteless; insipid; vapid; spiritless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(2) An oral glucose electrolyte solution is often used in place of intravenous therapy in diarrheal diseases caused by Vibrio cholerae, enterotoxigenic E. coli, and undiagnosed watery diarrheal diseases.
(3) The majority of the children had an acute onset of watery diarrhea.
(4) A 6-month-old girl from upstate New York had a fever of 40 C for two weeks and green watery diarrhea, and irritability was noted when she was handled.
(5) In 44% of cases the principal clinical signs were a watery discharge and a blood stained discharge.
(6) The CT scan revealed a space-occupying lesion with watery fluid in the left cranial fossa, which was divided into two parts by a thin septum.
(7) The infant girl passed large amounts of watery stools, but tolerated feeds well.
(8) The first child, a female, presented with irritability, jitteriness and watery diarrhea at three days of age.
(9) A second peak of watery diarrhea in the winter from November to January and was seen primarily in children less than 2 years old.
(10) A 40 year old woman presented with a 10 year history of watery diarrhoea and an acute quadriparesis.
(11) Mortality was high among animals with acute watery or hemorrhagic diarrhea.
(12) was always above 25 per cent from patients with dysentery and greater than 7 per cent from those with watery diarrhoea during the post-epidemic years.
(13) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
(14) The therapeutic efficacy of Bioflorin (Streptococcus faecium SF68; Gipharmex, Milan, Italy) in acute watery diarrhea was evaluated in 183 Bangladeshi adults.
(15) Collagenous colitis is an idiopathic inflammatory disorder of the colon associated with watery diarrhea, minimal to normal endoscopic findings, and a pathognomonic subepithelial band of collagen.
(16) Measles can spread when it reaches a community in the US where groups of people are unvaccinated.” The highly contagious viral respiratory disease is often accompanied by a blotchy rash, fever, runny nose, cough, body aches, watery eyes or pink eye and tiny white spots in the mouth.
(17) It was at an all-time low here - three handfuls of rice a day and a watery soup with leaves floating in it.
(18) The tissues of many of the test animals, especially from the Saudi Arabian and Nigerian oil-treated ponds, were clear, watery, and emaciated in appearance, which was not the normal condition of oysters from the Gulf during the period of the samplings.
(19) A patient is reported who had undergone right adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma and 15 yr later developed a recurrence in the same site complicated by the watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, achlorhydria syndrome.
(20) In another study in which 130 watery stools from routine specimens of patients of all ages were investigated, 36% were positive for pathogens with 11% bacteria, 18% viruses and 7% mixed pathogens.