(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.
Jugal
Definition:
(a.) Relating to a yoke, or to marriage.
(a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both have an incomplete zygomatic arch with descending jugal process, a complex superficial masseter, a large temporalis and medial pterygoid musculature, and a lateral pterygoid with two heads.
(2) Its simplicity, its harmonious adaptation and its reliability led them to consider that it has a place in the therapeutic arsenal for skin repair after resection of jugal and temporo-jugal lesions.
(3) A combination of histological techniques reveals that five separate pairs of cranial nerves innervate the neuromasts: anterodorsal lateral line nerves innervate cephalic supraorbital and infraorbital lines; anteroventral lateral line nerves innervate cephalic angular, oral, jugal, and preoperculomandibular lines of the cheek and lower jaw; middle and supratemporal lateral line nerves innervate the cephalic postotic lines; and posterior lateral line nerves innervate the trunk lines.
(4) It has emphasized the importance of proper brow positioning, invagination procedures on the upper lid with minimal skin excision, restoration of tone in the lower lid without deforming the aperture, designing skin and muscle excisions to prevent deformity, and repair of the deforming tear trough or nasal-jugal ditch through an extremely helpful new tear trough implant.
(5) Her father, Jugal Verma, 77, described her as someone with “passion” for her work, and sympathy for the poor.
(6) We report two cases of wide orbital resection requiring the use of an oculo-palpebro-jugal prosthesis.
(7) In our experience (9 cases) the jugal access has provided good results without noticeable cutaneous scars.
(8) Pigmented macules of the malpighian mucous membranes have been described under numerous names since the first description by P. Laugier in 1970 of the 'pigmentation mélanique lenticulaire essentielle de la muqueuse jugale et des lèvres'.
(9) Where it is much bulky, invades diffusely the cavitary components, damages their walls with laminar structure, insinuates itself among the soft tissues of the jugal, pterygo-maxillary and infraorbital regions, taking up gorges where it slips the classical clinical an also the conventional instrumental diagnostics.
(10) A male infant was born with a voluminous left jugal swelling identified by biopsy on the 8th day as a mature benign teratoma.
(11) The jugal distance, the morphological face height, the nasal height, and the nasal depth, the nasal length, the intercanthal distance, and the alar distance were estimated.
(12) I am a staunch Democrat,” said Jugal Verma, discussing his daughter’s work in the deeply conservative Pence administration.
(13) In other cases, apart from the exceptional indications of preservation of the eyelids and conjunctival sac, closure by flap is the technique of choice: temporo-frontal flap in cases of simple exenteration and temporo-jugal for the superficial plane and medio-frontal for the deep plane in radical exenterations.
(14) However, in Bradypus there is an ascending jugal process from which enlarged and vertically oriented deep masseter and zygomaticomandibularis muscles originate.
(15) The authors report a case of post-traumatic jugal lymphatical effusions associated to a fistula of Stensen's Duct.
(16) Surgical problems are analyzed with study in succession of surgical approaches, maxillo-septal angle, the columella, the maxilla, the muscular layer and the alo-jugal junction.