(n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
(a.) Not of a pure breed.
(a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Changes of circulating blood volume during isoflurane or sevoflurane anesthesia were investigated by the dual indicator dilution method in eighteen mongrel dogs.
(2) In the first experiment, mongrel and ddS mice produced under an unsatisfactory control of proximate environment were purchased, and acute toxicity tests of thiamine hydrochloride (B1HCl) and isonicotinic acid hydrazide (INAH) were practiced at two different conditioned rooms.
(3) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
(4) In six healthy mongrel dogs total body water volume (TBW), extracellular water volume (ECW), body mass, and plasma osmolality were measured before and after infusion of both saline and HDMTX.
(5) Heterotopic heart and orthotopic left lung allotransplantation was performed in three groups of six mongrel dogs each according to the method of lung preservation.
(6) Ten centimeter long, 4 mm internal diameter segments of an unreinforced, experimental PTFE graft were implanted into 36 mongrel dogs as carotid interpositions.
(7) The concentration of phospholipids and total lipids was determined 4 weeks after a portocaval shunt (PCS) in liver tissue of adult mongrel dogs.
(8) Adult mongrel dogs were instrumented and placed in the bore of a Bruker Biospec 1.89 tesla superconducting magnet system.
(9) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(10) Anaesthetized mongrel dogs were subjected to occlusion of a coronary artery.
(11) Four methyl methacrylate bone substitutes were investigated in bilateral multiple bone defects in the femurs of five rhesus monkeys and five mongrel dogs.
(12) Twenty-three unrelated mongrel dogs underwent successful transplantation of the entire small intestine in the orthotopic location.
(13) For these purposes, the changes in microvascular structure of the fibrotic pancreas, produced by ligation of the pancreatic duct in mongrel adult dogs, were investigated by microangiography and injection replica scanning electron microscopic methods.
(14) The comparative effects of contractile agonists and physiological stimulation of the tracheal and bronchial smooth muscle (BSM) response were studied isometrically in situ in five Basenji-greyhound (BG) and six mongrel dogs.
(15) Pancreatic secretion was evaluated in eight pregnant female mongrel dogs prepared with Thomas duodenal and gastric fistulae, during pregnancy (corresponding to the third trimester in humans), during the puerperium, and several months after whelping.
(16) Lined prostheses implanted for 24 hours in mongrel dogs as an arteriovenous shunt demonstrated the antithrombogenicity of the cultured ENC.
(17) The pattern of locomotion following a partial movement restraint was studied in five mongrel puppies.
(18) The effect of d-3-acetoxy-cis-2,3-dihydro-5-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-2-(p-methoxyphenyl)-1,5-benzothiazepine-4(5H)one hydrochloride (ditiazem hydrochloride, CRD-401) on renal hemodynamics was investigated in 18 mongrel adult dogs, and the following results were obtained.
(19) A pair of ultrasonic crystals, an electromagnetic flow probe and a cuff occluder were placed on the left circumflex coronary artery in 12 mongrel dogs under sterile conditions.
(20) The haemodynamic effects of N-carboxy-3-morpholino-sydronimine-ethylester (molsidomine, SIN 10, Corvaton) were studied in anaesthetized mongrel dogs.
Tyke
Definition:
(n.) See 2d Tike.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zaillian (Schindler's List) will be responsible for translating Peace's own distinctive brand of Tyke noir into an American setting.
(2) It was just one of the guerrilla tactics deployed by the typically tenacious tykes.
(3) As a young tyke at Tony Blair's Number 10 Policy Unit, Andrew Adonis was the architect of the academies programme.