(n.) A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
(n.) A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.
(n.) A mass of fleshy or other more or less solid matter generated in the uterus.
(n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself.
(n.) Any insectivore of the family Talpidae. They have minute eyes and ears, soft fur, and very large and strong fore feet.
(n.) A plow of peculiar construction, for forming underground drains.
(v. t.) To form holes in, as a mole; to burrow; to excavate; as, to mole the earth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(2) The sigmoidal shape of the curve of rate constant vs mole percent anionic lipid is consistent with a positively cooperative effect of the negative surface charge.
(3) In the partial moles there is a slow hydatidiform change that affects only some of the villi, but which seems to follow along the same lines as in complete moles.
(4) Metabolism of DEHT by the rat appears to occur via rapid hydrolysis of both ester linkages to give two moles of 2-ethylhexanol and one mole of terephthalic acid.
(5) A complete hydatidiform mole (CM) had a 92,XXXX karyotype.
(6) The clinical and histological features of these moles have been designated the "B-K mole syndrome."
(7) The enzyme catalyzing d-amino acid oxidation was present in extracts of cells grown on valine, but not on glucose, had a pH optimum of approximately 9.0, consumed 1 atom of oxygen per mole of keto acid produced, and was not stimulated by any of the usual electron transport cofactors.
(8) A peroxidase conjugated-antibody (1.5 mole of enzyme per mole of antibody) was obtained and used for microwell enzyme immunoassay and Immun-Blot assay.
(9) The intrinsic inhibitory potency of this polymer increased with increasing degree of substitution with A35, approaching that of free A35 with substitution of approximately 3 mol of A35 per mole of dextran.
(10) Compared to women of group O or B, women of group A and AB had an elevated relative risk (RR) of benign mole (RR = 1.4 and 2.3, respectively).
(11) Five moles of ATP was consumed for each mole of phosphodiester bonds cleaved.
(12) The maximum effect was obtained with 10(-7) molar gibberellic acid, whereas concentrations greater than 5 x 10(-7) mole per liter were inhibitory.
(13) Yeast tRNAPhe containing a phosphorothioate modified -CS-CS-A terminus binds two moles of chloroterpyridineplatinum(II).
(14) Extracellular polysaccharides contain glucose, mannose, galactose, and xylose; G+C in DNA is 62 mole percent.
(15) The extent of sialylation of oligosaccharides in the three hCG samples used in this study were 88% in normal hCG, 82% in invasive mole hCG and 63% in choriocarcinoma hCG.
(16) A review of the literature revealed that this patient appears to be the first case of nephrotic syndrome associated with a total mole, although there have been two cases of nephrotic syndrome due to preeclamptic nephropathy associated with a partial or transitional mole.
(17) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(18) Our estimated rate of 7.5 hydatidiform moles per 10,000 pregnancies was similar to most reported rates for the United States.
(19) The current study was undertaken in an effort to identify the clinical characteristics and natural history of partial moles.
(20) The presence of millimolar concentrations of ATP, phenylalanine and pyrophosphate triggers negative cooperativity and under these conditions only one mole of Phe-tRNAphe is bound per mole of enzyme with a Kd value of 0.15 muM.
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.