(n.) An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger than the domestic cat. In the United States the name wild cat is commonly applied to the bay lynx (Lynx rufus) See Wild cat, and Tiger cat.
(n.) A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.
(n.) A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship.
(n.) A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.
(n.) An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to the number of batters, one old cat, two old cat, etc.
(n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below.
(v. t.) To bring to the cathead; as, to cat an anchor. See Anchor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(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) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(4) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
(5) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
(6) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(7) Two lectins, wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) and peanut agglutinin (PNA), were used to compare domains within the interphotoreceptor matrices (IPM) of the cat and monkey, two species where the morphological relationship between the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors is distinctly different.
(8) In Group B, at 1, 2, 4, 9 and 12 months post infection two cats were necropsied.
(9) Additionally, cats excreted the taurine conjugate of hydratropic acid.
(10) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(11) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(12) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
(13) A microdissection of the orbital nerves of the cat was made paying particular attention to the accessory ciliary ganglion.
(14) In cat, DARPP-32-immunoreactive cell bodies identified as Müller cells were demonstrated in the inner nuclear layer (INL) with processes closely surrounding the cell soma of photoreceptors in the outer nuclear layer.
(15) Moreover, 8 of 10 cats in the 10% HAES group showed extravasation of red cells.
(16) In the anesthetized cat, the posterior canal nerve (PCN) was stimulated by electric pulses and synaptic responses were recorded intracellularly in the three antagonistic pairs of extraocular motoneurons.
(17) Pharmacokinetics of 3H-dihydrodigoxin and 3H-digoxin after single intravenous and intraduodenal administration in cats are compared.
(18) This documents the inhibitory role which lithium can play in several examples of animal aggressive behavior including pain-elicited aggression, mouse killing in rats, isolation-induced aggression in mice, p-chlorophenylalanine-induced aggression in rats, and hypothalamically induced aggression in cats.
(19) When PCR products in each of the 12 cats were subjected to a second amplification using the same primer pair (two-step amplification: double PCR), FIV proviral DNA was detected in all of the cats.
(20) Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from 9 dogs and 4 cats, and staphylococcus epidermidis from 7 dogs and 5 cats.
Catfish
Definition:
(n.) A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microsomal UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UDPGTs) and cytosolic glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) were examined in bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus R.) and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus R.) liver.
(2) It appears that channel catfish B cell mIg capping, presumably a requisite for immune function, can be significantly affected by environmental temperatures; most likely such effects are attributable to changes in plasma membrane viscosities.
(3) In comparative assays, the CH50 titers of catfish sera were similar to the CH50 titers of human sera.
(4) The amino acid sequences of both forms of African catfish GnRH were determined using Edman degradation after digestion with pyroglutamyl aminopeptidase.
(5) We have observed in the catfish retina that cone horizontal cell perikarya and dendrites make conventional chemical synapses onto photoreceptor terminal telodendria and onto bipolar cell dendrites, while horizontal cell axon terminals make chemical synapses onto the perikarya and processes of amacrine cells.
(6) From these results we conclude that: adaptation in the catfish retina includes two components: a) a lateral shift of the voltage-intensity curve along the intensity axis, and b) changes in the time course of light-evoked response.
(7) In olfactory neurons isolated from the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, stimulation with olfactory stimuli (amino acids) elicits an influx of calcium that leads to a rapid increase in intracellular calcium.
(8) ), an inhibitor of GSH biosynthesis, did not deplete hepatic GSH in channel catfish.
(9) Our objective was to identify VG in the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus.
(10) The endocrine pancreas of the bullhead catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, and the channel catfish, I. punctatas was studied by light and electron microscopy.
(11) Anoxic incubation for varying periods of Isoparorchis hypselobagri from the swim bladder of the catfish Wallago attu, led to an accumulation of oxygen debt on the part of the parasite.
(12) This indicates that the neural representation of the external body surface of the channel catfish faces caudally in the FL.
(13) An estimate of the total mass of bone in the Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus Rafinesque, was obtained by dissection.
(14) Taste receptors for L-alanine and L-arginine in the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, are differentially reactive to N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) and p-chloromercuribenzenesulphonic acid (pCMBS).
(15) Blood cells from Baltic salmon, Salmo salar, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, eel pout, Zoarces viviparus, crucian carp, Carassius carassius, African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and reedfish, Calamoichthys calabaricus, were incubated with tritiated 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione (OHA) or 11-ketoandrostenedione (OA).
(16) Catfish GH and PRL were identified by Western blotting with antisera against chum salmon GH and PRL.
(17) The cellular requirements for channel catfish MLR responses were assessed by using three functionally distinct leucocyte subpopulations isolated from the PBL.
(18) The Indian catfish, Heteropneusted fossilis, was chemically thyroidectomized with thiourea.
(19) Neither the concentrations of these three brain tissue substrates, nor L-GDH activity were significantly different between fish at the two locations even though the observed UIA concentrations were equivalent to concentrations which have been observed to increase glutamine concentration in brain tissue of catfish during exposures under laboratory conditions.
(20) Results from oral dose studies indicated that SDM is readily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract in channel catfish and distributes rapidly to body tissues, primarily the muscle.