(n. pl.) One of the classes of Protozoa, including a large number of species, all of minute size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rumen content (pH, number of infusoria, quantity of volatile fatty acids and ammonia) was studied in 151 cattle (50 healthy animals, 15 with experimental suppurative infection and 86 with spontaneous suppurative infection).
(2) It was found that continuous feeding of high amounts of concentrates produced a negative effect on the fermentative processes in the rumen, reliably lowering the values of pH, ammonia gas, and the total count of Infusoria and reliably raising the amount of volatile fatty acids and the total acidity of the rumen content.
(3) Two cases of therapy-resistant fluorine are reported in which Balantidium coli from the class of the cilia (Ciliophora, Ciliata, Infusoria) was identified.
(4) Results showed that the infusoria count per one cu.cm of rumen content in lactating cows that had been given methionine at the rate of 30 g daily was 137013, while in the control animals it was 76431.
(5) The rumen content became alkaline, and the infusoria count dropped.
(6) Studied were the values of pH and the content of ammonia gas and volatile fatty acids, the total acidity, and the count of Infusoria in the rumen content.
(7) The infusoria were found out only at the age of 120 days--their numbers were 155 000 per ml; at the age of 180 days their numbers rose to 368 000 per ml rumen fluid.
(8) The time of the infusoria survival in the blood serum was a criterion of toxemia level.
(9) With diseased cows pH in the rumen was 22 per cent lower than in the controls; the total count of infusoria per cu.cm was more than twice lower than the values found after recovery and those in the controls.
(10) The size of the double-stranded molecules of DNA of the macronucleus of an infusoria Tetrahymena pyriformis GL in the G-1 period of the cell cycle is not less than 400 .
(11) Investigated were the volatile fatty acids (VFA), ketone bodies, pH, and the count and composition of infusoria in the rumen content; the sugar, ketone bodies, and VFA in the blood--all being considered the most characteristic indices of carbohydrate metabolism in ruminants.
(12) The characteristics of digestive activities studied in rumen fluid at weekly--monthly intervals were pH, ammonia content, total content of volatile fatty acids, content of particular volatile fatty acids, incidence and number of infusoria.
(13) Infusoria life span was found to depend on peritonitis severity and serum concentration of medium-molecular peptides.
(14) Chlamydomonas data are in line with the results of the Infusoria and Chlorella experiments.
(15) Selective changes in Y. enterocolitica virulence have been made in experiments on eukaryotic cells, Infusoria, and peritoneal macrophages, used as models.
(16) In the test on Infusoria the cytotoxic action of strains isolated from plants has been noted.
(17) The dependence of immunological reactions of fishes infected with Ichthyophthirius multifiliis infusoria was elucidated.
(18) The reproductive process of infusoria was investigated.
(19) In parallel experiments with the passage of Yersinia through Infusoria and mammalian macrophages an analogy to the processes of phagocytosis has been established.
(20) Entodinium infusoria were totally lacking in the rumen content of the affected animals, while the ketone bodies were 13.5 to 15.5 times as high, and VFA were 37 to 49 per cent lower.
Minute
Definition:
(n.) The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)
(n.) The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus ('); as, 10¡ 20').
(n.) A nautical or a geographic mile.
(n.) A coin; a half farthing.
(n.) A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle.
(n.) A point of time; a moment.
(n.) The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as, to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
(n.) A fixed part of a module. See Module.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
(a.) Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable.
(a.) Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as, a minute observer; minute observation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(2) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.
(3) Both development of EDTA-resistant fibrinogen binding and fibrinogen association with the cytoskeleton were time dependent and reached maxima 45 to 60 minutes after fibrinogen binding to stimulated platelets.
(4) Average fluoroscopy time per procedure was 27.8 minutes of which 15.1 minutes were for nephrostomy tube insertion and 12.7 minutes were for calculi extraction.
(5) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(6) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(7) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
(8) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
(9) Median time for ventilatory support was 90 minutes after transfer to the area.
(10) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
(11) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(12) The drug-picrate chromophores maximally absorb within the first minute of reaction (21 s for phenacemide, 45 s for cephalothin), after which the absorbances decrease.
(13) During periods of wet steam it was impossible to maintain consistent sterility of the mouse pellets even using a cycle of 126 degrees C for 60 minutes.
(14) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
(15) The mutations of both strains (termed hha-2 and hha-3) were mapped at minute 10.5 of the E. coli chromosome.
(16) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(17) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(18) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(19) On the other hand, the injection of minute quantities of endotoxin into PbAc(2)-sensitized rats invariably resulted in disseminated intravascular coagulation, apparently via a complete activation of the intrinsic pathway.
(20) Basal as well as furosemide stimulated plasma renin activity (at 10, 30 and 240 minutes) was reduced, as well as the transient increase in excretion rates of 6-keto-PGF1 alpha and TXB2.