(n.) Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).
(n.) A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.
(n.) Specifically, among sportsmen, a game bird.
(n.) Fig.: A girl; a maiden.
(v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
(v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
(2) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(3) No vaccination reactions were noted, although most birds involved in the trials were carrying Mycoplasma spp.
(4) Precipitating antibodies were found in both lines; they first appeared 7 days after inoculation in P-line birds and 14 days after inoculation in N-line birds, but thereafter there was no difference between the two genetic lines.
(5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
(6) Differences between parental and nonparental birds in VIP profiles were detected in the ventral portion of the infundibular region.
(7) The enterococcal population of the 'dosed' birds contained a greater proportion of Enterococcus faecium than did that of the control birds while the converse was true for Ent.
(8) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
(9) After 32 days of feeding, body weight, liver weight and egg production decreased in birds fed lead while kidney weights increased.
(10) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(11) Changes in brain size are compared with observations found in other domesticated birds.
(12) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(13) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(14) Water restriction of HYD birds for 5 days as adults stimulated tubule hypertrophy but not to the same extent as the chronic regimen and with no evidence for hyperplasia.
(15) Thus, the possibility exists that androgen secretion in some chelonian systems may exhibit a high degree of LH specificity like that of mammals and birds.
(16) 1 After the injection of labelled procaine and lidocaine in mice, the location and concentration of radioactivity was demonstrated by autoradiographical methods.2 An accumulation in some endocrine cells such as the pancreatic islets, the hypophysis, the adrenal medulla and certain cells of the thyroid (probably representing the calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells) was shown.3 After the injection of [(14)C]-procaine in chicks, an accumulation of radioactivity was observed in the ultimobranchial gland (which produces calcitonin in birds), but not in the thyroid.4 Radioactivity was also shown to be strongly concentrated in structures containing melanin, such as the pigment of the eye, skin and hair and in some organs involved in the metabolism and excretion of these drugs.
(17) Respiration frequency increased during exposure to 35 (four birds) and 40 degrees C (six birds) in the normally hydrated quail, while in the dehydrated quail, respiration frequency increased only in three birds during exposure to 35 degrees C, and four birds during exposure to 40 degrees C, the frequencies were lower during dehydration.
(18) A man in New Zealand suggested that they need to rid the country of cats to protect their native birds.
(19) Birds showed evidence of increased tolerance, with age, to phenylpropanolamine but not to monensin.
(20) Again, changes in birds fed CTN + OA for 7 days were similar but milder.
Birdcage
Definition:
(n.) A cage for confining birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) He brings us his mackerel, and his marigolds, as a child just able to walk solemnly brings objects … a birdcage, or a colander … and deposits them as an offering before the attentive adult."
(2) The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the probe was compared to a 5-cm birdcage coil and exceeded the birdcage coil's SNR by three to six times at superficial structures.
(3) In her 1963 novel A Summer Birdcage , Margaret Drabble’s narrator Sarah describes a “loathsome flat” in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and an “unspeakably sordid” place in Highgate.
(4) Presented is a derivation of an exact closed-form expression for the spectra of resonant frequencies for magnetic resonance imaging birdcage coils in the limit of long coils with many elements.
(5) Although the birdcage resonator has been theoretically described for single- and multinuclear operation, this study provides the basic experimental guidelines needed for the fabrication and testing of such coils for various geometries and resonant frequencies from 10 to 95 MHz.
(6) This paper presents a general analysis, derived from lumped element transmission line theory, of the electrical behavior of unloaded, N-column birdcage resonators applicable to several versions of the basic design including low-pass and high-pass coils.
(7) In vivo microscopy was performed using single turn radiofrequency (RF) coils that were surgically implanted around the left kidney of two rats and inductively coupled to an external "birdcage" body coil.
(8) He nods when reminded of his father's birdcage analogy.
(9) The P-31 MR spectroscopic data were acquired by means of three-dimensional chemical shift imaging (phase encoding in three spatial dimensions) on a 1.5-T clinical instrument equipped with a specially designed quadrature P-31 birdcage coil constructed in the authors' laboratory.
(10) A formulation has been developed for the determination of self and mutual inductances in unloaded, eight-column symmetric birdcage coils using their expected resonant mode current patterns and well-known inductance formulas.
(11) She collapsed in Birdcage Walk, near St James's Park, on the final stretch of the 26.2-mile course, just one bend away from the finishing line.
(12) Claire Squires, 30, collapsed in Birdcage Walk, a mile from the finish line of the 26.2-mile event last year.
(13) Resonant radiofrequency (RF) coils were implanted around the left kidney of four rats and inductively coupled from within a birdcage body coil.
(14) We also describe a variant of the birdcage resonator which utilizes a novel tuning mechanism of simple construction.
(15) This analysis provides the first explicit evaluation of the total end-ring and column inductances L1 and L2 within each birdcage section at resonance with resulting excellent agreement in resonant frequencies between theory and experiment.
(16) Following protestations from Republican Political Prisoners, the jail administration responded belligerently by covering the birdcages with darkened Perspex and sheets of wood.
(17) A 16-turn birdcage-like RF coil of radius 5 cm, designed for a ROI of radius 4 cm has an average error of 0.79%.
(18) Ten low-pass birdcage coils with eight legs were evaluated and their four resonant frequencies were within 4% of theoretical predictions.
(19) Presented is a theoretical description of the self-capacitance of a low-pass birdcage coil.
(20) This latter expression is applicable to any two-port receiver coil assembly, including single coils with two modes, such as a birdcage coil, and in general, to any two ports of an n-port receiver system.