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a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation
the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities - stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
How To Use guinea pig In A Sentence
- Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/ Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!
- Although the APMV-5 HN protein has neuraminidase activity, it neither hemagglutinated nor hemadsorbed RBCs of chickens, turkeys, guinea pigs, horses, or human O-group, either at 37°C or at 4°C. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
- In a study of guinea pigs, oral administration of diiodotyrosine prevented alterations in thyroid and pituitary function induced by ovariectomy.
- Behold the domesticated guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- The food was a mixture of commercial tropical fish food, commercial guinea pig chow, freeze-dried tubifex worms, finely sifted silt, and puppy vitamins.
- Blood from a guinea pig who has contracted inapparent typhus will always produce pyretic typhus in another guinea pig if the dose inoculated is sufficient. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
- It includes some natural history displays which are always there, including live terrapins, frogs and guinea pigs.
- Lebailly and I then went on to demonstrate that inapparent primary infection typhus, which is exceptional in inoculated guinea pigs, is the only form which the disease takes experimentally in the rat and the mouse. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
- Related to the guinea pig, the capybara is the largest species of rodent. Archive 2010-02-14
