(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.
Preocular
Definition:
(a.) Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennae of certain insects.
(n.) One of the scales just in front of the eye of a reptile or fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, an attempt is made to supplement and corroborate the clinical findings and the rationale of using highly viscous solutions by presenting experimental results on the preocular film.
(2) In contrast, rose bengal staining ensues whenever there is deficiency of preocular tear film protection.
(3) The preocular tear film is viewed as a thin, mostly aqueous film covering a hydrophilic solid and bordered by a meniscus which is also supported by the solid.
(4) In phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)-treated control eyes of adult mice, 37 postnatal days (PND) old, a variably thick, but well-defined preocular mucus coat was seen, while 5-PND-old animals treated with PBS lacked morphologically detectable mucus at the corneal surface.
(5) Formation, structure and composition of the preocular fluid and its distribution at the surface of the eye ball are discussed in detail.
(6) Ocular mucin, the major product of conjunctival goblet cells, constitutes the innermost layer of preocular tear film.
(7) Viral shedding was determined by the presence of HSV-1 in the preocular tear film obtained by eye swabs.
(8) The instability of the preocular tear film, which can be caused by several factors, appears to be characteristic of all dry eye states irrespective of aetiology.
(9) Four acupuncture points were selected: preocular, retroauricular, in the forepaw between the median and ulnar nerves and in the ears.
(10) In particular, considerations pertaining to the relevance and the formation of the glycocalyx from vesicles of corneal epithelial cells are discussed, and the interaction of the epithelial cell membranes with the preocular film is emphasized.
(11) Abnormalities of the lipid and mucin components of the preocular tear film may result from diseases of the eyelid margins and conjunctiva.
(12) The application site dependent ocular absorption indicated that controlled release of timolol in the tear fluid did not result in a uniform timolol distribution in the preocular tear fluid of rabbit eyes.
(13) Immunization and immunosuppression were evaluated during latent ocular herpes simplex virus, type 1 (HSV-1) infection in the rabbit, using the following parameters: (1) ability to recover virus from preocular tearfilm cultures; (2) reactivation of latent infection by direct electrical stimulation; and (3) recovery of virus from latently infected ganglia by whole-cell co-cultivation.
(14) Mechanisms enabling the moistening of the cornea by the lacrimal fluid and formation of a stabile preocular lacrimal film are also presented.