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cat | American Dictionary

cat
noun[ C ]
us/kæt/

catnoun[C] (ANIMAL)

a small, furry animal with four legs and a tail, often kept as a pet, or any of a group of related animals that are wild, and some of which are large and fierce, such as the lion
CAT
noun[ U ]
us/kæt/

CATnoun[U] (EXAMINATION)

abbreviation for computerized axial tomography (= a way of taking pictures of structures inside the body)

Examples of cat

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Because the cat has large receptive fields, these residual movements will seldom be consequential for visual physiology.
Transmission at the retino-geniculate synapse in cats is influenced by the structure of pre- and postsynaptic spike trains.
The three cats were trained on two visual detection and orienting tasks that employed moved and static stimuli, and a landmark task.
More than likely, the human child and the cat have come upon similar behavioral solutions to different problems.
Oscillations of the spontaneous slow wave sleep rhythm in lateral geniculate nucleus relay neurons of behaving cats.
Selective depletion of beta cells affects the development of alpha cells in cat retina.
Monocular activation of visual cortex in normal and monocularly deprived cats: an analysis of evoked potentials.
Organization of visual pathways in normal and visually deprived cats.
Furthermore, the large body size of females considerably reduces their potential predators and practically only feral cats and raptors can access them.
As mentioned earlier, the role of dogs and cats in exposure of humans in regions of sylvatic transmission is not completely understood.
A cat walks by and wakes up the tiger.
We have therefore investigated the functional organization of area 17 in adult cats with a surgically induced convergent squint angle.
Two inward currents and the transformation of low frequency oscillations of rat and cat thalamocortical cells.
In our analysis, the monthly counts of raccoons testing positive were associated with the risk of a cat testing positive.
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black cat
She has a number of familiars including a black cat.
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