(n.) A Franciscan monk of the austere branch established in 1526 by Matteo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis.
(n.) A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.
(n.) A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.
(n.) Other species of Cabus, as C. fatuellus (the brown or horned capucine.), C. albifrons (the cararara), and C. apella.
(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon having a hoodlike tuft of feathers on the head and sides of the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1-Naphthylacetylglutamine was formed only by the cynomolgus, squirrel and capuchin monkeys and marmoset, and in no case accounted for more than 3% dose.
(2) Urinary excretion of tryptophan metabolites by capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) was similar to that of humans when expressed per g creatinine.
(3) To identify behaviors related to acquisition of tool-use in tufted capuchins (Cebus apella), we presented two tool-using tasks to two groups, extending findings by Westergaard and Fragaszy (1987) and Visalberghi (in press).
(4) The afferents of the fastigial nucleus (FN) were studied in two capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) one of which had received a unilateral injection of horseradish peroxidase in the caudal FN, and a second monkey which received a control injection that involved the lateral caudal FN but extended into the cerebellar white matter between the FN and posterior interposed nucleus (PIN).
(5) The effects of 7mM neomycin, 10 mM kanamycin and 5 mM gentamicin on vascular smooth muscle contractile responses and 45Ca movements were examined in arterial preparations isolated from nonhuman primates (squirrel monkeys, capuchin monkeys and baboons).
(6) Capuchin monkeys were resistant to reinfection with Schistosoma haematobium one year after exposure to 500 cercariae, but worms in these monkeys continued to produce normal numbers of eggs.
(7) In using tools, capuchins are similar to apes and more proficient than other monkey species.
(8) Antisera prepared against 16 prototype herpesviruses and cytomegaloviruses did not neutralize approximately 100 50% tissue culture infective doses of either capuchin isolate.
(9) Two of the four Capuchin monkeys studied showed a large increase in cue-producing responses during reversal learning and extinction, and they reversed much faster than the two whose cue-producing responses showed little increase.
(10) It was a major excretion product in the squirrel and capuchin monkeys, the marmoset and the cat.
(11) The antibodies crossreacted variously with erythrocyte band 3 of primates (chimpanzee, orangutan, Rhesus monkey, Japanese monkey, spider monkey, and capuchin monkey) in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
(12) Capuchins develop postural control, prehension and locomotion later than do squirrel monkeys, baboons or macaques, presenting a pattern of motor development intermediate between these relatively more precocial genera and apes.
(13) In macaques, capuchins, and chimpanzees was studied the function of abstraction during the recognition of complex visual images and the transition from 2-dimensional plane images to 3-dimensional volume objects.
(14) The capuchin-S. haematobium system closely resembles the human biharziasis system and offers a reproducible laboratory model system for the controlled study of the parasitology, pathogenesis, and biochemistry of biharzial bladder cancer.
(15) The involucrin coding region of each of two platyrrhine species, the white-fronted capuchin (Cebus albifrons) and the cottontop tamarin (Saguinus oedipus), has now been cloned and sequenced.
(16) The metabolic disposition and pharmacokinetics of the aldose reductase inhibitor tolrestat were studied in rats, dogs, and assamese and capuchin monkeys.
(17) Behavioral states and motor activity of an infant capuchin monkey reared by its mother in a social group were studied for 11 weeks after birth.
(18) Two herpes-like viruses were isolated from capuchin monkey (Cebus apella) brain and (Cebus albifrons) spleen cell cultures, respectively.
(19) The report covers an assessment conducted in February and March 1989 to determine the activities, effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages exhibited by the capuchin monkeys placed as aides in the residences of disabled persons.
(20) Part of the inspiration for the piece had come, he explained, when he was trying to visit the catacombs of the Capuchin monks in Palermo.
Primate
Definition:
(a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
(a.) One of the Primates.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
(2) The p30 proteins of murine viruses also contain a second discrete set of antigenic determinants related to those in infectious primate viruses and endogenous porcine viruses, but not detected in the feline leukemia virus group.
(3) These results demonstrate that the renal nerves play an important role in the nonhuman primate in mediating increases in renal excretion during hypervolemia.
(4) These are much older than all other Fayum, Oligocene primates and are believed to be Eocene in age.
(5) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
(6) Evaluation of the roles of prolactin and placental lactogen in pregnancy in primates has revealed mammotropic, fetal osmoregulatory, metabolic, and steroidogenic roles, which appear to protect the uterine contents during late pregnancy and prepare the fetus for the changes in nutrition at the time of delivery.
(7) SR 42128 is a potent and long-acting tool for studying the role of the renin angiotensin system in primates and humans.
(8) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
(9) Four human and two nonhuman primate cell lines were studied to determine their growth characteristics in soft agar, and for invasive characteristics in a muscle organ culture assay system.
(10) Historically, research into the regulation of gene expression in primate lentiviruses has focused on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the primary cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans.
(11) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
(12) It is believed that by looking at such subtle shape differences an understanding of what it means morphologically for a primate to be either more or less arboreal may be achieved.
(13) Our studies investigated whether social companionship, as a potentially positive psychological intervention, would increase lymphocyte proliferation and natural killer cell activity in the aged nonhuman primate.
(14) The results found with individual chromosomes in the different species also appear relevant, in the light of the evolutionary relationships between these nonhuman primates and man.
(15) In this experiment, 64 crown preparations were made in four primates.
(16) CSF and venous blood lactate, pH, PCO2, PO2, and bicarbonate were measured in five ketamine-anesthetized nonhuman primates, without mechanical ventilation, before and after they underwent infusions of sodium lactate.
(17) These two distinct classes of human pseudogenes provide a molecular record of the history of cytochrome c evolution in primates and demarcate a short period of rapid evolution of the functional gene.
(18) To study this phenomenon, a new model employing 54 primate tendons and stereomorphometric image analysis was used to quantitate adhesion volume after a standardized surface injury.
(19) The composition of the Trichostrongyloidea fauna of Chiroptera and its relationship with Trichostrongyloidea from other Mammals (Tupaiidae, Pholidotes, Primates, Sciuridés) are analysed.
(20) Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon.