(n.) A loding room; esp., a sleeping place partitioned off from a large dormitory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight adult male rats were chronically cannulated in the jugular vein and placed individually in a sound-attenuated cubicle.
(2) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
(3) The third one concern post-operation days: cubicle initial fumigation, high efficiency filtration and positive pressure air, strict protective insulation, single-use things, controlled food, specific anti viral prevention, catheters and tubes removal or replacement.
(4) Other variables may be associated with host resistance: an increasing percentage of cows leaking milk increased the rate of mastitis; postmilking teat disinfection was associated with a higher incidence of clinical mastitis; and a high frequency of cubicle disinfection was also associated with more mastitis.
(5) The second was in high school, when I was sitting in what I thought was a private toilet stall and looked up to find half a dozen of my so-called friends leaning over from the next cubicle, laughing.
(6) This has become a serious problem, particularly when the animals are housed in cubicles.
(7) One was a sign on my primary school toilet cubicle door: "Now wash your hands."
(8) In 3 successive years (1971, 1972, and 1973) semen productivity and quality were measured for medium size Broad Breasted White turkey males kept under 3 different systems of management (cages, cubicles and floor).
(9) Spot checks are regularly made by police officers in public toilet cubicles – there is no point having a law if it’s not enforced.
(10) The irradiation source used was that of conventional longwave UV fluorescent tubes mounted in a specially constructed cubicle.
(11) Erhardt, from south-west Germany, was found dead in a shower cubicle at his temporary accommodation in east London.
(12) I’m proud of the fact that in one cubicle on our ward is the baby daughter of wealthy British-Singaporean city workers and in the next door cubicle is the son of Eritrean refugees who speak poor English.
(13) Steenkamp slumped into a "seated or semi-seated position" on top of the magazine rack in the cubicle, where she was hit another two times, he said.
(14) Three of the children demonstrated little generalization to home when trained in a cubicle.
(15) Most cattle seemed to rid themselves of infection during the following months whether or not they were at pasture, housed in cubicles or in byres.
(16) It was a tiny cubicle, less than 1.5 by 1.5 metres, to have fired into."
(17) Perhaps set smaller goals to begin with, for instance "Don't drink the dregs of strangers' drinks" or "No drinking on your own in the morning in a toilet cubicle at work", and see where you go from there.
(18) "Sure, there's no time limit," a red-haired freckled-faced teenager had told us as she showed Rex and me to our bedsit-sized cubicle.
(19) Examples are given related to tying-stalls and to cubicle-housing.
(20) Tents and office-style cubicles will be used for the privacy of families.
Cuticle
Definition:
(n.) The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
(n.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
(n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(2) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(3) The second gene lies within an intron of the purine gene and encodes a cuticle protein.
(4) In vitro the epidermis synthesized and secreted both forms into both the cuticle and the medium.
(5) The morphology of the adult female cuticle is discussed.
(6) In all these cuticles the tubular filaments arise from the plasma membrane of the epidermal cells and they contain argentaffin material, regarded as sclerotin precursors, and lipid-staining material, regarded as wax precursors.
(7) Between the cuticle and dermal collagen there are granular deposits which might be immune complexes involving the collagenous component of cuticle.
(8) Eisenia epidermis does not recordably synthesize the cuticle until after wounding (first eight segments removed).
(9) Cuticle morphology identifies two types of sensilla trichodea, two types of sensilla basiconica and one type of sensillum coeloconicum.
(10) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(11) A homozygous mutant escaper had weak, completely unpigmented cuticle and unpigmented bristles.
(12) On dark-adaptation of the 11-day adult eye, the rhabdomers move towards the cuticle.
(13) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
(14) Thus, during larval growth the cuticle remains flexible and extensible.
(15) C3 conversion products were detected on larval cuticles by eosinophil adherence and by immunofluorescence with C3c antiserum.
(16) Both genes encode 5.5-kilobase mRNAs, similar in size to the mammalian and Drosophila type IV collagen gene transcripts but much larger than the cuticle collagen transcripts of C. elegans.
(17) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(18) The antibodies, which were produced in the course of T. spiralis infection in rats, specifically bound to the inner layers of the body cuticle and the cuticle of the hindgut, but not to the cuticle of the esophagus.
(19) Autonomous expression of Met was found both in abdominal cuticle as well as in external male genitalia.
(20) However, late larval worms that expressed the adult cuticle did not express blisters either.