(n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.
(n.) The Canadian porcupine.
(n.) A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.
(n.) A form of dredging machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two principal classes of striatum long axonal neurons (sparsely ramified reticular cells and densely ramified dendritic cells) were analyzed quantitatively in four animal species: hedgehog, rabbit, dog and monkey.
(2) The effect of methallibure (ICI 33828) on spermatogenesis was studied in the gerbil, hedgehog, and mouse.
(3) Mesenteric lymph nodes were examined from five hedgehogs captured on the Berkshire Downs.
(4) We suggest that the contralateral projection nuclei to the MOB of the hedgehog, unusual in other mammals, and the large number of cells with axonal collaterals projecting to both hemispheres, may be a strategy in these animals to bilaterally integrate brain functions at the expense of its reduced corpus callosum.
(5) Scottish Natural Heritage is exterminating them in the Outer Hebrides not because there is a plague of hedgehogs there but to protect the nests of the wading birds whose eggs and chicks a few escaped pet hedgehogs having been eating.
(6) Upper (Tf) and lower (Ts) temperature limits of order-disorder transitions in blood cell lipids of hedgehogs, Erinaceus europaeus, were determined over an annual cycle.
(7) In contrast, segmentation is essentially normal in l(1)armadillo, l(2)gooseberry, l(3)hedgehog, and l(1)fused embryos.
(8) However, the prolongation of the MAP at lower repolarization levels was much less in the hedgehog.
(9) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(10) Forservices to the Rescue and Rehabilitation of Hedgehogs.
(11) Unlike any other animal in this country - except, perhaps, the mole, whose condition is, if anything, even more opaque, and just as likely to be following its own chute to oblivion - the hedgehog has always been a symbol and embodiment of something subtle and tender in the landscape.
(12) In a study of the elementary focus at Jarok, it was found that the frequency of antibodies was considerably higher in hedgehogs than in small rodents; this may be due to the longer life-cycle of the former, which makes the probability of reinfection greater.
(13) Only 11% of the 2,348 people who took part in the survey said they saw hedgehogs regularly in their gardens and 48% had never seen one.
(14) The histological structure of the testes and caput epididymidis of the hedgehog remains normal after 21 days of CdCl2 injection.
(15) The healing of the full-thickness skin wounds on the abdomen and the back of hedgehogs was investigated.
(16) We describe a study of the seasonal variations of hedgehog plasma lipids and lipoproteins and their correlation with changes in the activities of the thyroid and testis.
(17) Stories of hedgehog decline have been around for years, but only now is Bright completing the first statistically robust report on the drop in numbers.
(18) The granule cell islands in the olfactory tubercle (islands of Calleja) and the insula magna of Calleja are present in all species examined in this study: cat, rat, mouse, rabbit, hedgehog, monkey, man, and dolphin, displaying the same basic morphology.
(19) In animal homes and private care hibernating hedgehogs excreted larvae of Crenosoma striatum (23.5% and 21.0%, respectively), eggs of Capillaria species of the intestine (47.1% and 37.1%), and eggs of Capillaria aerophila (7.1% and 19.4%), but oocysts of Isospora rastegaievae were found to be predominant (44.7% and 32.3%).
(20) It is presumed that leptospires of the serogroups Javanica, Australis, Icterohaemorrhagiae, transmitted by the shrew-mice, hedgehogs and rats by the sexual route, are by their origin "ancient" serogroups of leptospires while the serogroups of leptospires isolated from domestic animals, showing predominantly the alimentary route of transmission of infection in the focus, are representatives of the "younger" forms of the evolutional development of leptospires.
Slice
Definition:
(v. t.) A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
(v. t.) That which is thin and broad, like a slice.
(v. t.) A broad, thin piece of plaster.
(v. t.) A salver, platter, or tray.
(v. t.) A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
(v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
(v. t.) One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
(v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.
(v. t.) To cut into thin pieces, or to cut off a thin, broad piece from.
(v. t.) To cut into parts; to divide.
(v. t.) To clear by means of a slice bar, as a fire or the grate bars of a furnace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(3) This difference was abolished by exposure of the slices to propranolol, a beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist.
(4) All three compounds were also very similar in their effects on [3H]5HT release from superfused rat striatal slices.
(5) Intoxicating concentrations of ethanol also inhibit excitatory synaptic transmission mediated by N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in hippocampal slices from adult rodents.
(6) The present in vitro studies show that it is found as beta-endorphin in bovine pituitary slices incubated with radioactive amino acid precursor [35S]methionine.
(7) This provides a direct display, in the viewing plane, of the slice profile.
(8) In the longitudinal direction, however, spatial resolution of under slice thickness could not be obtained.
(9) Tubules and cells were released from slices of kidney cortex by collagenase.
(10) To determine the severity of regurgitation by dynamic MRI, several parameters were analyzed, including the number of slices with visible signal loss, the time course of the signal loss, and its maximal area and maximal volume.
(11) This study evaluated the in vitro renin release, tissue cyclic AMP content (TcAMPc), and tissue renin content (TRC) changes with time, in response to administration of dopamine (DOP) and of the dopamine-receptor blocking agent pimozide (PIM) to renal cortical slices from sodium deficient (SD) rats.
(12) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
(13) The effect of p-nitrophenylphosphate (p-NPP) on the release of acetylcholine evoked by drugs and ionic environments known to inhibit Na+, K+-ATPase was studied in isolated cortical slices of rat brain and longitudinal muscle strip of guinea-pig ileum.
(14) Prostate slices were perfused with a medium containing [(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]androstenedione, or 5alpha-dihydro-[(3)H]testosterone and [(14)C]testosterone.
(15) The adenylate cyclase activator forskolin as well as 8-bromo-cyclic AMP enhanced the electrically evoked release of 3H-noradrenaline and 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine from superfused rat neocortical slices and that of 3H-dopamine from neostriatal slices with comparable EC50's of about 0.5 and 50 microM, respectively, without affecting spontaneous tritium efflux.
(16) Aspartate levels and release from rat striatal slices following the inhibition of glutamine synthetase (GS) by methionine sulfoximine (MSO) were studied.
(17) The effects of stimulus-evoked potassium release on the excitability of presynaptic axons were studied in the rat hippocampal slice preparation.
(18) The A1-selective agonist R-(-)N6-(2-phenylisopropyl)adenosine (10 microM) decreased 100 microM NMDA-evoked [3H]norepinephrine release by 27%; this was reversed by the P1 antagonist 8-phenyltheophylline (8-PT, 10 microM), indicating that NMDA-evoked norepinephrine release from cortical slices is susceptible to purinergic modulation.
(19) In vitro addition of denbufylline (10(-8)-10(-4) M) produced no significant change in [3H]choline uptake in striatal slices, while denbufylline (10(-4) M) increased high (20 mM) potassium-evoked endogenous ACh release from striatal slices.
(20) Under the electron microscope, slices appeared vacuolated near the cut surfaces, but well preserved internally (greater than 40 micron from the edge).