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Перевод: opossum

[существительное]
опоссум [зоол.] ; сумчатая крыса [зоол.]

Тезаурус:

1. The largest litter produced by any placental mammal is even more than the opossum's - thirty-two.
2. Rattan and coworkers have investigated the role of NO in neurogenic relaxation f the internal anal sphincter in the opossum in vitro and have also assessed involvement of NO in the rectonal inhibitory reflex in the same animal in vivo.
3. The American opossum has given its name to death-feigning.
4. Some insects, snakes and other preyed-upon creatures - most famously the opossum - have perfected the useful trick of feigning death if captured in order to escape when a predator relaxes his grip.
5. Intrinsic bicarbonate secretion from the oesophageal mucosa may also contribute to intraluminal acid neutralisation, and such secretion has been shown in vivo in the opossum oesophagus, which is known to contain submucous glands.
6. The major source of the neutralising capacity of saliva is its bicarbonate content, but there is now evidence that gland bearing oesophageal mucosa can also secrete alkali, a phenomenon first documented in the opossum esophagus in vivo.
7. When attacked, the opossum's first reaction is to fight back.
8. The animal most famous for shamming dead is, of course, the American opossum.
9. Pound saw him doing it, and chuckled indulgently; it was what he meant by dubbing Eliot "the Possum" (opossum, the creature that escapes danger by shamming dead).
10. The sun was low in the sky now, shimmering the mud flats in a golden glow - and there were the graceful avocets, sweeping long curved bills from side to side through the fine silt, scooping up their favourite opossum shrimps and rag worms: a marvellous sight.
11. One of the American marsupials, the Virginian opossum, practises the first strategy.
12. Although the opossum is phylogenically disparate from the human, these findings support our conclusions, particularly because they show the importance of NO in this region in vivo.
13. This study showed that the opossum does not experience some kind of fit or paralytic unconsciousness.