(n.) Any rodent of the genus Arctomys. The common European marmot (A. marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.
(n.) Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasma ANF of both groups of nonhibernating marmots was significantly higher (P less than 0.01) than that the hibernating group, but there was no difference between nonhibernating males and females.
(2) The aim of this study was to determine the effects of circulating catecholamines and light on the daily melatonin rhythm in the marmot.
(3) CV Sir Michael Marmot Age 65 Lives London Education University of Sydney; University of Berkeley PhD Career 1971-85: epidemiologist, University of Berkeley; research professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London 1986-present: chair of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health set up by the World Health Organisation in 2005; led the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (Elsa) 2004: won the Balzan Prize for Epidemiology 2006: gave the Harveian Oration 2008: won the William B Graham Prize for Health Services Research 2010 (February): published the report, Fair Society, Healthy Lives, based on a review of health inequalities he conducted at the request of the British government 2010-2011: president of the British Medical Association Family married, three children Interests tennis, playing viola The Marmot Review NHS Confederation Conference The Black Report
(4) "By all means make special efforts on the poorest," says Marmot.
(5) An earlier version misquoted Michael Marmot as referring to a contraction of capital and income, instead of a concentration of capital and income.
(6) When Sir Michael Marmot published his official report earlier this year examining the link between health and wealth, the findings demonstrated an alarming "social gradient".
(7) Responses of normothermic and hibernating marmots to manipulations of the preoptic-hypothalamic temperature (TPO) were studied.
(8) The rest is left to mule deer, cougars, marmots, badgers – and me.
(9) It was concluded that normothermic marmots have a RAA system comparable to other mammalian species.
(10) Over 75% of local governments are now working to embed Marmot principles in their approaches to improving health and reducing inequalities, and the Institute of Health Equity have developed partnerships across London, England and Europe to further develop and implement approaches to health inequality.
(11) There were bears out west, mountain lions, coyotes and wolves, badgers, marmots, golden eagles – and what did we have?
(12) Hunting, skinning and eating marmots or other infected animals are the main causes of infection.
(13) Extras: Mountain Marmots morning ski school, £249 per child, Monty’s Afternoon Club, including lunch, £239 per child, skifamille.co.uk MARCH: FOR SPRING SKIING It’s low season again, so the crowds have gone, prices are lower, and the snow should be good – along with some warmer spring days, when there’s ample opportunity to sit outside for a long lunch in the sun.
(14) So, while the response to the Marmot review locally and nationally has more than met our expectations and hopes, there are also some worrying signs.
(15) It will be chaired by Sir Michael Marmot and will include some eminent statisticians, none of whom have been involved in the breast screening controversy before.
(16) In brown adipose tissue of alp-marmot (Marmota marmota), badger (Meles meles) and Wistar rats steroids of C21- and C19-type are identified and quantified.
(17) Body contact with euthermic nestmates warmed torpid marmots passively.
(18) The lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) isozymes from heart, liver, kidney and skeletal muscle in Himalayan marmots (Marmota himalayana robusta) in non-hibernation were investigated in the present experiment.
(19) Glucose uptake was measured throughout the year in marmots (Marmota flaviventris) by the hyperglycemic clamp technique.
(20) Adrenal steroid secretion rates and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone (RAA) system were studied in the normothermic marmot.
Muskrat
Definition:
(n.) A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.
(n.) The musk shrew.
(n.) The desman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Respiration was disrupted and bradycardia induced in anesthetized muskrats by stimulating the nasal cavity with a stream of either water or various concentrations of ammonia vapors.
(2) A total of 189 muskrat fecal samples were surveyed for Campylobacter and Giardia species.
(3) Genetic relationships were reported for Chlamydia psittaci derived from psittacine birds, pigeons, turkeys, humans, cats, muskrats, cattle, and sheep and for C. trachomatis, including representative strains of the three biovars, through physical analysis of genomic DNA including DNA fingerprinting with restriction endonuclease SalI, DNA-DNA hybridization in solution with S1 nuclease, and Southern analysis with genomic DNA probes.
(4) Glucose uptake (amount removed from the perfusion fluid) was 3 times greater in the muskrat hearts than in the guinea pig heart.
(5) (Ryan, Wyand & Nielsen, 1982) from the skeletal muscles of the muskrat Ondatra zibethica in North America.
(6) The prevalence of Giardia infection in juvenile and adult live-trapped muskrats was similar (92.5 and 94.4%, respectively), but the prevalence in juvenile live-trapped beavers (23.2%) was significantly greater than that seen in the adult animals (12.6%).
(7) A high infection rate of muskrat with the trematode Q. quinqueserialis was recorded in Pribaikalje.
(8) However, because natal dispersal in muskrats is male biased, it is unlikely that two brothers would associate with the same female.
(9) From the comparison of the sequence with those of other mammalian species we found that Spalax diverged from the myomorph rodent branch before the divergence of the Muridae (mouse, rat) from the Cricetidae (hamster, muskrat).
(10) Our data shows mature muskrats have relatively uniform craniometric dimensions promoting their use for stereotaxic placements in their brains.
(11) The receptor density was about 40% greater in the guinea pig heart than in the muskrat heart.
(12) But this function of muskrat was weaker than that of musk.
(13) Microsporida similar morphologically to Encephalitozoon cuniculi were found in granulomatous foci in the brain of 5 of 29 wild-caught muskrats (Ondatra zibethica) held in captivity for various periods of time, but not in any of 36 free-living muskrats examined.
(14) Specific antibodies were found in 11.8% of 127 sera of muskrats trapped form the wild in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Arctic, and Wisconsin.
(15) Chlamydia psittaci (strain M56, the agent of epizootic chlamydiosis of muskrats and hares) was highly lethal for the snowshoe hare (Lepus americans) following intravenous inoculation, whereas the agent was much less virulent for cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) and albino domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
(16) Agents lethal to chicken embryos and mice were isolated from the blood and spleen of 2 muskrats and 2 snowshoe hares which died during the cataclysmic die-off of 1961 in Central Saskatchewan.
(17) Similarities in the pathology and epizootiology of Tyzzer's and Errington's diseases of muskrats support an hypothesis that these diseases are a single entity.
(19) The similarity between both ribonucleases was used to confirm a few less certain parts of the muskrat RNase sequence.
(20) Of 220 muskrat fecal specimens collected from 12 sites in southwestern New Jersey, 154 (70%) were found to contain cysts of the protozoan parasite Giardia spp.