(a.) Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
(a.) Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices.
(n.) An animal that crawls, or moves on its belly, as snakes,, or by means of small, short legs, as lizards, and the like.
(n.) One of the Reptilia, or one of the Amphibia.
(n.) A groveling or very mean person.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have labelled single, primary auditory neurones in three reptile and one bird species.
(2) The microchromosomes are like those found in certain other primitive fishes as well as in reptiles and birds.
(3) Its adaptive value, chiefly in reptiles, remains an open question.
(4) Since it is known that fever is beneficial in infected reptiles, our experiments were viewed as an initial step in the investigation of a similar potentially beneficial effect in mammals.2.
(5) The distribution of serotonin-immunoreactive cells in the lung of 4 species of reptiles was investigated.
(6) The endocrine pancreas of this reptile is located throughout the spleen side of the organ and consists of islet-like structures, small groups of two to five cells, and single scattered endocrine cells.
(7) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
(8) There is clearly an MHC in amphibians and birds with many characteristics like the MHC of mammals (a single genetic region encoding polymorphic class I and class II molecules) and evidence for polymorphic class I and class II molecules in reptiles.
(9) Among birds 84.2% of the isolates were S. typhimurium, among mammals 62.6%, among reptiles only 26.8%.
(10) The evolution of enamel structure is dealt with here on the basis of fossil reptiles and mammals ranging from the Triassic to the present.
(11) An immunocytochemical method, using glutaraldehyde fixation and an antiserum developed against a GABA-glutaraldehyde protein conjugate, permitted direct visualization of GABAergic structures in the brain of a reptile (chameleon).
(12) Rodioimmunoassayable somatostatin (SRIF) was found in acid ethanol extracts from various parts of the gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) endocrine system in reptiles, amphibians, teleost bony fish, cartilaginous fish, and jawless fish, as well as in a deuterostomian invertebrate, the tunicate, Ciona intestinalis.
(13) The ultrastructure of the nasal glands of the roadrunner injected with salt and of quail drinking 200 mM NaCl was similar to that of salt glands in reptiles and the fresh-water acclimated duck.
(14) A tabulation of previously documented ovarian neoplasia in reptiles and a comparison of this cancer to those occurring in women will be discussed.
(15) the bowel of reptiles, has no changed for some hundred million years.
(16) On the basis of the amino acid sequence of cytochromes c in different species the degree of clustering and the degree of the chain asymmetry of the corresponding structural genes of DNA was found to have a general tendency towards an increase in the following order: invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.
(17) A tendency for an increase in the index of clustering of DNA was revealed in the sequence: invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.
(18) The anti-G beta, gamma antibodies recognized a 35-36-kDa protein in brain of vertebrates such as mammals (rat), avians (pigeon), amphibians (frog), fish (trout), and reptiles (turtle) but not in the invertebrates such as molluscs (snail) and insects (locust).
(19) These results reveal that some species of fishes, amphibians and mammals can act as the second intermediate host and that some species of reptiles, birds and mammals can act as a paratenic host.
(20) However, in many of these animals, including reptiles, the physiological functions and importance of the system remain unclear.
Tortoise
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the order Testudinata.
(n.) Same as Testudo, 2.
(n.) having a color like that of a tortoise's shell, black with white and orange spots; -- used mostly to describe cats of that color.
(n.) a tortoise-shell cat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(2) Fingerprint analysis and S1 nuclease mapping analysis also showed that sequence boundaries of tortoise repetitive units exactly corresponded to RNA species.
(3) Such changes of EEG and behaviour were not found in tortoises that committed errors at first presentations of the task and only gradually learned correct solving.
(4) The phase of quick tension recovery was found to take place more rapidly in frog than in tortoise fibres: it was completed in approximately 30 msec (after stretch) and in approximately 20 msec (after release) in frog fibres (3 degrees C).
(5) However, monoamine storage organelles have not been found in tortoise thrombocytes.
(6) Both groups of goats were infested with small numbers of immature stages of the tortoise tick, Amblyomma marmoreum, and the yellow dog tick, Haemaphysalis leachi.
(7) A theory to explain its underlying physiology is presented, based on studies of the seasonal and cyclic variations in the tortoises' blood composition.
(8) It has been demonstrated that in the tortoise after hatching the round nucleus and its neurons are rather small, neuronal density is high.
(9) Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman star as neighbours Mrs Silver and Mr Hoppy, who are brought together when Hoppy whispers a magic growth spell to Silver’s pet tortoise, then attempts to bring the incantation’s power to fruition.
(10) The fatty acid composition of sphingomyelin (Spm) was studied in the total brain, the forebrain and the brain stem in frogs (Rana temporaria and Rana ridibunda), the tortoise (Emys orbicularis), the hen and the cat.
(11) Measurements have been made of heat production and changes in levels of phosphorylcreatine (PC), ATP and lactic acid resulting from contraction of tortoise muscle under anaerobic conditions.2.
(12) Pasteurella testudinis was cultured from the nasal cavity of all ill tortoises and one of four control tortoises.
(13) The development of the intramural plexuses in the tortoise, Geoclemys reevesii was inferior to that observed in the fowl: the meshes of both Auerbach's and Meissner's plexuses were coarser, and consisted of less number of nerve fibers.
(14) Most of the superficial fibres in both tortoise and terrapin muscles were multiply innervated, but end-plates were focal rather than diffuse.6.
(15) The amplitude of the delayed rectification current, when expressed either as normalized to the calculated membrane capacity or to the initial background current, is significantly larger in the frog than in the tortoise.
(16) Appearance of transversal and circular anastomoses between the afferent and efferent arterioles of the glomeruli, as well as transformation of their capillaries into nutritional capillaries in the tortoise kidneys under the alimentary dehydration ensures realization of the periglomerular and aglomerular renal arterial blood circulation.
(17) Periods of breath-holding are interrupted by episodes of continuous breathing in the aquatic turtle Pelomedusa subrufa, whereas single breaths and short periods of breath-holding alternate in the terrestrial tortoise Testudo pardalis.
(18) The primary and secondary immune responses to sheep erythrocytes (SRBC) have been characterized in the tortoise Mauremys caspica in terms of circulating antibodies and PFC response in two different seasons: summer and autumn.
(19) The tortoises did not develop fever in response to any of the pyrogens we tested.
(20) The report that Sendai virus was implicated in the genesis of rhinitis in tortoises could not be substantiated.