(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.
Tomcat
Definition:
(n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.
Example Sentences:
(1) The captain of the ship said it was under assault by Iranian gunboats at the time and that the Airbus A300 was misidentified as an attacking F-14 Tomcat.
(2) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(3) The histochemical localization of some oxidoreductases was investigated in the epididymides of adult tomcats.
(4) The observations as described in Part I indicated that urine of estrous female female positively influences the frequency of flehmen in tomcats.
(5) Female studies included laparoscopies as indicated intrauterine insemination with Tomcat catheter (Sherwood Medical, St. Louis, MO) was performed in all cases.
(6) Dell was first made aware of the issue in June 2013 when a Dell user called “three west” first posted about the smell of a new Dell Latitude E6430u saying “the machine is great, but it smells as if it was assembled near a tomcat's litter box.
(7) The symptoms and the course run by cutaneous asthenia, a skin disease which is congenital and probably hereditable, are reported in a Birmese tomcat.
(8) We describe a metallic cervical cannula that allows the use of the popular Tomcat catheter in the majority of patients in whom we were unable to achieve a successful ET with the Tomcat alone.
(9) By means of microsurgical technique and under the control of the ophthalmoscope 300 mul of isotone solution of NaCl with 22Na or o-131J-iodo-hippuric acid were injected into the space between the retina and pigment epithelium of 28 narcotized tomcats after having closed the inferior retina vessels by photocoagulation about 1 hr before in an umber of the animals.
(10) This exuberant early 19th-century novel by ETA Hoffmann is framed as a poetically pretentious tomcat's autobiography, which gets mixed up, due to a printer's error, with the biography of a composer.
(11) This histochemically enstablished pattern of enzyme activity in the epididymis of the tomcat was compared with those of other mammals.
(12) A tomcat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: "Take me to the canaries."
(13) The ET technique at Tygerberg Hospital, using the Tomcat catheter, is described.
(14) In acute experiments on tomcats after stimulation of supraoptic nuclei (SON), postoptic nuclei (PON), preoptic area of the hypothalamus, cervical sympathetic nerve (SCN) and vagal afferent fibers (VA) the following data were obtained in the preparations stained by Gomori method: four pair accessory cell groups in the rostral part of the hypothalamus were observed: 1) periventricular group (along the walls of the III ventricle; 2) the preoptic group (above the preoptic recess; 3) the parafornical group (around the fornix columns), and 4) the spindle-shaped group.
(15) "I wouldn't trust myself with anything except for comic verse or bad-on-purpose verse: now you've met my cats you'll understand why I was very keen to do The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr …".
(16) Both urine and cheek gland secretion of the female donor appeared to contain pheromones which inform the tomcat about her hormonal phase.
(17) An introducer--the FT introducer--designed to overcome technical difficulties in selected patients in passing the Tomcat catheter is described.
(18) The histochemical localization of 6 lysosomal enzymes was studied in the epididymis of adult tomcats.