(n.) One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and long body; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.
Example Sentences:
(1) Injection sites may be selected further cranially in German Shepherd Dogs (L4-5) than in Dachshunds (L5-6).
(2) She has had things to fall back on – North, the rest of her family, a newly acquired mini dachshund puppy, Lola, her beloved baking – but they have been sorely needed.
(3) Apart from the Singers and their two dachshunds, Maisie and Bess, no one else is allowed to live on Herm except those who work there or have direct family who do.
(4) Location of maximal spinal cord width was different between the breeds, consistent with the apparent, more caudal termination of the cord in the Dachshunds.
(5) Poodles (38.14%) and dachshunds (23.71%) were the mainly affected races.
(6) Pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii in two unrelated Miniature Dachshunds is reported.
(7) An extract of mixed dog hair and dandruff from six different dog breeds (alsatian, boxer, collie, poodle, and long-haired and short-haired dachshund) was obtained by mild extraction, centrifugation, dialysis and freeze-drying.
(8) Calcified discs were estimated to occur in 23.5% of Norwegian dachshunds.
(9) The occurrence of calcified discs in standard-sized dachshunds was higher in the wirehaired variety (27.1%) than in the smoothcoated (16.4%) or longhaired (9.1%) varieties.
(10) In 44 dachshunds of both sexes, reared and held under identical conditions in order to investigate the effects of the merle gene, ophthalmologic examinations were performed.
(11) A male miniature rough-haired dachshund, presented with episodic haematuria, was found to be a female pseudohermaphrodite.
(12) In a 13-year-old, male rough-haired Dachshund with a malignant melanoma, cytogenetic evaluation of tumour cells showed hyperdiploidy (79 to 81 chromosomes) in 50 per cent of the metaphases.
(13) However, within the longhaired variety the occurrence was higher in dwarfs and kaninchens (36.0%) than in standard-sized dachshunds (9.1%).
(14) Large numbers of eccentrocytes (erythrocytes with hemoglobin contracted to one side of the cell) were seen on a stained blood smear from a Dachshund with compensated hemolytic anemia.
(15) Animal insurance statistics from 1982 to 1990 (1983 excluded) for dogs less than 10 years old showed that claims for veterinary care or death or euthanasia were five times more common in the cavalier King Charles spaniel than in dachshunds (P < 0.001) and eight times more common than the mean for all other insured breeds (P < 0.001).
(16) The spinal cords in the Dachshunds terminated further caudally than those in the German Shepherd Dogs.
(17) Of the breeds Boxers showed a high incidence of incontinence (65%) while breeds such as German Shepherds (10.6%) or Dachshunds (11.1%) showed a low incidence in relation to the average incidence rate (20.1%).
(18) The German Shorthaired Pointer, Weimaraner, Golden Retriever, Boxer, and Cocker Spaniel breeds had significantly higher risk and Dachshunds and Beagles had significantly lower risk, as compared with all breeds combined.
(19) But I think it is up to you how much research you do on the couple or individual that you are going to leave her with.” Millbank, keenly aware of the specialist knowhow needed to care for a dachshund, is cautious in vetting would-be walkers.
(20) Heinz Tomato Ketchup: ‘Wiener Stampede’ (starts at 02:11) If the singing sheep didn’t do it for you, then see if a field of stampeding dachshunds dressed as hot dogs can cut the mustard, as it were.
Dwarf
Definition:
(n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
(v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Demonstration of low levels of Pit-1 expression in Ames dwarf (df) mice implies that both Pit-1 and df expression may be required for pituitary differentiation.
(2) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(3) Mortality was less in the N-XL as compared to DB, but NB hens showed 11.7% more mortality than dwarfs.
(4) Examination of pituitary structure indicated that dwarfs had very small pituitaries, with an immature pattern of somatotrope distribution, and giants had very large pituitaries, with some hypertrophy of somatotropes.
(5) The defect in thyroid function in the dwarf bird apparently was not at the level of synthesis but at the level of uptake of iodine.
(6) This unique physiological situation was created by crossing IGF-I Tg mice to GH-deficient, dwarf mice in whom somatotrophs were genetically ablated by the expression of a diphtheria toxin transgene in the somatotrophs.
(7) The above results suggest that hormone deficiency in Snell dwarf mice is a result of a defect in the hormone-producing cells in the gland.
(8) Mutant mice are dysmorphic, dwarfed, and have a shortened life span.
(9) Experiments for uptaking and distribution of the culm stabiliser "camposan" with the agens ethephon are very important to tell something about the dwarf behaviour of the treated plants of rye.
(10) The transplacental activity of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) was tested in rats, rabbits, Syrian golden hamsters, Dzungarian dwarf hamsters, guinea pigs, dogs, and rhesus monkeys.
(11) The primary structure of rice dwarf phytoreovirus (RDV) genome segment S3 was determined.
(12) West African Dwarf sheep were challenged with a low mouse brain-passaged Rift Valley fever virus (Ib-AR 55172) isolated from Nigeria.
(13) The osteochondrodysplasia rat, inherited by a single autosomal recessive lethal gene ocd, shows a typical dwarfing syndrome with systemic subcutaneous edema.
(14) A proportion of 73% CL and CLA in the overall ovarian changes after treatment with 750 IE PMSG (2 days before removal of the sponge) and 125 micrograms PGF2 alpha (at the time of the sponge removal) proved an acceptable method of treating African dwarf goats as regards the requirement of labour and material as well as the superovulation effect.
(15) But that would be dwarfed by the costs of actually leaving the EU.
(16) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(17) The presence of growth lines in the distal radius was evaluated prior to treatment in 23 psychosocial dwarfs and 25 patients with idiopathic hypopituitarism.
(18) Hymenolepis nana (von Siebold, 1852), the dwarf tapeworm causing hymenolepiasis, has been reported to be the common intestinal cestode of rodents and man throughout the world.
(19) Ectopic pituitary transplants produced the expected increase in plasma prolactin levels in male and female dwarf mice as compared to sham-operated dwarf or untreated normal mice.
(20) A marked increase in the number of lymphoid cells in dwarf mice was observed by treatment with thyroxin, even if treatment was started either at 7 days or 3 months of age.