(n.) A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power.
(n.) A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
(n.) See Gill rakers, under 1st Gill.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gill bars (bearing gill rakers that interlock with rakers of adjacent arches) clearly function as a resistance within the oral cavity and restrict posterior water influx during mouth opening, creating a unidirectional flow during feeding.
(2) The threshold of both filament-related and gill raker mechanoreceptors was relatively high.
(3) The basal lamina exhibits a smooth contour over most of the gill surface with the exception of the short gill rakers where it formed cones within the taste bud cores, and on the respiratory lamellae where it closely mimicked the underlying capillary network.
(4) Two rows of gill filaments (about 42 filaments per row) extended posterolaterally, and two rows of gill rakers (about 10 rakers per row) extended anteromedially from each arch.
(5) Anatomical examinations showed that fluid channels in the buccal chamber and gill raker sieve are complex and can be expected to vary spatially and temporally throughout the respiratory cycle.
(6) Physiological properties of gill filament and gill raker mechanoreceptors in the gills of spontaneously breathing carp, Cyprinus carpio L., were analysed.
(7) 2 generally prefers relatively flat surfaces in the gill chamber but is more versatile in its choice of attachment sites on its host, the blacktip cod, Epinephelus fasciatus; two specimens were attached to the gill arch, one to a gill raker and one to the dorsal pharyngeal tooth pad.
(8) The department sent undercover officers, codenamed "rakers", into Muslim neighbourhoods, and ran a network of informants known as "mosque crawlers" to monitor sermons – even when there had been no evidence of criminality.
(9) Gill rakers are large in size in Notopterus notopterus while they are small in Colisa fasciatus.
(10) Taste buds were especially prominent on the rakers and the pharyngeal surfaces of the first and second gill arches, but were often replaced by horny spines on the third and fourth gill arches.
(11) In an effort to uncover terrorist plots, so-called "rakers" or "mosque crawlers" – typically paid NYPD informants – were sent to Muslim student association meetings, businesses, universities, restaurants, whitewater rafting trips and more than 250 mosques in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
(12) Deflection of gill rakers also elicited a brief response in epibranchial ganglion neurons.
(13) The map of the oropharyngeal epithelium is distorted so that the gill arches are rotated through an angle of 90 degrees along the transverse plane, and the dorsally mapped region of the gill rakers is tilted posteriorly in the sagittal plane of the vagal lobe.
(14) Gill head region consists of bony arch, gill rakers and interbranchial septum.
Trace
Definition:
(n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.
(v. t.) A mark left by anything passing; a track; a path; a course; a footprint; a vestige; as, the trace of a carriage or sled; the trace of a deer; a sinuous trace.
(v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.
(v. t.) A mark, impression, or visible appearance of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige.
(v. t.) The intersection of a plane of projection, or an original plane, with a coordinate plane.
(v. t.) The ground plan of a work or works.
(v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing.
(v. t.) To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens.
(v. t.) Hence, to follow the trace or track of.
(v. t.) To copy; to imitate.
(v. t.) To walk over; to pass through; to traverse.
(v. i.) To walk; to go; to travel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glyceryl p-aminobenzoate and amyl p-dimethyl-aminobenzoate were labeled on 1 and 3 sunscreens, respectively, but glyceryl p-aminobenzoate was not found in any of them and only traces of amyl p-dimethylaminobenzoate were found in 1 sunscreen.
(2) Throughout the entire cultivation cytidyl derivatives occurred in trace quantities.
(3) persisted and was more abnormal in 23% of the cases including specific tracings in 37%.
(4) Traces of the sulphoxide of butylmercapturic acid have been found in rat urine but not in rabbit urine.
(5) No 7 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity and only a trace of 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase activity could be demonstrated when bile acid was deleted from the growth medium.
(6) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
(7) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
(8) Methods used in tracing and improving cooperation of subjects are described.
(9) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(10) they are shown to inhibit in vitro the release of iron from acidified host cell cytosol, consisting mostly of hemoglobin, a process that could provide this trace element to the parasite.
(11) Thus, the carotid pulse tracing provides an accurate reproduction of the morphology of the pressure tracing recorded from the ascending aorta, and when calibrated by peripheral blood pressure measurement, it can be used to calculate LV pressure throughout ejection.
(12) Mutant C grew anaerobically in the light, whereas mutant G1 was light sensitive and produced only trace amounts of bacteriochlorophyll a (0.6 mumole per ml of protein).
(13) The effect was shown to be due to caldesmon and not to a trace contaminant by its full reversibility after addition of a monospecific caldesmon antibody.
(14) Of 15 organochlorine compounds analyzed, trace amounts mainly of p,p-DDE and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were detected, but could not be quantitated.
(15) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
(16) Polysomnography has revealed that this drug has several interesting qualities that benzodiazepines do not possess: stages 3-4 increase, stage 2 is unchanged or slightly reduced and no abnormal changes are detected on the EEG tracing.
(17) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(18) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
(19) In addition, the postulated personality for PD may predispose to hard work, perspiration, and increased exposure to putative trace elements in the water supply.
(20) The voltage trace is then analysed with a piece of transparent paper, on which lines corresponding to solutions of the diffusion equation convert the time axis of the voltage trace into a concentration axis.