What's the difference between eating and piscivorous?
Eating
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat
(n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
(n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
Example Sentences:
(1) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(2) Intensity thresholds for eliciting eating and drinking were different, and both thresholds decreased with repeated testing.
(3) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
(4) The authors presented 16 cases that displayed episodes of pathological over-eating, i.e.
(5) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(6) You can get a five-month-old to eat almost anything,” says Clare Llewellyn, lecturer in behavioural obesity research at University College London.
(7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(8) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(9) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
(10) In considering nutrition and circadian rhythms, time-of-eating behavior is an inherited, genetically controlled pattern that can be phase-shifted by conditioning or training.
(11) Rabbits eating Rabbit Chow excreted a very alkaline urine, but rats eating the same diet excreted much less alkali when expressed per kilogram of body weight.
(12) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.
(13) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(14) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
(15) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(16) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(17) He can't eat wheat – he has to have a special diet.
(18) Relying on traditional medicine, all 20 women reported eating brown seaweed soup for 20 days after childbirth, and 5 said that they took tonic herbs during the puerperium.
(19) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(20) Cues conditioned to food elicit eating by selectively activating appetitive systems.
Piscivorous
Definition:
(a.) Feeding or subsisting on fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen different species of piscivorous mammals and birds were tried as experimental definitive hosts for Heterophyes heterophyes, H. aequalis and H. dispar.
(2) Toxins isolated from the venom apparatus of Conus magus and Conus achatinus have the same pharmacological properties, but differ from the toxins of several other piscivorous species of cone shells.2.
(3) Fresh water fishes are generally macrosomatic and microptic, marine fishes (especially coral reef fishes) are microsmatic and macroptic while piscivorous pelagic fishes are macrosmatic and macroptic.
(4) It was found that acid phosphatase-rich lysosomal activity appears to be relatively better developed in the proventriculus of piscivorous form, H. smyrnensis than that of granivorous form.
(5) Field observations at one site on brown trout (Salmo trutta) and three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) concurrently infected with mature Neoechinorhynchus rutili, together with the knowledge that large trout can be piscivorous in habit led to the proposition that the post-cyclic transmission of N. rutili may occur between these fish species.
(6) The mu-conotoxins are present in the venom of the piscivorous marine snail, Conus geographus L. We have purified seven homologs of the mu-conotoxin set and determined their amino acid sequences, as follows, where Hyp = trans-4-hydroxyproline.
(7) Herbivore fish had the highest gluconeogenic enzyme content followed by carnivore and piscivore species.
(8) A novel peptide toxin, which causes a sleep-like state upon intracerebral injection in mice, has been purified to homogeneity from the venom of the piscivorous marine snail Conus geographus L. It elicits no obvious effects when injected i.p.
(9) The piscivorous fishes contain the highest acid and alkaline phosphatase activity followed by cat fishes and major carps.
(10) Three of the lectins, bushmaster (Lachesis muta), cottonmouth (Ancistrodon piscivorous leukostoma) and rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox) lectins, consistently stimulated secretion and aggregation.
(11) The birds chosen for study included the granivorous Ploceus philippinus, the frugivorous Megalaima haemacephala, and the mainly piscivorous Halcyon smyrnensis.
(12) These effects differ significantly from the blocking activities of piscivorous venom conotoxins.
(13) A piscivorous diet does not appear to demand any particular type of carbohydrate.
(14) The development of metacercariae to ovigerous adults capable of producing viable miracidia suggests that the CAM shares characteristics with the intestine of the definitive host, a piscivorous bird.
(15) Total mercury content in fish ranged from 0.02 to 2.72 ppm; highest concentrations occurred in piscivorous white bass (0.50-2.72 ppm) sampled from Lahontan Reservoir.
(16) The birds taken for study included frugivorous form, M. haemacephala and H. smyrnensis, which is primarily piscivorous.
(17) The conservation of Cys residues compared to the omega-conotoxins from piscivorous Conus venom suggests that toxins from different cone venoms may use only a few "Cys-motifs" as conserved structural backbones for targeting to a variety of receptors in different animals.
(18) The otter, another piscivorous animal, should show the same effects.
(19) Geographutoxin II (GTX II), a novel polypeptide toxin from the piscivorous marine snail Conus geographus, reduces sodium currents in rat myoballs without marked alteration of the time course or voltage dependence of activation of the remaining current.