(n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hydrolysis of glucagon with moose elastase produced major cleavages at Thr-7-Ser-8, Ser-11-Lys-12, Val-23-Gln-24 and Leu-26-Met-27.
(2) The fecal streptococci isolated were identified as the species that were found primarily in the fecal material of the native rodent and moose populations.
(3) Moose elastase possessed 231 residues, based on alanine recoveries equal to 17.0 residues, with a molecular weight calculated as 24 201.
(4) Mean induction times for the moose were 17 minutes and for the deer, 14 and 10 minutes, respectively.
(5) From the roentegonological viewpoint for fair were considered the findings without persisting subluxation and dislocation with the spheric head (the asphercity on the Moose template did not exceed 2 mm) and without evident shape deformities of the proximal end of the femur (coxa vara, overgrowth of the greater trochanter).
(6) I’ll keep studying what’s left of the wolves, moose and vegetation on the island,” he says.
(7) According to official Swedish police statistics more than 400 car occupants are injured annually in crashes with a moose.
(8) The objectives were to determine the prevalence and intensity of infection in white-tailed deer, and to determine whether or not moose feces contained first stage larvae, signifying the completion of the life cycle of P. tenuis in this host.
(9) Peptides were isolated from the disulphide bridge and active-site regions of the A and B chymotrypsins of moose and elk by diagonal peptide-'mapping' techniques.
(10) Infested moose groomed extensively, apparently in response to feeding nymphal and adult ticks, and developed alopecia.
(11) Hair samples were collected from 100 moose at the MRC to correspond with the lactation period and serve as a metabolic indicator of mineral elements stored in tissue.
(12) The joke is that there are moose hiding on each page.
(13) Details of the isolation procedures of the moose and elk chymotrypsins A and B and the amino acid analyses of some peptides obtained by diagonal peptide 'mapping' have been deposited as Supplementary Publication SUP 50064 (27 pages) at the British Library Lending Division, Boston Spa, Wetherby, W. Yorkshire LS23 7BQ, U.K., from whom copies can be obtained on the terms indicated in Biochem.
(14) Dictyocaulus viviparus was found in lungs of 14% of 50 moose, 14% of 118 mule deer, 12% of 41 wapiti, and 6% of 54 white-tailed deer.
(15) A relationship was demonstrated between the buffer properties of moose's milk and its lysozyme activity.
(16) Controlled priming based on phonological relatedness (JUICE-MOOSE) was equally effective in either visual field (VF).
(17) There were thirty-six secondary collisions: in eighteen, the vehicle hit other objects after avoiding the moose (group A), and in the other eighteen, the vehicle hit the moose and then hit other objects (group B).
(18) Fifteen percent of the mule deer and four percent of the moose were positive for adult arterial worms.
(19) Greater K:C, P:C and Ca:C ratios in east-end moose compared to west-end moose throughout winter I, and increases in these ratios and U:C in east-end moose from middle to late winter during the second year provided additional evidence of a greater deterioration in condition in east-end moose.
(20) Blood samples were collected from captive and free-ranging elk (Cervus canadensis), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), white-tailed deer, (Odocoileus virginianus), black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), moose (Alces alces), and bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) for cultural evidence of Trypanosoma sp.
Morse
Definition:
(n.) The walrus. See Walrus.
(n.) A clasp for fastening garments in front.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, contact your school, even if you are no longer a student there, recommends Ben Morse, head of Year 13 at the Piggott school, Reading.
(2) Auditory lateralization was investigated in 26 right-handed and 26 left-handed, normal subjects using seven different dichotic listening tests in each proband (free recall of digit lists, free recall of consonant-vowel (CV) syllables, four different CV syllable monitoring paradigms, and free recall of Morse codes).
(3) Although, among jobbing-actor roles in series such as Casualty, Lovejoy and Inspector Morse, he also appeared in the Dennis Potter drama Cream in My Coffee (1980), with Peggy Ashcroft; a TV version of Mr Jekyll and Hyde (1990) and Ending Up (1989), based on the Kingsley Amis novel about old buffers going grumbling to their doom.
(4) The receptor-linked tyrosine phosphatase RPTP alpha from human brain (Kaplan, R., Morse, B., Huebner, K., Croce, C., Howk, R., Ravera, M., Ricca, G., Jaye, M., and Schlessinger, J.
(5) The National Rifle Association said the election sent a clear message to lawmakers that they should protect gun rights and be accountable to their constituents, not to "anti-gun billionaires" – a swipe at the New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who supported Giron and Morse.
(6) Measured data were supplemented with Monte Carlo-calculated relative dose rate data generated using the MORSE code.
(7) Willett, Norman P. (University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, Pa.), and Guy E. Morse.
(8) He said that the money market desk had told compliance, then headed by Stephen Morse, about the decision to reduce the Libor submission.
(9) I first meet him as the 43-year-old sits in his Inspector Morse-style Jaguar outside Radio 2.
(10) Subsequently, a surface substance was obtained from strains 1142 or 1124 by the method of Morse.
(11) ITV1's prequel to Inspector Morse, Endeavour, has proved there is still life in the franchise, attracting an average audience of 6.5 million on Monday night.
(12) Timing measures were obtained from subjects instructed to tap a Morse key in synchrony with a metronome which marked a timing pattern consisting of alternating blocks of intervals of imperceptibly different duration.
(13) were tested on their ability to learn letter names of Braille configurations presented visually or tactually and to Morse Code signals presented aurally.
(14) Performance was higher for braille than for Morse code.
(15) The NAO comptroller and auditor general, Amyas Morse, recently refused to sign off the accounts of the Department for Education due to his opinion that “ the level of error and uncertainty in the statements to be both material and pervasive ”, which bears out Kerslake’s concern: Morse says he simply does not know whether academy schools are spending public money well enough.
(16) Wayne Morse of Oregon, the so-called "Tiger of the Senate", managed 22 hours 26 minutes to stall debate on an oil bill in 1953, while Robert La Follette Sr of Wisconsin kept going for 18 hours 23 minutes in 1908 to talk out a bill that would have allowed the US treasury to lend currency to banks during fiscal crises.
(17) However, the Guardian disclosed last month that the head of the NAO , Amyas Morse, appeared to undermine the process before it had even started by telling Hartnett that the inquiry would find "nothing of substance".
(18) At the time of the killings, Bales had been under heavy personal, professional and financial stress, Morse said.
(19) Just before he left the base, Morse said, Bales told a special forces soldier that he was unhappy with his family life, and that the troops should have been quicker to retaliate for a roadside bomb attack that claimed one soldier's leg.
(20) Our previous work has shown that 26 of 38 cases (68.4%) of primary adenocarcinoma of the colon exhibited significantly elevated levels of c-myc RNA compared to normal colonic mucosa (M. D. Erisman, P. G. Rothberg, R. E. Diehl, C. C. Morse, J. M. Spandorfer, and S. M. Astrin.