(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.
Quoll
Definition:
(n.) A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of prolactin concentrations throughout lactation in the quoll is therefore very similar to that previously described for the tammar, Macropus eugenii, and the possum, Trichosurus vulpecula.
(2) The pattern of testosterone-LH secretion, feedback mechanism, and periodicity of release were investigated in the male marsupial eastern quoll.
(3) In both marsupials the density of crossed and uncrossed terminals is equal, a feature of dasyurid quolls but not of another dasyurid, the Tasmanian devil.
(4) The Australian polyprotodont marsupials, the Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus harrisii, and the quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus, together with an American polyprotodont, the Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana, demonstrate variable degrees of tapetal differentiation, pigmentation and a very close parallel course of their intraretinal arteries and veins over considerable distances.
(5) Milk samples were obtained at various stages of lactation from 16 captive eastern quolls.
(6) GnRH peptides in the hypothalami of marsupials (tammar wallaby, short-nosed bandicoot, and eastern quoll) and a monotreme (echidna) were investigated by reverse phase HPLC and RIA with region-specific antisera.
(7) Segregation of visual input increases progressively in the remaining polyprotodont (eastern quoll) and in the diprotodonts (Tasmanian bettong, Tasmanian potoroo and brush-tailed possum), culminating in the last-named, in which segregation is most complete.
(8) Cholecystokinin octapeptides (CCK8s) have been purified from methanol extracts of two brains from each of two Australian marsupials, Tammar Wallaby and Eastern Quoll, containing 3 nmol and 2 nmol of the peptides, respectively.
(9) The company will have to pay $48,000 for each devil killed, as well as fund the eradication of feral dogs and cats should a spotted-tailed quoll, another endangered marsupial, die.
(10) It’s clear that they didn’t consult and apply the right advice.” Jordan said that around 60 rare and endangered species live in the Tarkine region, such as the Tasmanian devil, wedge-tailed eagle, spotted-tailed quoll and various types of orchid.
(11) Behavioural estimates of the visual acuity of the Northern Native Cat (or Northern Quoll)--Dasyurus hallucatus--were made using the Mitchell jumping stand technique.
(12) Two GnRH molecular forms were demonstrated in the bandicoot and quoll hypothalamic extracts.
(13) That’s more than 1,300 house blocks per day of koala habitat being bulldozed.” He said 200 threatened animals – including the greater bilby and northern quoll – and plants lost 211,820 hectares of habitat following the reduction in tree-clearing controls.
(14) The western quolls acquired by Gould from the Liverpool Plains were the first and last ever seen by a European in NSW.
(15) In general, both the quantitative and qualitative changes observed in the milk carbohydrates of the eastern quoll were similar to those documented for macropodids.
(16) Thickness measurements on retinal wholemounts show that the avascular retinae of the placental guinea pig (140 microns) and the marsupial brushtail possum (170 microns) are thinner and show less centroperipheral taper than do the vascular retinae of placental cats (250 microns), rats (220 microns) and marsupial quolls (220 microns).
(17) In this report, we demonstrate that opossum cholecystokinin octapeptide, like that of the Australian marsupials, the Eastern quoll and the Tamar wallaby, is identical to the cholecystokinin octapeptide of Old World mammals and differs from that of the guinea pig and chinchilla.
(18) The timing of breeding and the short duration of the testosterone breeding peak enable the quoll to intensify its reproductive effort.
(19) Except for the absence of blood vessels, the histological organisation of the brushtail possum's retina resembles closely that of its fellow marsupial, the quoll's.
(20) These species include the loggerhead turtle, whale shark and northern quoll.