(n.) One of a special breed of hounds used for chasing foxes.
Example Sentences:
(1) An outbreak of acute paralysis in a pack of foxhounds, which followed the ingestion of raw and partially cooked meat, was almost certainly due to botulism.
(2) Twenty-nine foxhounds received a deep-frozen bone-ACL-bone allograft and a ligament augmentation device (LAD).
(3) A circumflex coronary-pulmonary artery fistula was constructed with a vein graft in 11 adult foxhounds.
(4) The purpose of this study was to determine whether 8-12 wk of endurance training produces biochemical and histochemical adaptations in skeletal muscle in foxhounds.
(5) A copolymer (polylactic acid: polyglycolic acid) was combined with a proteolipid (PL) and the resulting implant complex was rigidly fixed into discontinuities in the mandibles of 25 adult, foxhound dogs.
(6) Photodynamic therapy (PDT) was performed utilizing a cylindrical optical fiber to determine feasibility of distal ureteral treatment on 10 study and two control NIH foxhounds.
(7) To evaluate Flucrylate (TM) using out standard heparinized ulcer model, a randomized study was performed in six heparinized foxhounds at laparotomy.
(8) In three foxhounds after left pneumonectomy, the relationships of ventilatory work and respiratory muscle (RM) blood flow to ventilation (VE) during steady-state exercise were examined.
(9) Studies of a foxhound pack and gundog kennel in Clwyd, Wales showed 47 of 162 foxhounds (29%) and six of 25 gundogs (24%) to be infested with cestodes.
(10) Of the 25 Campylobacter-infected English Foxhounds in the study, 9 were assigned to erythromycin treatment, 9 to chloramphenicol treatment, and 7 to no treatment.
(11) Analyses were performed on samples removed from gastrocnemius, triceps, and semitendinosus muscles of foxhounds before and after a treadmill running program.
(12) The effect of atropine on meal-stimulated gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) and gastrin release was studied in 5 purebred foxhounds and compared with control studies done in the same animals given a meal without atropine, peak incremental serum gastrin occurred between 5 and 15 min after the meal whereas the greatest increment in serum GIP occurred 60 min postcibal.
(13) Renal autoregulation of blood flow (RBF) and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) were examined in 10 conscious foxhounds under a normal sodium diet before and after a continuous intrarenal converting-enzyme inhibition (CEI) or during the application of the angiotensin II antagonist saralasin.
(14) The reproducibility of the transfer function was experimentally investigated in foxhounds.
(15) The isolated and combined influence of cardiopulmonary and arterial baroreceptor denervation on long-term blood pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), plasma volume (PV) and plasma renin activity (PRA) was studied in 10 conscious, chronically instrumented foxhounds receiving a normal sodium diet.
(16) Foxhounds and other hunting dogs play a particularly important role in the life-cycle of cestodes because their diet frequently includes uncooked carcasses and because they hunt over large areas of countryside, facilitating the widespread dissemination of infective eggs.
(17) Eighteen foxhounds received a deep-frozen bone-ACL-bone allograft and a ligament augmentation device.
(18) This is consistent with the results of the study in which endurance training produced a 27% increase in maximal cardiac output and a 4% increase in maximal arteriovenous O2 extraction in foxhounds.
(19) The effect of volume replacement with crystalloidal and colloidal solutions was analyzed in 40 anesthetized Foxhounds subjected to a standardized traumatic-hemorrhagic shock.
(20) Diffuse lower motor neuron dysfunction developed in a group of American Foxhounds while they were hunting.
Unattractive
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "I am extremely unattracted to the idea of putting back ... these civil cases."
(2) There was no word on how any advertisement might look or whether it would use the strategy of making Britain look as unattractive as possible or emphasise to would-be migrants the positive aspects of their own countries such as Romania's Carpathian mountains or Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts.
(3) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(4) It was hypothesized (1) that judges would consider attractive patients better adjusted than unattractive patients; and (2) that attractive patients would appear healthier or better adjusted than unattractive patients on standard diagnostic measures.
(5) Second, the territory held or contested by militants is certainly unattractive, but is often of strategic value.
(6) Marriage has become a minefield of unattractive choices.
(7) The isolation of rural life which makes it unattractive to health and other professionals also accentuates the problems of the rural patient.
(8) The Daily Mail's unattractive attack on Ed Miliband's late father has damaged the paper and revolted many people, the senior Conservative minister Francis Maude has said.
(9) The only other times I've seen people described as "losing their bodies" is when I pick up a copy of Heat magazine and see that a woman has apparently been rendered unattractive by having living creatures pulled from her sex organs.
(10) At present, all UK ATM and all major card issuers are connected to Link … We operate in a competitive market and there are other ATM networks in the UK available for card issuers and ATM operators if our commercial offer becomes unattractive.
(11) Water, ether and vacuum distillation extracts of old bone or marrow, added to unattractive materials e.g., ashed bone, rendered them attractive.
(12) Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian But to date, the prospect of building on abandoned north Kent chalk quarries, has been so unattractive to housebuilders that they have delivered homes at the rate of just 25 a year when 1,000 a year are needed.
(13) This may sound like an unattractive picture; lower pay and more insecurity.
(14) Research in Mexico indicated that the product name and packaging of oral rehydration packets were unattractive and intimidating to mothers.
(15) Community medicine (2%) and general practice (2%) were similarly unattractive; medical administration (0.5%) was the least popular choice.
(16) Twice we went to the country unchanged, unrepentant, just plain unattractive.
(17) Pronounced nasal tip ptosis is generally regarded as an unattractive facial feature.
(18) • A cross-party group of MPs has delivered the strongest blow yet to the green deal, the government's flagship programme for energy efficiency, calling it "unattractive and uncompetitive".
(19) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
(20) I think it probably will have done the Daily Mail some damage because it does look very unattractive and I think a lot of people will be pretty revolted by that approach."