(n.) A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
(v. i.) To move on skates.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(2) The present study examined whether an uptake system for GABA could be detected in isolated skate horizontal cells by means of electrophysiological methods.
(3) Sodium azide, a classical inhibitor of cytochrome oxidase, is an effective inhibitor of gastric acid secretion in bullfrog and skate gastric mucosae at low concentrations.
(4) The greatest proportion of injuries in children occur in gymnastics, figure skating and modern gymnastics.
(5) Biomechanical analysis of the crosscountry techniques has developed from rather simple 2-dimensional kinematic descriptions of diagonal stride to complex measurement of skating forces and 3-dimensional motion.
(6) Speed skating exercise can be better understood by taking account of physiological and biomechanical considerations.
(7) The potential cardiovascular adaptations from cross-country ski training appear to be similar for the classical and skating techniques, yet training specificity is important for optimal performance.
(8) The athletes were training in gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming, volleyball, or track.
(9) Two morphologically distinct types of horizontal cell have been identified in the all-rod skate retina by light- and electron-microscopy as well as after isolation by enzymatic dissociation.
(10) The function of this enzyme is, in part, to modify membrane lipid composition and fluidity in response to temperature variations; therefore, this finding suggests that in situ lipid metabolizing enzymes may play a central role in the adaptation of skate basolateral liver plasma membranes to changes in the ambient temperature.
(11) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
(12) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
(13) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(14) The skate retina contains only one type of photoreceptor which has rod-like properties in the dark-adapted state.
(15) Princess Anne is also in evidence, currently watching the ice skating clad in a Team GB Russian-style fur hat, but I have no picture to show you.
(16) Both the skate and star techniques of nipple and areolar reconstruction in the hyperexpanded patient yield very acceptable results despite thinned skin and minimal subcutaneous tissue.
(17) "That should send out a message to my rivals I am able to skate from the back as well as from the front."
(18) According to a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, large and bottom-dwelling species carry most risk, which means cod, flounder, halibut, pollock, skate and sole from the waters in question could be off limits for years, .
(19) The spiracular sense organs of the little skate, Raja erinacea, and the smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis, respond to movements of the hyomandibula-cranial joint.
(20) Intracellular fluids of marine elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays), holocephalans and the coelacanth contain urea at concentrations averaging 0.4m, high enough to significantly affect the structural and functional properties of many proteins.
Stingray
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Specificity studies suggest that the stingray insulin receptor may represent a phylogenetic position prior to the evolutionary divergence of insulin and the insulin-like growth factors.
(2) The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has been described as the poor man’s Porsche.
(3) Based on the experiments described above, the hypothesis that the hyperpolarizing response of horizontal cells is due to the permeability change of the membrane to chloride ion was excluded in the stingray retina.
(4) The cytoarchitecture of the lymphohaemopoietic masses occurring in the "meninx primitiva" of the stingray Dasyatis akajei (Elasmobranchii, Chondricthyes) has been analyzed by light and scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
(5) Thus, the HG of the red stingray exhibited a striking left-right asymmetry, the most remarkable aspect of which was considered to be differences of the size, form and location of the LH between the left and right HG.
(6) When the US government is not loaning police agencies their own Stingrays, the Defense Department and Homeland Security are giving federal grants to cops, which allow departments to purchase the gear at the cost of $400,000 a pop from defense contractors like Harris Corporation, which makes the Stingray brand.
(7) The cerebellar corpus of the Atlantic stingray consists of an anterior lobe which is divided into rostral and caudal lobules, and a posterior lobe.
(8) Thus, the afferent fibers to the HG in the red stingray exhibited a striking left-right asymmetry.
(9) An unusual case report of a retained stingray spine foreign body in the foot is presented.
(10) The sizes and numbers of axons in peripheral nerves and spinal roots were investigated in the stingray, Dasyatis sabina.
(11) Two new tetraphyllidean cestodes are described from the freshwater stingray Potamotrygon magdalenae from Colombia.
(12) Guests paddle through the South Water Caye Marine Reserve, exploring mangrove channels and reefs, watching out for stingrays, manatees and pelicans.
(13) A combined light and electron microscopic study revealed that there are conspicuous aggregations of smooth muscle cells in several hemopoietic organs and tissues such as in the Leydig (esophageal) and epigonal organs, diencephalic choroid plexus and perihypophyseal connective tissue sheath of the stingray, Dasyatis akajei.
(14) Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cross-linked, affinity-labeled stingray insulin receptor shows an apparent molecular mass of 210 kDa for the intact receptor.
(15) Hypocalcemic potency of calcitonin isolated from the stingray (cartilaginous fish), Dasyatis akajei, was examined using the rat bioassay and compared with the activities of other calcitonins (human, pig, salmon, eel, and fowl).
(16) Glutamine synthetase is present as isozymic forms in the elasmobranchs Squalus acanthias (dogfish shark) and Dasyatis sabina (stingray).
(17) Like Stingrays, and the NSA's phone dragnet before them, the militarization of America's local cops is a phenomenon that's only now getting widespread attention.
(18) Three other cases of less serious stingray envenomation are described which illustrate the significant localized morbidity that may occur without immediate wound exploration and toilet after adequate anaesthesia.
(19) The Cl conductance of the resting membrane in the normal stingray saline at pH 7.7 is 8-10 times greater than the K conductance.3.
(20) Intracellular and extracellular concentrations of chloride ([Cl-]i, [Cl-]o) ions in the horizontal cells of the stingray retina were studied by means of ion-selective microelectrodes.