(v.) Any one of several species of fishes of the genus Salmo and allied genera. The common salmon (Salmo salar) of Northern Europe and Eastern North America, and the California salmon, or quinnat, are the most important species. They are extensively preserved for food. See Quinnat.
(v.) A reddish yellow or orange color, like the flesh of the salmon.
(a.) Of a reddish yellow or orange color, like that of the flesh of the salmon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(2) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(3) A new analog of salmon calcitonin (N alpha-propionyl Di-Ala1,7,des-Leu19 sCT; RG-12851; here termed CTR), which lacks the ring structure of native calcitonin, was tested for biological activity in several in vitro and in vivo assay systems.
(4) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(5) The salmon allele in G. m. morsitans is pleiotropic and profoundly affects many aspects of fly biology including longevity, reproductive capacity, vision, vectorial capacity and duration of flight, but not circadian rhythms.
(6) Addition of extracellular Ca2+ (5 mM CaCl2), a potent osteoclast inhibitor, increased [Ca2+]i in all osteoclasts, but 10(-6) M salmon calcitonin (sCT) did so only in a subpopulation of osteoclasts.
(7) Besides the volume, the acid concentration of gastric juice is reduced, which may explain the high efficacy of salmon calcitonin to prevent ulcer formation in this species.
(8) The presence and distribution of immunoreactive gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in brains of adult male and female Pachymedusa dacnicolor has been studied immunohistochemically using antisera against mammalian, chicken-II, and salmon GnRHs.
(9) This year, the main beneficiaries appear to be Salmon Fishing in the Yemen , which has three nominations, including for its two leads Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which scored two, including its lead Judi Dench.
(10) This study describes the effect of a natural diet, containing salmon as the source of n-3 fatty acids, on these parameters as compared to a diet very low in n-3 fatty acids.
(11) Salmon calcitonin inhibits the algodystrophic process and probably contributes to the activation of the skeletal restoration.
(12) Hypophysectomy of coho salmon (O. kisutch) reduced plasma immunoreactivity to nondetectable levels in seven of eight individuals.
(13) Immunoreactivity of antisera directed against human neuropeptide Y (NPY), anglerfish polypeptide YG (aPY), bovine pancreatic polypeptide (bPP), salmon pancreatic polypeptide (sPP), porcine peptide tyrosine tyrosine (PYY), and salmon glucagon-like peptide (GLP) was investigated in the endocrine pancreas and anterior intestine of adult lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, by immunohistochemical analysis.
(14) The minimum region in salmon calcitonin (sCT) which induces antigenicity and gastrointestinal disturbances has been identified by examining the cross-reactivity of several sCT fragments and CT analogs with antisera from sCT-treated patients, and by examining inhibition of gastrointestinal motility of these sCT fragments and CT analogs in conscious dogs.
(15) Sequence identities of sea turtle GH to other species of GH are 89% with chicken GH, 79% with rat GH, 68% with blue shark GH, 58% with eel GH, 59% with human GH, and 40% with a teleostean GH such as chum salmon.
(16) Anti-salmon prolactin, but not anti-rat or -ovine prolactin, gave a specific staining of the acidophils of the rostral pars distalis (RPD), while anti-trout growth hormone (GH), but not anti-rat GH, stained similar but always separate cells in the proximal pars distalis (PPD).
(17) The side effects attributable to salmon calcitonin were transient nausea (in nine patients), transient flushing (in four), diarrhoea (in two), and rash (in one) though in only one patient did treatment have to be withdrawn prematurely because of these effects.
(18) Isometric contractions of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) gallbladder longitudinal muscle strips were recorded in response to porcine cholecystokinin (CCK), octapeptide of CCK (OP-CCK), desulfated octapeptide of CCK (ds-OP-CCK), porcine heptadecapeptide gastrins I and II, and pentagastrin.
(19) Competition for 125I-salmon calcitonin binding by a wide range of calcitonin analogs revealed a close correspondence between the reported biological potencies and activities in the current system.
(20) Chum salmon (oncorhynchus keta) stanniocalcin was purified, partially identified and tested for bioactivity in an assay on the intestinal calcium uptake in a marine teleost (Gadus morhua).
Snout
Definition:
(n.) The long, projecting nose of a beast, as of swine.
(n.) The nose of a man; -- in contempt.
(n.) The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.
(n.) The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
(v. t.) To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results show that proteins whose size, charge, and biochemical behavior are very similar to those of desmoplakin I and band 5 protein of cow snout epidermis are present in all desmosomes examined.
(2) The broadcasting regulator received 122 complaints from viewers concerned that it appeared that Wendy had a mechanical device covering her snout to make her “talk”, and that caused the animal distress.
(3) Receptor threshold was best measured not in air but with the snout immersed in tap water.
(4) A polypeptide of identical molecular mass (Mr 83,000) and charge to desmosomal plakoglobin from bovine snout epidermis was identified in soluble and pelletable fractions from diverse tissues and cells of different mammalian species, including cells and tissues devoid of desmosomes (e.g.
(5) Thus, the pattern of sensory innervation in the glabrous rat snout skin is similar to that found in other furred species described to date, but in addition, the sensory innervation of ridged skin in the rat also resembles that of epidermis organized into rete pegs.
(6) While all three were considered effective for symptom relief, there was a clear preference for both of the new longer, snout-like nozzle adapters over the currently available delivery system.
(7) In other words, it can be said that the minor reflexive movements of the jaw might have been controlled by the sensory inputs coming from the snout sensory receptor organs.
(8) Behavioral arousal evoked by lightly touching the fish on the snout or over the eye resembled spontaneous arousal observed in the field and consisted of eye withdrawal, fin erection, and attempted swimming.
(9) When the snout was uncovered a lamb in good condition drew its first breath and the spreading of the contrast material into the peripheral parts of the lungs was almost explosive.
(10) The difference in the two established outlines of the snout represented the changes in size and shape in two dimensions that had occurred during the 10 weeks period.
(11) Epidermal explants from the snout region of 12.5- to 13-day embryos were grown in culture for periods of up to 2 weeks.
(12) When euthanized 15 days after the last DNT administration no snout lesions were found in passively immunized piglets, whereas control animals showed severe turbinate atrophy and other changes typical for atrophic rhinitis.
(13) Many showed the following aberrant neurological signs: Pallaesthesia and dermolexia were extinct in the lower extremities; the ankle jerks could not be elicited; the palmomental, orbicularis oris reflex, grasping and the snout reflexes were positive; there was a hypokinetic-hypertonic motor syndrome.
(14) Quantitative DNA cytophotometric investigations were performed to clarify some aspects of the differentiation and fate of nuclei in bovine snout and human epidermis representing various sites and different degrees of keratinization.
(15) The behavior categories included grooming, yawning, turning, nodding and gnawing, as well as snout contact and nonsnout contact variants of locomoting, rearing and sitting.
(16) Among five efts of the smallest size (26.54 plus or minus 2.20 mm snout-to-vent length), and displaying bright orange dorsal skin coloration, all carpal rudiments were cartilaginous.
(17) After movements along these two dimensions increase in amplitude and involve the whole body, vertical (dorsal-ventral) head scans with snout contact (along vertical surfaces) typically appear, and increase gradually in amplitude.
(18) Separate dorsal, lateral and ventral cartilages and fenestrations in the septal cartilage permit snout flexibility.
(19) Absence of snout contact was induced by placement of the rat on a square elevated platform.
(20) At slaughter, individual pig lungs and snout were examined for lesions of pneumonia and atrophic rhinitis, respectively.