(n.) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow.
(n.) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The toxicity of natural pyrethrins and five pyrethroids was determined with coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch), steelhead trout (Salmo gairdneri), fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), channel catfish (Icatlurus punctatus), bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus), and yellow perch (Perca flavescens).
(2) The viral susceptibility range of a poikilothermic cell line derived from the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) (FHM) to infection by a number of homoiothermic viruses representing most of the presently recognized viral groups and a member of the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma-trachoma group of agents was studied.
(3) However, there was a better correlation between the in vitro cytotoxicity data for the BF-2 cell culture and LC50 data for bluegill sunfish than between similar data for the FHM cell line and fathead minnows.
(4) Following administration by gavage [75Se]selenate and [75Se]selenite were absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) at 94 and 80% efficiency, respectively.
(5) Using behavioral parameters monitored in the fathead minnow during acute toxicity testing, FATS associated with acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors and narcotics could be reliably predicted.
(6) The ovarian histology of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) chronically exposed to three levels of environmental pH was examined for evidence of reproductive impairment.
(7) The suitability of the fathead minnow (FHM) epithelial cell line for use as the target (indicator) system in in vitro cytotoxicity assays was evaluated using several endpoints.
(8) Concurrent predation by rainbow trout on fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas), five-spined sticklebacks (Culaea inconstans), and nine-spined sticklebacks (Pungitius pungitius), concentrated the parasites.
(9) Reasons for the disparity between selenium-induced reproductive impairment observed in other species and apparent lack of impairment in fathead minnows may involve reduced bioaccumulation of selenium by minnows due to differences in gut morphology and physiology.
(10) This study evaluates the quantitative structure-activity relationships from measured log Kow's and log LC50's for Pimephales promelas (fathead minnow) and Carassius auratus (goldfish).
(11) Hepatic neoplasms developed in the Japanese medaka, guppy, sheepshead minnow, Gulf killifish, inland silverside, rivulus, and fathead minnow.
(12) Brief exposure chronic test results indicated that fathead minnow exposure to chlorpyrifos for as few as 5 hr at a concentration similar to a continuous exposure 96-hr LC50 value resulted in increased deformities and a reduction in growth, whereas a 48-hr exposure at a concentration similar to a continuous exposure 96-hr LC50 value was required to cause a reduction in growth for endrin and a reduction in survival and growth for fenvalerate.
(13) DNA fiber autoradiography was performed on cells of the fathead minnow cultured at 14 and 34 degrees C. Replicon growth rates were found to be about twice as fast at the higher temperature, but there was no appreciable difference in the number of replicons.
(14) This study investigated the relationships between the toxicities of common organic pollutants to the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas), to Daphnia magna, to Tetrahymena pyriformis and in the Microtox test, which uses the luminescent bacterium Photobacterium phosphoreum.
(15) Brain AChE from rats, mice, fathead minnows, or rainbow trout was preincubated with an IC90 concentration of either paraoxon or malaoxon.
(16) Viruses isolated from fish with viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS), infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN), spring viraemia of carp (SVC), swim-bladder inflammation (SBI) and pike fry disease (PFD) have been grown to high titre in fathead minnow cells.
(17) Using a conventional "resaturation" method whereby aquarium water was continuously passed through a column containing sand or fine glass beads coated with cyclic and linear permethylsiloxanes, their uptake levels by rainbow trout and fathead minnows have been compared.
(18) The model describes the combined effects of dose-level exposure and time-duration exposure using 570 96-hr toxicity tests with fathead minnows.
(19) Fathead minnow larvae (Pimephales promelas) were exposed to three individual pesticides during brief or continuous exposure in 96-hr and 28- to 30-day toxicity tests.
(20) were found in the atrium of the heart of fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) and five- and nine-spined sticklebacks (Culaea inconstans and Pungitius pungitius).
Imbecile
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.
(n.) One destitute of strength; esp., one of feeble mind.
(v. t.) To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(2) By this shape of holidays the partical sphere of the process of training and education, namely the qualification of those oligophren ones in spending an ingenious leisure, should be noticed and contributed to educating those imbecile boys and girls, who are participating their holidays in a camp for their "relative independence*.
(3) Fifty-six patients with cerebral atherosclerosis and epileptiform symptomatology presented an organic defect with signs of lacunar imbecility and atherosclerotic asthenia.
(4) Report on a 5 year old girl with the caracteristic features of the partial trisomy of the short arm of a chromosome no.4: short stature, microcephaly, hydrocephaly, enophthalmus, bulbous nose, deep set malformed ears, hypertrichosis, brachydactyly, hypoplastic ribs, abnormal EEG, imbecility.
(5) "This is imbecilic," said Jean-Yves Oussedik, a historian, puffing his pipe outside the literary cafe Les Deux Magots.
(6) Target London , a folio of 18 posters, bleakly satirised the Thatcher government’s Protect and Survive nuclear attack directives; the critic Richard Cork described the series as the “most hard-hitting attack on government imbecility”.
(7) And there I was, week after week, paid a pittance to jeer at the Smith regime's imbecilities.
(8) It's time to address the public as competent grown-ups and not as imbeciles.
(9) As a late sequelae, there was one patient with intrahepatic block and portal hypertension and one with encephalopathy and imbecility.
(10) Treatment under general anesthesia is inevitably indicated in imbeciles, the feeble-minded, spastics, epileptics, and sometimes in mongoloids.
(11) But before he was a candidate, he was just a visible idiot, and Jon Stewart’s version of him as a knuckle-dragging Queens County imbecile has given us tremendous joy over the years.
(12) The disease had not been diagnosed during life despite imbecility since early childhood and the presence of guiding peripheral symptoms in the form of Pringle's disease.
(13) Meanwhile, because we no longer understand anything unless it is filtered through the prism of the Premier League, various newspapers have already dubbed May's poll " the Wags election " – a classification that underscores the almost infinite creativity of the British media, which have apparently now given up so emphatically that they are content to shoehorn absolutely all human experience into one of four or five pop-cultural tropes, the easier for the voters it apparently regards as imbeciles to understand.
(14) In broadcast interviews, ministers carefully dodge the delivery of any information at all; they would rather sound imbecilic, as if they understood very little and knew even less, than run the risk of having said anything of import.
(15) The differential-diagnostic criteria show the difference of the episodic psychoses of imbeciles from schizophrenias (grafted schizophrenias).
(16) The experience gathered thus far shows that the method presented by the author in his present paper enables the capacity and development of imbecile and abnormality feeble children and juveniles to be diagnosed.
(17) When some highly debile, or imbecile and idiotic children and adolescents refuse to cooperate during the stomatological attendance, the pedopsychiatric consultation fails.
(18) Yet social media is the last remaining British arena in which social mobility flourishes, where imbecilic irrelevances are fast-tracked to positions of extraordinary power by whichever MP or university professor or serious campaigner has decided to give their bile a platform on the news.
(19) Statistically significant differences were established in the values of integrative mark estimations of patients with pronounced debility, of those with mild, medium and profound imbecility.
(20) Patients with pronounced tetrapareses and contractures in all the joints, grave hyperkinesias in all the four extremities, and imbecility were classed with disability group I: those with pronounced para-, hemi-, and tetrapareses, extensive hyperkinesias, combination of the motor disorders with debility were placed into disability group II.