(a.) Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a marsupium; as, the marsupial bones.
(n.) One of the Marsupialia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
(2) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
(3) This is believed to be the first reported case of degenerative cardiomyopathy in a captive marsupial in Nigeria.
(4) In contrast to many eutherian (placental) species, this marsupial was found to lack histamine in blood leukocytes and platelets.
(5) When the patient experienced discomfort, an incisional biopsy and marsupialization were performed.
(6) These findings are discussed with respect to similarities and differences between marsupial and eutherian females and between male and female gray opossums in the hormonal control of sexually dimorphic behavior and morphology.
(7) DNA sequences from the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were obtained from a museum specimen of the presumed extinct thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) and were compared with homologous sequences from 13 representatives of the Australian marsupial family Dasyuridae.
(8) Surgical marsupialization of the lymphocele with drainage into the peritoneal cavity proved to be an effective treatment.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
(10) Thin blood smears were collected from 126 mammals representing four genera of marsupials and six genera of murid rodents.
(11) The development of righting was studied in the young of Dasyurus hallucatus, a small marsupial from northern Australia.
(12) This report contains the first description of a salivary gland tumour in a dasyurid marsupial; the same animal also had a mammary carcinoma.
(13) 53 cases were all marsupialized into the oral vestibulum.
(14) The effect of destruction of some blastomeres on subsequent cleavage in vitro was investigated in the marsupial Antechinus stuartii.
(15) One had bilateral ureterostomies and the subsequent four had marsupialization of the bladder.
(16) The effects of ambient temperature and of sex on nest-building behavior were studied in a laboratory colony of gray short-tailed opossums, small, Brazilian marsupials.
(17) This paper reviews the recent literature on odontogenic keratocysts and reports our experience with three cases successfully managed in three different ways: marsupialization, decompression followed by enucleation with primary closure and finally by enucleation with packing for secondary intention healing.
(18) Treatment by excision, marsupialization, or injection of absolute alcohol (95% ethanol) is discussed.
(19) We have found evidence in a marsupial mammal for extensive sexual dimorphisms which precede any morphological differentiation of the gonads.
(20) Oxygen carriage and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG) levels have been measured in the blood of seven species of Australian marsupials ranging in size from 35 to 0.03 kg.
Pouch
Definition:
(n.) A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
(n.) That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
(n.) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
(n.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
(n.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
(n.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
(n.) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
(v. t.) To put or take into a pouch.
(v. t.) To swallow; -- said of fowls.
(v. t.) To pout.
(v. t.) To pocket; to put up with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five patients have been examined by defecography before and four after closure of a loop ileostomy performed to cover healing of the pouch and ileoanal anastomoses.
(2) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(3) In group III, multiple confluent ulcers were produced in the cheek pouch on one side, with a single ulcer in the contralateral cheek pouch; no drug was applied, and the tissues were prepared for histology.
(4) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(5) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(6) Cheek pouches were removed from BIO 87.20 male hamsters 4 weeks, 8 months or 18 months of age.
(7) Acid and pepsin output from the denervated pouch in response to pentagastrin and food decreased significantly (P less than 0.001) after parenteral feeding and returned to control levels after the dogs resumed a normal diet.
(8) Type II had the anastomosis too high on the gastric pouch, type III was due to an obstructing marginal ulcer, and type IV had a pouchlike deformity develop in the upper jejunum at the anastomosis that gradually compressed the outflow tract.
(9) A series of 60 children whose urine was stored in pouches formed in whole or in part from bowel were reviewed to establish the effect on growth in height and weight.
(10) Injection of ovalbumin into subcutaneous air pouches prepared on the backs of rats previously sensitised to the antigen resulted in the induction of a small and transient accumulation of inflammatory fluid with a predominantly polymorph cell infiltrate.
(11) sp., from Chalcophaps i. indica, has three or four testes, and a cirrus pouch 93 to 108 mum long, 28 to 45 mum wide, and its egg capsules are 10 to 12 mum long, seven to nine mum wide, each containing four to six eggs.
(12) Theoretically, the low-pressure system afforded by the Kock pouch may be superior in long-term safety to that provided by reservoirs made from other bowel segments.
(13) Osteo-inductive activity of each protein fraction was determined by implantation in the quadriceps muscle pouch of mice.
(14) A study of 78 cases of gastrectomy in which two reconstruction procedures Roux-en-Y + pouch and interposition + pouch were compared and which is still in progress, yielded the following results: 1.
(15) Two of three noninoculated pouch mates acquired infections during the study based on examinations of feces and tissue sections of all eight opossums.
(16) In conclusion, functional results were satisfactory and quality of life was excellent after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis; neither deteriorated as patients aged over an 8-year period after operation.
(17) We present a computer-aided videodensitometric method for the determination of oxygen saturation in red blood cells flowing through capillaries of the hamster cheek pouch retractor muscle.
(18) The pouch was then removed and ex vivo measurements were repeated.
(19) As part of our investigation of the behaviour of suture materials, 3-0 sutures of polydioxanone and Maxon were enclosed in nylon pouches, a technique developed for in vivo experiments to prevent cellular interaction with implanted devices.
(20) Subcutaneous injection of sterile air in rodents results in the formation of an air pouch with a lining morphologically similar to synovium (Edwards et al., 1981).