(v.) Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
(v.) Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
(v.) Lettering in red; rubric distinction.
(v.) A particular feature or trait.
(a.) Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, a miniature copy.
(v. t.) To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.
Example Sentences:
(1) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(2) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
(3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(4) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(5) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
(6) In the first of two studies, we randomized 2-d-old miniature piglets to receive bottle-feedings of a swine weaning milk formula with (group F + I) or without (group F) the addition of insulin.
(7) In addition, some have become extremely miniaturized.
(8) Extracellular recordings of miniature end-plate potentials in frog muscle showed that stimulation in the presence of MECh caused the time constant of the exponential decay of the m.e.p.p.s.
(9) The male adult Shiba goat, a miniature Japanese native goat, was used.
(10) And Doordash, which uses Starship Technologies miniature self-driving vehicles, is replacing restaurant delivery people.
(11) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
(12) An increase in the activity of ornithine decarboxylase was observed in mixed lymphocyte cultures from genetically defined, major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-nonidentical miniature swine as early as 18 hr after plating.
(13) The odds that uroliths submitted for analysis were composed of calcium oxalate was 2 times greater for Miniature Schnauzers than for dogs of other breeds (95% confidence interval = 1.6 to 2.4).
(14) Undistorted ventricular pressure wave form was obtained from a miniature transducer implanted in the left ventricular cavity.
(15) An ex vivo gastric chamber model based on miniature swine was used.
(16) Although some of the features of the TTE-RAS data base were not satisfactory, we consider this new miniaturized system to be a very valuable tool for the rapid identification of the most frequently isolated opportunistic bacteria.
(17) The retina was maintained in a nearly physiological state in a miniature "heart-lung" apparatus.
(18) A prototype system, termed an acoustic plethysmograph, was built and used to measure the volume of newborn miniature pigs.
(19) The intrinsic retinal vasculature of the miniature pig also has numerous characteristics in common with the human retina with regard to the extent of the vascular bed, the size of the blood vessels and the presence of radial peridiscal capillaries.
(20) The authors compared a group of 10 children operated by using this miniature apparatus with a control group of 20 children where the standard set up was used.
Pony
Definition:
(n.) A small horse.
(n.) Twenty-five pounds sterling.
(n.) A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.
(n.) A small glass of beer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(2) "We see him driving around, but he keeps to himself and we're quite close neighbours," said Libbi Darroch, as she groomed her 7-year-old showjumper Muffy at the Coatesville pony club.
(3) In a further study, three ponies treated on separate occasions with lincomycin, administered orally, died or were destroyed 67 to 72 h after initial treatment.
(4) Principal ponies had a history of heaves, a disease characterized by recurrent airway obstruction.
(5) Nine Przewalski's horse embryos were transferred surgically, and 2 non-surgically, to domestic Welsh-type pony mares.
(6) The erythrogram (erythrocyte histogram) and red cell distribution width (RDW) were evaluated in 5 purebred horses and 1 pony of mixed breeding with experimentally induced anemia.
(7) Pulmonary function measurements were made in control ponies and in ponies with recurrent obstructive pulmonary disease (principals) during clinical remission and during an attack of acute airway obstruction.
(8) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(9) However, large colon resection was associated with hypophosphatemia in three of the six ponies and produced an overall significantly lower phosphate concentration in the experimental ponies.
(10) A pony-tailed local businessman, Hall rose to prominence during the referendum campaign when he used a reconditioned Green Goddess fire engine to distribute pro-independence literature.
(11) A critical trial was performed with five ponies 6-9 months of age and raised on a horse farm with demonstrated benzimidazole-resistant cyathostomes.
(12) A second group of 5 ponies was fed a ration at varying rates containing 8 ppm FB1 for 180 days.
(13) Significantly (P less than 0.02) higher mean total numbers of P equorum were found in the small intestinal contents of the controls on day 14 (51) and on day 35 (21) than in the ivermectin-treated ponies on days 14 (0) and 35 (3).
(14) The prevalence of Anoplocephala perfoliata in 103 horses and ponies from Clwyd, Powys and the adjacent English marches, slaughtered during January 1987, was 69 per cent.
(15) The hindlimbs of 3 ponies and 3 horses were dissected.
(16) The results were compared to two control ponies and four others infected by accidental transmission.
(17) Further evidence that reinnervation occurred in the larynges of these ponies was determined in microscopic sections of the recurrent laryngeal nerves and muscles, which showed regenerative activity and muscle fiber-type grouping, respectively.
(18) Larvae of D arnfieldi were found in fecal samples of 112 (2%) of 5,379 horses on the 90 farms of which 38% had greater than or equal to 1 infected animal; none of 19 ponies examined was infected.
(19) A paste formulation containing 14.3 per cent of oxibendazole and 44 per cent of trichlorfon was administered to 33 ponies and horses.
(20) Ponies given PBZ and prostaglandin E2 remained clinically healthy and did not develop hypoproteinemia or mucosal atrophy.