(n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
(2) On Friday, at the modest five-storey block of flats in the Quartier des Abattoirs where he had lived and which was raided by officers from the elite RAID unit at 9.30am,neighbours described him as a quiet and “not very religious” man.
(3) In order to assess the extent of environmental pollution by Pb, Cd and Zn in the industrial area of Portoscuso (Southwestern Sardinia-Italy), anatomohistopathological, histochemical and chemical tests were carried out on the heart, liver, kidneys and bones of sheep slaughtered in the local abattoir.
(4) Over a period of 15 months data were collected from abattoirs in Great Britain on 213,082 cattle and 362,838 sheep livers to determine the distribution and prevalence of damage by Fasciola hepatica.
(5) These figures are about the same as previously reported for pork but much higher than previously reported for beef carcasses; however, they represent only three to five abattoirs in Georgia and do not necessarily represent contamination levels throughout the country.
(6) A total of 134 (8.9%) of 1499 cattle, 146 (8.1%) of 1798 sheep and 144 (7.1%) of 2020 goats slaughtered in abattoirs in Masailand were found to harbour hydatid cysts.
(7) The numbers of the various kinds of mycobacteria isolated at each of the 4 abattoirs and for the 3 meat inspection disposition classes were not significantly different.
(8) Romania's agriculture minister Daniel Constantin angrily said an official investigation had exonerated his country's abattoirs.
(9) Because supply chains are so long and processors use subcontractors to supply meat when the volume of orders changes dramatically at short notice, it is all too easy for mislabelled, poorer quality, or downright fraudulent meat to be substituted for what is specified in big abattoirs and processing plants.
(10) She said a large numbers of asylum seekers on bridging visas were already working in regional areas, in places like abattoirs and factories.
(11) All the diagnoses made on these birds at the abattoir were recorded and the carcasses individually identified.
(12) When bovine embryonic kidneys collected at the Gorgie Abattoir, Edinburgh were examined for evidence of infection with bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV), 11 out of 26 kidneys were found to be positive.
(13) Last week a horse abattoir in Yorkshire, Peter Boddy, was raided along with a Welsh meat trading company.
(14) A study of 150 cases of AML (ICD 205.0) found a relative risk of 2.5 for abattoir workers (90% confidence interval 1.3-4.7).
(15) During a period of 13 months, 507 heads of sheep, obtained from an abattoir near Harare, were examined for infection with Oestrus ovis larvae.
(16) Inspection of bovine female genitalia at a major abattoir in north-eastern Zimbabwe showed schistosome-induced granulomas in uterine walls.
(17) The bacterial status of beef carcasses at a commercial abattoir was monitored before and after slaughterline automation.
(18) The export of live horses from Ulster for slaughter has largely ceased since the establishment seven years ago of the horse abattoir at Saintfield, County Down, by a well-known British knackery firm.
(19) In addition, abattoir and farm-level management data were obtained to evaluate variables that may be considered risk factors for infection.
(20) The criteria established in this study could be used to determine the ages of spontaneous bruises in abattoir carcases and so provide a basis for an investigation aimed at detection of the traumatic episode from which they result.
Slaughterhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Example Sentences:
(1) The types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) were similar in warts of butchers from these slaughterhouses and of 63 butchers from various slaughterhouses all over the country.
(2) In a cross-sectional study of 144 slaughterhouse workers, a cumulative prevalence of current and anamnestic cases of protein contact dermatitis of 22% was found, with the highest prevalence in workers eviscerating and cleansing gut.
(3) Antibodies to immunoglobulins (Ig) M, G, and A against Yersinia enterocolitica serotypes O:3, O:5, O:8, and O:9 and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotypes I and III were analyzed by enzyme immunoassay of the serum samples of 161 slaughterhouse workers, 147 pig farmers, and 114 grain or berry farmers.
(4) Pituitary and serum from 86 male or female horses of various reproductive states were collected in the normal breeding season (summer) and in the nonbreeding season (winter) at a commercial slaughterhouse.
(5) Groups were sampled weekly for campylobacters and finally at the slaughterhouse.
(6) The animals were sent in 22 deliveries to one slaughterhouse.
(7) This is in contrast with herd books, artificial insemination banks and slaughterhouse data bases in animals.
(8) The prevalence and distribution of Taenia saginata cysticercosis in Anambra State, Nigeria, was determined from analysis of official slaughterhouse records for 1973 to 1979 and from a special survey conducted at a typical slaughter slab in the State during September to December 1980.
(9) Morphological investigations of slaughterhouse material revealed a prevalence of 63% of the sows (n = 224) and 36% of the slaughter pigs (n = 209) with mucosal lesions in the pars oesophagea.
(10) Research is currently going on in order to improve the sensitivity of this antigen detection test, so that it can replace the current unreliable meat inspection methods in the slaughterhouse.
(11) Oocytes were collected from slaughterhouse ovaries by aspiration of 1-5-mm follicles.
(12) The research was focused on the presence of Salmonella serovars in samples collected from 2 stream sites equidistant from a cold storage plant and slaughterhouse, one downstream, and the other before the source of pollution.
(13) Animal rights organisations have been handing out awards and lavishing praise on slaughterhouse designers and burger restaurant chains after "negotiations" for small changes that leave the systems of exploitation intact.
(14) Confirmation of pregnancy was based on recorded farrowings or abortions; confirmation of non-pregnancy was based on return to oestrus and rebreeding, recorded non-farrowing, or inspection of the uterus of culled animals at the slaughterhouse.
(15) During 1983 and 1984, ileocecal lymph node specimens were obtained from clinically normal cattle at 76 US Department of Agriculture-inspected cull cattle slaughterhouses in 32 states and Puerto Rico.
(16) All these issues – the proposed sale, the slaughterhouse, the budget cuts and the pipeline – are interrelated, reflecting divisions between the Sioux and the outside world but also within the tribe, between those who see development as desperately needed and those who are opposed.
(17) The identification of cattle helminths in Ituri was carried out by post mortem examinations in slaughterhouses and tracer calves.
(18) As a routine diagnostic procedure in the slaughterhouse, trichinoscopy and the digestion method are possible alternatives, the latter being more sensitive.
(19) Three pigs from a slaughterhouse were found heavily infected with Cysticercus cellulosae.
(20) Sera (166) were collected on adult pigs at slaughterhouse in the following french departments: Finistere, Morbihan and Ille et Vilaine.