(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.
Searcher
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.
(n.) Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
(n.) An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.
(n.) An inspector of leather.
(n.) An instrument for examining the bore of a cannon, to detect cavities.
(n.) An implement for sampling butter; a butter trier.
(n.) An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) While in general agreement with previous searchers, the authors direct their attention at peculiar or unknown structures such as: a huge phagosome sometimes loaded with a paracristalline rod; an occasional set of parallel microtubules along the reservoir; eventual duplication of the blepharoplast and even of the flagellum.
(2) Searchers believe more will be found in the plane’s fuselage.
(3) For searchers without access to a medical library or for more experienced searchers, an information vendor such as BRS, MEDIS, or DIALOG may be more appropriate.
(4) Searcher requirements and capabilities in moving from a batch-mode linear operation to the iterative searching and retrieval provided by the random access mode of MEDLARS II are discussed.
(5) Research on other self-directed searchers, delineation of the hospital's needs, and development of criteria for the CEO led to the screening of candidates.
(6) Searchers are less than 10,000 sq km (3,860 sq miles) short of completing a 120,000 sq km (46,330 sq miles) arc of the southern Indian ocean west of Australia where the debris could still be floating.
(7) The respondents were divided into four subgroups: end-user searchers, users of intermediaries, end users who used intermediaries, and those who did not use computerized literature search systems.
(8) Searchers believe more bodies will be found in the plane’s fuselage.
(9) The searchers made an average of 5.7 search statement modifications of their original searc statements and it was concluded that they did indeed use the interactive capabilities of MEDLINE.
(10) They represented scholarship, complicated lyricism, musical eclecticism and internationalism (as in Phife’s Caribbean twang) rather than street-corner parochialism; what hip-hop scholar and professor of global studies at New York University Jason King calls “the rise of a European, classically influenced concept of the artist in hip-hop; the rapper as more than a showman but a philosopher, individualist, soul-searcher”.
(11) The technique requires asking questions (tactics) to obtain the information needed to reach a diagnosis so that the subject becomes an active searcher of information and the final answer is not the only element used to evaluate tactics.
(12) The Lone Ranger's own raid is heavily indebted to Leone's version (the same birds clattering from a bush, same arid landscape, with Ennio Morricone's music directly quoted), but it also uses Ford's long-distance look at the burning settlement and, out of nowhere, the exact same shot of the exact same dog they used in The Searchers ("Go back, Chris!").
(13) The bounded distances can then be used to set screens additional to those that are set to describe the distances that have been specified by the searcher.
(14) Searchers seeking information about tanks in Tiananmen Square or the Dalai Lama could not find them.
(15) Interviews were conducted after a random sample of searches, and search questions were given to more expert searchers to run for comparison with the original.
(16) A farmhouse family is besieged, a famous sequence from John Ford's The Searchers that was the basis for a conscious homage sequence in Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West.
(17) Evidence derived from several simple searchers of the literature suggests that one interested in identifying papers which discuss the methodologies of clinical trials will have reasonable success.
(18) A "reactive team" of searchers are on standby in case they receive any fresh information.
(19) Analysis of the precision and recall ratios of searches conducted by five end users at HYH-CUMC indicated that the best results were obtained by end users who had been taught to search by experienced librarian-searchers.
(20) In order to identify in a pair of proteins sequences of HC we have developed the program PUTATIVE SITES SEARCHER (PSS-1) (2), a name that alludes to the possibility that such a segment of HC could represent a putative contact "site".