(n.) The forehead; the part of the cranium between the orbits and the vertex.
Example Sentences:
(1) A well-preserved mummified child from about A.D. 1200 was recovered fron Canyon de Chelly in northeastern Arizona in 1971.
(2) The submaxillary glands and the kidneys of both diabetic Wistar strain and hypertensive rats contained significantly less glandular kallikrein than non-diabetic Wistar strain and hypertensive rats (reduction fron 40 to 76%).
(3) In a small rural community--Nord-Fron--almost 40% die outside institutions, 30% die in the local nursing home and only 30% die in hospitals.
(4) Dilution is seldom less than 6% but may exceed 40%, particularly when sampling fron neonates.
(5) Skin fron newborn mice or rats pretreated with this substance had increased epidermal mitotic activity which was inhibited cyclic AMP elevators.
(6) No significant changes were observed fron the start to the end of mineral water treatment.
(7) The readings were higher when the filter paper strips were placed between the fron halves of the upper and lower counterparts than when they were placed between the rear halves.
(8) Thus, although the frons width is apparently controlled genetically, it can also be influenced by temperature.
(9) Surgical liver biopsies were taken fron five patients suffering prolonged extrahepatic cholestasis, and five patients submitted to abdominal surgery excluding hepato-biliary diseases that were considered as controls.
(10) Dependence of the fron olfactory bulbar responses on NaCl concentration greatly varied from odorant to odorant.
(11) Instead, two product peaks elute near the solvent fron on reverse-phase HPLC.
(12) The patterns of the different wildtypes, species, and hybrids were used for taxonomic identification within the nasuta subgroup, in which the females are morphologically indistinguishable and the males differ only by the markings of their frons.
(13) According to the results of earlier investigations of other authors, there are differences between Escherichia-strains fron urinary tract infections and fron the feces of healthy persons with regard to their biochemical, hemolytic, necrotizing and pathogenic properties in mice experiments.
(14) The highest increase in the antibiotic activity, as well as in the enzyme inhibition was observed with respect to the compound with the hydrocarbon chain fron C12 to C16.
(15) Fron these observations the hypothesis may be suggested that nitroprusside inhibits platelet functions by mimicking the endogenous NO, and that the intracellular calcium metabolism is involved in the inhibitory activity of the drug.
(16) The 9 bp element V located in fron of the first 340 bp region appears in duplicated form as a direct repeat with sequence similarity to SV40 (or RNA polymerase II) enhancer sequences.
(17) Sixty oocytes fron 28 women, aged between 27 and 41 years, were analyzed.
(18) Fron a clinical standpoint, they are classified as benign tumors.
(19) The presence of the latter two markers distinguishes variant lines fron non-SCLC cell lines.
(20) The distribution of diagnostic radiographic changes between the right and left fron feet was equal.
Mammal
Definition:
(n.) One of the Mammalia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(3) The binaural characteristics of cells in MSO were different from those in nonecholocating mammals.
(4) The findings support our earlier suggestion that the kinetics of spermatogenesis in the quail are fundamentally similar to the pattern which has been described for mammals.
(5) So far, attempts to produce linolenic acid deficiency in mammals have not revealed an absolute requirement for n-3 fatty acids.
(6) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
(7) This indicates a functional relationship between material supplied via the rapid phase of axonal transport and an unimpaired transsynaptic signal transmission, previously not revealed in the central nervous system of mammals.
(8) Nucleus z in the rat was found to be similar in location to nucleus z in other mammals.
(9) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(10) The presence in lamprey kidney of a loop which is similar to Henle's loop in mammals and birds indicates that the development of the system of osmotic concentration conditioned by the formation in the kidney of the medulla and from a sharp increase in renal arterial blood supply.
(11) Investigations carried out in Pavlodar Province have shown that 7 species of ixodid ticks, Ixodes crenulatus, I. lividus, I. persulcatus, I. laguri laguri, Dermacentor marginatus, D. reticulatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and one brought species, Hyalomma asiaticum, parasitize domestic animals and wild mammals.
(12) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
(13) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(14) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
(15) Based on the fact that all hibernators, at their regulated minimal body temperature, display a uniform turnover rate, related to body weight, the hypothesis is developed that cold tolerance of mammals is generally limited by a common specific minimal metabolic rate, which larger organisms, because of their lower basal metabolism, already attain in less profound hypothermia.
(16) Based on morphological, virological, biochemical and molecular biological data, it is proposed that the presence of endogenous retrovirus particles in the placental cytotrophoblasts of many mammals is indicative of some beneficial action provided by the virus in relation to cell fusion, syncytiotrophoblast formation and the creation of the placenta.
(17) Thus, the possibility exists that androgen secretion in some chelonian systems may exhibit a high degree of LH specificity like that of mammals and birds.
(18) Chlorinated ethylenes are metabolized in mammals, as a first step, to epoxides.
(19) This agrees with previous ultrastructural observations that, in small mammals, neither basement membranes nor large connective tissue spaces are found inside enteric ganglia.
(20) In recent studies, we have found that Gal alpha 1----3Gal beta 1----4GlcNAc residues are abundant on red cells and nucleated cells of nonprimate mammals, prosimians, and New World monkeys, but their expression is diminished in Old World monkeys, apes, and humans.