(n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was conducted to assess the suppression of segmental pancreatic allograft rejection by cyclosporine (CSA) alone in baboons and dogs, and subtotal marrow irradiation (TL1) alone and TL 1 in combination with CSA in baboons.
(2) The effect of aspirin on the development of hypercoagulability in the penile blood during erection was studied in five Chacma baboons.
(3) Acetaldehyde (1-20 mM) was metabolized at high rates and in a dose-dependent manner in isolated human and baboon kidney-cortex tubules.
(4) Placement of impervious knitted Dacron velour aortic grafts in baboons reproduced platelet consumption that progressively normalized over six weeks postoperatively.
(5) Current data, obtained from resection of the nasal septum in baboons, indicate that proper coordination of timing and surgical technique can cause arrest of growth in the upper part of the face.
(6) Species whose embryos have been successfully preserved include mouse, rat, rabbit, sheep, goat, cattle, horse, antelope, baboon, and human.
(7) We have previously shown that the change in transuteroplacental cortisol (F)-cortisone (E) metabolism in vivo from preferential reduction (E to F) at midgestation to oxidation by term (F to E) does not occur in baboons in which the production or action of estrogen have been blocked.
(8) In earlier studies, we have shown that porous (60 micron internodal distance) PTFE grafts develop a complete endothelial layer 2 weeks after being implanted in baboons.
(9) In 11 patients with hepatic coma (stage IV and V according to Abouna) extracorporeal haemoperfusion using the Scribner shunt (radial or profunda femoris artery) was performed over 12 to 27 hours with 22 baboon and one human livers.
(10) Three marmoset species (Saguinus oedipus oedipus, S. fuscicollis, Callithrix jacchus) failed to show evidence of infection or disease following inoculation of baboon endogenous type-C virus (BaEV).
(11) PP14 was detected in baboon follicular fluid, and only PP5 immunoreactivity was measured in culture media of baboon embryos.
(12) Phosphate metabolite profiles of corneas were determined for human, baboon, monkey, cat, guinea-pig, pig, dog, rabbit, and cow using 31P-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
(13) We therefore compared the effects of a soluble dietary fiber concentrate, konjac-glucomannan (K-GM), and of propionate on plasma fibrinogen, serum and liver lipid, glucose tolerance, insulin response and liver glycogen in baboons.
(14) Model systems used as controls were human sarcoma cells, TE-32 and HT-1080, and human lymphoma cells TE-543, experimentally infected with KiMuLV, GaLV or baboon type-C virus, all of which released infectious virus and whose DNAs were infectious for TE-32 and D-17 dog cells.
(15) Less amount of parenchyma and growth of the stroma in baboons and a greater mitotic complex in rhesus monkeys show more pronounced involution processes in baboons.
(16) Using the same mixture of cercariae, a Gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada) could be infected by both schistosomes, but a dog was completely refractory.
(17) Lung dissolution of industrial uranium tetrafluoride (UF4) was tested in rats and baboons by intratracheal instillation and inhalation, to check the W classification given to UF4 by the International Commission on Radiological Protection.
(18) In normal implanted cats, squirel monkeys and baboons, various types of localized rhythms can be identified in somatic area I and in the visual zone.
(19) Both rats and baboons show similar responses to acute lethal exposures to hyperoxia, although the time course is more prolonged in the baboon.
(20) Serum concentrations of dehydroepiandrosterone (D) are greater and those of D sulfate (DS) are lower in female baboons than in women, suggesting interspecies differences in relative production and catabolism of these steroids.
Hamadryad
Definition:
(n.) A tree nymph whose life ended with that of the particular tree, usually an oak, which had been her abode.
(n.) A large venomous East Indian snake (Orhiophagus bungarus), allied to the cobras.
Example Sentences:
(1) A radioimmunological method is described for simultaneous estimation of hestagenes, estrogenes, androgenes and their precursors in small samples of blood plasma obtained from peripheric blood of hamadryads (Papio hamadryas) and macaques (Macaca rhesus).
(2) All three cases of tumours of the biliary tract in baboons hamadryad were classified as adenocarcinomas.
(3) In 6 baboon hamadryads, in 4 Stum-tailed macaques and in one macaco rhesus they were diagnosed as the so-called polypous gastritis.
(4) In a young baboon hamadryad adenomatous hyperplasia was observed to be developed against the background of hepatocirrhosis.