(n.) A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sample examined consisted of 417 specimens that were classified by stage (elver, young yellow eel, yellow eel and silver eel) and season of sampling.
(2) The structure of european eels' elvers population, drawn in its natural environment, shows a polymodal frequency distribution of individual weights.
(3) The ability of eels (Anguilla anguilla) to further desaturate and chain elongate linoleic acid, 18:2n-6, was studied by feeding diets containing either corn oil or a fish oil to groups of elvers for 12 wk and analyzing proportions of fatty acids in tissue lipids.
(4) At elver stage VI A1 the myosin isoforms pattern was characterized by at least two isoforms, FM3 and FM2.
(5) The morphology and ultrastructure of the lateral body integument of the leptocephalus, glass eel, pigmented elver, and adult stages of the American eel, Anguilla rostrata, were examined with light and electron microscopy.
(6) Proud to be a "provincial" writer, in his novel Kept (2006) Taylor begins with a bravura passage describing his home county: "A land of winding backroads and creaking carts and windmills, a land of flood, and eels and elvers and all that comes from water, a land of silence and subterfuge, of things not said but only whispered, where much is kept secret which would be better laid open to scrutiny."
(7) It is a myth,” said Hilal Elver, the UN’s special rapporteur on the right to food.
(8) A significant increase was also found in the weight of slow-growing elvers receiving diets containing 40 or 60 ppm T3 and held in the high water turnover system.
(9) Club cells, whose function is unknown, are most numerous in the glass eel and pigmented elver.
(10) Effect of 3,3',5-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) on survival, growth and body composition (protein, fat and ash) of slow-growing (Anguilla rostrata L.) elvers was investigated.
(11) The proportion of arachidonic acid, 20:4n-6, present in polar lipids of elvers fed the diet containing corn oil increased from an initial value of 5% by weight to 12% by weight; the corresponding value for elvers given a diet containing fish oil, with little linoleic acid in it, was less than 4% by weight.
(12) Over the 12-wk period elvers given both dietary treatments increased in weight by fourfold.
(13) The coelom of elvers (Anguilla anguilla L.), eel0, is contenting glycoproteids, but these are not improvable in following stages of development.
(14) Eels swim back down these rivers to reach spawning grounds at sea and millions of elvers return in the spring.
(15) At least, rearing of the european eels' elvers is possible with a salt water (salinity : 32 p. 1000); this system permits suppress in totality fungi desease (saprolegnia).
(16) A virus belonging to Rhabdovirus anguilla was isolated from elvers imported from the FRG.
(17) This challenge has been exacerbated by a systematic denial, fuelled by the pesticide and agro-industry, of the magnitude of the damage inflicted by these chemicals, and aggressive, unethical marketing tactics.” Elver, who visited the Philippines, Paraguay, Morocco and Poland as part of producing the report, said: “The power of the corporations over governments and over the scientific community is extremely important.
(18) There were no significant differences between the total fat content of slow-growing elvers when compared to the total body fat of control elvers.
(19) They are not present in the pigmented elver and adult which inhabit estuaries and freshwater.
(20) In France, there are few researches carried out on the eel's elvers rearing.
Elves
Definition:
(pl. ) of Elf
Example Sentences:
(1) The ratio of ELV values for BSP and dBSP appeared to be related to overall hepatic function, with ratios greater than 1 in the normal dogs and less than 1 in the patients.
(2) In the present study, we have determined whether or not left adrenal products are important to the changes induced by ELV and whether or not reflux of left renal vein content occurs in the ELV rat.
(3) Additionally, when 85Sr-labelled microspheres were infused into the left renal vein, they did not appear in either left or right testes of ELV animals.
(4) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(5) Maximally (ED100) and half-maximally (ED50) stimulating doses of LH and LHRH were selected from these studies and administered to sham-operated and ELV rats 30 days after the operation to induce ELV.
(6) The amino acid sequences of the VPs of ELV and four other tymoviruses align unequivocally and their relationships, as assessed from the percentage of identical residues, correlate well with previously reported serological tests which have shown ELV to be distant from other tymoviruses.
(7) On the other hand the equivalent liver volume (ELV) and storage capacity were lower with dBSP.
(8) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
(9) The examinations consisted of clinical and laboratory assessment, resting ECG, 24-hour ECG monitoring, X-ray evaluation of cardiac volume (CV), and evaluation of echocardiographic left ventricular shortening (ELVS) and of isotopic ejection fraction (EF).
(10) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(11) We love our elves.” We’d said we’d quite like to try cross-country skiing so Björn simply pulls up by the side of the road, straps us into our skis and we set off.
(12) It is possible that the previously determined ELV-associated decrease in intratesticular testosterone concentrations is subsequent to a wash-out phenomenon that follows the increased testicular blood flow that also is known to be associated with ELV.
(13) These values were similar for right control testicles and left and right testicles of ELV animals.
(14) The nucleotide sequence of the genome of erysimum latent tymovirus (ELV) has been determined.
(15) ELV was transmissible by Aphis frangulae gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Myzus persicae neither in short nor in long feeding times.
(16) Although its pressure dependence has been recognized, its temporal relationship to ventricular elastance (Elv(t)) has not been established.
(17) Elv(t) was derived using an elastance-resistance model of the left ventricle assuming an ejection fraction of 0.50 and a dead volume (Vd) of 3.0 mL.
(18) In the first study, testicular blood flow and temperature were studied in control animals and those with ELV, left adrenalectomy (LAX), or ELV + LAX.
(19) The results demonstrate that ELV does not alter the blood-testis barrier (BTB) to 3H-inulin (MW 5000), it being largely excluded from entry into the tubule lumen in both control and ELV animals.
(20) Back in the 90s, a group of conservative lawyers called “the elves” secretly worked to keep the Paula Jones case alive.