(a.) Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors.
(n.) A canine tooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(3) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
(4) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(5) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(6) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
(7) In only two of the killed and four of the hospitalized persons, reports of intact canine teeth as demonstrated by the typical lesions were available.
(8) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(9) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(10) The fluorescent immunoassay offered several advantages over currently used methods for determining levels of canine haptoglobin in serum.
(11) The purpose of this study was to determine if aspirin, in doses that elevate plasma salicylate concentrations to values reported in patients with salicylate-induced pulmonary edema, produce pulmonary vasoconstriction in a canine, isolated perfused left lower lung lobe (LLL) preparation.
(12) A novel stimulant of gastric acid secretion was extracted and purified from the non-antral gastric mucosa of the canine stomach and some of its biological properties were examined.
(13) When the MD rule was used, the magnitude of the DFT gave the best performance for both canine and human samples.
(14) Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples of canine amelanotic melanomas and normal canine tissues were studied immunohistochemically for the presence of S100 protein.
(15) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
(16) Blood flow changes in the dental pulp of lower canine teeth of mature cats and incisors of mature rats were investigated with simultaneous laser Doppler flowmetry and local 125I-clearance (wash-out) during electrical sympathetic stimulation, efferent stimulation of n. alveolaris inferior (IAN) (cats) and i.a.
(17) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
(18) A technique of diversion of the gastroduodenal vein in a canine model is described to compare long-term metabolic effects of systemic versus portal pancreatic endocrine drainage.
(19) Large doses of dsFab are efficacious in the treatment of dysrhythmias in this canine model of N oleander cardiac glycoside poisoning.
(20) These cases suggest that the role of R. sanguineus in the transmission of the etiologic agent of canine ehrlichiosis and other pathogenic organisms to humans may be underestimated and warrants investigation.
Crossword
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He would do the Telegraph crossword and, to be fair, would make intelligent conversation but he was a bit racist.
(2) Fittingly, I won this in a crossword competition in 2003.
(3) The solution would appear (sometimes the novel felt like a vast crossword puzzle) through a combination of experiment, meditation and lateral thought: I had to step firmly away from the French and face a contrary direction – another track entirely.
(4) For my 80th birthday last year, my family commissioned a killer-grade personal crossword – my life in a crossword.
(5) I am told that actors and authors and scientists know that they have it made when their names are required as solutions in a Times crossword puzzle.
(6) "And then it's like doing a really difficult crossword.
(7) Blank e blank e blank e blank t. I do crosswords all the time, that's how I learned English.
(8) There's one clue left on the Times crossword and he can't get it.
(9) That a celebrity might command a quarter of a page photo is not particularly unusual – but this was page 46 and I'd already whizzed over the business pages and the TV listings and done the crossword.
(10) Learned, erudite, eloquent, witty and self-effacing about his sharp-minded crossword-setting skill – he was all of those and more.
(11) The Sunday crossword puzzle had the following cue for 4 down: "Places for day-care" (spelled, with the purist's uncertainty, with a hyphen).
(12) Illustration by David Gibson The Guardian has lost a terrific crossword setter but, with the passing of John Graham, Somersham has lost a gentleman who was truly a gentle man ( Araucaria, Obituaries , 27 November).
(13) He was very clever and also enormously competent; he could make things, fix things, solve problems, name trees and plants and insects and birds, grow vegetables, sing in tune, do cryptic crosswords, read maps, sail boats, tie knots, paint and draw, play chess.
(14) This crossword puzzle serves as a motivational tool for staff and is indicative of the broad knowledge base that transplant nurses must possess.
(15) Once, I took my parents to Cornwall for a break and was doing the Guardian crossword with my dad.
(16) At the Statesman, Wheen didn't just proof the crossword.
(17) Nicholas Edward Gough Swindon, Wiltshire • I will always remember the frisson of excitement, on turning to the crossword, to find the name of Araucaria as the compiler, and especially so if it were a themed or alphabetical challenge.
(18) She traces the wordplay back to her father, Adrian Bell, a farmer turned local newspaper columnist, and the first compiler of the Times cryptic crossword.
(19) To sports fans Qatar's name has become more than a crossword curiosity, most famous as host of the 2022 World Cup, to Londoners as the money behind the Shard skyscraper, and to cash-strapped governments as the home of a sovereign wealth fund with a voracious appetite for diverse global investments.
(20) Her listed interests include learning to play the saxophone, supporting Manchester United, and doing cryptic crosswords.