(a.) All-devouring; eating everything indiscriminately; as, omnivorous vanity; esp. (Zool.), eating both animal and vegetable food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homocysteine thiolactone metabolism differs in guinea pig, an herbivorous species, and in rat, an omnivorous species.
(2) To study the contributions of genetics to food selection in an omnivorous species, rats of two strains and rats derived from reciprocal crosses of the two strains were compared.
(3) Significant VFA, however, are now known to be produced in omnivorous species, such as pigs and humans.
(4) At the end of the supplementation period there was a decrease in diastolic blood pressure of 1.4 mm Hg (p less than 0.10) and an unexpected increase in systolic blood pressure of 2.1 mm Hg (p less than 0.01) in the omnivores.
(5) Omnivores consumed the least fibre (23 g), vegetarians significantly more (37 g) and vegans the most (47 g).
(6) Information on food intake during weaning was collected as part of a mixed-longitudinal study on the nutritional status and growth of the 1985 Dutch birth cohort of infants on macrobiotic diets (n = 53) and a matched control group on omnivorous diets (m = 57).
(7) But now jellied eels, the gelatinous fare that makes even the most enthusiastic omnivore think twice before tucking in, are becoming popular outside the capital for the first time.
(8) Reduced risks for chronic degenerative diseases can also be achieved by manipulations of omnivorous diets and lifestyles.
(9) Vs and LOVs consumed significantly more fiber than did the omnivores, whereas NVs and LOVs consumed more saturated fatty acids than did Vs.
(10) The mean phytate:zinc and phytate X calcium:zinc millimolar ratios of American omnivorous diets in the present study were less than 10 and 200, respectively.
(11) Intakes of dietary fibre, vitamin C and folate were greater and the proportion of energy derived from fat was lower in the vegetarians than in the omnivores.
(12) We measured plasma lipid and lipoprotein levels, platelet function, platelet fatty acid levels, and platelet active prostaglandins in ten strict vegetarians (vegans), 15 lactovegetarians, and 25 age- and sex-matched omnivorous controls.
(13) After the administration of tritiated chondroitin sulfate (CS) by oral and intramuscular route, the distribution of radioactivity was investigated in two opportunist omnivorous animals, namely the rat and the dog.
(14) Current estimates are that VFA contribute approximately 70% to the caloric requirements of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle, approximately 10% for humans, and approximately 20-30% for several other omnivorous or herbivorous animals.
(15) But let's be clear that encryption is not the solution, probably only a speed bump to the NSA's omnivorous ingesting.
(16) The blood iron, vitamin B-12, and folate status of the 1985 birth cohort of Dutch infants aged 10.1-20.4 mo fed macrobiotic diets (n = 50) and matched omnivorous control infants (n = 57) was measured.
(17) There is considerable disagreement as to whether food availability entrains circadian activity rhythms in omnivorous laboratory rodents.
(18) Cell-free extracts were prepared from mixed fecal anaerobic bacteria grown from stools of 14 vegetarian Seventh-Day Adventists, 16 omnivorous control subjects, and eight patients recently diagnosed with cancer of the large bowel.
(19) These results suggest that although the Korean tree squirrel is a herbivorous rodent, the distribution pattern of its gastro-entero-endocrine cells is rather similar to that reported for omnivorous animals.
(20) The dog has a requirement for arginine intermediate between the cat and the rat, which is consistent with the dog having an omnivorous diet during its evolution.
Swine
Definition:
(n.) Any animal of the hog kind, especially one of the domestical species. Swine secrete a large amount of subcutaneous fat, which, when extracted, is known as lard. The male is specifically called boar, the female, sow, and the young, pig. See Hog.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(2) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
(3) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
(4) Analysis of literature data in which both the in vivo protection test and the in vitro neutralization test results were available on the same sera showed consistency with the above conclusions for both cattle and swine sera.
(5) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
(6) These swine were compared to four groups fed the medicated diet to determine the effect of duration of treatment and degree of animal isolation on the persistence of resistance in lactose-fermenting enteric organisms.
(7) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
(8) A glycosylated protein was essential for activity in bovine cells, but not in swine cells.
(9) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(10) The results do not favour the possibility that transient motor reactions exhibited by swine during pre-slaughter CO2-exposure are manifestations of emotional stress.
(11) 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.
(12) However, select strains of E. coli may cause or contribute to intestinal emphysema in swine.
(13) Because new drugs, which are really "defibrillating" drugs, are available (bretylium tosylate, bethanidine, clofilium, tricyclic antidepressants, phenotiazine derivatives), we plan to investigate these defibrillating drugs in isolated hearts, found in suitable animals like dogs (sheep and swine are difficult to defibrillate) and in humans during routine electropharmacological studies.
(14) Chlamydia psittaci was believed responsible for an episode of high perinatal death loss in a swine herd in which 8.5 pigs per litter normally were weaned.
(15) Authors used a wild strain of classical swine fever virus Alfort A19, grown on PK15 cell culture.
(16) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.
(17) The damage threshold during aortic valvuloplasty was determined in 12 normal swine subjected to inflation of oversized dual balloons.
(18) Protein p12 is incorporated into the membrane of infected cells about 7 h post-infection and is not present in purified African swine fever virus particles.
(19) The biological actions of hydrocortisone and insulin on the growth of swine cell line IB-RS-2 were studied.
(20) The overall differences between swine fed mash-cholesterol and those fed milk-cholesterol diets appear to result from more efficient absorption of both neutral and acid steroids in the milk-cholesterol group only partially compensated for by decreased cholesterol synthesis.