What's the difference between fawning and yawning?

Fawning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fawn

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ex-players fawning over Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
  • (2) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
  • (3) The Fawn-Hooded strain of rats exhibits a hemorrhagic disorder, known as platelet storage pool deficiency.
  • (4) Fawns and adult deer greater than or equal to 5.5 yr had a significantly (P less than or equal to 0.05) higher intensity (means = 37 and means = 68, respectively) of infection than the 1.5- and 2.5-yr-old age groups (means = 19 and means = 26, respectively).
  • (5) When tested in cell electrophoresis platelets from fawn hooded bleeder rats showed a significantly lower electrophoretic mobility than normal rat platelets.
  • (6) This study indicates that the platelet aggregation defect described for the fawn-hooded rat strain is one that does not alter the time course of the morphologic features of hyperacute cardiac allograft rejection, and thus this platelet aggregation abnormality has no essential role in the pathogenesis of this type of tissue damage.
  • (7) Inoculation of the ovine RSV isolate into calves and deer fawns resulted in infection in both species, and at necropsy, pneumonic lesions were present.
  • (8) Following treatment with the antihypertensive, debrisoquin sulfate, the blood pressure of the fawn-hooded rats decreased until it approached the levels observed in normotensive Wistar rats.
  • (9) Reddish-tan and fawn-colored hyperpigmentation in tinea versicolor of this type is not due to melanin pigment.
  • (10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
  • (11) Fawn-hooded (FH) rats develop low-renin hypertension which is preceded by a decrease in urinary kallikrein.
  • (12) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
  • (13) The first steps of thrombus formation, in particular the adhesion and reversible aggregation, were significantly reduced in this model in fawn-hooded bleeder rats.
  • (14) The present article summarizes some comparative studies of the Fawn-Hooded (FH) rat, a potential animal model of ethanol preference, and the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat, a potential animal model of depression.
  • (15) However, 5 (28%) of the treated does and 3 (17%) of the control does failed to maintain pregnancy and fawn in 1987.
  • (16) But, says Grant, British “fawning” over Donald Trump alienates many Europeans, making them doubt we share their basic values.
  • (17) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
  • (18) The effect of various doses of the 5-HT agonist m-chlorophenylpiperazine (MCPP) on neuroendocrine function (prolactin and corticosterone responses) were compared in three different rat strains: Wistar, Sprague-Dawley (SD), and Fawn-Hooded (FH) rats.
  • (19) Infections were significantly more prevalent among fawn and yearling deer.
  • (20) Free speech is also increasingly curtailed in Chinese universities , publishing houses and the fawning, party-controlled news media ; foreign NGOs have been shown the door; and even mild critics of the regime have found themselves spirited into secret detention.

Yawning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yawn

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We believe BAE's earnings could stagnate until the middle of this decade," said Goldman, which was also worried that performance fees on a joint fighter programme in America had been withheld by the Pentagon, and the company still had a yawning pension deficit.
  • (2) Morphine (0.1 to 5 micrograms), but not U-69,593 (5 micrograms), injected into the PVN 10 minutes before oxytocin or apomorphine, was found to be able to prevent penile erection and yawning induced by the unilateral PVN microinjection of oxytocin (10 ng) or apomorphine (50 ng).
  • (3) Apomorphine (Apo), a short acting dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, stimulates growth hormone (GH) secretion, decreases prolactin secretion, induces yawning, penile erections and other physiological effects in man.
  • (4) The present results demonstrate that either the presurgical drug treatment (desmethylimipramine and pentobarbital) or 7 days isolation was alone sufficient to reduce the yawning response to physostigmine and abolish its potentiation by nifedipine.
  • (5) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.
  • (6) The yawning response was also assessed in normal young (less than 30 yrs; N = 16) and elderly (greater than 60 yrs; N = 12) volunteers.
  • (7) The present results suggest that calcium might be the second messenger which mediates the expression of penile erection and yawning induced by oxytocin.
  • (8) The occipital belly is also active during smiling and yawning, and can be active during the movements of the auricula.
  • (9) Very abruptly, he yawns, looks bored, and examines his sweatshirt.
  • (10) As well as being present in all mammals, yawning occurs, at least in its mandibular component, in all vertebrates.
  • (11) The difference between rats and monkeys in their yawning response to dopaminergic compounds is discussed.
  • (12) The pre-synaptical receptor's role had been suggested for a long time but actually yawning seems to be linked with a D1-D2 cooperation.
  • (13) In fact, the gender pay gap remains a yawning chasm.
  • (14) After pretreatment with mecamylamine, the apomorphine- and physostigmine-induced tongue protruding was inhibited and the duration of the yawning induced by the both drugs was shortened.
  • (15) Central administration of ACTH in rats induces yawning and stretching.
  • (16) The specific D-2 agonist LY 171555 elicited yawning, genital grooming, exploratory behavior, downward sniffing and licking but failed to induce gnawing even at high doses.
  • (17) The behavior categories included grooming, yawning, turning, nodding and gnawing, as well as snout contact and nonsnout contact variants of locomoting, rearing and sitting.
  • (18) As the dihydropyridine compounds affected apomorphine-induced yawning but not penile erection, and did not affect amphetamine-induced rotation or drug discrimination, it seems unlikely that they are affecting dopamine release in vivo.
  • (19) Since oxytocin is present not only in the neurohypophysis but also in other brain areas, our results suggest that oxytocin is implicated in the regulation of penile erection and yawning, and provide further evidence that oxytocin acts as a neuropeptide in the central nervous system.
  • (20) In the lesioned animals (in which the mean striatal dopamine depletion was 67%), the maximum yawning response rate was greatly attenuated with no evidence that the dose response curve was shifted in either direction.

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