(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) the does had been grazing on lucerne from the time of mating and received a free-choice lick, which included iodine.
(3) Southampton, with injuries and defeats to consider, were left licking their wounds.
(4) Combined treatment with quinpirole and a D-1 agonist was followed by dose-dependent licking and occasional biting behaviour.
(5) injection of phenylbenzoquinone, (6) forepaw licking and jump latencies on a hot plate.
(6) The spindle units were classified into 4 types: 5 units showed rhythmical activity related only to the jaw opening phase during both licking and chewing, 8 units discharged at jaw opening phase during licking, but both at jaw opening and jaw closing phases during eating, 2 units increased phasic activity at jaw opening phase during licking, but increased tonically independent of jaw movements during eating, and the remaining 3 units responded only at jaw closing phase both in licking and eating behavior.
(7) Electrical stimulation of the hypothalamic centres through implanted electrodes has shown that the amplitude of evoked responses and the impairment of licking increases, in proportion to the delay between lick onset and stimulus application.
(8) It has been shown that under all types of stimulation the latent periods (LP) of nociceptive reactions of paw licking and tail flick were significantly increased, as compared to baseline level, thus suggesting suppression of the pain sensitivity.
(9) The time to hand over the reins came and went, Keating challenged and lost, before heading to the backbench to lick his wounds and shore up the factional numbers needed for a successful spill.
(10) A video from the zoo showed Juxiao sitting in the corner of a room as she delivered her cubs for four hours and licking them after they were born.
(11) Of course, a finer measurement of movements, such as lick rate, may reveal a significant difference that would correlate with the metabolic change.
(12) They were trained to respond on a tongue-operated solenoid-driven drinking device that delivered 0.005 ml of a glucose and saccharin solution (G + S) per lick.
(13) licking, scratching, grooming, head and limb movements), a reaction termed immobility.
(14) In contrast, after weaning they showed a significant increment in the duration of face-washing, head-washing, fur licking and body-scratching.
(15) In high doses all compounds reduced the licking activity, but a low dose of APEC (1 microM) injected together with the formalin solution had an algesic effect.
(16) The selection for licking in males had no discernible effect on female sexual activity.
(17) Apomorphine-induced gnawing and licking but not sniffing were attenuated in rats with GP lesions.
(18) In control rats, SKF 38393 enhanced the stereotyped responses induced by quinpirole, converting lower-level stereotypies (sniffing and rearing) to more intense oral behaviors (licking and gnawing).
(19) And where, as a general rule, do we stand on licking sticks?
(20) The time spent licking the bottles during water omission and the time spent drinking during a subsequent 5-min drinking session (water available) were recorded.
Sucking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck
(a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(2) The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
(3) The ratio of the intrapleural pressure shift to magnitude of phasic changes of the blood flow in the posterior v. cava (the pumping coefficient) is suggested for estimation of effect of the chest sucking function upon the venous outflow and for relative estimation of rigidity of the vascular bed's venous portion.
(4) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
(5) Clinically the word vampirism should be used to name all sexual or agressive acts, whether blood-sucking happens or not, committed on a dead or dying person.
(6) To examine this proposal VIP concentrations in plasma from arterial, gastric venous and intestinal venous blood were measured in healthy conscious lambs before, during and after teasing with, and sucking of milk.
(7) In spite of this fact, it has not been possible in this study to establish a significant correlation between previous dummy-sucking and the development of cross-bite in the permanent dentition.
(8) Indications for surgery were haemorrhage from a major systemic or pulmonary vessel or the heart, cardiac tamponade, diaphragmatic penetration, oesophageal and bronchial tears, and sucking chest wounds.
(9) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(10) Getting a divorce really sucks,” she says, adding that she still doesn’t view their nine-year marriage as a failure.
(11) The present study investigated the way that sucking of a pacifier influences gastric secretory and motor functions in connection with tube feeding.
(12) To isolate single spores from adhesive ascospores and the mycelium, the suspension was sucked through a combination of sintered-glass plates with different pore sizes.
(13) Additionally Group I received fluoride tablets (FLUDENT) for daily sucking twice a day plus a placebo dentifrice free of fluoride.
(14) To stop the arteriolar flow and allow perfusion pressure, as set by a mercury manometer, to be built up in the lumen of the vessel, the glomerulus was sucked into a constriction pipette.
(15) Receptors for epidermal growth factor (EGF) were characterized on the intestinal membranes of newborn, sucking and weaned pigs.
(16) Charles said the drive to make food cheaper for consumers and to earn companies bigger profits was sucking real value out of the food production system – value that was critical to its sustainability.
(17) A few minutes after sucking a lozenge for a sore throat a 68-year-old man developed an anaphylactic shock.
(18) The changes are so typical that the manner and even the object of sucking can often be inferred from them with considerable certitude.
(19) "He's given the ball away four or five times when there were easier options available and he is arguably at fault for the goal for getting sucked in and failing to track Pedro.
(20) UN troops have been sucked into the latest violence, using helicopter gunships against the rebels.