(n.) A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 12-year-old poodle, tumor cells with the following abnormalities were found: trisomy 1, monosomy X and two marker chromosomes.
(2) Three breeds (beagle, boxer, and golden retriever) had a significantly greater risk for thyroid carcinoma than did all dogs combined, whereas miniature and toy poodles had a low risk.
(3) Talking last month on his late-night HBO show Last Week Tonight , Oliver ridiculed Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha's "dystopian nightmare" of a government, called Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn a "buffoon" and an "idiot", and ridiculed a clip of a contentious home video of the prince and his semi-naked wife at a poolside birthday party for their pet poodle Foo Foo.
(4) Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) I and II were decreased 71 and 44% respectively in miniature compared to standard size poodles.
(5) A case of chronic granulocytic leukemia was diagnosed in a ten year old miniature poodle and was observed for four and one half years.
(6) Its inaction over allegations of widespread phone hacking at the News of the World led it to being branded a "toothless poodle".
(7) Systemic lupus erythematosus with polymyositis and polyarthritis was diagnosed in a 7-year-old female Standard Poodle.
(8) Data is presented of the post-mortem macroscopic and microscopic examination of two Toy Poodles with multiple enchondromatosis (Ollier syndrome).
(9) But you can't dismiss the wealth tax and say at the same time that Clegg is a Tory poodle, although many will.
(10) At necropsy, a 15-year-old male Standard Poodle had a 6-cm diameter mass in the perianal region.
(11) The mean age was 7.0 years for all breeds, 5.1 years for the Cocker Spaniel, and 9.0 years for the Poodle breeds.
(12) Fluorescein angiographic findings in 7 carriers and 7 homozygotes of a recessively inherited disease, generalized progressive retinal atrophy of the poodle, are described in detail and comparisons with 24 healthy control poodles are presented.
(13) A three-year-old poodle showed changes in its behaviour, which were so marked as to induce the owner to inquire after the possible use of spectacles for her dog.
(14) Full-field electroretinograms (ERGs) were recorded between the ages of 4 and 34 months from 8 miniature French poodles with inherited progressive rod-cone degeneration (PRCD) and from 11 normal miniature poodles.
(15) They shouldn't be given the chance to turn it into a poodle once again.
(16) Miniature and Toy Poodles, Pomeranians, and Shetland Sheepdogs were identified as being at high risk for PDA.
(17) In the present study, the rod outer segments of young prcd affected miniature poodles and normal dogs have been compared with respect to the incorporation of intravitreally injected [3H]palmitic acid.
(18) Meanwhile the plush London offices of all his overlapping enterprises are right across from the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, as if to taunt critics who claim he is America's poodle.
(19) The cytological changes in these Poodle pups were notably different from those reported in earlier ultrastructural studies of canine inherited cerebellar degenerations.
(20) It was concluded that the condition had similarities to both congenital dyserythropoietic disorders and true megaloblastic conditions, but until further investigations are reported it might be wise to refer to it as "bone marrow dyscrasia" in poodles.
Shock
Definition:
(n.) A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stook.
(n.) A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
(v. t.) To collect, or make up, into a shock or shocks; to stook; as, to shock rye.
(v. i.) To be occupied with making shocks.
(n.) A quivering or shaking which is the effect of a blow, collision, or violent impulse; a blow, impact, or collision; a concussion; a sudden violent impulse or onset.
(n.) A sudden agitation of the mind or feelings; a sensation of pleasure or pain caused by something unexpected or overpowering; also, a sudden agitating or overpowering event.
(n.) A sudden depression of the vital forces of the entire body, or of a port of it, marking some profound impression produced upon the nervous system, as by severe injury, overpowering emotion, or the like.
(n.) The sudden convulsion or contraction of the muscles, with the feeling of a concussion, caused by the discharge, through the animal system, of electricity from a charged body.
(v.) To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
(v.) To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
(v. i.) To meet with a shock; to meet in violent encounter.
(n.) A dog with long hair or shag; -- called also shockdog.
(n.) A thick mass of bushy hair; as, a head covered with a shock of sandy hair.
(a.) Bushy; shaggy; as, a shock hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(3) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(4) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(5) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
(6) Six of 7 SAO shock rats treated with U74006F survived for 120 min following reperfusion, while none of 7 SAO shock rats given the vehicle survived for 120 min (P less than .01).
(7) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
(8) Enzymatic activity per gram of urinary creatinine was consistently but not significantly higher before extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy than in control subjects.
(9) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
(10) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) The first method used an accelerometer mounted between the teeth of one of the authors (PR) to record skeletal shock.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Induction of both potential transcripts follows heat shock in vivo.
(15) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(16) In positive patterning, elemental stimuli, A and B, were presented without an unconditioned stimulus while their compound, AB, was paired with electric shock.
(17) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
(18) Inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) have been reported to increase mean arterial pressure in animal models of sepsis and recently have been given to patients in septic shock.
(19) The aim of the present study was to explore the possible role of heat shock proteins in the manifestation of this heat resistance.
(20) Frequency and localization of spontaneous and induced by high temperature (37 degrees C) recessive lethal mutations in X-chromosome of females belonging to the 1(1) ts 403 strain defective in synthesis of heat-shock proteins (HSP) were studied.