(n.) A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.
(a.) Relating to cannibals or cannibalism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Studied were the clinical symptoms manifested by both the pigs exhibiting cannibalism and by those that suffered, following up a number of biochemical indices.
(2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(3) Mortality from cannibalism was absent among pullets kept in experimental floor pens.
(4) Comparative data from 6 organisations that raised 87 880 hamsters in the calendar year 1971 indicated that 97-5% of total preweaning mortality was due to cannibalism.
(5) Finally, the effect of social stress on symptoms such as cannibalism, gastric ulcers and avian hysteria is discussed.
(6) Cannibalism of carcasses is common in the black bear and may play a major role in the transmission of Trichinella.
(7) Causes of mortality were species-specific and included hatchling abnormalities, escapes, aggression, cannibalism, disease, senescence and laboratory accidents.
(8) After all, “how can you expect a little child whose mother is an angel and whose father is a Cannibal King and who has spent her life sailing the seas to tell the truth always?” Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking.
(9) Another, alluding to the infamous video in which a rebel fighter appears to take a bite from the heart of a dead soldier, showed Putin and Assad stirring a pot of blood, and Putin saying: "Let's say … FSA are cannibals."
(10) Cannibalism may be divided into vent pecking and cannibalism affecting other parts of the body, the former is independent of feather pecking and the latter, though usually preceded by feather pecking, is only indirectly associated with it.
(11) Larvae from "F2 recovered" ap beetles cannibalized fewer eggs than either original strain or the heterozygotes, further implicating the possible pleiotropic effect of the ap mutation on egg cannibalism.
(12) Scientists already knew cannibalism had been practised in the cavern, but were unclear if it was a ritual process or involved the deliberate killing of humans.
(13) Under forced cannibalism and predation fourth instar larvae could not successfully pupate but the duration was prolonged.
(14) For example, females often modify their litter size by cannibalism on days 1-7 postpartum, and the number of young eaten is a function of the total supply of metabolic energy as determined by both food supply and body fat content.
(15) Noradrenaline depletion of the olfactory bulbs induces cannibalism at parturition in primiparous mice, without producing anosmia or impairment of maternal behaviour.
(16) Anti-semitism is rampant in much of the 'hypocritical' Middle East, the editor wrote, with Jewish rabbis depicted on prime-time Syrian TV as cannibals.
(17) Tissue samples from partly devoured carcasses contained T. spiralis larvae, implicating cannibalism as a major vehicle for the spread of T. spiralis in the herd.
(18) In addition, these mice attacked, cannibalized, and buried carcasses.
(19) Perhaps the worst affected region was the southern province of Guangxi where there were reports of mass killings and even cannibalism.
(20) South Sudan civil war inquiry details torture and forced cannibalism Read more Malakal, which sits a few kilometres away on the banks of the White Nile, was once South Sudan ’s second city, home to more than 150,000 people, a cross-border trading hub and an international airport.
Eat
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(v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
(v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.
(v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
(v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
(v. i.) To make one's way slowly.
Example Sentences:
(1) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(2) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(3) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
(4) The authors presented 16 cases that displayed episodes of pathological over-eating, i.e.
(5) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(6) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(8) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(9) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
(10) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
(11) Rabbits eating Rabbit Chow excreted a very alkaline urine, but rats eating the same diet excreted much less alkali when expressed per kilogram of body weight.
(12) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
(13) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(14) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(15) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(16) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(17) He can't eat wheat – he has to have a special diet.
(18) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(19) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(20) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.