(1) Taken together, these findings suggest that Caiman, like mammals, contain a thalamic reticular nucleus but that thalamic organization in Caiman differs significantly from that of mammals.
(2) In contrast to those obtained from duck, goose and caiman, delta-crystallin isolated from the pigeon lens possessed very little argininosuccinate lyase activity.
(3) Five days after the removal of the foreign bodies from the stomach the caiman was alert and active and showed a normal appetite.
(4) The cochlear microphonic (CM) latency in caiman is unaffected by stimulus intensity and by cooling of the animal.
(5) Vibration measurements were made at a number of positions near the proximal (basal) end of the basilar membrane, and on the columella footplate, of Caiman crocodilus using a capacitive probe.
(6) There were four primary divisions of the spinal nerves in the thoracic region of the caiman, from ventral to dorsal: the intercostal nerve, the IC nerve, the Lo nerve, and the dorsal main trunk.
(7) These results are consistent with previous reports that the SN and AVT project to the dorsolateral and medial portions of the VLA, and strongly support the theory that the caiman VLA contains cell populations homologous to those found in the mammalian corpus striatum.
(8) Three juvenile captive spectacled caimans (Caiman sclerops) had scattered, gray-white, circular, 1- to 3-mm skin lesions.
(9) Immunological comparison of inactive and active delta-crystallins from the chicken, duck and caiman lenses established the apparent structural similarity of all delta-crystallins to the authentic enzyme regarding some of common surface epitopes, yet they are not completely identical.
(10) This outbreak closely resembled the disease described elsewhere in 3 juvenile captive caimans.
(11) The histological and physiological effects of the removal of superficial corneous epidermal materials have been studied in several squamate species and a caiman.
(12) Motilin-immunoreactive cells in the duodenum, pyloric stomach and pancreas of Caiman latirostris and Caiman crocodilus were investigated using region specific antisera for porcine and canine motilin molecules.
(13) The presence of a pretectal nucleus with neural connections and topographic location similar to nucleus pretectalis of Caiman has been described in lizards and pigeons.
(14) Rincón lists his most significant findings with the contagious enthusiasm of a child reciting the cast of the Ice Age movies: the giant femur of a six-tonne mastodon, a giant ground sloth, a 10-ft pelican, caimans the size of buses and the almost intact skull of a sabre-toothed tiger.
(15) Representative sonagrams of the distress calls of three other species of crocodilians (Caiman crocodilus, Crocodylus niloticus, and Crocodylus siamensis) are presented and compared with sonagrams of alligator distress calls.
(16) Caiman epsilon-crystallin similar to the previously characterized duck epsilon-crystallin appeared to possess a genuine and stable LDH activity as detected by nitro blue tetrazolium staining on polyacrylamide gels and conventional kinetic assays.
(17) When the coding segments, including both framework and complementarity-determining regions, of these genes and the murine probe sequences are compared by metric analysis, it is apparent that the caiman genes are only slightly more related to each other than to the mammalian sequence, consistent with significant preservation of nucleotide sequence over an extended period of phylogenetic time.
(18) The subcoeruleus nuclei are considerably larger in the caiman than in other reptilian species including turtles and lizards and closely resemble the subcoeruleus nuclei of birds in terms of position and anterior-posterior extent.
(19) The pineal is also ubiquitous except for the hagfish (Eptatretus) and the caiman (Caiman).
(20) These species occur in Crocodylus, Caiman and Alligator and are characterized by flat lips with alate margins, without anterior rostral plate, interlocking processes or dentigerous ridges, with weakly developed interlabia, by an irregular-shaped ventriculus, excretory pore behind or between the subventral lips, and by the presence of lateral alae or cuticular thickenings in the oesophageal region.
Carman
Definition:
(n.) A man whose employment is to drive, or to convey goods in, a car or car.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, said Mr Carman would be remembered for turning "the courtroom into melodrama".
(2) It has also been suggested that melatonin administration can reduce anxiety (Golus and King, 1981), affect learning (Datta and King, 1980), and exacerbate symptoms in patients suffering from severe depression (Carman et al., 1976).
(3) Neil Hamilton v Al Fayed, 1999 George Carman's last great libel victory came after Neil Hamilton, the former Tory MP, sued Mohamed Al Fayed, over allegations that he had taken up to £50,000 in cash from the owner of Harrod's to do his bidding in Parliament.
(4) Effects of filter bed parameters on refiltration rates were studied, and a relationship was found by the use of the Kozeny-Carman equation.
(5) Sonia Sutcliffe v News of the World, 1990 The wife of the Yorkshire Ripper lost her libel claim over News of the World allegations that she had an affair with a Greek holiday company chief who resembled her husband During the hearing, Carman claimed she had courted the press for financial gain before listing the £334,000 damages she had obtained in actions against newspapers.
(6) Father and son discussed Liberal concerns about Smith at length in May 1979 as Thorpe prepared to go to trial, Carman said, amid concerns that their disclosure could harm the former leader's defence.
(7) A spokesman for Greater Manchester police confirmed that an officer has spoken to Carman.
(8) Gillian Taylforth v the Sun, 1994 One of Carman's most celebrated victories, the EastEnders actress lost her libel over a report that she had performed oral sex on her fiance in a layby on the A1 after the QC produced one of his famous 11th-hour rabbits from a hat: a video of Ms Taylforth holding a bottle proclaiming to her fellow partygoers "I give good head".
(9) But Carman argued the MP's career was already in shreds.
(10) Once again Carman unveiled a last minute exocet - this time travel documents from British Airways that showed his wife - whom he claimed had paid the bill - and daughter were never in Paris that weekend but actually in Switzerland.
(11) Thorpe's legal team was concerned that the magazine's report might be followed up by a national newspaper and have a negative impact upon the trial, Carman said.
(12) Mr Carman, who first came to prominence defending the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe on charges of conspiracy to kill and incitement to murder, moved to the libel courts late in life.
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(14) With the aid of the wily old George Carman on our side we won – a miracle result entirely thanks to a jury, not the judge, who, by the end of the trial had ensured there was nothing left of our defence except arguments on meaning.
(15) 3) Difference of the particle size varying from 1.50 mu(bulk particle size) and 0.64 mu(mechanical limit size) measured by Kozeny-Carman method did not affect on the absorption in rats and dogs.
(16) His son, Dominic Carman, who stood for the Lib Dems in 2010 in Barking and again at the Barnsley byelection in 2011, said that he discussed the Smith allegations with his father in May 1979 as the trial was about to begin.
(17) Carman destroyed Hamilton in the witness box, lovingly re-creating every morsel of food and sip of vintage champagne the former minister and his wife, Christine, enjoyed during a free visit to Fayed's Ritz hotel in Paris.
(18) Solution of the Kozeny-Carman equation for the observed flow velocities and pressure gradients yielded a mean hydraulic radius of the pathways followed by the liquid ranging from 2 to 4 microns.
(19) Again, with Geraldine Proudler and George Carman on our case, we won a dramatic high court battle after producing, mid-trial; the airline tickets, which proved that Aitken had given perjured evidence.
(20) Mr Carman famously described Mr Hamilton as "on the make and on the take".