(n.) A name loosely applied in popular usage to many animals of diverse characteristics, living in the water.
(n.) An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost entirely in the water. See Pisces.
(n.) The twelfth sign of the zodiac; Pisces.
(n.) The flesh of fish, used as food.
(n.) A purchase used to fish the anchor.
(n.) A piece of timber, somewhat in the form of a fish, used to strengthen a mast or yard.
(v. i.) To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing a net.
(v. i.) To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.
(v. t.) To catch; to draw out or up; as, to fish up an anchor.
(v. t.) To search by raking or sweeping.
(v. t.) To try with a fishing rod; to catch fish in; as, to fish a stream.
(v. t.) To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to the beam, mast, or timbers, lengthwise on one or both sides. See Fish joint, under Fish, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
(3) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(4) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(5) The telencephalon of teleost fish shows high affinity uptake for D-[3H]aspartate, intermediate levels of GABAergic markers and low levels of cholinergic enzymes.
(6) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
(7) In telecost fishes, the corpuscles of Stannius contain Bowie-stainable granules and a renin-like pressor substance.
(8) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(9) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
(10) Small and medium fish swim up when stressed, whereas larger fish swim down.
(11) Macron hit back on Twitter, saying her proposals to take France out of the EU would destroy France’s fishing industry.
(12) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(13) The function of these triple cones can not be deduced from the behavior patterns of these fishes.
(14) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
(15) The possibility of mammalian mitochondria functioning in fish embryos has been studied.
(16) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(17) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
(18) As for fish attractiveness, motion, freshness, size, color and species were found as important parameters in the food-preference mechanism.
(19) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
(20) The olfactory organs of fishes are diversely developed.
Fishhook
Definition:
(n.) A hook for catching fish.
(n.) A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-seven consecutive permanent epicardial pacemaker implantations were performed with either suture-type (group I, n = 52) or fishhook electrodes (group II, n = 45).
(2) Local anesthetics and simple removal techniques are adequate for nearly all fishhook injuries.
(3) Fishhook injuries are fairly common in some geographic areas.
(4) Results of this study suggest that most fishhook injuries involve the hands or head and that postremoval wound care including oral antibiotic therapy may not be critical.
(5) Preureteric vena cava is a rare congenital anomaly usually presenting clinically with hydronephrosis and an "S or fishhook" deformity of the ureter at the third or fourth lumbar vertebrae.
(6) Fishhook injuries rarely pose a true emergency, and only a few cases of posterior ocular injury from fishhooks have been described.
(7) A prospective study was conducted involving 100 nonrandomized, consecutive patients who suffered fishhook injury during the summer of 1990 in Alaska.
(8) The plug is 7-9 mm silicone or polyethylene fishhook, measuring 1 mm at the tip and 2 mm at the base which is surrounded by 4 elgiloy spines.
(9) Routine systemic antibiotic prophylaxis is not necessary for uncomplicated soft tissue injury due to fishhooks not involving cartilage or tendons.
(10) The two epimyocardial fishhook pacing electrodes were inserted through different incisions.
(11) Time of injury prior to admission to the emergency department, location of fishhook, method of removal, wound care, systemic antibiotic prophylaxis, anesthetic, tetanus immunization status, fishhook size, and complication rate were evaluated.
(12) Two simple techniques can be employed to remove a fishhook safely and easily.
(13) An intussusception resulting from an embedded fishhook and a mass of nylon cord, monofilament line, and wire was determined to be the cause of death in a Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris).
(14) The patient's roentgenograms showed the dystrophies of bones, lace-shaped ribs, boat-shaped cranium, fishhook-shaped forefront protrusion of silla trucica.
(15) We present a case of penetrating ocular, orbital, and cranial trauma produced by a broken fishhook.
(16) Diaphragmatic (Edi) and parasternal intercostal (Eic) electromyograms were recorded using fishhook electrodes.
(17) Following problems are shown using slides: --ingrown rings and their removal with follow-up treatment, --the removal of fishhooks, especially in swans, --the removal of projectiles from the bird's body, --the removal of lead slivers from the digestive tract of parrots as well as the follow-up treatment, --the removal of gold chains, plastic tubing and other "toys" from the intestine.
(18) A routine x-ray examination showed a fishhook lodged in the esophagus of an asymptomatic 68-year-old man.
(19) We have observed such atypical loops, under microcirculatory microscope and recording color TV, as: (1) big fishhook-like (2) dumb-bell like (3) glomerular (4) hemorrhagic (5) vascular (6) big tadpole-like (7) net-like (8) papillar edema.