(n.) Any one of several species of rodents of the genus Lagomys, resembling small tailless rabbits. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare. See Chief hare.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, while gastric ulcers in the rat formed within a short time, they were histopathologically less severe than those in the pika.
(2) Therefore, the antagonism of phenoperidine action by morphine appeared not to occur at the opiate receptor site; the mechanism of the pika's natural tolerance to morphine may reside in molecular events that normally preceed (metabolism?)
(3) Compared with the rat, the pika showed differences in the appearance and degree of gastric ulcers formed by the injection of serotonin and reserpine.
(4) However, the pika is responsive to synthetic opiates such as etorphine, pentazocine and phenoperidine.
(5) It now appears that the nucleus is organized into distinct domains which include not only the nucleolus, but also previously unidentified regions such as the PIKAs.
(6) At the infection with the typical strain of the altai subspecies rare transmissions of the agent to Pallas' pika can take place as well as its long preservation in fleas.
(7) An immunohistochemical study of the anterior pituitary gland of the female Afghan pika was carried out to distinguish the ultrastructural features of GH, PRL, ACTH, TSH and LH cells.
(8) Pharmacokinetic analysis demonstrated that morphine enters the pika's brain as readily as it does the rat's.
(9) The skin of the pika (Ochotona rufescens rufescens) was found to be remarkably sensitive to the primary irritation of sodium hydroxide, as compared with the skin of the rabbit.
(10) The fleas of this species are capable to transmit not only the plague agent of the strains typical of this nidus but also non-typical ones which differ in some biological properties and are avirulent for most carriers but Pallas's pika.
(11) In the two species, following morphine administration, another unidentified component appears very soon (5 min) in pika blood plasma and much later (60 min) in rabbit blood plasma.
(12) Pulmonary adiaspiromycosis due to Emmonsia crescens was diagnosed in three of six Franklin's ground squirrels (Spermophilus franklini) captured in Rochester, central Alberts, Canada in the summer of 1971, and in one of 240 pikas (Ochotona princeps) collected in southwestern Alberta in 1969.
(13) The activities of the enzymes, SDH, MDH, LDH, beta HBDH, alpha GPDH, ALD, G6PDH and GPR, in the hair follicles and sebaceous glands of the pika were similar to those of the rabbit.
(14) The percentages found in the pika and the rabbit were essentially identical at determination.
(15) myiasis in pikas (Ochotona princeps) are reported from Oregon and Montana.
(16) The morphology of this region changes dramatically during the cell cycle and we have given it the name PIKA (for polymorphic interphase karyosomal association) based on preliminary evidence that the PIKA proteins may be associated with chromatin.
(17) Experimental gastric ulcer formation was performed in the pika and compared with that in the rat.
(18) Most of those in the pika contained a few moderately dense granules.
(19) The acinar cells of the pika consisted of light cells containing basophilic granules of low density, while in the volcano rabbit the acinar cells consisted of light and dark cells containing acidophilic granules of moderate density.
(20) Experiments on Daurian pikas confirmed that, in comparison with the PHA and AN tests, RIA ensured fourfold effectiveness in the detection of antigen F1.
Pike
Definition:
(n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
(n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target.
(n. & v.) A hayfork.
(n. & v.) A pick.
(n. & v.) A pointed or peaked hill.
(n. & v.) A large haycock.
(n. & v.) A turnpike; a toll bar.
(sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two fish rhabdoviruses, spring viraemia of Carp virus (SVC) and Pike fry rhabdovirus (PFR), have been shown to multiply in Drosophila melanogaster.
(2) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(3) That’s before you even begin to consider the sort of outfits, polite eating and staged photos that guarantee I end up with a bleeding foot, skirt tucked into my knickers, mint in my teeth and a fixed smile last seen on a taxidermied pike.
(4) The domains in PIKE, GP32 and RecA exhibit statistically significant sequence homology with GP5.
(5) Two distinct coding sequences (A and B) were elucidated for rainbow trout metallothioneins but single isoforms were encoded by genes isolated from the stone loach and pike.
(6) Luminescence methods were used to examine the interaction of Eu(III) and Tb(III) with parvalbumin isozyme III from pike (Esox lucius).
(7) The neoplasm is morphologically similar to other pike hemic tumors reported in other areas of the world.
(8) The cytoarchitecture layers and sublayers of the retina in pike, frog and cat are essentially different.
(9) At one extreme they are well developed (macrosmatic) such as in sharks and eels, and at the other they are poorly developed (microsmatic) such as in pike and stickleback.
(10) Autoradiography of a pike exposed to 109Cd2+ via the water showed a strong labelling in the receptor-cell-containing olfactory rosettes, whereas other structures in the olfactory chambers were only weakly labelled.
(11) In only 12%t of the pikes did the number of T. crassus exceed that of T. nodulosus, however, the mean ratio being 1:13 to favour of T. nodulosus.
(12) The report comes after a four-year campaign by the family of Mumbai bomb victim Will Pike, 31, who was left disabled.
(13) The association of an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity with virions of pike fry rhabdovirus has been demonstrated by both in vitro and in vivo studies.
(14) Comparisons with retinal and tectal cells in carp, goldfish, pike, trout and in the Anura were made.
(15) A rabbit anti-pike IgM antiserum showed that up to 90% of mononuclear (MN) cells isolated on Ficoll-Isopaque gradients from peripheral blood, spleen and head kidney were surface- and cytoplasmic-immunoglobulin positive by indirect immunofluorescence, while a maximum of 5% of tumor cells were positive.
(16) Electrolyte excretion and balance were compared in meal-eating, adlibitum-fed rats maintained in Denver (1,600 m) and on Pikes Peak (4,300 m) and in meal-eating rats maintained in Denver but pair-fed to the Pikes Peak animals.
(17) A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance Read more The former, in which he stars as Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, who caused an international stir for marrying a white woman from London in the late 1940s, comes from Amma Asante , whose mixed-race period romance Belle also debuted at Toronto.
(18) Structural variations of two parvalbumins, Whiting III and Pike III, in various denaturing conditions, have been studied by circular dichroism.
(19) Gone Girl stars Affleck opposite Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry and Neil Patrick Harris in the story of a former journalist who may or may not have killed his wife.
(20) But yesterday, Pike's father Nigel was cautious about the news: "The iniquity of Will's and others' situation was that the terrorism occurred abroad and different countries have wildly differing levels of compensation.