(n.) One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
(a.) Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutthroat trout had higher relative enzyme activities than rainbow trout from deposition of eye pigment to hatching.
(2) Using a densimeter technique, a kinetic analysis was made, employing both entrance and exit studies, of the permeability of erythrocytes of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis), rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri), German brown trout (Salmo trutta) and cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) to glycerol, ethylene glycol, thiourea and urea.
(3) And it wasn’t so long ago that I tied Midnight In Paris to a chair and went all Mr Blonde on it with my cutthroat razor.
(4) Electrophoretic variation observed in muscle A group lactate dehydrogenase in Snake Valley cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki subsp.)
(5) His other screen appearances have been as varied as Robin Hood, Horne and Corden, Skins and Hollywood movie Cutthroat Island.
(6) These taxa show considerable genetic divergence at 42 structural loci encoding enzymes; the mean Nei's D between the rainbow trout and the two species of cutthroat trout is 0.22.
(7) Pathologic conditions associated with exposure to endrin were found in the gill, liver, pancreas, brain and gonad of cutthroat trout.
(8) Of 10 cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki) examined, there were metacercariae present in six.
(9) We examined the developmental rate of hybrids between rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri) and two subspecies of cutthroat trout: westslope cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki lewisi) and Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki bouvieri).
(10) More than one million lake trout, an invasive introduced species, have been removed from Yellowstone Lake, with the park stating there are now signs that cutthroat trout are beginning to reappear.
(11) Comet, the UK's second largest electrical specialist after Dixons, has struggled to make headway as supermarkets and online retailers such as Amazon targeted the cutthroat market.
(12) The 70-day interpolated LE50 values (exposure concentrations of glochidia that killed 50% of the fish) for kokanee salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi), cutthroat trout (Salmo clarki), Atlantic salmon (S. salar), steelhead trout (S. gairdneri) and coho salmon (O. kisutch) were 17,500, 29,000, 35,000, 57,000, and 105,000, respectively.
(13) There is an immediate bite and we haul in a small, beautiful cutthroat trout, bearing the telltale red streak under its chin.
(14) The traditional two week "flop and drop" Mediterranean holiday has been hit by cutthroat competition which has slashed margins.
(15) Little voice Nick Clegg likes to cast himself as the nice man who's also a hardman, but his conference analysis of where the other parties were failing was less cutthroat than sore throat.
(16) This paper describes an homologous radioimmunoassay for coho salmon vitellogenin that demonstrates parallel cross-reactivity for plasma vitellogenin of all Pacific salmonids tested (chinook, chum, coho, pink, and sockeye salmon, and cutthroat and rainbow trout), but not for Atlantic salmon or two nonsalmonids: common carp and sablefish.
(17) The newcomer to the capital's cutthroat machinations, who launched his party a year ago, beat the former chief minster of the city, a veteran of the ruling Congress party who had dismissed his challenge as "not even on our radar".
(18) The taxonomic status of the Snake Valley cutthroat trout was reviewed.
(19) There has also been progress on protect native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A cutthroat trout caught in Upper Redfish Hours later I’m woken by the cold tent skin touching my face.
Slit
Definition:
() 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
(imp. & p. p.) of Slit
(n.) To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps.
(n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose.
(n.) To cut; to sever; to divide.
(n.) A long cut; a narrow opening; as, a slit in the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(2) In normal kidneys fixed by perfusion with tannic acid and glutaraldehyde, glomerular slit diaphragms have been reported to consist of highly ordered and isoporous substructures with a zipper-like configuration.
(3) Neutral dextran clearances for radii greater than 30 A were elevated during the PEAK period, and, concurrently, there was extensive intraglomerular microthrombosis, obliteration of foot processes, and disruption of filtration slit diaphragms.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) This flap is formed by a triangle-shaped excision combined with cranial and caudal slitting of the periosteum.
(7) Negative slit smears for AFB from the nodules repeatedly and the histology of one on the skin nodules clinched the diagnosis of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis.
(8) Incisional slit grafting utilizes larger numbers of smaller grafts than does traditional punch grafting.
(9) After amputation of the closed tip, a cap from a syringe was inserted via a slit made at the base into one prong of a pair of nasal cannulae.
(10) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(11) Light scatter from epithelial cells in a slit-scan flow system is modeled using the Fraunhofer condition of scalar diffraction theory.
(12) Depending on the slit width of the illumination source, a typical endothelial photomicrograph contains three or four distinct zones.
(13) By using a slit plate, scanographic arterial studies can be performed with a tomographic attachment of an X-ray unit that is normally used for routine radiographic examinations.
(14) The present study, however, qualitatively evaluates the unsharpness of redundant shadows of the mandibular ramus, especially with reference to the effects of first-slit width.
(15) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(16) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(17) For the purpose of covering the demerits of the conventional sliding tube, a new slit sliding tube which is made up of three parts was devised by us.
(18) The optimal slit width in the ordinary roentgenokymographic device was found to equal 0.5+0.03 mm, and in the protected roentgenokymographic device the investigation of adults and children indicated 0.15+0.02 and 0.22+0.02 mm, respectively.
(19) Sequential photomicrographs of RBCs passing through interendothelial slits (IES) in walls of venous sinuses in rat spleen were obtained by video recording in vivo microscopic views.
(20) At both stages and with both dextran fractions the following results were obtained: (a) dextran was retained for up to 3 h (the longest interval studied) in the plasma at high concentration; (b) there was a sharp drop in the concentration of tracer between the inner, looser portions of the basement membrane (lamina rara interna) and its outer denser portions (lamina densa), (c) accumulation of dextran was seen in the mesangial areas with time; and (d) no accumulation of dextran was seen in the slits at any time.