(n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
(n.) A place of confinement for malefactors
(n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
(n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
(n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
(n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
(n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
(n.) The catcher's wire mask.
(v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(3) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
(4) The feces contained less than 3% of the dose and the expired 14CO2 and cage wash accounted for less than 0.2 and 1% of the dose, respectively.
(5) Each diet was fed to five or six individually caged hens for 42 days.
(6) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(7) The designs of mechanical prostheses have evolved since the early caged-ball prostheses.
(8) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
(9) A reduction in tibial breaking strength was also found in caged hens, when compared to deep-litter hens.
(10) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
(11) Also the spread of the strain in the cage was examined.
(12) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(13) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(14) To test the hypothesis that during unsupported arm exercise (UAE) some of the inspiratory muscles of the rib cage partake in upper torso and arm positioning and thereby decrease their contribution to ventilation, we studied 11 subjects to measure pleural (Ppl) and gastric (Pga) pressures, heart rate, respiratory frequency, O2 uptake (VO2), and tidal volume (VT) during symptom-limited UAE.
(15) The tendinous caging of the wrist is the main factor for maintaining rigidity of the carpus and transmitting the torque as muscles are contracted.
(16) However, airborne transmission to rabbits in adjacent cages did not occur.
(17) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
(18) In fish tests, rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) were caged at the discharge site and simultaneously at a reference area.
(19) Five week old female albino mice were grouped two, three, four and five per cage.
(20) A different pattern was observed in the open cage test, where both neuroleptic groups showed significant increases in vacuous OMs during drug administration which rapidly became attenuated upon drug withdrawal.
Carriage
Definition:
(n.) That which is carried; burden; baggage.
(n.) The act of carrying, transporting, or conveying.
(n.) The price or expense of carrying.
(n.) That which carries of conveys,
(n.) A wheeled vehicle for persons, esp. one designed for elegance and comfort.
(n.) A wheeled vehicle carrying a fixed burden, as a gun carriage.
(n.) A part of a machine which moves and carries of supports some other moving object or part.
(n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage.
(n.) The manner of carrying one's self; behavior; bearing; deportment; personal manners.
(n.) The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staphylococcal carriage seems largely to depend on individual characteristics rather than environmental factors.
(2) A higher proportion (14 of 40; 35%) had evidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection than had evidence of either hepatitis B virus (HBV) carriage (17.5%) or alcohol abuse (30%).
(3) Rail campaigners claim that the convoluted carriage-ordering system contributes to overcrowding.
(4) Bronchial carriage may, however, not always be associated with pathological effects.
(5) 2) Chronic HBsAg carriage in the adult household contact was associated with female sex of the index case and with being a sibling; among young subjects, household contacts were more likely to be chronic HBsAg carriers when the index case was the mother, a sibling, or an HBV-DNA-positive subject.
(6) This study further confirms the importance of skin carriage of group A streptococci as a precursor to pyoderma and demonstrates the importance of minor skin trauma as a predisposing factor.
(7) Japanese company Hitachi Rail is planning to invest £82m and create hundreds of jobs at a new train factory in Newton Aycliffe, Darlington, where it will build hundreds of carriages.
(8) The current uses of serotyping of N. gonorrhoeae include epidemiological studies, clinical purposes and surveillance of antibiotic resistance and plasmid carriage.
(9) Think, too, of the savings in road widening and new carriages – money that could be spent mending what we've got, or making travel safer or more comfortable, or spent on other things.
(10) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(11) The carriage of C. diphtheriae was found to be 19.8%, 65.3% of them were toxin producing by counter-immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).
(12) Efforts at prevention of non-A, non-B hepatitis associated with blood transfusion have thus far been hampered by the lack of reliable laboratory markers for carriers of this disease, and controversy exists over the implementation of screening tests on blood donors, using such nonspecific indicators of possible viral carriage as serum alanine aminotransferase levels.
(13) The epidemic strain, which was not agglutinated by commerical diagnostic antisera, was isolated from the hands of personnel in five instances directly incriminated hand carriage as the mode of spread.
(14) The city responded with a mixture of fear and defiance, sharing pictures of cuddly animals on hashtags for the attack in place of the usual images of police, and offering homes, mosques and even grounded train carriages as shelter for those stranded by the shutdown.
(15) These patterns are generally consistent with available information concerning the distribution of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriage in New Zealand and suggest that HBsAg carriage is likely to be a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in New Zealand, as it is in other countries.
(16) In renal transplant recipients carriage was positively related to treatment with ranitidine, consumption of more than three types of cheese in the previous 20 months, and consumption of English cheddar cheese more than once per week.
(17) The objectives of this preliminary study were to determine the prevalence of oral candidal carriage and infection in a group of HIV-positive individuals and compare the humoral immune responses in serum and saliva in this group with a control group of HIV-negative subjects.
(18) "My service is not as frequent as it should be and has very old carriages," he said.
(19) An association between fecal carriage of Streptococcus bovis and colorectal carcinoma has been reported.
(20) The carriage rates were 89% in children, 39% in adolescents and 34% in adults.