(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.
Miniature
Definition:
(v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
(v.) Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
(v.) Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
(v.) A particular feature or trait.
(a.) Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.
(v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(2) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
(3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(4) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(5) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
(6) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
(7) In addition, some have become extremely miniaturized.
(8) Extracellular recordings of miniature end-plate potentials in frog muscle showed that stimulation in the presence of MECh caused the time constant of the exponential decay of the m.e.p.p.s.
(9) The male adult Shiba goat, a miniature Japanese native goat, was used.
(10) And Doordash, which uses Starship Technologies miniature self-driving vehicles, is replacing restaurant delivery people.
(11) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
(12) An increase in the activity of ornithine decarboxylase was observed in mixed lymphocyte cultures from genetically defined, major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-nonidentical miniature swine as early as 18 hr after plating.
(13) The odds that uroliths submitted for analysis were composed of calcium oxalate was 2 times greater for Miniature Schnauzers than for dogs of other breeds (95% confidence interval = 1.6 to 2.4).
(14) Undistorted ventricular pressure wave form was obtained from a miniature transducer implanted in the left ventricular cavity.
(15) An ex vivo gastric chamber model based on miniature swine was used.
(16) Although some of the features of the TTE-RAS data base were not satisfactory, we consider this new miniaturized system to be a very valuable tool for the rapid identification of the most frequently isolated opportunistic bacteria.
(17) The retina was maintained in a nearly physiological state in a miniature "heart-lung" apparatus.
(18) A prototype system, termed an acoustic plethysmograph, was built and used to measure the volume of newborn miniature pigs.
(19) The intrinsic retinal vasculature of the miniature pig also has numerous characteristics in common with the human retina with regard to the extent of the vascular bed, the size of the blood vessels and the presence of radial peridiscal capillaries.
(20) The authors compared a group of 10 children operated by using this miniature apparatus with a control group of 20 children where the standard set up was used.