(n.) A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
(n.) A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
(n.) A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
(n.) One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
(n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.
(n.) A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.
(n.) An iron with fangs fastening a log in a saw pit, or on the carriage of a sawmill.
(n.) A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
(v. t.) To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(2) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(3) In dogs, cibenzoline given i.v., had no effects on the slow response systems, probably because of sympathetic nervous system intervention since the class 4 effects of cibenzoline appeared after beta-adrenoceptor blockade.
(4) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(5) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(6) For similar inotropic responses, normo- and hyperkalaemic dogs had similar levels of (Na+, K+)-ATPase inhibition and microsomal-bound digoxin.
(7) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
(8) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
(9) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(10) One hundred and twelve dogs, including twenty C3-deficient dogs, were studied over a period of 6 years.
(11) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
(12) The effect of pO(2) was studied in a further nine dogs.
(13) The effects of tachycardia caused by ectopic right or left ventricular stimulation on ventricular recovery potentials were studied in 30 dogs.
(14) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(15) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(16) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
(17) Liver bloodflow remained unchanged in AS dogs, but hepatic alanine uptake nearly tripled (p less than 0.01) and hepatic glucose production increased by 60% (p less than 0.05).
(18) Affected dogs were from ten breeds and their average age was eight years.
(19) Though three of these presumable metabolites could slightly inhibit the binding of [3H]-KW-3049, they were not detected in rat and dog plasma at 0.5 h after oral administration of KW-3049.
(20) Temelastine produces these species-specific changes by enhancing thyroxine clearance from the circulation in the rat, but not in the dog or mouse.
Indefinable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of samples with indefinable statistics due to a zero denominator can be as high as 30% when the sample sizes are 500 for three, four and five category-state classifications.
(2) A chest X-ray film showed a left hydropneumothorax with an indefinable left diaphragm, that was confirmed by ultrasonography.
(3) There’s a special extra quality you need that is indefinable, and I know I don’t have it.
(4) Diabetes is more than one disease, it is indefinable, probably genetically multifactorial, and presents several facets with varying degrees of heredity and environment in their constitution.
(5) Gonad primordium of Ambystoma mexicanum when grafted at tail-bud stage on Triturus alpestris is indefinately tolerated.
(6) Moyes had suggested that there might be some intangible mental weakness behind his team’s poor start, even an indefinable “something” that goes beyond rational explanation: a bad vibe, a hex, a shadow.
(7) The remaining implantation sites contained either abnormal, very retarded embryos or indefinable embryo remnants.
(8) Kaposi's sarcoma was diagnosed in a 62 year old female at the last stage of an indefined malignant lymphoma.
(9) It is there in Javert's conversion towards the end of the novel: his sense of "some indefinable sense of justice according to God's rules that was the reverse of justice according to man".
(10) There is no doubt that over the last 2 decades medical imaging has changed the diagnostic process, but its influence on the outcome of disease other than infections is less certain and probably indefinable.
(11) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.
(12) These included, in order of their frequency, QTc prolongation (85%), T-wave abnormality (82%), PQ prolongation (19%), widening of QRS with or without bundle branch block pattern (19%), and supraventricular or indefinable tachycardia with wide QRS complexes (8%).
(13) But these are inevitably imperfect efforts to capture in visual form the unique charisma, the indefinable Clegginess of Clegg.
(14) The patients feel a typical, almost indefinable, particuliar crawling sensation reminiscent of the movement of worms.
(15) The majority of oligodendrocytes contain large indefinable heterogeneous electron-dense structures within their perikaryon or processes.
(16) Once Alex and Danielle thought they saw his white pant-leg duck into the bathroom; another time the couple heard an indefinable growling under the bed.
(17) This recording method is especially good for continuing education courses and for detailed storing of certain results, because the method may be reprodused indefinately.
(18) Wetmore and Singer add that some tumors are radioresistant for indefinable reasons.
(19) The problem of defining life is discussed, using as foundation Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, which holds that life is indefineable.
(20) We have to balance our fears of the indefinable, nebulous worlds of crime and terrorism, with the fact that, if we put Tasers in our public servants' hands, at some point they'll use them on us.