What's the difference between baby and squab?

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.

Squab


Definition:

  • (a.) Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
  • (a.) Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.
  • (n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
  • (n.) A person of a short, fat figure.
  • (n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
  • (adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.
  • (v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
  • (2) Prolactin significantly increased the incidence or frequency of parental regurgitation-feeding episodes in tests with all three squab age groups and, in addition, increased the incidence of parental feeding invitations (squab-oriented bill openings) in tests with 6- to 8-day-old squabs.
  • (3) These changes suggest that all the food was not being digested by the adult birds during brooding but was almost exclusively regurgitated to feed the squabs.
  • (4) A simultaneous squab--egg choice test was given on days 1, 4, 10, and 13 of incubation and on the day following hatching in normal reproductive cycles of experienced and naïve male and female ring doves.
  • (5) The period is made up of 15 days incubating eggs and 4-5 days brooding squabs.
  • (6) With the use of genetically marked transferrin, a major portion of circulating transferrin from a newly hatched squab was found to be derived from the mother through the egg.
  • (7) env sequences were not detectable in DNAs from Japanese quail, ring-necked pheasant, golden pheasant, duck, squab, salmon sperm, or calf thymus.
  • (8) Squabs introduced during late incubation have more of a positive effect on squab choice than when introduced during early incubation.
  • (9) In the second experiment, birds fed the diet with no supplemental fat did not produce squabs, whereas fat-supplemented diets resulted in production of at least six squabs.
  • (10) Systemic administration of ovine prolactin (PRL) has been previously reported to stimulate parental feeding behavior toward 7-day-old foster squabs by nonbreeding ring doves with previous breeding experience.
  • (11) The DNAs of 11 various mammalian and avian species, including both natural predators of mice and squabs from the farms with virus-positive mice, lacked amphotropic envelope-related sequences.
  • (12) Weekly, when new offspring were banded, a squab data sheet was taken into the pen to record the offspring's permanent leg band number, hatch date, strain, pen number, and parents' band numbers.
  • (13) Average energy intake was about 235 kcal ME per pair per day for pigeons not producing squabs.
  • (14) Experiment II shows that squab reared without seed in their home cage do not develop normal levels of pecking unless exposure to seed is followed in close temporal proximity by interaction with parents.
  • (15) Two experiments were conducted to study the effects on the performance of squabbing pigeons of two feeding systems based on two protein levels, two fat sources, and varying fat and energy levels.
  • (16) Such feedings may have been essential for producing the previous observation (Graf, Balsam, & Silver, 1985) that pecking develops normally if squab which have been separated from their parents are given a daily 20-min interaction with seed followed by an immediate return to their parents.
  • (17) However, squab must actually be given experience in handling and ingesting seeds before adult levels of pecking can be obtained.
  • (18) Young squabs may be permanently sterilized when fed crop milk by treated birds.
  • (19) In this experiment, 6- to 8-day-old test squabs were used to determine if parental behavior is enhanced by twice-daily intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections of PRL in doses below those required to stimulate peripheral target organs.
  • (20) It is concluded that an association between some aspect of squab's interaction with seed and a parentally provided unconditioned stimulus is sufficient for normal pecking to develop.