What's the difference between bactrian and dromedary?

Bactrian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.
  • (n.) A native of Bactria.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bactrian camels (63 female female, 8 male male) were used in the breeding season to determine the factors that will induce ovulation.
  • (2) This civilisation was later cross-fertilised by new influences brought by the Kushans who succeeded the Bactrian Greeks as rulers of Afghanistan, while adopting much of their culture.
  • (3) Polyploid giant cells resulting from differentiation of normal cytotrophoblast cells were found in the composition of the placenta cytotrophoblast of the Bactrian camel.
  • (4) The present paper describes mucous cells in the forestomach glandular region which immunoreacted to antibovine pepsinogen serum in adult and young bactrian camels, Camelus bactrianus (female, 25 years old; female, 6 months old; from Hilar Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, in August 1988).
  • (5) It may be supposed that giant cells of the placenta of female Bactrian camels also participate in the endocrinous function of the placenta.
  • (6) The fine structure of leucocytes from the udders of 7 lactating and 3 non-lactating bactrian camels and from peripheral blood were studied.
  • (7) The "bactrian" (two-hump camels) sign was the single most sensitive test used, being positive in 83.7% of cases.
  • (8) In the placenta of the Bactrian camel the transformation of cytotrophoblast cells into multinuclear giant cells is realized via endomitotic polyploidization and distinctly reflects active synthetic processes occurring in these cells related with the trophic function of the placenta.
  • (9) Ciliate composition in the forestomach was examined in four Bactrian camels, Camelus bactrianus, inhabiting Mongol and Steppes, then 7 genera containing 14 species with 5 formae were identified.
  • (10) Accidental monensin toxicosis developed in 5 Stone sheep (Ovis dalli stonei), 5 blesbok (Damaliscus dorcas phillipsi), and a Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) at the St Louis Zoological Park.
  • (11) They confirm and extend the observations reported in the bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus).
  • (12) Xylazine was found to be a safe and reliable drug for chemical restraint of Bactrian camels (Camelus bactrianus).
  • (13) In the ribonucleases from two unrelated bactrian camels, only glutamine was observed at that position.
  • (14) The amino acid sequence of bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) ribonuclease isolated from individual pancreatic tissue was determined and compared with that of arabian camel ribonuclease.
  • (15) The Bactrian Greeks survived for 1,000 years, long after Greek civilisation had disappeared in Europe.
  • (16) One Gc variant appeared to be identical in llamas, alpacas, dromedaries and bactrian camels.
  • (17) At the back, between dozing Bactrian camels and half a dozen Przewalski's horses, the solar panels were visible along with advanced wind-lens turbines that are three times more efficient than conventional ones.

Dromedary


Definition:

  • (n.) The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mean prevalence was 0.7% (range 0.4-38.5%) in sheep, 1.4% (range 0.2-7.7%) in goats and 80% in dromedaries.
  • (2) Llamas and alpacas, like dromedaries, have an extra fetal membrane that is derived from the epidermis of the fetus.
  • (3) In evolutionary terms this indicates that dromedary RNAase has evolved independently during the larger part of the evolution of the mammals.
  • (4) Twelve strains of Congo-CHF virus have been isolated from ticks taken on bovines and dromedaries in that area.
  • (5) These assays were highly specific for camLH since neither dromedary follicle-stimulating hormone, growth hormone nor prolactin cross-reacted significantly.
  • (6) Beta 2 in dromedary is the P2-glycerate contact histidine.
  • (7) The effect of inositol hexakisphosphate on the EPR properties of the nitric oxide derivative of ferrous dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) hemoglobin has been investigated at 110 K. In the absence of inositol hexakisphosphate, the nitrosyl derivative of dromedary hemoglobin shows an EPR spectrum with a rhombic shape and a weak hyperfine splitting in the gz region, a feature that is generally taken as characteristic of the high-affinity state of tetrameric hemoproteins.
  • (8) Involuntary regurgitation is a particular hazard in dromedaries and every effort should be made to avoid this potentially life threatening complication.
  • (9) They are isolated and purified from dromedary post-hyphophysis, freshly collected in the meat centers of the south of Tunisia.
  • (10) For comparison, O2 kinetics for the RBC of a low-altitude camelid (dromedary camel) and the pygmy goat were determined and previously measured values for human RBC were used.
  • (11) The interaction of dromedary hemoglobin with various solvent components [2-(p-chlorophenoxy)-2-methylpropionic acid (CFA), 2,3-bisphospho-D-glycerate (glycerate-2,3-P2) and chloride] has been studied.
  • (12) Polyclonal antibodies against luteinizing hormone in dromedary (camLH) were raised in a rabbit and enabled the development of homologous immunoassays (radioimmunoassay, competitive enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) and sandwich EIA) for the measurement of circulating camLH in plasma.
  • (13) This difference may be due to the greater number of basic residues exposed to solvent and to the higher flexibility of dromedary hemoglobin.
  • (14) The fertility rate of hydatids was 50% in sheep and 67.8% in dromedaries; and degenerative changes were shown by 65.8% of hydatids from dromedaries as compared to 16.3% in sheep.
  • (15) The author presents an overview of established knowledge on this major disease for the dromedary, which has hitherto been underestimated.
  • (16) As a general rule the equipment and techniques used for adult cattle may also be used in the dromedary.
  • (17) Regression of the corpus luteum was found to occur in the dromedary by 2 different ways, termed vascular and avascular types.
  • (18) The sequence of the main hemoglobin component of the guinea pig (Cavia aerea f. porcellus, Caviidae) and that of the hemoglobin of the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius, Camelidae) is given.
  • (19) Post-ovulatory corpora haemorrhagica and mature corpora lutea were seen in the ovary of non pregnant dromedary only during the spring season.
  • (20) Position 39 in horse and dromedary ribonuclease is not deleted but is occupied by tryptophan.

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