(n.) Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad except at night. When attacked, they curl up into a ball, presenting the armor on all sides. Their flesh is good food. There are several species, one of which (the peba) is found as far north as Texas. See Peba, Poyou, Tatouay.
(n.) A genus of small isopod Crustacea that can roll themselves into a ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
(2) Their specificities were determined by inhibitions using Tn sialoglycoproteins (SGPs), mucins (armadillo [ASG] and ovine [OSG] submaxillary glycoproteins), and monosaccharides.
(3) sp., is described from the subcutaneous tissues of the savanna armadillo (Dasypus sabanicola) in Venezuela.
(4) Ten out of 29 specimens of the armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus from Pará State were found to have trypanosomes, including epimastigote forms, in impression smears of subcutaneous lymph nodes.
(5) A new species of trypanosome, Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) peba, is described from the peripheral blood of the armadillo Euphractus sexcinctus setosus from Bahia State, Brazil.
(6) The reliability of this program was tested in the localization of sensory representation areas on the neocortex of the South American armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus) studied by evoked potential mapping following visual, auditory and somatosensory stimuli.
(7) These animals had high absorbance values (greater than 0.7) for IgG anti-PGL-I compared to more susceptible armadillos that had lower absorbance values for IgG anti-PGL-I.
(8) The detection of PGL-I in the plasma samples collected from moribund armadillos suggested that high concentrations of PGL-I in the plasma may have contributed to a drop in absorbance values by the formation of non-lattice-type immune complexes in vivo.
(9) In contrast, segmentation is essentially normal in l(1)armadillo, l(2)gooseberry, l(3)hedgehog, and l(1)fused embryos.
(10) Mycobacterium leprae is found in armadillo burrows in Louisiana, U.S.A., and ocular abrasions may be the portal of entry for these organisms in wild armadillos.
(11) Cold exposure in the nine-banded armadillo causes vigorous shivering and a rise in core temperature (Tc).
(12) We prepared antigens by precipitating with 80% ammonium sulfate supernatants of human and armadillo antigen at a concentration of 160 X 10(6) bacteria per ml.
(13) Three types of phospholipase activity--phospholipase A1, A2, and lysophospholipase--were detected in Mycobacterium leprae harvested from armadillo tissue at about 25% of the specific activity found in a slowly growing mycobacterium, Mycobacterium microti, which was grown in medium to optimize its phospholipase activity.
(14) To evaluate these hypotheses, the nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene was determined from a bushbaby (Galago senegalensis), flying lemur (Cynocephalus variegatus), tree shrew (Tupaia glis), spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus), rousette bat (Rousettus leschenaulti), and nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) and was compared with published sequences of a human, cow, and mouse.
(15) The probe hybridized to identical fragments of chromosomal DNA from four M. leprae isolates (two from patients with leprosy, one from a naturally infected armadillo, and one from a naturally infected Mangabey monkey) whether the chromosomal DNA was digested with BamHI, BstEII, PstI, or SacI.
(16) The bacilli were isolated from granulomata harvested from armadillos.
(17) A study was made of the prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in armadillos at a site near New Orleans, Louisiana, where the flagellate was known to occur.
(18) Leprosy appears to be maintained in steady state within some regions, and nearly a third of the adult armadillos in Louisiana and Texas harbour M. leprae.
(19) A decade has passed since our first report of naturally acquired leprosy in the nine-banded armadillo.
(20) The killed armadillo-derived M. leprae vaccine thus appears to be able to induce a DTH response in man at doses which do not cause unacceptable side-effects.
Edentate
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.
(a.) Belonging to the Edentata.
(n.) One of the Edentata.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority (80%) of the sample were edentulous, and a large proportion of both edentate and dentate subjects were using dentures.
(2) Microvascular and free rib grafts were placed in 4.5 cm defects in an edentate mandibular body defect 18 to 28 days after completion of 50 Gy of irradiation from a 60Co source.
(3) This subdivision is markedly different from the classical two-fold division of the edentates.
(4) The cephalic arterial pattern in edentates and pangolins is described on the basis of 9 corrosion specimens, representing all the classical superfamilies, with special reference to their phylogenetic relationship and taxonomy.
(5) This work involves a partially edentate subject fitted with a denture on conical crowns.
(6) The results establish the potential presence of such risk; so, the Authors suggest to the people working in edental clinics to follow carefully the procedures of general and specific prevention.
(7) one for the anteaters and one for the tree sloths and armadillos, indicating a probable subdivision of the true edentates into two suborders.
(8) This guide includes: an indexed stabilising portion on the remaining teeth or portions of edentated crest not involved in the surgery; guiding tubes with a diameter of 2.1 mm, made of infiltrated aluminium according to the INCERAM* procedure.
(9) Amino acid-sequence and morphological data agreed on the placement of edentates as an early eutherian offshoot and on the grouping of hyracoids, proboscideans, and sirenians.
(10) In subtotal mandibular edentations, the roots of remaining anterior teeth might be used to enhance the retention of a full denture in building a contramucosal retention bar.
(11) The frequency of edentation was evaluated in groups of children and young subjects aged between 7 and 18 years.
(12) Acanthocheilonema sabanicolae is the first species in this genus to be described from edentates, and, along with A. reconditum of dogs and A. pricei of opossums, is the third species of Acanthocheilonema to be reported from South America.
(13) The investigation does not indicate any special relationship between the New World edentates and the Old World pangolins, whereas the marked difference in the course of the internal carotid artery in recent edentates stresses the independent development of the South American anteaters compared with that of the two other edentate groups (armadillos and tree sloths).
(14) They appeared at the little vases wall and were increased at zones next to edentate spaces.
(15) Kinesiographic mandibulary analysis correlated with clinical observations certain characteristics can be identified of which the most evident, resulting from the edentation, and at the same time the most important from the viewpoint of dysfunctional implications is the almost permanent presence of horizontal, mainly sagittal movements of the teeth and of the temporo-mandibulary articulation.
(16) In the first part of the study notions are discussed related to the practical solution of the problem, such as: the anatomo-functional study of formations which define the neutral space, aspects of the neutral space in the total edentate, and the conformation of total prostheses, as well as the placing of the artificial dental arcs in relation to the neutral space.
(17) The "TOURTET stress breaking framework" is an evolution in the prosthetic therapy for partial edentations.
(18) The problem of the 6 year molar tooth edentation has been approached from an unilateral point of view.
(19) The study continued with 100 cases of molar edentation without prostheses, establishing the clinical and complementary signs of the 6 year molar syndrome.
(20) With respect to elevation, Edentata have the lowest BMRs; Marsupialia, Primates and Chiroptera are indistinguishable from each other but above the edentates; Primates, Chiroptera, Rodentia, Lagomorpha and Carnivora form the next highest homogeneous grouping; and Artiodactyla have the highest BMRs, significantly greater than all but Lagomorpha and Carnivora.