(n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra.
(n.) A California fish; the rock trout.
(n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.
Example Sentences:
(1) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
(2) For the purpose of an experimental study in which the three different types of pressure catheters most commonly used in anorectal manometry were compared, a Starling-resistance could be established.
(3) Properly timed atrial systole may alter systolic performance by the mechanism of Starling's law of the heart, which states that the extent of systolic myocardial fiber shortening is dependent on the degree of diastolic fiber stretch, or preload.
(4) Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) was localized in the brains of two passerine species, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) and the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), by means of immunohistochemistry.
(5) Even within the ACE inhibitor group their effects vary--improving, impairing, or not changing the Frank-Starling relationships following reduction in left ventricular mass.
(6) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(7) We used single-unit vagal recordings to study the average discharge pattern during a respiratory cycle from 57 intrapulmonary CO2 receptors in 6 ducks artificially ventilated with a Starling pump.
(8) Thus the Frank-Starling mechanism has a very significant role in an intact organism with normal hemodynamics.
(9) Possible mechanisms causing the observed biphasic lymph flow response to capillary pressure elevation are: 1) changes in Starling forces oppose an increase in capillary pressure; 2) the rate of change in tissue fluid pressure affects lymph flow to a greater extent than does the absolute change in tissue fluid pressure; or, 3) the lymphatics empty upon elevation and refill as the capillaries filter.
(10) Pre- and postoperative hemodynamic workup with construction of Starling curves were used to answer this question.
(11) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(12) This study is the first to demonstrate that an intestinal helminth previously reported to be of little or no histopathological consequence, Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus, has a significant detrimental impact upon the flow of food energy through a definitive host, the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris.
(13) An addition to Starling's hypothesis is therefore suggested to adapt it to dependent tissues.
(14) These temperatures are 2-4 degrees C higher than the resting temperature in starlings, and are among the highest steady-state temperatures observed in any animal.
(15) These three parameters can be related to the ventricular filling time, supporting the opinion that the fetal heart follows the rules of the Frank Starling relationship.
(17) This altered cardiac response to venous filling, also observed in patients with essential hypertension, is suggested to be caused by an altered Frank-Starling relationship of the hypertrophied heart in hypertensive individuals.
(18) Endurance athletes have greater ventricular diastolic chamber compliance and distensibility than nonathletes and thus operate on the steep portion of their Starling curve.
(19) Within the heart the Frank-Starling mechanism, adrenergic stimulation causing increase of heart rate and contractility, and during the chronic course also myocardial hypertrophy are operating.
(20) Metabolic imbalance (hypoxia) can be linked with diabetic macular edema through hemodynamic principles according to Starlings law.
Starving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starve
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of ribosomes in Escherichia coli cells starved for a carbon source was studied.
(2) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
(3) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
(4) Serum starved BHK cells had low levels of all four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates.
(5) Serum testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), testicular histology and ultrastructure were examined in 91 spontaneously diabetic BB, semi-starved, and control Wistar rats.
(6) This occurs with mitochondria obtained from normal, starved and streptozotocin-diabetic rats.
(7) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
(8) The ultrastructure of the water-clear cells of the parathyroid glands in the starved adult and senile animals almost resembled that of the control adult and senile animals.
(9) Pimozide administration did not alter the peak TRH-stimulated TSH response in either the normal animals or the starved animals.
(10) More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations is warning.
(11) After administration of pivmecillinam (400 mg) with meal, Tasc was significantly delayed beyond the value obtained when the subjects were starved.
(12) No apparent difference was detected in the composition and saturation status of pooled starved plaque fluid from CF and CS individuals.
(13) When mammalian cells are starved for amino acids, the activity of the A amino acid transport system increases, a phenomenon called adaptive regulation.
(14) Exogenous spermidine extensively relaxed RNA synthesis in amino acid-starved cultures of 15 TAU.
(15) In other experiments histidine misincorporation for glutamine was measured in glutamine starved cells with normal levels of histidine-specific tRNA and cells overproducing this tRNA.
(16) In contrast, the metabolite profile in the soleus was consistent with activation of the glucose-fatty acid cycle in the starved rat during the recovery period after exercise.
(17) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
(18) When fed ducklings were starved, fatty acid synthase mRNA decayed with a half-life of about 3 h. Therefore, the half-life for fatty acid synthase mRNA appeared to be little affected by feeding or starvation.
(19) Administration of dicarboxylic acids to starving rats decreased the concentration of ketone bodies in the blood.
(20) Infusion of 3-hydroxybutyrate into starved rats caused marked increases in the arteriovenous differences for lactate and both ketone bodies.