(n.) Any person or animal especially cherished and indulged; a fondling; a darling; often, a favorite child.
(n.) A slight fit of peevishness or fretfulness.
(a.) Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory.
(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle; to indulge; as, she was petted and spoiled.
(v. i.) To be a pet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cases with unilateral hypoperfusion, the percentage of the activity in the lesion to that in the contralateral normal cortex on the early SPECT was correlated well with that on CBF measured by PET (r = 0.870, p less than 0.001).
(2) However, localizing a functional region with PET has been severely limited by the poor resolving properties of PET devices.
(3) The PET studies suggest dysfunction of the prefrontal cortex as a result of damage to the lentiform nuclei.
(4) If the PET measurement is commenced prior to arteriovenous equilibrium, significant errors occur in calculated CBV.
(5) Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are now being used to improve the information available from radioisotopic imaging of patients with cancer.
(6) The muscarinic receptor agonist carbachol had no significant effects on [3H]PEt and [3H]IP formation in nontransfected HEK cells.
(7) Appropriate corrections for atrophy should be employed if current PET scanners are to accurately measure actual brain tissue metabolism in various pathologic states.
(8) Using a 1-stage random-digit dial telephone survey, we estimated the number of pet dogs and cats and cancer case ascertainment in the principal catchment area of an animal tumor registry in Indiana, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program (PCOP).
(9) Such information could be most useful for in vivo receptor visualization studies using positron emission tomography (PET) scanning.
(10) Half the adolescents completed the child maltreatment instrument first, while the rest completed the pet maltreatment instrument.
(11) In this study, PET images were obtained using [18F]-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose, a marker for glucose metabolism.
(12) The global black market in animal and plants, sold as food, traditional medicines and exotic pets, is worth billions and sees an estimated 350 million specimens traded every year.
(13) The distribution of 1-11C-acetoacetic acid after injection into adult Wistar rats and cats was investigated by PET.
(14) If we start letting movie stars – even though they’ve been the sexiest man alive twice – to come into our nation (with pets), then why don’t we just break the laws for everybody?” Joyce said at the time.
(15) We have developed a method that allows two sets of regional cerebral metabolic rates of glucose (rCMRglc) to be obtained in a single extended procedure using positron emission tomography (PET) and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG).
(16) Metabolic PET studies also give insight into pathophysiologic mechanisms of epilepsy.
(17) In view of the number of PET studies involving low count rate acquisitions, there has been increasing interest recently in the development of positron cameras capable of fully three-dimensional acquisition and reconstruction.
(18) We performed dynamic positron emission tomographic (PET) studies of glucose utilization, using (18F) 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy age-matched controls, to evaluate blood-brain-barrier glucose transport and glucose utilization rates in the disease.
(19) We used a 11C-glucose method for positron emission tomography (PET) while estimating cerebral glucose metabolism during human sleep with polysomnography (PSG).
(20) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
Untamed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(2) Off message David Davis, untamed Tory SAS man, now living rough in the political wilderness.
(3) Plasma glucose concentrations were elevated during the first week in the untamed goats.
(4) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(5) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(6) Charles Kennedy: an open, untamed personality at the heart of the Lib Dems Read more “OK, well, so.
(7) Further, for News Corp to buy into such an untamed media property is to risk ruining it by making it corporate and by definition 'uncool'.
(8) This had felt untameable well before the end and he will depart South Africa, undeservedly, on a sour note.
(9) The route becomes untamed towards Pine Lodge, perfect for a live music jam at Ziggy’s , and the gravelly trip out to the Cape Recife point and lighthouse is surely worth the journey.
(10) The country’s internet regulator has repeatedly warned that an untamed cyberspace would pose a risk to domestic security and the government should decide who to allow into “its house”.
(11) Ice zombies … and worse Meanwhile, something unpalatable is happening beyond the wall that separates Westeros from the untamed polar regions beyond.
(12) Photograph: Lisa Ricciotti It is the work of Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti , a tempestuous and provocative iconoclast described by designer Philippe Starck as "a clairvoyant, untamable wild animal".
(13) I meet as many people coming to me frustrated by the unresponsive state as the untamed market.
(14) Across the channel, Jean Luc Mélenchon, who heads a grassroots movement La France Insoumise or Untamed France, could be on the verge of making the second round in the French presidential election .
(15) In Achin, Isis members have access to mines, timber, opium, an untamed border with Pakistan – and the same nearly impenetrable mountains that US warplanes have pounded since the beginning of the war.
(16) The road into Mexico's Tierra Caliente winds down through pine forests into a fertile paradise where tropical fruit seem to burst from the ground, before climbing again into the mountains of the untamed sierra.
(17) Effects of MS4101 on emotional behaviour in untamed cats were studied and compared with those of diazepam.
(18) And it's not only nature that's untamed in the movie.
(19) Nonetheless, building on the untamed green space and moving out the poor will happen in tandem .
(20) On the drive in we'd stopped for the night in Cody to watch an amateur rodeo with bronco-busting cowboys battling against untamed horses and clinging to the backs of very annoyed bulls.