Because of its propensity to build nests under things, or in the ground, and because of its ability to use less water per gram of body weight, P.
Captives of each species differed in the amounts of water consumed per gram of body weight.
Both species consumed similar amounts of food per gram of body weight, on each of the diets (Table 7).
He found that both species drank about the same amounts of water per gram of body weight, and that food and water requirements did not differ sufficiently to be the basis for the habitat differences between these species.
Almost half of the fatalities are in persons less than 20 years of age, the high mortality rate being partially due to the greater ratio of venom to body weight.
Freshly dried cottonmouth venom tested on young white rats showed the lethal dose to be from 23 to 29 milligrams per kilogram of body weight.
On the other hand, if the illness commences with depression, the chief physical symptoms are mal-nutrition and loss of body weight, and the return to health is always preceded by a return of nutrition and a gain in body weight.
Histories of sudden outbursts of mania can rarely be relied on, as the illness is almost invariably preceded by loss of body weight, sleeplessness, bad dreams, headaches and symptoms of general malaise, sometimes associated with depression.
Body weight would be a better measure of relative size than body size, but few reliable weight data are available for seabirds.
Precocial and semiprecocial birds tend to have a larger clutch weight relative to body weight than do altricial birds (Fig.
Egg weight as a function of body weight in various northern seabirds.
Rabbits 69 and 70, it will be noticed, survived the same amount of caffein in proportion to body weight as was given to the other members of this group.
The same dose per kilo of body weight given to a goat likewise caused death in two and a half hours after its administration.
The same amount in proportion to body weight in No.
Sherman has arranged the following table showing the energy expenditures per hour for the average man (154 pounds), per pound of body weight (these are approximate averages only).
When the baby is a month old he should be growing rapidly, and his food requirements at this period and until he is about three months old will be approximately fifty calories per pound of body weight in the twenty-four hours.
According to Sherman the diet of an adult should contain each day per pound of body weight: Protein 0.
Hence, it has been deemed advisable to reckon the requirements of the latter per thousand calories, instead of per pound of body weight, in this way obviating some of the danger of protein and mineral deficiencies.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "body weight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
