(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.
Spigot
Definition:
(n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
Example Sentences:
(1) For Araldite photoelastic models of an alumina head on a Vitallium spigot, as-cast taper surfaces lubricated with silicone grease gave consistent friction of typically mu = 0.14.
(2) Nevertheless the character of these spigots undoubtedly reflects phylogenetic relationships between the spider taxa.
(3) Static axial push-on and lift-off, and push-on and twist-off experiments were designed and performed to measure the effective, room-temperature coefficient of friction mu for different design femoral prosthesis cone taper joints comprising a universal head on a stem spigot.
(4) We compared the efficacy of ozonation, UV light, hyperchlorination, and heat eradication using a model plumbing system constructed of copper piping, brass spigots, Plexiglas reservoir, electric hot water tank, and a pump.
(5) Short-duration, cyclically loaded, axial, fretting corrosion tests were designed and performed to compare the fretting behaviour of different metal Howmedica universal heads connected to coated and uncoated metal cone taper spigots.
(6) The global supply glut of about 1.5m barrels per day is the driving factor behind the lower oil prices, with much of that overproduction because of Opec’s opening the spigots.
(7) Three practices were evaluated: the securing of catheters, presence of kinking and the use of urinary bags with a drainage spigot.
(8) The comparative observations enable me to create a hypothesis dealing with the existence of several evolutionary lines of spiders, each of which is represented with their own form of spigots.
(9) Alumina and metal heads were tested on metal spigots using either distilled water, Ringer's solution, blood or no lubricant.
(10) If the financial spigots of the City of London were turned off, it would be Russia that has the most to lose: since 2002 Russian companies have raised $406bn on London's capital markets.
(11) The values measured were typically mu = 0.2 for an alumina head on a Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V spigot, mu = 0.15 for a Co-Cr-Mo head on a Co-Cr-Mo or Ti-6Al-4V spigot and mu = 0.13 for a stainless steel head on a stainless steel spigot.
(12) "Once the spigot is turned on, once the preponderance of water comes out of a pipeline instead of the Colorado river, do you think for one minute it will ever be turned off?"
(13) The axial displacement of model heads on their spigots were compared with predicted values and previously measured values for prosthesis heads.
(14) The present paper reviews the results from the study of spigots, i.e.
(15) I think most pragmatists realise that we can’t close the spigot on the oil wells and close the coal mines immediately without some other energy source to shift to.” Climate change petition sign up
(16) Colonization of the catheter and its sequelae, including cystitis, result from a creeping adherent biofilm of bacteria ascending the luminal and external surfaces of the catheter and drainage system from a contaminated drainage spigot or from the urethral meatus.
(17) The Fed chairman refused to be drawn on precisely what signs would have to emerge before he turns off the spigot.
(18) A frosted glass cubicle contained a squat toilet, basin and a hot water spigot for showers.
(19) There’s Oprah and there’s the rest of us, that’s the real message – and we should be grateful merely to receive the sacramental balm that now gushes from her benevolent spigot.
(20) The robot hands are used to deliver solvents from pressurized spigot lines and to pipet amino acid solutions from reservoirs to an array of reaction vessels.