(a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
(n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.
Example Sentences:
(1) A spindle cell sarcoma appeared 20 months after implantation of a pellet of 3-methylcholanthrene in the denervated foreleg of an adult frog, Rana pipiens.
(2) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(3) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(4) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(5) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(6) The anticonvulsant properties of the endogenous excitatory amino acid antagonist, kynurenic acid (KYA), were studied in prepubescent and adult rats using the amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.
(7) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
(8) At the highest dose of chloroquine tested (500 microM), a slightly greater increase in insulin binding and a decrease in insulin degradation were observed in fetal cells as compared with adult cells.
(9) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
(10) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
(11) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(12) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(13) The main clinical symptom was pain, usually sciatica, while neurological symptoms were less common than they are in adults.
(14) Intestinal glands are not observed until 8.5cm, and are shallow in depth even in the adult.
(15) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(16) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(17) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(18) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(19) It has also been reported in a severe form with fever and systemic symptoms both in children and adults.
(20) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
Baby
Definition:
(n.) An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
(n.) A small image of an infant; a doll.
(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans.
(v. i.) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
(2) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(3) When an expression vector containing plasminogen cDNA is transfected into baby hamster kidney cells, the number of drug-resistant colonies as well as the levels of plasminogen secreted by those colonies is lower than observed in similar transfections of other protease precursor genes.
(4) Antibodies by the papain method were detected 41 of the women at the time of delivery (22 Rh-positive babies and 19 Rh-negative ones).
(5) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
(6) A longitudinal study of iron deficiency and of psychomotor development was carried out in 147 children followed between the ages of 10 months and 4 years in 2 well-baby out-patient clinics in Paris area.
(7) While an abnormal birth may result in minimal brain damage this is not necessarily the significant factor, as a separation of mother and baby in the immediate neonatal period, Which usually follows an abnormal birth, may be of more relevance.
(8) Nearly 69% of the women with ectopic pregnancy had delivered two or more babies previously, and the post-ectopic pregnancy conception rate was 19.54%.
(9) There it was found she was not carrying twins but her baby remained in hospital for some weeks with respiratory problems.
(10) To be faced with not being able to stay with or even be near their baby is inconceivable."
(11) The babies were weighed prior to the morning feeding.
(12) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
(13) Midwives are facing increasing pressure with chronic staff shortages, the ongoing baby boom and increasing numbers of complications in pregnancy.
(14) The proportion of women initiating breastfeeding – when a mother either puts her baby to the breast within 48 hours of birth or the baby is given any of the mother's breast milk – had been rising by about one percentage point a year between 2004 and 2010-11.
(15) A total of 131 (14%) babies received opioids out of 933 neonates admitted to the unit.
(16) Here the miracle of the Lohans' baby was divinely ordained and fulfilled the entitlement of every woman to have a child.
(17) Fifty-seven percent of counseled women had the baby's father tested.
(18) Nine of 34 newborns of mothers with PPT were thrombocytopenic; there was no correlation between mother's and baby's platelet counts.
(19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
(20) No correction needs to be made for gestational age if the baby is born after the 34th week of gestation.