What's the difference between cage and enclosure?

Cage


Definition:

  • (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.

Enclosure


Definition:

  • (n.) Inclosure. See Inclosure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
  • (2) The La Parguera facility was established in part to contrast the social behavior of free-ranging groups with that in enclosures, as well as to compare the seasonal events linked to reproduction with those at Cayo Santiago.
  • (3) Inexperienced physicians are often unable to immediately identify these translucencies as air enclosures in the intracranial cavity.
  • (4) Mice were exposed to hypoxia by enclosure in cages covered with dimethyl-silicone rubber membranes for 1-14 days.
  • (5) On each trial, access to saccharin at normal ambient temperature was followed by injection of drug or saline and placement for 6 hr into a temperature-controlled enclosure.
  • (6) Quite a lot of things here are variations on the idea of enclosure, putting a roof up, spreading some kind of meniscus over the land.
  • (7) Expression of the DIT and DIT2 genes is restricted to sporulating cells, with the DIT1 transcripts accumulating at the time of prospore enclosure and just prior to the time of dityrosine biosynthesis.
  • (8) Our results show that use of ATB ANA microplates in an anaerobic enclosure is a valuable method in clinical practice.
  • (9) Comparative behavioral samples were obtained on 38 subjects in the existing indoor-outdoor run and in the enclosure.
  • (10) When observed as yearlings and 2-year-olds, juveniles who had had more protective early mothering showed less interest in the external environment, as measured by the percentage of time they spent looking outside the home enclosure.
  • (11) Two replicate experimental populations were established from each collection, and each replicate was then released into an enclosure surrounding a natural habitat at a central-latitude locality.
  • (12) The atmosphere in an enclosure equipped with an automatic life support system was examined during 30-day integrated animal experiments.
  • (13) The data showed the vertical flow room to exhibit significantly lower (P less than .05) contamination levels than the horizontal flow enclosure.
  • (14) perfringens strains isolated from feces of test subjects kept in an enclosure for 34 days.
  • (15) We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of 254 nm with the use of a Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties.
  • (16) Using the rebreathing method, CO2 sensitivity of the respiration regulation system was investigated during a year-long enclosure study and head-down tilt tests of varying duration (up to 120 days).
  • (17) Addition of ATP and GTP to bound vesicles caused limited vesicle fusion, but enclosure of the chromatin was not observed.
  • (18) In the undrugged state both groups tended to scan the walls of the enclosure with the vibrissae side of the face.
  • (19) Sonography, computed tomography and scintigraphy were performed, and the prenatally diagnosed process was identified as a cystic growth in the right liver lobe with enclosure of the V. cava inferior.
  • (20) Males born and housed in a small woodland enclosure in 1979-1980 and well fed with grain did not experience the long period of regressed testes.

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