(v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a cat; to bring forth, as kittens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mild clinical signs of diarrhoea were noted in kittens infected experimentally with one of the feline reovirus type 2 isolates.
(2) Eight kittens born of two Brugia pahangi infected cats have been studied for transplacental passed microfilariae.
(3) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
(4) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
(5) In 7- to 10-day-old kittens thresholds are high (around 100 dB), and secure phase locking is observed only at frequencies below about 600 Hz.
(6) The cellular responses of 8 kittens (4 inoculated orally with mouse brains containing Toxoplasma gondii cysts and 4 uninfected controls) were studied.
(7) In these kittens, 26-40% of the striate cortex cells could be driven by the deprived eye.
(8) The paper describes the clinical and morphological features of a congenital neurological disease affecting two in-bred litter-mate kittens.
(9) The postnatal increase in size appeared to vary among neurons, yielding a wider neuronal size spectrum in the adult cat than that observed in kittens.
(10) Three groups of kittens were adapted to purified diets containing 43.5% soy protein that were either taurine-free (OT) or contained 0.15% taurine (NT) or 1.0% taurine (HT).
(11) Monocular and binocular depth thresholds were measured for all kittens when they were between three and five months old.
(12) Previous research by Bem has indicated that androgynous individuals of both sexes display "masculine" independence when under pressure to conform as well as "feminine" nurturance when interacting with a kitten.
(13) Stable intracellular recordings were obtained from 46 neurons in 20 kittens ranging in age from fetal day (F) 51 to postnatal day (P) 120.
(14) Y axons in the kitten had only small arborizations within lamina A (less than fifty terminal boutons per axon) but heavily innervated lamina C. The structure of the terminal boutons on the kitten r.g.c.
(15) The initially unoperated kitten had its callosum sectioned at five months and was retested following surgery.
(16) Using an antibody prepared against taurine conjugated to bovine serum albumin with glutaraldehyde, the distribution of taurine in cerebellum of newborn and 8-week-old kittens from mothers fed 0, 0.02, 0.05, or 1% dietary taurine has been determined.
(17) It has been established that interhemispheric relations in the kitten associative cortex are mediated, not only by the callosal, but also by the extracallosal system, which was evidenced by the presence of late negative components preserved after callosotomy.
(18) The two formaldehyde-inactivated vaccines were found to be safe for use in kittens.
(19) One year after treatment, the kitten remained free of clinical signs of the disease or complications from the repair.
(20) With the aim of obtaining some basic information for future developmental studies, the lateral cervical nucleus (LCN) was investigated in 32 kittens of different ages by electron microscopic and stereologic methods.
Mitten
Definition:
(n.) A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
(n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report two children with finger tip ischaemia resulting from woollen mittens.
(2) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(3) The majority of the toe and external genitalia cases were caused by hair, whereas the majority of finger strangulations were caused by thread from mittens.
(4) TGF-alpha interacts with the receptor as a mitten would grasp an object.
(5) The VHD is a circular fabric mitten, which is held easily by inserting the hand between the two surfaces.
(6) Neil Franklyn (Stoke and England) and Charlie Mitten (Man Utd), amongst others, took the money and ran.
(7) He missed the place: the cold, the skating rinks, the desperate need for mittens in winter.
(8) Although the mitten appeared largely to be clinically separated from the underlying fixed digits, histology showed mostly normal keratinocytes beneath a thickened stratum corneum.
(9) There is only loveliness, along with a puppy in mittens, a palpable respect for tradition and a gentle, hand-drawn tale so imbued with the wonder of childhood it will charm baubles from trees and coax tears from coffee tables.
(10) Anderson made the “safe” sign after landing her final jump and flipped her right mitten in the air before exchanging hugs with Rukajarvi, Jones and Switzerland’s Sina Candrian.
(11) Light and electron microscopy and indirect immunofluorescence techniques were used to study the nature of the mitten deformity in five adult patients with severe generalized recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa undergoing release of hand and finger contractures.
(12) A substantial portion of the mitten, however, consisted of necrotic keratinocytes without an intact basement membrane.
(13) Re-analyses of mitten incidence in schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics suggests needed modification of our earlier B-Mitten-schizophrenia formulation.
(14) Warner’s broadcast was called The Gloves Are Off , leading to Oliver, who has been a staunch and witty critic of Fifa for some time, largely in his role as presenter of the US show Last Week Tonight , to call his The Mittens of Disapproval Are On.
(15) That the mitten pattern possibly suggests as yet unclarified subcortical dysfunction associated with symptoms of affective disturbance is a tentative hypothesis offered for consideration.
(16) As to the apple, the eating was tricky, since my hands were tied to my waist and I wore mittens.
(17) Top tip Be sure to get out of the car and experience some this wide-open landscape on foot via the 3.2-mile Wildcat trail, around the West Mitten butte.
(18) As several of you pointed out, Ronaldo is the highest-profile player to have matched Mitten's achievement.
(19) Real Madrid attempted to entice Mitten, Di Stefano and Rial to the Bernabéu in 1951, but Mitten's wife was homesick, so they headed home.
(20) We found a possible relationship between the subcortical B-mitten EEG pattern and TD.