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Angora


Definition:

  • (n.) A city of Asia Minor (or Anatolia) which has given its name to a goat, a cat, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The majority of Angora goats in the United States are in Texas, although several other states have significant populations.
  • (2) Despite physiological differences, acidified milk replacer can be used successfully to raise Angora kids.
  • (3) The animals were of various breeds including Angora, New Zealand feral, Angora x feral, Saanen and Toggenburg.
  • (4) Mineral requirements and plant toxicities may vary between regions where Angora goats are raised.
  • (5) In the first of two experiments, four wether lambs (BW = 26.8 kg) and four wether Angora goats (BW = 31.7 kg) were used in two simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin squares to study the influence of condensed tannins (CT) on nutrient usage and concentrations of serum urea N, somatotropin (GH), and insulin (INS) when the animals were fed low-quality diets containing mountain mahogany (MM; Cercocarpus montanus) leaves.
  • (6) Adult ixodid ticks were collected at 2-weekly intervals for a period of 23 consecutive months from 15 to 20 Angora goats on a farm in the south western Orange Free State.
  • (7) Faecal egg counts and serum prolactin concentrations in 13 pregnant and five non-pregnant Angora goats were monitored over a period of 20 weeks.
  • (8) Helminth parasites were collected from 13 grysbok, Raphicerus melanotis, 12 common duikers, Sylvicapra grimmia, 24 Angora goats and 24 Boer goats killed on a farm in Valley Bushveld in the eastern Cape Province.
  • (9) Because of the high protein requirement, the marginal dietary protein in many Angora diets, and the traditional raising of Angoras in arid regions where browsing of plants off the ground is typical, Angoras in wet regions that are forced to graze seem to be especially susceptible to internal parasitism with Haemonchus contortus.
  • (10) Young and adult Angora goats were exposed to infestation during two paralysis tick seasons.
  • (11) These results suggest that artificial insemination may be utilized to improve reproductive performance in French Angora rabbits.
  • (12) Natural bluetongue infection has not been observed in Angora or dairy goats.
  • (13) In Angora goats three different phenotypes have been recognized: F, S, and FS.
  • (14) In the eastern Cape Province every helmeted guinea fowl (Numida meleagris), scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) and kudu from the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve; all but 1 of the 22 domestic cattle examined on the farm "Bucklands"; and all Angora goats plus nearly all Boer goats examined on the farm "Brakhill" were infested with this tick.
  • (15) Eight castrated male Angora goats were used in a repeated, simultaneous 4 x 4 Latin square designed experiment to evaluate metabolic and mohair responses of Angora goats to sulfate supplementation.
  • (16) Angora kids were blocked by birth weight and sex and assigned randomly to goat milk or acidified milk replacer.
  • (17) Angora goat farmers experienced the same, but with higher mortalities, probably due to the apparently high susceptibility of Angora goats to heartwater.
  • (18) GCC was found only in Australian Angora and Cashmere animals.
  • (19) Coccidiosis can also be a severe problem in young Angoras that are congregated in small areas.
  • (20) Fresh blood from nine mature non-pregnant angora goats was found to contain a varying proportion of spindle-shaped, fusiform, triangular, pear-shaped, and other bizarre forms of erythrocytes in addition to normal discoid biconcave erythrocytes.

Hair


Definition:

  • (n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
  • (n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
  • (n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
  • (n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
  • (n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
  • (n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
  • (n.) A haircloth.
  • (n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (2) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
  • (3) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
  • (4) White hair bulbs which demonstrated no TH activity formed 2SCD, but not 5SCD.
  • (5) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
  • (6) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
  • (7) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
  • (8) Tumors were induced in athymic, T-cell-deficient nude mice and in syngeneic normal haired mice by treatment with low doses of 3-methylcholantrene (MCA).
  • (9) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
  • (10) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.
  • (11) However, in subjects with alopecia there was no such difference and the growth rate of all the hairs showed a continuous distribution.
  • (12) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
  • (13) After 7 days, various stages of sensory hair degeneration could be observed.
  • (14) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
  • (15) Subungual hair penetration appears to be much less common.
  • (16) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
  • (17) Of four normal tissues assessed, two (hair follicles and tissues responsible for development of leg contractures) showed no change in radioresponse after treatment with indomethacin, one (hematopoietic tissue) exhibited radioprotection, and one (jejunum) exhibited slight radiosensitization (enhancement factor, 1.12).
  • (18) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
  • (19) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
  • (20) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.

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