(n.) An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a native of Africa, but has been domesticated in Europe. Ferrets are used to drive rabbits and rats out of their holes.
(n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret.
(n.) A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.
(n.) The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contralateral projection in all divisions of the CN of both albino and 'red eyed' ferrets was normal.
(2) Ferret preparations showed low levels of spontaneous activity, which was reduced by acidosis and enhanced by alkalosis.
(3) Class V cavities were prepared on the labial surfaces of the canine teeth of 18 male ferrets.
(4) In this study, Golgi-stained tissue was examined in order 1) to determine whether sex differences exist in dendritic dimensions of neurons from this region, and 2) to assess the effects of adult androgen treatment on dendritic morphology in ferrets of both sexes.
(5) Also, yohimbine treatment significantly reduced duration of recumbency in 10 of 11 ferrets (p = 0.0001).
(6) A survey was made of the density of the cholinergic innervation of different parts of the brainstem of the rat and ferret.
(7) Dense B-50-like immunoreactivity was localized in nerves throughout the wall of the rat, ferret and human small intestine, notably in the myenteric and submucous plexuses, where in the ferret ileum it co-localized with vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive fibre groups.
(8) Our results suggest that the vascular response of isolated ferret lungs to severe hypoxia consisted of separate early and late phases of vasoconstriction.
(9) Hormone levels were measured in frequent blood samples taken via an indwelling jugular cannula from sexually mature and castrated ferrets.
(10) The effects of gossypol acetic acid on isometric and isotonic contractions of isolated ferret heart ventricular muscle was recorded on a myograph.
(11) The ferret callosal cell distribution has a greater tangential extent in area 18 than in area 17.
(12) PACAP-like immunoreactivity was observed in nerve fibers in the gut wall of all species examined (chicken, mouse, rat, hamster, guinea-pig, ferret, cat, pig, sheep and man).
(13) In both groups of ferrets the oestradiol binding capacity of the uterus was approximately 10 times greater than that of the other tissues studied; of these other tissues the highest oestradiol binding capacity was present in the pituitary, followed by hypothalamus, midbrain, amygdala and cerebral cortex.
(14) Amrinone was found to increase phasic tension of ferret papillary muscles only for depolarizations lasting less than 250 to 300 msec.
(15) Unlike the cat, there is no difference in retinal decussation patterns in wild-type sable ferrets and heterozygous ferrets carrying one albino gene.
(16) We have compared the effects of three vasoactive agents, endothelin, platelet activating factor and thromboxane A2 analogue, U 46,619, in the pulmonary circulation of ferrets.
(17) The distribution of acetylcholinesterase and choline acetyltransferase in primary visual areas of adult pigmented ferret was determined with cholinesterase histochemistry and choline acetyltransferase immunohistochemistry.
(18) The neonatal ferret appears to be a useful model for assessing integrated epithelial structure-function relationships that are important not only during early development but also during repair after airway injury involving deciliation.
(19) The decussation patterns of retinal ganglion cells in adult pigmented and albino ferrets were determined from the distribution of cells labelled after large unilateral injections of horseradish peroxidase into the visual pathway, involving the lateral geniculate nucleus and fibres of passage to the superior colliculus.
(20) In the present study, the SV was examined light microscopically in sectioned material or whole-mounts from pigmented and albino animals of 5 species, including the cat, guinea pig, rabbit, ferret and mouse.
Ribbon
Definition:
(n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.
(n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.
(n.) Same as Rib-band.
(n.) Driving reins.
(n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
(n.) A silver.
(v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.
Example Sentences:
(1) The "hexagonal ribbon" model proposes that hexagonal profiles are true cross-sections of elongated hexagonal ribbons.
(2) Consequently, the insular ribbon effectively becomes a watershed arterial zone.
(3) The possible arrangements of molecules within the twisted ribbons have been deduced and are found to be fairly closely related.
(4) Description and differentiation of the ribbon shaped vascular muscle cells from cardiac muscle cells, and the potential for confusion of the two in older animals, was addressed.
(5) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
(6) Differentiated ribbon synapses are found after 8 days in vitro, the time at which they normally appear in situ.
(7) At low pH, it is theorized that the trapezoidal profile of the dimer is shifted to a more rectangular configuration such that flat ribbons are formed by the lateral association of dimers.
(8) When negatively stained with uranyl acetate, LPSI was ribbon-like but LPSII exhibited hexagonal lattice structures.
(9) synaptic ribbon (SR) and synaptic spherule (SS) numbers, was explored in 6 different stocks and strains of laboratory rats, viz.
(10) In the astrocytes, the residual bodies were extremely polymorphous and contained inclusions with bilamellar ribbon-like structures.
(11) These labeled amacrine cells received conventional synaptic contacts from other unlabeled amacrine cells and ribbon synaptic contacts from unlabeled bipolar cells, in both the proximal and distal inner plexiform layer.
(12) Regular patterns of actomyosin interactions arise when ribbons are aligned with myosin thick filaments, because the repeat distance of the myosin lattice (429 A) is an integral multiple of the subunit repeat in the ribbon (35.7 A).
(13) All underwent implantation of a ribbon electrode through a small laminotomy, under general anesthesia.
(14) We have reported that meso-hexestrol, a synthetic estrogen, inhibits microtubule assembly and induces microtubule proteins into twisted ribbon structures.
(15) The first is characterized by afferent synapses to the brain with, in the sensory pedicle endings, structures similar to the presynaptic ribbons noted by some authors in photoreceptors of arthropods.
(16) Presynaptic ribbons could be observed in cone cells on E.E.
(17) The other part was processed for electron microscopy to quantify synaptic ribbons (SR).
(18) A possibility of reorganization of the tubular structures into the ribbon-like ones and vice versa is shown.
(19) Some tied yellow ribbons and bows to the Eccles Cross while others stood quietly, reflecting on what had happened to someone who, according to the local paper, was an "extraordinary man who we can be proud to call one of our own".
(20) At the apposition of the ribbon to the hair cell membrane, presynaptic densities are formed and the ribbon appears to become anchored.