(n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) He arrived in San Francisco in late 2010, after a couple of years trying to get Bloodhound going in Silicon Valley.
(2) Alan Measles says you are the same as a 1950s ceramic bloodhound-shaped spirits bottle that plays Roll Out the Barrel when you lift it off the shelf.
(3) But back at the Drinkabout, I feel energised, and not just by the Bloodhound Gang.
(4) The question is why no TV investigator or newspaper bloodhound ran something 30 or 40 years ago, when the abuse was supposedly current and there were young lives to be rescued.
(5) The characteristic, bloodhound-like appearance, which degenerates gradually, of patients with primary hereditary systemic amyloidosis, also called Meretoja's syndrome (MS), is attributable to amyloid degeneration of the craniofacial skin and peripheral facial nerves, but apparently also to amyloid deposits in the muscles; a finding not previously described.
(6) Bloodhound has revenues but not profits and Krumeich moved his company to the Mission from Soma in search of lower rents and some soul.
(7) She found it occupied by a startup called Bloodhound that had moved in mid-2013 and was paying two and a half times the old rent.
(8) Well, sports coverage is a specialism that searches out metaphor like an indefatigable bloodhound hunting down a felon.
(9) He has the eyes of a bloodhound who's tired of your shit and the impassive manner of one of Leslie's euthanised hounds, even when he's lamenting broken puppy hearts.
(10) A lie can barely go viral before being savaged by the bloodhounds of truth.
(11) It's Friday evening, it has just gone seven, and I am walking towards a lift with the Bloodhound Gang's Adam Perry.
(12) As a child, I pored over Eagle magazine cut-aways that delved into the workings of everything from Bloodhound missiles to offshore oil rigs.
Greyhound
Definition:
(n.) A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Systemic perfusion, myocardial contractility, and morphological changes during and after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) were investigated in 22 greyhounds; Fluosol-DA 20% (FDA) and normal saline (NaCl) were compared as priming solutions for hypothermic (25 degrees C) CPB.
(2) The holes were of sufficient size to allow the passage of the head and neck of a greyhound to the shoulders.
(3) The comparative effects of contractile agonists and physiological stimulation of the tracheal and bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) response were studied isometrically in situ in five Basenji-greyhound (BG) and six mongrel dogs.
(4) The anesthesia lasted longer in Greyhound than in non-Greyhound mixed-breed dogs given thiopental, thiamylal, and methohexital.
(5) To test whether acute denervation alters the vascular effects of dopamine and dobutamine, we anesthetized 16 greyhounds and placed them on total cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB).
(6) Neither mongrels nor this group of Greyhounds were obviously susceptible to MH.
(7) Plasma hypoxanthine and xanthine concentrations are very low in the horse and low in rat, mouse and greyhound compared to concentrations in beagles, man, sheep and rabbit.
(8) In Beagles, it increased from dorsal to ventral zones by about 50% of the initial dorsal zone value, whereas in Greyhound-type dogs, only a slight dorsal-to-ventral decrease was evident, with the exception of the more ventral zone.
(9) We describe the chronology of development of the stomach and intestine in 18 greyhound foetuses.
(10) We compared the effects of large-volume ventilation on airway responses to aerosolized histamine in anesthetized mongrel dogs with its effects in Basenji-Greyhound crossbred (B-G) dogs.
(11) Using open-chested, anesthetized greyhounds, we compared the catheter-measured right ventricular volume change with stroke volume as measured by a pulmonary arterial electromagnetic blood flowmeter.
(12) In a placebo-controlled study of the antiarrhythmic and electrophysiological properties of atenolol and mexiletine, programmed electrical stimulation (PES) was performed in three groups of six conscious greyhounds, 7-30 days after coronary artery ligation.
(13) The effects of acute changes in plasma Na concentration (P(Na)) on renal blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) were studied in anaesthetized greyhounds.
(14) Four greyhound dogs, previously sedentary for 3 yr, were utilized.
(15) BG dogs were hyperresponsive to both methacholine and histamine compared to basenjis and greyhounds.
(16) We examined endothelin-1 (ET-1) in vitro in five pairs of large arteries and veins from the greyhound dog; (coronary, internal mammary, mesenteric, renal and femoral) as well as the human forearm vein and internal mammary artery and vein.
(17) While the hydrodynamic sizes of the newly synthesized (24-hour) disc PG preparations appeared to be similar, the 60-day-old greyhound disc PGs were found to be larger than the corresponding beagle disc PG populations.
(18) – Gabrielle Jackson Hot dogs As a relatively recent greyhound adopter, the hot months have brought home to me the reality of their notoriously poor temperature control.
(19) Therefore, 40 per cent (900+ ml) of the blood volume of twenty greyhounds was withdrawn under anesthesia and replaced with stroma-free hemoglobin solution (SFHS).
(20) Pretreatment with the PAF antagonists SRI 63-441 (10 mgkg-1 iv) and BN 52021 (5 mgkg-1 iv) significantly reduced the number of arrhythmias during a thirty minute coronary artery occlusion period in open-chest anaesthetised greyhounds, particularly ventricular tachycardia.