What's the difference between hare and pricking?

Hare


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
  • (n.) A rodent of the genus Lepus, having long hind legs, a short tail, and a divided upper lip. It is a timid animal, moves swiftly by leaps, and is remarkable for its fecundity.
  • (n.) A small constellation situated south of and under the foot of Orion; Lepus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The nucleotide and amino acid sequences of the M RNA of Bunyamwera virus (prototype of the serogroup) and snowshow hare and La Crosse viruses (California serogroup) (Lees et al., 1986; Eshita and Bishop, 1984; Grady et al., 1987) were compared to those of Germiston virus.
  • (2) "It's horrible and brutal to be that far back and searching for those gears and they're not there," O'Hare admitted.
  • (3) In the present report, we have identified jun-B as the third major protein in the hARE-Hepa-1 proteins complex observed in the band shift assays.
  • (4) Photograph: Casey Orr for the Observer There is money here, but it’s hidden, a golden hare.
  • (5) Based on the results obtained and data on other lagomorph species, the hare could play an important role as host of C. burnetii and R. slovaca in nature.
  • (6) They will begin next week at Liberty airport in Newark, New Jersey; Dulles, outside Washington DC; Chicago O’Hare, and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta.
  • (7) The presented results proof in tendency that oilseed-rape (00-rape seed), wheat, and barley as green plants can contribute in clostridial toxicosis in hares, whereas grass and beets are involved only partially, and clover is practically completely atoxigenic.
  • (8) He said: "We are hoping the bear and the hare will enter the public psyche a bit like the snowmen last year."
  • (9) During the autumn months, the gonads and reproductive tract of adult male hares (Lepus europaeus) are regressed and circulating gonadotrophin levels are low.
  • (10) The agent causing the European brown hare syndrome (EBHS) is also a calicivirus (EBHSV).
  • (11) The animated advert cost £1m to make and features a hare and a bear created by some of the artists behind Disney's Lion King.
  • (12) Of several species of animals tested for susceptibility to this spirochete, only the snowshoe hare gave evidence of infection.
  • (13) The morphology of Leydig cells of the testis of sexually mature and sexually immature spring hares was studied.
  • (14) Histological examination of the African hare fibromas revealed intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies characteristic of poxviruses and poxvirus virions were demonstrated by electron microscopy of ultrathin sections.
  • (15) Analyses are presented for a number of data sets collected for the sea hare, Aplysia californica, by J. P. Segundo.
  • (16) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
  • (17) C. difficile and C. perfringens became established more rapidly when disassociated than when monoassociated with axenic hares.
  • (18) The derived amino acid sequence indicated that hare pre-uteroglobin contained 91 amino acids, including a signal peptide of 21 residues.
  • (19) This study affirms the endemic presence of Powassan and snowshoe hare virus and further delineates the scope of St. Louis encephalitis activity in Ontario.
  • (20) An antineoplastic factor, dolabellanin C, inducing tumor lysis was purified to apparent homogeneity from the body fluid of the sea hare Dollabella auricularia.

Pricking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prick
  • (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
  • (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
  • (n.) Same as Nicking.
  • (n.) A sensation of being pricked.
  • (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
  • (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results have implications in utilizing codeine phosphate as a positive skin prick test control for allergy testing.
  • (2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
  • (3) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
  • (4) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
  • (5) The results of this investigation are clearly in contrast to earlier earlier reports, in that there was a very good correlation between prick test, RAST and case history.
  • (6) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
  • (7) There were statistically significant exposure-response relations between exposure and symptoms from eyes and upper airways, dry cough, positive skin prick test, and specific IgE and IgG antibodies.
  • (8) The effect of 4.4 mg azelastine administered orally on airway responsiveness, skin prick testing, daily peak expiratory flow rates and symptoms of asthma was compared with placebo in a 7 week double-blind, parallel group study of 24 patients with extrinsic asthma.
  • (9) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.
  • (10) Having said that, though, the man is clearly a bit of a prick and one with a serial addiction to publicity."
  • (11) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
  • (12) In comparison with conventional allergen preparations immunologically characterized allergens were tested by skin-prick-tests for reactions.
  • (13) Exclusion of asthmatics and taking into account smoking and skin prick test positivity yielded mostly similar results.
  • (14) The results of the Phadezym-RAST and IgE-Quick correlated very well (r = 0.96) and both in-vitro methods corresponded to the Skin-Prick-Test (greater than 90%).
  • (15) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
  • (16) By skin prick testing comparable results were obtained with both extracts.
  • (17) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
  • (18) In making a computerized cephalometric analysis, first the film should be traced, and the landmarks pricked and manually digitalized into an X-Y coordinate system.
  • (19) Sections of eggs, fixed 20 to 60 s following fertilization or pricking, show that the tubular cisternae have disappeared and the clusters of cisternae have opened to give rise to longer cisternae arranged in chains.
  • (20) Bronchial responsiveness to histamine and skin prick test reactions to airborne allergens were measured in a random population sample of 891 adults and 1293 schoolchildren.