(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
(n.) The hand.
(n.) A blade of whalebone.
(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
(n.) A feather; a spline.
(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
Example Sentences:
(1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(2) Since there is a body of literature indicating that preexposure to low levels of metals may increase tolerance during subsequent exposure, these experiments were designed to investigate the effects of preexposure to cadmium, using fin regeneration as the parameter of effect.
(3) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
(4) Electron microscopy discloses axons in the mesodermal mesenchyme and in the epidermis of the bud as early as stage I of the development of the pelvic fins.
(5) The fins are formed by a longitudinal tegument fold containing the same components as the remaining part of the tail tegument.
(6) The dorsal fin mesenchyme expresses vimentin at stage 26.
(7) In this situation one could fins concentrated not only the various stands of protolife necessary for the final act of biopoesis, but also perbiologically formed nutrients necessary as for the first eobionts.
(8) These data and independent scanning electron microscopy indicated that a resident population of predominantly Blastobacter bacteria was present as a biofilm on the supply-side cooling coil fins.
(9) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
(10) Behavioral arousal evoked by lightly touching the fish on the snout or over the eye resembled spontaneous arousal observed in the field and consisted of eye withdrawal, fin erection, and attempted swimming.
(11) This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
(12) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
(13) The fish of these groups completed translocation of the right eye to the left side and resorption of elongated dorsal fin rays.
(14) Glycosaminoglycans (GAG) are found primarily in the dorsal fin and in the ECM surrounding the notochord.
(15) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
(16) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
(17) In light of previous descriptions of Crassicauda infections in balaenopterids, this implied that C. boopis should at present be considered a renal parasite of fin whales, and perhaps other rorquals, throughout the world's oceans.
(18) The US-based group said it encountered an illegal shark finning operation run by a Costa Rican ship, the Varadero, and told the crew to stop and head to port to be prosecuted.
(19) We have used 14 restriction endonucleases to investigate the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of fin whales, 13 enzymes for sei whales, and 8 enzymes for the minke whale.
(20) The researchers estimated that global reported catches, unreported landings, discards and sharks caught and thrown back after their fins were cut off – a process known as finning – added up to 97 million fish caught in 2010.
Manoeuvre
Definition:
(n.) Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
(n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.
(n.) To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.
(n.) To manage with address or art; to scheme.
(v. t.) To change the positions of, as of troops of ships.
(n. & v.) See Maneuver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects completed questionnaires and performed lung function tests, including forced expiratory (FVC) manoeuvres.
(2) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
(3) The answer comes down to Chalabi's considerable skill in elite manoeuvring.
(4) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(5) The success rate for primary endoscopic management was 90.3%; 12 patients required ureterolithotomy for failed endoscopic manoeuvres and complications occurred in 5.5%.
(6) When maximal isometric trunk flexor or extensor torques were imposed upon a maximal Valsalva manoeuvre, transversus abdominis activity and intra-abdominal pressure remained comparable within and across conditions, whereas obliquus internus, obliquus externus and rectus abdominis activities either markedly increased (flexion) or decreased (extension).
(7) The chart is based on the pathophysiological changes that occur in perinatal asphyxia, directing the user to the appropriate manoeuvres required to correct those changes, depending on the degree of asphyxia which is determined by clinical signs and by use of the Apgar score.
(8) The study protocol included the measurement of QT during a Holter recording, an exercise test, Valsalva's manoeuvre and the isoprenalin test.
(9) The prosecution contended that while that manoeuvre was lawful, his repeated use of a baton against her legs showed the officer had lost his self-control.
(11) Naloxone had no detectable effect on supine blood pressure, heart rate, plasma norepinephrine, or epinephrine concentrations or muscle sympathetic nerve burst frequency at rest or during the strain phase of the Valsalva manoeuvre, but decreased slightly sympathetic burst incidence at rest (p less than 0.05).
(12) That will severely limit Obama's room for manoeuvre at the summit and is the first time the White House has made such an admission.
(13) Many of the current political manoeuvres are only possible because of the lack of transparency on these questions.
(14) Oscillatory resistance Rrs and reactance Xrs curves were measured in the frequency range 4-25 Hz at FRC-level and at the course of vital capacity manoeuvres.
(15) After this manoeuvre, both the introducer and the small knot could be withdrawn from the jugular vein without further incident.
(16) In view of the effect on the blood pressure and heart rate, subjects should avoid performing a Valsalva manoeuvre during sustained handgrip testing.
(17) The results provide no evidence for fusimotor sensitization of spindles in muscles remaining relaxed during the Jendrassik manoeuvre, and reflex reinforcement occurring without concomitant signs of active tension rise in the muscles tested is presumed to depend upon altered processing of the afferent volleys within the cord.
(18) The Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that the incident took place but said it did not believe the missile was an attempt to target the British plane, instead ascribing the missile seen by the Thomson pilots to Egyptian military manoeuvres.
(19) The diplomatic manoeuvrings came amid continuing confusion among Leave campaigners.
(20) We analyzed the amount and direction of tibial rotation that occurred at the knee joint with a triaxial electrogoniometer on 11 male subjects who performed the sidestep cutting manoeuvre.