(1) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(2) When fed ducklings were starved, fatty acid synthase mRNA decayed with a half-life of about 3 h. Therefore, the half-life for fatty acid synthase mRNA appeared to be little affected by feeding or starvation.
(3) Duckling Pectoralis pH significantly (P less than .05) decreased from 6.25 to 5.66 from .25 to 24 h post-mortem, respectively, as compared with that of the chicken, which decreased from 6.41 to 5.62 for the same times.
(4) Duck hepatitis B virus particles, located within vesicles of rough endoplasmic reticulum in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes, were more abundant, and therefore more readily observed, in ducklings than in older ducks.
(5) Both quantity and composition of dietary protein for wild ducklings may vary in selenium-contaminated environments.
(6) Neonatal ducklings and chickens were tested for responsiveness to a pulsing pure tone that was as similar as possible to the mallard maternal alarm call.
(7) Two groups of 30 devocalized ducklings were either (a) stimulated with duckling sounds prenatally and tested to the alarm call at 12 hr posthatch (Expt.
(8) Twenty-four-hour-old mallard ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos) exhibit a high degree of behavioral freezing (i.e., vocal and locomotor inhibition) upon hearing the maternal alarm call, which the hen utters when potential predators are near the nest.
(9) Expression of the proteins was examined in the early phase of infection in ducklings sequentially sacrificed from 6 hr postinoculation to 10 days.
(10) Effects of Se as selenite appear to be less pronounced in ducklings than reported in laboratory rodents.
(11) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(12) On examining the blood and the organs, the virus was detected in a very low amount and for a very short time in blood and spleen of goslings and only in blood of ducklings.
(13) In the males ducklings of the three races this immunserum reveals numerous and partially exhausted cells.
(14) The preparation of primary cultures of control and DHBV-infected duck hepatocytes from embryos and young ducklings is described.
(15) The results are discussed in relation to a possible reduction in the number of males necessary in breeder populations in Muscovy ducks with a view to reducing the cost of producing ducklings.
(16) With 22% protein and 60 ppm Se in the diet, duckling survival and growth was reduced and histopathological lesions of the liver occurred.
(17) The age of ducklings did not influence the numbers of cells infected.
(18) In a third concurrent experiment all ducklings received 44% protein with 0, 15, or 60 ppm Se added.
(19) The disease was reproduced experimentally in ducklings.
(20) The labelling patterns were qualitatively but not quantitatively similar in salt glands of control, adapted and deadapted ducklings, and are discussed in the context of a model for plasma membrane biogenesis and turnover in which degradative events may play a major role.
Ducky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to, or confidence to, if it hadn’t been for Duckie.
(2) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(3) But somewhere between the non-coast guard approved rubber duckie floatation device and open manholes there is a happy middle ground.
(4) As if that wasn't enough to drain any possible pleasure out of the experience, the lifeguards, who could pass for navy Seal trainees, were so authoritarian that a five-year-old girl was ordered out of the toddler section because her rubber duckie ring was not a "coast guard approved floatation device".
(5) After almost closing its doors recently, one of the UK’s oldest gay venues has now been Grade II listed and is back up and running with a full technicolour range of attractions, including Duckie, a Saturday night cabaret show that has been running for more than 10 years.
(6) Duckie programmes the most innovative live artists.
(7) Best of all, it saw the mighty Duckie (Jon Cryer) miming along to Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness.
(8) I would not usually feel confident enough to try that sort of comedy character at other venues, but at Duckie difference is embraced.
(9) The preparations of brains from wabbler-lethal, ducky, and weaver mice showed normal activity.
(10) • hackneyshowroom.com Chosen by Scottee , asscociate artist at the Roundhouse and performance collective Duckie Royal Vauxhall Tavern Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Royal Vauxhall Tavern Unfortunately, queer spaces are disappearing in London, but one place that is still standing and remains the lynchpin of the scene is the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
(11) I was part of Duckie Homosexualist Summer School and I got to MC our showcase as a terrifying buffoon called the Matron – dressed head to toe in leather, a huge tumour bottom, a mop for a head and eight-inch high heels – shouting and swearing at the Duckie audience; an audience of drag kings, queens, students, regulars and people who had no idea what to expect.
(12) We rooted for Duckie in Pretty in Pink , hid behind the sofa during Jaws, were baffled by Blue Velvet, and learned about love wandering the streets of Vienna with Jesse and Céline in Before Sunrise .