(n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) When orchidectomized, the adrenals of semi-domestic, adult common myna, Acridotheres tritis atrophied.
(2) 4 species of Mallophaga (2 Amblycera, Menacanthus eurysternus and Myrsidea sp., and 2 Ischnocera, Brueelia chayanh and Sturnidoecus affinis) coexist on the body of Common Myna, Acridotheres tristis.
(3) The low dose of reserpine in the passerine (common myna and bulbul) birds resulted in 40-84% reduction of both norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) from the adrenal glands irrespective of its nerve supply.
(4) The primordial oocytes in the myna ovary are loosely arranged in groups or nests, whereas in crow they form compact nests surrounded by highly vascularized connective tissue bands or lie in layers beneath the surface epithelium.
(5) In brahminy myna a photosensitive species, long days caused full gonadal development followed by rapid regression, whereas short days inhibited these responses.
(6) Thyroidectomy in Myna, Acridotheres tristis, increased the levels of cholesterol, ascorbic acid and decreased the activity of the adrenal.
(7) These laboratory investigations clearly suggest that the annual photocycle affects the timing of the reproductive cycle of brahminy myna.
(8) These results suggest that refractoriness is a process used by the brahminy myna to terminate the breeding season, and that this species becomes totally photorefractory.
(9) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of ovarian surface epithelium during the sexual cycle of seasonally breeding birds: crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(10) A morphological and histochemical study has been made of the primordial and early growing oocytes in the ovaries of crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(11) A correlative morphological and cytochemical study has been made of the nucleoli and nuclear bodies in the growing oocytes of the crow (Corvus splendens) and common myna (Acridotheres tristis).
(12) Study of the oviduct of the pied myna (Sturnus contra contra) throughout the year reveals that oviductal weight, length, surface epithelial height and glycogen content are low during August to January (nonbreeding phase), partially increase during February to April (pre-breeding phase), maximally increase in May (breeding phase) and decrease in June and July (post-breeding phase).
(13) Experiments were performed to study the extent of the involvement of photoperiod in the timing of seasonal reproduction in brahminy myna (Sturnus pagodarum).
(14) Some notable features in the oviduct of the pied myna are described: 1) All five regions of the oviduct (infundibulum, magnum, isthmus, uterus, and vagina) are clearly distinguishable when studied from serial sections of the oviduct even during the nonbreeding phase of the annual ovarian cycle.
(15) A close synchrony between ovarian and oviducal cycles is indicated in the pied myna (Sturnus contra contra).
(16) Seasonal variations in a population of an amblyceran louse, Menacanthus eurysternus, infesting the common myna have been studied.
(17) Recently a number of orthomyxoviruses have been isolated from wild birds such as myna, banded parakeets, etc.
(18) 83.41% specimens of Common Myna were found infested with one to four species of Mallophaga, during the year 1984.
Starling
Definition:
(n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
(n.) A California fish; the rock trout.
(n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Example Sentences:
(1) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(2) For the purpose of an experimental study in which the three different types of pressure catheters most commonly used in anorectal manometry were compared, a Starling-resistance could be established.
(3) Properly timed atrial systole may alter systolic performance by the mechanism of Starling's law of the heart, which states that the extent of systolic myocardial fiber shortening is dependent on the degree of diastolic fiber stretch, or preload.
(4) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) Even within the ACE inhibitor group their effects vary--improving, impairing, or not changing the Frank-Starling relationships following reduction in left ventricular mass.
(6) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(7) We used single-unit vagal recordings to study the average discharge pattern during a respiratory cycle from 57 intrapulmonary CO2 receptors in 6 ducks artificially ventilated with a Starling pump.
(8) Thus the Frank-Starling mechanism has a very significant role in an intact organism with normal hemodynamics.
(9) Possible mechanisms causing the observed biphasic lymph flow response to capillary pressure elevation are: 1) changes in Starling forces oppose an increase in capillary pressure; 2) the rate of change in tissue fluid pressure affects lymph flow to a greater extent than does the absolute change in tissue fluid pressure; or, 3) the lymphatics empty upon elevation and refill as the capillaries filter.
(10) Pre- and postoperative hemodynamic workup with construction of Starling curves were used to answer this question.
(11) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(12) This study is the first to demonstrate that an intestinal helminth previously reported to be of little or no histopathological consequence, Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus, has a significant detrimental impact upon the flow of food energy through a definitive host, the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris.
(13) An addition to Starling's hypothesis is therefore suggested to adapt it to dependent tissues.
(14) These temperatures are 2-4 degrees C higher than the resting temperature in starlings, and are among the highest steady-state temperatures observed in any animal.
(15) These three parameters can be related to the ventricular filling time, supporting the opinion that the fetal heart follows the rules of the Frank Starling relationship.
(17) This altered cardiac response to venous filling, also observed in patients with essential hypertension, is suggested to be caused by an altered Frank-Starling relationship of the hypertrophied heart in hypertensive individuals.
(18) Endurance athletes have greater ventricular diastolic chamber compliance and distensibility than nonathletes and thus operate on the steep portion of their Starling curve.
(19) Within the heart the Frank-Starling mechanism, adrenergic stimulation causing increase of heart rate and contractility, and during the chronic course also myocardial hypertrophy are operating.
(20) Metabolic imbalance (hypoxia) can be linked with diabetic macular edema through hemodynamic principles according to Starlings law.