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Vison


Definition:

  • (n.) The mink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Skin surface lipids from mink (Mustela vison) were collected in acetone and analyzed by thin-layer chromatography and gas chromatography.
  • (2) Studies have been made on the peroxidase activity of metmyoglobins in animals from various ecological groups--the horse Equus caballus, cattle Bos taurus, beaver Castor fiber, otter Lutra lutra, mink Mustela vison and dog Canis familiaris.
  • (3) The pineal complex in the mink (Mustela vison) consists of a larger ventral and a smaller dorsal pineal.
  • (4) The endocrine testicular function in mink (Mustela vison) was investigated during the first year of life encompassing puberty, the first mating season and the phase of regression thereafter.
  • (5) Mink (Mustela vison) were inoculated with viruses: African horse sickness (AHS), African swine fever (ASF), bovine herpes virus II (BHV2), foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), goat pox (GP), hog cholera (HC), peste des petits ruminants (PPR), rinderpest (RP), swine vesicular disease (SVD), vesicular exanthema of swine (VES) and vesicular stomatitis (VS).
  • (6) The BATP gene coding for the beta-subunit of Na+,K+-ATPase has been localized on chromosome 13 of the American mink (Mustela vison) using mink-Chinese hamster somatic cell hybrids and pig cDNA clones as probes.
  • (7) Paragonimus kellicotti Ward, 1908 was recovered from 16 of 105 mink (Mustela vison), 14 of 244 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), 10 of 446 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), 1 of 31 coyotes (Canis latrans), 0 of 326 raccoons (Procyon lotor) and 0 of 8 weasels (Mustela spp.)
  • (8) The C120 Magnum trap, equipped with a 66 x 69 mm pan trigger, which favored double strikes in the neck and thorax regions, successfully killed nine of nine wild mink (Mustela vison) in simulated natural conditions.
  • (9) A natural killer cell assay was developed for the mink (Mustela vison) using mink peripheral mononuclear cells as effector cells and a mouse lymphoma cell line as targets.
  • (10) In comparison with the rat, the mink (Mustela vison) has a markedly expanded nasal mucosa.
  • (11) Excretion of radioactivity by mink (Mustela vison) during 7 days after intraperitoneal injection of two different amounts of aflatoxin B1 was studied.
  • (12) During lactation, 5 female mink (Mustela vison) were given 50 mug of aflatoxin B1 orally twice, 2 weeks apart.
  • (13) Seven female mink (Mustela vison) were injected intraperitoneally with a single dose of 100 mug aflatoxin B1 (14 C-label and unabeled).
  • (14) During a 14-year period, carcinoma of the anal sac apocrine glands was found in 52 pastel and 8 sapphire mink (Mustela vison) kept for studies on slow viral diseases.
  • (15) This category includes genes species-specific for Mustela vison which make the main contribution to Lpm polymorphism.
  • (16) The epizootiological status of mink (Mustela vison) as definitive hosts and Apodemus speciosus as intermediate hosts in the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis in Hokkaido, Japan, were evaluated by orally inoculating mink with protoscoleces, and A. speciosus with eggs of the cestode, respectively.
  • (17) DNA reassociation kinetics were studied in the European mink (Mustela lutreola), the American mink (M. vison), the marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna).
  • (18) were found in the lungs of 10 of 18 (56%) mink (Mustela vison).
  • (19) Among the investigated carnivores (dog, cat, sloth bear, American mink, gray seal, and California sea lion) the Bassariscus alpha A sequence exclusively shares two amino acid replacements with the alpha A chain of the mink, Mustela vison: 7 His----Gln and 61 Ile----Val.
  • (20) The morphology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), Bruch's membrane (complexus basalis), choriocapillaris and tapetum lucidum has been studied in the eye of the ranch mink (Mustela vison) by light and electron microscopy.

Visor


Definition:

  • (n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
  • (n.) A mask used to disfigure or disguise.
  • (n.) The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It follows that he would not allow a biker to give evidence while wearing a crash helmet with the visor down.
  • (2) Visor osteotomies of various designs, supplemented with illiac bone grafts, were used to augment 63 cases of severely atrophic mandibles.
  • (3) This is a report on the long term results of Visor-Sandwich Osteotomy.
  • (4) I'm slightly annoyed that you can't wave at people or flash at them - we ought to be like bikers and raise our visors.
  • (5) Visor said the shooting victim spent his time collecting cans and kicking a soccer ball.
  • (6) Stricter enforcement of rules and more widespread use of visors would reduce the number of facial injuries.
  • (7) Rarely wearing hats, visors, or sunglasses while in the sun was a risk factor for the disease (relative risk, 1.9; 95 per cent confidence interval, 1.6 to 2.2).
  • (8) "The instruction came to put your visors down, and everyone's shields come up then," said a 35-year-old sergeant.
  • (9) Three hundred people literally came round the corner into the side street and started attacking us … Because I had my visor down, it was like watching a TV screen."
  • (10) One wears a flat cap, one wields a sledgehammer, one has a welder's visor.
  • (11) Outside, the din of ambulances would not be noteworthy until the driver and passenger appear in regulation yellow overalls, mask, goggles, hood and visor.
  • (12) Both visors and goggles are equally safe but there are slight differences in the types of clothing worn with each, and in the protocols for putting the equipment on and taking it off.” Taking off the protective suits, gloves and visors at the end of a shift inside the high-risk red zone of the centre is the most dangerous time.
  • (13) The Central Security Forces – suddenly back on the streets as the "Anti-Riots Troops", with brand new visored helmets and longer, more supple sticks – opened barriers and let us pass through their Holy of Holies, the street that runs between the American and the British embassies.
  • (14) 92 patients, 31 with and 61 without signs of metabolic bone loss, were treated with a combined sandwich-visor osteotomy.
  • (15) A reduction of minor and moderate injuries should be possible by stricter enforcement of the hockey rules, and more widespread use of visors.
  • (16) Photograph: Warner Bros “For my first scene where I walk up to Tobey’s character in the party and take off my little visor and say, ‘I thought I’d see you here,’ there really were 400 extras, and seven cameras on cranes,” she remembers of her first day on The Great Gatsby set.
  • (17) A method is described in which the visor osteotomy and the vestibuloplasty are performed in one stage.
  • (18) Cafferkey was trained in the UK in the use of personal protective equipment, including a visor.
  • (19) Youths in hooded track suit tops and scarves over their faces were also shining laser pens into the faces of visored PSNI riot squad officers as well as the police helicopter hovering above, which was used on Saturday to identify a gunman in nearby Newtownards Road.
  • (20) Visor and Grant, a couple, said that they have been living in one of those tents for about a month, since moving to San Francisco from Colorado about a month ago.

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