(n.) Any one of many species of small parrots of the family Trichoglossidae, generally having the tongue papillose at the tip, and the mandibles straighter and less toothed than in common parrots. They are found in the East Indies, Australia, New Guinea, and the adjacent islands. They feed mostly on soft fruits and on the honey of flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seroprevalence surveys have shown the presence of toxoplasmosis in local meat animals (sheep, pigs and cattle) and Toxoplasma strains have been isolated from the pig, tree shrew (Tupaia glis), slow loris (Nycticebus coucang) and guinea pigs.
(2) Adult filariae were found in the abdominal air sacs of two cockatoos and two red lories and identified as Cardiofilaria sp.
(3) Coccidiosis was seen only in the small intestines of the finch (Poephila gouldiae gouldiae), African Grey Parrot, Rainbow lory (Trichoglossus haematodus), Indian Ring-necked parakeet (Psittacula krameri manillensis) and peach-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis).
(4) Microelectrode mapping methods and strategies were developed to map fine details of the somatotopic organization of somatic sensory cortex (SI) in slow loris.
(5) In Malaysia, Sarcocystis cysts have been reported from many domestic and wild animals, including domestic and field rats, moonrats, bandicoots, slow loris, buffalo, and monkey, and man.
(6) The structural features of the 'antecubital organs' of slow loris suggest that it is a mixed gland of both exocrine and endocrine nature.
(7) One of his fans, Lori Maddox, has claimed in interviews that she lost her virginity to him after he gave her champagne and hash when she was about to turn 15.
(8) One isolate from a lemur (slow loris) contained a dsRNA virus also found in some of the Giardia of human origin.
(9) The dorsal column system projects primarily to an area lateral to the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus, whereas the spinotectal projection is primarily to the medial region in the hedgehog and medial and dorsal regions in the tree shrew and slow loris.
(10) It was concluded that, in spite of its low metabolic rate, the slow loris had effective responses to moderate cold, and that, in addition, it was well adapted to a hot climate.
(11) Lori Lightfoot, an attorney who previously worked as chief administrator for the Chicago police division that oversaw shootings by officers, said the video could be significant but many questions remained: what was the vantage point of the workers?
(12) However, the data are not consistent with such a relationship in several primate species (marmoset, rhesus monkey, cynomolgus monkey, squirrel monkey and the slow loris), the cat and the dog.
(13) The somatic sensory cortex (SI and SII) was mapped in llamas using microelectrode mapping methods developed earlier in a study of SI of the slow loris.
(14) The prosimians (galago and slow loris) have two additional layers that are not found in pithecoid primates, and only one superficial layer is apparent.
(15) It's testimony to the writing and voice skills of MacFarlane that, minutes into the movie, Ted stops being an adorable CGI furball and evolves into a recognisable character type: the anchor who drags his best friend down, squashes his ambitions and gets in the way of his relationship with his long-suffering girlfriend Lori (played by Kunis).
(16) He follows Loris Karius and Joel Matip , as well as Marko Grujic , in joining Klopp’s squad ahead of the new season.
(17) Among them was Lori Stanislaus, who says federal workers "live check to check like everybody else" and the current shutdown is "a scary thing": "I don't know if I'm going to get paid," Stanislaus said.
(18) We have previously shown that transcription of the pilin gene of Pseudomonas aeruginosa also requires RpoN (K. S. Ishimoto and S. Lory, Proc.
(19) I’m kind of proud of that,” said Lori Linker, funding director of the non-profit Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.
(20) This is illustrated by an account from Lori Ball, a healthy 53-year-old woman from Ohio who is not only well-informed about sleep paralysis but is actually cognisant of what is happening to her while it's happening: "I try to scream (though I have great difficulty making any sound), attempt to flail around, anything, to get the attention of my husband.
Lowry
Definition:
(n.) An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sitting in the bar at the Lowry theatre in Salford’s Media City, Shindler is talking about the word “gritty”.
(2) Of the big national companies, the only one to take a major hit was English National Opera, while there was also a big cut for the Lowry, and complete cuts for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and touring companies including the long-standing Red Ladder.
(3) (1951), its modified method (Lowry-TCA method) with protein precipitation by trichloroacetic acid (TCA) and the new method (BCA method) with bicinchoninic acid reaction, were reexamined as to whether these three methods were applicable to urinary protein quantitation of rats.
(4) This study supports the use of a standardized selected Lowry-sodium dodecyl sulfate method traceable to quantitative amino acid analysis as a point of reference for determining the protein concentration of primary calibration reference materials for apolipoproteins.
(5) As Weeks read out his judgment, Al Lowry, brother of the killed highway patrol officer Ed Lowry, shouted out: "Judge, you had your mind made up the first day."
(6) The Lowry method, standardized with bovine serum albumin, correctly measures the protein content.
(7) The protein content varied from 16% to 42% as determined by dye binding test and 17 to 60% by Lowry phenol method using bovine serum albumin as the standard, which implies that the proteins associated with LPS may also play important roles in the complex for the immunochemical interactions and the heterogeneity of B. abortus lipopolysaccharide protein complex.
(8) In order to investigate the consequences of presence of aggregates in human albumin standards, pools of monomer, dimer and polymer albumin were prepared and quantitated by three total-protein methods (biuret, Folin-Lowry and spectrophotometry at 279 nm) and by four different albumin methods (dye-binding by bromcresol green, electroimmunoassay, radial immunodiffusion and automated immunoprecipitation).
(9) The linearity and reproducibility of the microcolorimeter when used with the Lowry assay has been verified.
(10) We have used the method of Austin, Lowry, Brown and Carter, to measure the steady-state metabolic half-life of tubulin (alpha and beta individually) and actin (beta and gamma together) in the total cytosolic (S3), microsomal (P3), synaptic plasma membrane (SPM) and synaptic junction (SJ) subcellular fractions from 6-day-old and adult chicken forebrain.
(11) The mutants were deficient in streptolysin S, as was the naturally occurring nonhemolytic Lowry strain.
(12) Comparison of the results obtained with the refractometric and the Lowry methods indicated that refractometry, when used with due caution in a typical laboratory situation, provided a simple, fast, inexpensive and valid method for determining the protein content of plasma from young chickens.
(13) Unfortunately, more general reactions, such as the permanganate, the 'Lowry' and the ninhydrin stains, cannot be utilized since the carrier ampholytes react very strongly with all these reagents.
(14) Peroxydability of the dental pulp has been evaluated with Lowry method with dental pulp homogenate and rat liver homogenate (see Table 1).
(15) Historian Richard Lowry, who interviewed nearly 200 veterans of the Iraq battle, likens it to "a thousand SWAT teams going through the city, clearing criminals out."
(16) The utility of this method as an in-process assay during isolation of a protein is demonstrated by comparing estimates of protein content from fourth derivative spectroscopy with those from the Lowry assay for samples at several steps along the isolation pathway for outer membrane vesicles of N. meningitidis.
(17) Protein and amino acid contents of liver of normal (untreated) adult male garden lizard, Calotes versicolor, were quantitatively determined by the method of Lowry et al.
(18) The hydrolytic activity was measured by Lowry's method.
(19) The protein content in each HPLC peak was measured by the Lowry method.
(20) Quantitation of stained, electroeluted proteins by the classical Lowry and Bradford protein assay is not possible because of some different interferences.