(a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
(a.) Furnished with a process or a mouth like a beak; rostrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bidrin treatment of quail embryos results in axial anomalies as well as malformations of the beak and the limbs.
(2) Apert-Crouzon syndrome (formerly ACS type 2; 10130) is now considered a subset of autosomal dominant Apert acrocephalosyndactyly type 1 (10120), with features of craniosynostoisis, syndactyly of all extremities, maxillary hypoplasia, "parrot-beaked" nose, hypertelorism, exophthalmos, external strabismus, and short upper lip.
(3) Two experiments were conducted to compare beak treatment effects on pullets of three genetic stocks.
(4) Between June 20 and the end of August, whalers in Wadaura and three other villages will be permitted to catch 66 Baird's beaked whales that, because of their relatively small size, are not covered by the 1986 International Whaling Commission's ban on commercial hunting.
(5) A total of 45 of the 60 birds in the aviary developed pox lesions around the beaks and eyes.
(6) Two cases are reported with the following symptoms: broad thumbs and toes, typical facial abnormalities with beaked nose and hypertelorism.
(7) Strain effects were noted in rate of feed consumption following beak trimming.
(8) The area dorsalis projects 10 degrees-15 degrees below the eye-beak axis where the field is 35 degrees wide.
(9) Retinoid treatment interferes with reciprocal epithelial-mesenchymal interactions in the upper beak.
(10) Primary sensory projection areas, such as the ectostriatum (visual), hyperstriatum intercalatum superius (visual), nucleus basalis (beak representation), the input layer L2 of the auditory field L and the somatosensory area rostral to field L were selectively left unstained.
(11) The beak and legs malformations are prevented by analogs of nicotinamide.
(12) The various components of these muscles are provided with stiff as well as wide aponeuroses and tendons (much stronger than those observed in Columba), indicating forceful opening and closure of the beaks for plucking off the fruit, grasping it hard and manipulating it with the help of the beaks before swallowing.
(13) A cyclical load of 500 N was applied to the handles of the pliers, while a 0.9 mm (0.036 inch) round, stainless steel wire was held between the tips of the beaks.
(14) The evolution of the component was studied after sequencing the component in different odontocetes representing the Delphinidae (delphinids), Monodontidae (narwhals), and Ziphiidae (beaked whales).
(15) Beak trimming affected body weight and feed usage levels for the sexes differently.
(16) Egg quality and size were not influenced by beak trimming treatments.
(17) This study in the chicken investigated whether the integrity of taste buds in the lower beak is normally dependent upon innervation by the chorda tympani.
(18) A low incidence of gross malformations such as twisted limbs, abnormal beak, short neck and everted viscera were observed; however, the increased incidence was not statistically significant when compared to controls.
(19) The value of a combined developmental and functional approach to morphology, i.e., integrated investigation of development of structure and function of the beaks and related jaw musculature, is discussed.
(20) Genetic stock by age and beak treatment by age interactions were present for hen-housed production and egg mass, and the interactions appeared to result primarily from increased mortality from cannibalistic pecking with increased age.
Beaker
Definition:
(n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
(n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the section was mounted on the stainless steel disk with a tissue adhesive, the preparation was immersed in a 10-ml beaker containing 5 ml of drug solution at 37 degrees.
(2) Polarographic analysis was applied successfully to dissolution studies and content uniformity assessment of both capsules and tablets, using a dropping mercury electrode with the modified Levy beaker method.
(3) Disks cut from each device were attached to the sawed-off ends of 10 ml syringes and dipped in a beaker containing either butoconazole nitrate cream or a molten wax insert.
(4) The bronchial cuff was then inflated until air bubbles ceased to appear in the beaker.
(5) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(6) Depending on the quality and quantity of urine needed the perineal area may be shaved and the beaker may be held by hand or attached with tape.
(7) Each product was tested in the USP, Levy beaker, and the regular and large magnetic basket dissolution apparatus.
(8) Gravid females oviposited in 500 ml beakers with a layer of water covered with small leaves of Salvinia.
(9) 42K influx across basolateral membranes was measured with tissues in a steady state and incubated in either beakers or in chambers.
(10) Normal larval development also occurred in all control cultures sprinkled with water, including one culture where there was urine in the space between the outer and inner beaker used for cultivation.
(11) Both when attached to a beaker simulating a pouch and when attached to a pouch whose secretion was suppressed by infusing cimetidine, the apparatus accurately measured added acid when the endpoint setting was between pH 3.0 and 9.0.
(12) Each resulting solution was drawn into a syringe and injected into a glass beaker (n = 10) or through a feeding tube into a beaker (n = 10) over one minute.
(13) Aliquots from each of the 20 beakers were taken in triplicate, diluted 1:1000 with water, and assayed by HPLC.
(14) We have evaluated a more direct method in which the collecting papers were pre- and post-weighed in glass beakers under conditions of stable temperature and humidity.
(15) It benefits because people always want to find out what Mumsnet thinks, because mums are put on a pedestal – if mums think it, it must be right – but equally there are ridiculous prejudices.” She refers to an episode a year ago when a post referring to the “penis beaker” a user’s husband kept on his bedside table to clean up after sex went viral .
(16) In a variety of new situations under the beaker (presence of a lifeless object, of a grouped mouse or of an isolated mouse), the isolated mice were more reactive than the grouped mice.
(17) The method consisted of counting the number of escape attempts of the mice placed under an inverted beaker.
(18) Nominees: Tracy Beaker, BBC Children's for CBBC Last Rights, Touchpaper Television for Channel 4 Children's Programme Serious Arctic, BBC Children's for CBBC "The jury described the winning programme as both aspirational and inspirational.
(19) Larvae were maintained isolated in 77-cm3 (area 9.6 cm2) beakers or in groups of 20, 30, 40, and 50 bugs per 1-liter beaker (area 722 cm2).
(20) The glass slides were then mounted in a beaker containing buffer, subjected to ultrasonication, and re-weighed.