(a.) Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The data show that the structure of inner and outer enamel layers differ between these two carnivore species and that the enamel structure of the cat was most similar to that described in humans.
(3) This is more like an assemblage of bones buried during a single depositional episode, such as a flood, than an assemblage accumulated on a soil over a long period of time by carnivores or other means of death.
(4) We have not seen anything like this in a hundred years, back when the policy was that all large carnivores were to be eradicated.’ Photograph: Kevin Rushby Nina Jensen, chief executive of WWF in Norway, said: “This is mass slaughter.
(5) Examination of the original descriptions of the species of Sarcocystis in cattle, sheep, and swine, and of isosporid oocysts shed sporulated by dogs, cats, man, and other carnivores, has shown that it is not possible in most instances to identify unambiguously recently recognized taxa.
(6) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(7) It has been established experimentally that the Opisthorchis metacercaria in fish muscles were killed at -28 degrees S in 15-20 h., at -35 degrees C in 8 h. and at -40 degrees C in 2 h. The period of fish freezing becomes much longer when it is stored in snow-covered heaps, which may be the cause of Opisthorchis invasion of wild and domestic carnivorous animals.
(8) Remarkably, the ratio for adult rabbits is higher than in other monogastric herbivores and is instead similar to values for carnivores.
(9) It has been previously shown that in carnivores the NOT-DTN receives information from primary visual cortical areas in addition to the direct retinal input.
(10) ruminants, equids, carnivores and proboscidates) the thickness of elastic fibres of the nuchal ligament is a specific character, i.e.
(11) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(12) The breakages in carnivores' teeth were massively greater in the pre-human era .
(13) The ability of Trichinella spiralis larvae to survive at subfreezing temperatures encysted in the musculature of wild carnivorous mammals was assessed by evaluating motility and infectivity (to rodents) of trichinae at various intervals after storage in frozen skeletal muscle.
(14) A hitherto-unknown atavistic muscle in the dog initiated a review of the literature on the homologies and nomenclature of the forelimb flexors in carnivores and man.
(15) Mysłajek says only scientific arguments – the need to regenerate forests and control the ungulate population – can save Europe’s wild carnivores, especially the unpopular wolf.
(16) Poxviruses isolated from captive carnivores in Russia (Moscow virus) and elephants in Germany (elephant virus) were very closely-related to cowpox virus.
(17) The probable reservoirs of infection are wild carnivores, infection of man and dog being accidental.
(18) More ancient satellite DNAs were dispersed in carnivors or mammalian genomes.
(19) Between 20 and 22 June 1974, three captive carnivores (two genets, Genetta sp.
(20) Evidence was obtained that the pathogenesis of experimental PDV-infection in harbour seals shares some features with those of canine distemper in terrestrial carnivores.
Nutrient
Definition:
(a.) Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.
(n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
(2) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(3) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(4) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(5) Although it is known that the sphincter of Oddi exhibits a myoelectric response to intraluminal nutrients, the effect of specific dietary components has not been well characterized.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) Malnutrition results from deficiency in one or more of these basic nutrients.
(8) Therefore these suggested methods of choice may not in every instance be the most accurate of all indicators of nutritional status for a particular nutrient.
(9) The intake of most nutrients was significantly depressed by approximately 10% during febrile illnesses.
(10) Microbial fermentation and nutrient degradation in the rumen were reduced by saponins.
(11) If begun before the animal becomes nutrient depleted, enteral feeding may better support the animal and avoid serious complications.
(12) Differences in the nutrient data bases were primarily due to the timing of data base updates, as well as to the differential use of industry, private, and government food analysis sources, procedural differences in data base updating, and random data entry error.
(13) The elastic properties of preserved human aortic homografts after different storage times in antibiotic-nutrient medium solution have been measured.
(14) The inoculum level of infected spores in nutrient broth-yeast extract-glucose medium affected the transducing efficiency of SP-10 in lysates of these cultures.
(15) The results of these trials suggest that increasing level of dietary NaHCO3 greatly increases the proportion of time ruminal pH is above critical levels for ruminal protein and dry matter digestion, but does not affect total tract nutrient digestion when 50% concentrate diets are fed.
(16) The diets of the Inuit, as of all Indigenous People, are not comprised solely of the historically traditional foods; however these foods are still vitally important as a source of nutrients and cultural definition.
(17) Seventy-six students and staff at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology weighed their food for 1 week and the records were used to determine the frequency of consumption of foods and portion sizes, as well as nutrient intakes.
(18) A shortened nutrient data base can be a valid tool for estimating intakes of populations.
(19) Despite these diffuse nutrient abnormalities, only zinc and vitamin E concentrations correlated significantly with any index of visual function.
(20) Histologic examination of different levels of the nutrient arteries revealed many intraosseous pathologic vascular changes in apposition to the ischemic episode of the femoral head.