(n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 45 of the 60 birds in the aviary developed pox lesions around the beaks and eyes.
(2) The source of the infection was undetermined, but could have been associated with 3 Patagonian conures within the aviary.
(3) Two-bottle tests of solution acceptance were conducted in an outdoor aviary with eight common ravens (Corvus corax).
(4) These are, for example, certain characteristics of the different species, the varieties of husbandry and environment as single caged birds or flocks in zoos and aviaries and, especially, the lack of typical clinical symptoms in most cases.
(5) There were no significant differences between morning and afternoon in the numbers of birds located at each position of the aviary.
(6) Giardia infection causing high morbidity and mortality in parakeets in 3 commercial aviaries is described.
(7) Chasing the birds around the cage, or seven days of social contact with a female, raises these indices in birds isolated until adulthood relative to those of the aviary reared animals.
(8) Serological titers were positive in 45% of birds sampled from Aviary 1, 25% from Aviary 2, and 11% from Aviary 3.
(9) Herpesvirus was detected by electron microscopy in hepatocytes of psittacine birds that died at a Florida aviary.
(10) In particular, size and shaping of aviaries are described.
(11) Severe giardiasis was diagnosed in parakeets originating from six aviaries.
(12) There will be trapping, rehoming in aviaries and we will probably have to shoot some as well.
(13) The lakeside aviary is just one of the attractions of Zug's old town, a warren of cobbled streets and chocolate-box artisans' quarters overlooked by a historic bell tower.
(14) The British Association for Shooting and Conservation claims grouse moors hold the key to conservation through diversionary feeding (providing carrion for hen harriers) and removing competing chicks to aviaries.
(15) Males discriminating between their own and another song from their own aviary reached criterion in the fewest number of trials, followed by males discriminating between two songs from their own aviary, then by males discriminating between songs they had not heard before.
(16) There is the rippling curtain wall of the Hall of Science , and the geodesic dome of the Winston Churchill pavilion , now repurposed as an aviary for the local zoo.
(17) Seven of 30 canaries in an aviary in New Zealand developed ophthalmic problems.
(18) Patho-anatomic changes in pigs spontaneously infected with M. avium were proved in 10% of the animals that showed a negative reaction to aviary tuberculin.
(19) Several species of psittacine birds within each aviary were serologically positive for BFDV.
(20) The strains of M. avium and M. intracellulare sensibilized all pigs to aviary tuberculin within 80 days from peroral and intranasal infection.
Cage
Definition:
(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(n.) The catcher's wire mask.
(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(3) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(4) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(5) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
(6) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(7) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
(8) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
(9) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(10) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(11) Also the spread of the strain in the cage was examined.
(12) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(13) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(14) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(15) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(16) However, airborne transmission to rabbits in adjacent cages did not occur.
(17) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(18) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(19) Five week old female albino mice were grouped two, three, four and five per cage.
(20) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.