(a.) Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation of the male bristly spines excited the medium-sized flexor excitors f3 and f4.
(2) The single-shelled virion, in contrast, exhibits a bristly surface.
(3) Monofilament sutures should be used with caution for bronchial anastomosis, as their bristly knots can perforate adjacent blood vessels.
(4) Stimulation of feathered hair (both sexes) and smooth hair (female only) sensilla produced responses characteristic of extension whereas bristly spines on the male accessory lobe excited only two flexor excitors without affecting any of the other postural motor neurons.
(5) Political activist @bristly_pioneer asked George Galloway's office how he'd be voting: "George Galloway – although saying he was going to vote against #debill – didn't even bother to turn up.
(6) Bristly spines may contribute to postural adjustments that assist mating.
(7) The tannins, delphinidin and procyanidin were isolated from flowers of white clover (Trifolium repens) and the leaves of Arnot Bristly Locust (Robina fertilis) respectively, and tested for mutagenic properties in a range of systems.
(8) The endopodite of the male swimmeret has an accessory lobe covered with short "bristly spines" (serrate setae).
(9) In addition, high energy intakes induced earlier juvenile moulting, this effect making the 56-day old carcasses rather bristly.
Hispid
Definition:
(a.) Rough with bristles or minute spines.
(a.) Beset with stiff hairs or bristles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Populations of hispid cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) were studied in 6 young loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) plantations in South Carolina, USA.
(2) This study focused on taste preferences in hispid cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) as measured by 2-bottle, 48-hr.
(3) Hispid cotton rats were inoculated intranasally with either measles virus (MV) Edmonston, a multipassaged, tissue culture-adapted strain of MV, or with one of three clinical MV isolates that had limited passages (three to five times) in tissue culture cells.
(4) In contrast to these findings, virus was isolated only sporadically from hispid cotton rats inoculated with any of the clinical measles virus isolates.
(5) Hispid cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord) were susceptible to infection with Rickettsia rickettsii Wolbach under laboratory conditions and were capable of serving as sources for infecting ticks with rickettsiae.
(6) Only hispid cotton rats, Sigmodon hispidus, and deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus, were found to be important hosts for immature D. variabilis.
(7) Susceptible animals were eastern gray squirrel, hispid cotton rat, muskrat, and house mouse.
(8) High speed cinephotographic techniques were used to determine the pattern of fluid flow about the hispid flagellum of Ochromonas danica and to investigate the behavior of this flagellum in media of increased viscosity.
(9) MV Edmonston was recovered from the lungs of every (n = 37) hispid cotton rat inoculated with this virus for at least 7 days after virus inoculation.
(10) The susceptibility of the hispid cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, to the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, was investigated by inoculating rats with infected tick suspensions or by allowing infected Ixodes scapularis nymphs to feed on them.