(a.) Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining 35 neurons responded significantly to at least some sapid stimuli.
(2) Test stimuli consisted of sapid solutions of NaCl (0.1 M), HCl (0.01 M), sucrose (0.5 M), Na-saccharin (0.004 M) and quinine-HCl (0.01 M).
(3) Sapid solutions of NaCl (0.1 M), HCl (0.01 M), sucrose (0.5 M), saccharin sodium (0.004 M), and quinine HCl (.01 M) were used as taste stimuli.
(4) Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) were tested for taste preferences in 48-hour, Richter-type drinking tests (sapid solution versus distilled water).
(5) For example, sapid sucrose, NaCl and HCl stimuli elicited a response sequence beginning with low amplitude, rhythmic mouth movements, followed by rhythmic tongue protrusions, and then lateral tongue movements.
(6) These data suggest that about half of the LHA neurons increased their activity in anticipatory (searching or approaching) periods just before ingestion, and decreased activity in rewarding periods during ingestion of water or sapid solutions.
(7) Like the odorant-binding proteins, this protein shows similarity to members of a protein superfamily of hydrophobic molecule transporters, indicating that pre-receptor events could also be necessary for the concentration and delivery of sapid molecules in the gustatory system, and emphasizing the close relationship of taste and olfaction.
(8) Of these, 25 responded only to one of four sapid stimuli; 20 of these specific cells responded only to NaCl.
(9) First, multiunit responses from the dorsal pons were mapped using sapid, thermal, and tactile stimuli applied to the anterior tongue.
(10) The present study tested the effects of bilateral section of either the chorda tympani or glossopharyngeal nerves on the production of oro-pharyngeal electromyographic (EMG) responses to intra-oral sapid stimulation.
(11) We measured the reward strength of HVD and other sapid substances with operant techniques.
(12) Stepwise modification at each chiral center around the sugar ring allows the sapid functions in these molecules to be mapped and leads to the inescapable conclusion that sugar molecules may be "polarized" on taste bud receptors, so that one end of the molecule elicits sweetness and the other bitterness.
(13) Type 2 and type 3 microenvironments fix peroxidase (a sapid macromolecule) with increasing affinity.
(14) VEG protein might control access of lipophilic sapid molecules, such as bitter substances, to the gustatory receptors.
(15) A total of 51 single neurons was recorded from the pontine parabrachial nuclei of three rats being given sapid stimuli either via intraoral infusions or during spontaneous licking behavior.
(16) In 101 of these neurons, at least one sapid stimulus elicited a significant taste response.
(17) Six male cynomolgus monkeys, maintained on an 18-h water deprivation schedule, were given 30 min access daily to a sapid stimulus or distilled water.
(18) First, for each neuron, the responses elicited during licking and intraoral infusions were compared for each of the four standard sapid stimuli.
(19) These specific groups, however, were joined in a ring-like formation by other neurons that responded to more than one of the sapid stimuli.
(20) For further clarification of the relation between these orofacial movements (the buccal phase of ingestion) and the act of swallowing (the pharyngeal phase), electromyographic responses to intraoral sapid stimulation were recorded from a subset of orofacial and pharyngeal muscles in a freely moving chronic preparation.
Vapid
Definition:
(a.) Having lost its life and spirit; dead; spiritless; insipid; flat; dull; unanimated; as, vapid beer; a vapid speech; a vapid state of the blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beyond that, MSNBC devotes three hours each morning to a show hosted by a former rightwing GOP congressman and his cavalcade of vapid "centrist" establishment journalists such as Mark Halperin (then again, Fox features the idiosyncratic and unpredictable Shepard Smith each night).
(2) She comes across as vapid and totally uncouth without a bit of finesse about her.
(3) Greece Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Not only is Saki Rouvas's This is Our Night marvellously, teeth-grindingly, competition-winningly vapid, but more importantly, Greece is the epicentre of the many-tentacled Balkan Bloc.
(4) The exhibition content is, in the main, as vapid as the architecture is extravagant.
(5) "I used to think that focusing on the visual aspect was really vapid and ridiculous too," she admits, "but I've come to realise it's actually one of the most powerful tools I have to work with.
(6) Since then, while some mainstream rap has veered to the materialistic and misogynistic, there have always been successful rappers who have rallied against the vapid.
(7) For while humanists work hard to create new ceremonies, many find them vapid.
(8) She zeited the geist of the mid-90s superbly, but Bridget, never trying be too strident (offputting to men) was for me the epitome of post-feminism – vapid, consumerist and self-obsessed.
(9) Vapid and sexless, pop was little more than a Smash Hits remake of American Bandstand three decades earlier.
(10) He may look vapid sometimes for Chelsea but he has scored nine goals in Europe and there are only two players, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski, with more this season.
(11) For the majority, however, the primary concern is not vapid rhetoric, nor even resentment about expenses fiddling, which parts of the media have now elevated above substantive policy arguments for years.
(12) For Brazil, there was also the added satisfaction of seeing Fred, who has been the subject of so much criticism following his vapid displays against Croatia and Mexico, get on the scoresheet.
(13) In his thoughtful demeanour seems to be an implicit criticism of the vapidity of today's world.
(14) Nobody has been subjected to these vapid discrediting techniques more than Noam Chomsky.
(15) It's said by a really vapid character who we're not meant to like.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Game of Thrones: spectacular but vapid.
(17) As one of their champions, Bono, recently put it in the New York Times , their music "contains all the big themes and ideas that make all around them seem so vapid".
(18) And indeed, see what happened in 2008 when Politico's own Mike Allen interviewed George Bush with questions so vapid and reverent that it would have shamed his profession if it were capable of that.
(19) United did not play anywhere close to their top level but they did not have to when their opponents were so vapid.
(20) Vapid passages can be forgiven if they are followed by substance.