Sentences with word «piloerection»

They were monitored for piloerection, bloatedness, tremors, lack of movement, rectal bleeding, and weight loss [all on a scale of 0 — 5, with 5 being very severe; adapted from Madsen et al. (2001)-RSB-.

The Goose Bump Detector: a skin piloerection monitoring sensor conformally attached to the dorsal forearm.

This stimulated piloerection, deforming the sensors and causing their capacitance to notably decrease.

A dog that maintains piloerection for a period of time is likely stressed.

«Overstimulation, in the form of fear, anxiety, excitement, surprise or arousal, can also cause dogs to experience piloerection, also known as hackles (the raising of the hair over their back and down to their tail).»

Often the clients report piloerection (hair standing up) and a difficulty in getting their dogs to listen to them.

«We found that the height of the goose bump and the piloerection duration can be deduced by analyzing obtained capacitance change trace,» explained Young - Ho Cho.

That may not be so far away — a team of researchers at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea has developed a flexible, wearable 20 mm x 20 mm polymer sensor that can directly measure the degree and occurrence on the skin of goose bumps (technically known as «piloerection»), which is caused by sudden changes in body temperature or emotional states.

Disease activity is scored based on rectal bleeding, piloerection, movement, and body weight changes as described previously (Madsen et al., 2001).

Other clear signals that stress is building can be piloerection, also known as raised hackles.

«This is called «piloerection» and is the exact same thing as goose bumps in humans,» says Mullinax.

Some of the most common misread signals are piloerection (raising of the hackles along the back), neck biting and growling.

Signs of imminent aggression include direct eye contact, freezing, barking, growling, piloerection (hackles up), baring teeth, and snapping (biting the air).

Dogs may also stick up their hair to communicate how they are, which is called «piloerection,» or more colloquially, «raising the hackles.»

This type of aggression may be recognized by the typical body postures which accompany it: crouching, flattening of the ears against the head, hissing and spitting, piloerection (hair standing up).

Typical body postures associated with fearful or defensive aggression are a combination of defensive signals (such as crouching, flattening the ears, tucking the tail, leaning away or rolling onto the side, and pupil dilation) and aggressive signals (such as hissing and spitting, piloerection, growling, swatting, biting and scratching).

These manifestations are varied, but may include pupil dilation, ear pinning and pricking, lip licking, yawning, piloerection, tail wagging, and raising a forepaw.

Indications that a dog may be fearful or anxious include: licking his / her lips, puffing out his / her cheeks, pulling his / her ears back, dilating his / her pupils, looking at people from the side of his / her eyes or turning his / her head away from or staring at the people, piloerection (hair standing up), and tensing of his / her body.