How to Use enteric in a Sentence

enteric

adjective
Definition of entericnext
  • The anatomy and digestive habits of cattle and bison cause almost all of the methane to escape from their mouths, a process known as enteric emission.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The term enteric refers to the gastrointestinal tract, and observers said the disease could be an intestinal illness like typhoid and cholera.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
  • The enteric nervous system is often referred to as our body’s second brain.
    — Justin Sonnenburg, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
  • As many as half a million children are thought to die every year from enteric diseases, including cholera and dysentery.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The alert comes after the presence of high levels of enteric bacteria was reported.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al.com, 5 July 2019
  • Much of that is enteric methane, which is produced when cud-chewing animals like cows digest their food.
    — Fortune, 2 June 2021
  • The second largest nervous cluster in our bodies, after the brain, is the bundle in our gut (technically called the enteric nervous system, or ENS).
    — Paul Root Wolpe, Vox, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But 27 percent of all U.S. methane emissions are the result of something known as enteric fermentation—a fancy way of saying pig poop and cow farts.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2021
  • Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • There are hundreds of million of neurons connecting the brain to the enteric nervous system, the part of the nervous system that is tasked with controlling the gastrointestinal system.
    — Justin Sonnenburg, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
  • The presence of enteric bacteria indicates fecal pollution that can come from storm water runoff, pets and wildlife and human sewage.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 14 July 2022
  • Dairy cows’ enteric fermentation and manure, as well as the production of the cattle feed, emit significant amounts of greenhouse gasses (GHG).
    — Carla Delgado, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2022
  • Operations of the enteric nervous system are overseen by the brain and central nervous system.
    — Justin Sonnenburg, Scientific American, 1 May 2015
  • In cats, for example, infection with feline enteric coronavirus may last for months or longer.
    — Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Now, in new research, scientists have catalogued 12 different kinds of neurons in the enteric nervous system (ENS) of mice.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2020
  • That leads to incessant burping or, as scientists call it, enteric emissions.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Of that amount, methane emissions from livestock (called enteric fermentation) comprised more than a quarter of the emissions from the agriculture sector.
    — Michelle Chapman, The Denver Post, 14 July 2020
  • Just under a quarter of those 100 kilos is due to the land-use changes, and slightly over half is due to on-farm emissions, which include enteric methane and greenhouse gases from equipment, manure and fertilizer.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
  • This bidirectional communication between the central nervous system (made up of the brain and the spine) and the enteric nervous system (located in the gut and often referred to as the second brain) is known as the gut-brain axis.
    — Amanda De George, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2022
  • But this process, called enteric fermentation, also produces methane, a potent planet-warming gas that the cattle mostly belch into the air.
    — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Scientists call this little brain the enteric nervous system (ENS) because it is hidden within the digestive system’s walls.
    — Aaraf Adam, Essence, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Erectin packs these ingredients into a capsule with an enteric coating.
    — Dallas News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Your enteric nervous system, which comprises 100 million nerve cells, is in charge of controlling digestion.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • For instance, deletions in the furin cleavage site in the feline enteric coronavirus increase pathogenicity in animals.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The company will also explore animal feed additives that cut down on the amount of methane that cows produce during enteric fermentation.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 4 Mar. 2020
  • The latter is accurate: A recent report said livestock (including poultry) accounts for 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, the bulk of that from enteric fermentation - the digestive process that leads cows to belch methane.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2019
  • They were issued after the water quality testing found higher levels of enteric bacteria, normally found in the intestinal track of humans and animals, in the water.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 14 July 2022
  • Ruminant animals that chew their food twice like cattle create methane as a result of their digestive process, called enteric fermentation.
    — Isabella Fertel, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • As for the belching bovines, a recent study published in Science Advances identified groups of microbes in cows' guts that cause enteric fermentation and suggested that selectively breeding cows to produce less gas might lower emissions.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Canine enteric coronavirus, which affects the gastrointestinal tract, is fairly rare and typically only affects puppies under six weeks of age.
    — Laura Hanrahan, Woman's Day, 4 Mar. 2020

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