(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.
Sai
Definition:
(n.) See Capuchin, 3 (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) The results suggest that the sai-1 mutation affects reaction(s) either not associated with methionine biosynthesis, or methionine synthesis and at least one other critical cellular function.
(2) Therefore, the protective action of Sai A against peroxidative damage to isolated rat hepatocytes and their plasma membranes was evaluated further.
(3) This article describes the transformation of reported alcohol consumption into a quantitative variable, Standardized Alcohol Intake (SAI), which is used to investigate various sociodemographic and psychosocial factors as correlates of alcohol use in a total community sample (N = 1672), in Tecumseh, Michigan.
(4) He sais: This is the key proposal and it eschews the learning from all other governance models outside those of the Plc.
(5) We conclude that hair and SAI afferents contribute to different components of sympathetically evoked activity in WDR neurons and that both types of afferents are likely to be involved in sympathetically maintained pain in humans.
(6) Reductions were sustained at both follow-up assessments and were complemented by significant reductions on standardized self-reported measures of anxiety (Spielberger State Anxiety Inventory, SAI), depression (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI), and psychiatric symptoms (Brief Symptom Inventory, BSI) as well as by clinical ratings of depression (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HDRS).
(7) These predictors included orthopaedic evaluations of severity and prognosis, the number of nonorganic physical signs, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) scales 1 and 3, age, education, proficiency in English, and the accuracy of patients' understanding of the bases for their medical condition as determined by the Schema Assessment Instrument (SAI).
(8) Adhesion of Sarcoma I cells (SaI) to untreated or to serum-treated glass was examined by layering (51)Cr-labeled cells on the substrate for 20 min at 34 degrees C and determining the glass-bound radioactivity after the monolayers were rinsed.
(9) However, in view of the SAI capacity for responding to vibration with temporally precise, patterned activity, it appears that their reported failure to contribute to vibrotactile sensibility must be attributed to limitations imposed in the central processing of SAI signals.
(10) Eighteen SAI fibres from femoral cutaneous nerve branches were examined; each was associated with one to three touch domes.
(11) In contrast to this is the cross-reactivity of effector cells in this system, whereby animals rendered immune to either the S1509a or SAI sarcoma are equally capable of rejecting a challenge of the opposite tumor.
(12) With seven of the nine rapidly adapting (type RA or FAI) cutaneous afferents (88%) microstimulation evoked sensations of 'flutter-vibration', and with two of eight slowly adapting (type SAI) afferents (25%) it evoked sensations of 'sustained pressure'.
(13) Deposits of PHA-L in the stratum griseum superficiale (SGS) resulted in labelled terminal swellings in the stratum opticum and all of the deep laminae (the stratum griseum intermediate [SGI], stratum albumin intermedium [SAI], stratum griseum profundum [SGP], and stratum albumin profundum [SAP]).
(14) Algorithms were developed to determine a new index of corneal symmetry, the Surface Asymmetry Index (SAI).
(15) Three types of mechanoreceptive afferents (RA, SAI, SAII) and many deep units of unknown origin were found.
(16) To evaluate the role of systemic autonomic tone in the hemodynamic response to beta-inhibitors, the hemodynamic effects of long-term timolol therapy were studied in hypertensive patients under two sets of conditions: at rest and after pharmacologic systemic autonomic inhibition (SAI).
(17) The majority of labelled cells in the contralateral SC were located within the stratum album intermediale (SAI), between the fasciles oriented caudorostrally in that layer.
(18) Thus, dynamic tests (CRH or insulin tests) are indicated if SAI is suspected.
(19) Three afferent categories were studied in the diabetic subjects (rapidly adapting type RA and slowly adapting SAI and SAII) in response to mechanical skin stimulation and abnormal responsiveness was encountered in all categories.
(20) Restriction enzymes BamH1, PstI, and SaI did not cleave phage A25 DNA.