(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.
Swim
Definition:
(v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
(v. i.) To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
(v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.
(v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
(v. i.) To be filled with swimming animals.
(v. t.) To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
(v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
(v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
(n.) The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
(n.) The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
(n.) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
(v. i.) To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(2) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
(3) All these animals have been taking the same daily swimming training, during 15 days before the injection of labelled molecules.
(4) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
(5) Low concentrations of cercaricides are toxic both for cercariae and parthenites from the liver of mollusks and for freely swimming cercariae.
(6) A comparison was made between the Q's estimated by the CO2 rebreathing method during tethered swimming and previously published data on Q determined by the dye-dilution method during free swimming in a flune.
(7) The maximal swimming time in the water (33--34 degrees C) with an additional load of 3 per cent of body weight failed to increase after 5 weeks of training in the animals to which dexamethasome was infected.
(8) The cardiac TG concentration was back to control levels by the 2nd h after the swim.
(9) Further the results of a test under practical conditions in a swimming pool are shown and the possibility to discriminate different types of waters by their chlorine demand under constant-titration.
(10) Addition of hydrocortisone, prednisolone and corticosterone into the medium as well as in vivo administration of these increased the adrenaline synthesis in swimming rats and did not alter it in intact rats.
(11) We confirmed that swimming activity is induced reversibly following exposure of the nerve cord to 5-HT (50 microM); the half-maximal rate of swimming activity develops in about 15 min.
(12) Thirty-eight female Wistar rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups: run-trained (RUN), swim-trained (SWIM) or control (CON).
(13) All motoneuron firing during fictive swimming is associated with a tonic depolarization that falls away slowly once firing stops, is increased by hyperpolarizing current, and is reduced by depolarizing current.
(14) The chemotactic receptor-transducer proteins of Escherichia coli are responsible for directing the swimming behavior of cells by signaling for either straight swimming or tumbling in response to chemostimuli.
(15) Eukaryotic ribosomes were isolated from the cryptobiotic embryos and from the further-developed free-swimming nauplii of the brine shrimp Artemia salina.
(16) The purpose of this study was to determine whether a chronic swimming program could reverse the decreased cardiac function and altered myosin biochemistry found in hearts of rats with established renal hypertension.
(17) The activity of hexobarbital oxidase in vivo was found to be higher in rats forced to swim regularly (sleeping time studies).
(18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
(19) There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, "Morning, boys, how's the water?"
(20) VO2 in both styles curvilinearly increased with swimming velocity, and these relationships were well fitted for the regression equation of the second order (Br: y = 3.84625x2 - 1.95914x + 1.310463,r2 = 0.999 (p < 0.05), Fr: y = 3.233446x2 - 2.28136x + 1.611524, r2 = 0.979 (p < 0.05)).