(n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
(n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
(n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
(n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
(n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
(n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
(n.) See Berth.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(3) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(4) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(5) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
(6) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
(7) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(8) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(9) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
(10) Foetal serum TSH concentration declined significantly between 20 and 21 days of gestation, reached a low level at delivery, and remained low for several days after birth.
(11) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(12) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(13) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
(14) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(15) Women who make their first visit during their first pregnancy are more likely than those who are not pregnant to receive a pregnancy test or counseling on matters other than birth control.
(16) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(17) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(18) A multiple regression analysis between maxBIL and the significantly correlated parameters showed that only gestational age and birth weight remained significantly correlated with maxBIL.
(19) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(20) Galactosylsphingosine had already accumulated at birth and dramatically increased with age.
Foal
Definition:
(n.) The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
(v.t.) To bring forth (a colt); -- said of a mare or a she ass.
(v.i.) To bring forth young, as an animal of the horse kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was, however, no difference in the overall elimination rate constant between foals and mares.
(2) Follow-up evaluation for all foals was completed at various times after physiologic closure of the physes.
(3) However, when hypoxia occurred during colic surgery in the last 60 days of pregnancy, the mares either aborted or delivered severely compromised foals that did not survive.
(4) Eighteen live foals resulted, of which 11 appeared abnormal on the basis of behaviour.
(5) Although the beginnings and endings of these periods are not definitive, these periods may be conceptually useful in evaluating a foal's behavior.
(6) The information presented here will be useful in the diagnosis and management of renal disease and azotaemia in foals.
(7) Evaluation of immunoglobulin levels in 24 hour post suckle samples would prove of value not only in diagnosing CID foals, but in recognising FPT in otherwise normal foals.
(8) Information about the resulting foals was obtained and correlations examined.
(9) No evidence was found to support the hypothesis that the normal, term neonatal foal actively maintains EEV greater than Vrx.
(10) A study of gonadotrophin production in horses and donkeys bearing hybrid foals has yielded fascinating results about the immunology of pregnancy.
(11) The disease in foals has been recognised in America since 1973.
(12) Each sire family consisted of a sire, his foals, and the dams of those foals.
(13) In 5 of these foals, strain gauges also were applied to the radius of the left forelimb.
(14) Esophageal stenosis was diagnosed in a 7-day-old Thoroughbred foal referred for evaluation of bilateral milky nasal discharge.
(15) The potential association of mare- and foal-related factors with FPT were assessed by reviewing a series of multiple logistic regression models.
(16) All seven premature foals survived, whereas four of the seven full term foals died.
(17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
(18) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
(19) Removal of the fixation appliances 16 weeks after implantation in three foals from each of groups I and II failed to reverse the degree of ulnar dysplasia.
(20) Significant age-related changes were observed in values for the major kinetic terms describing the disposition of chloramphenicol in foals; the greatest changes were observed between 1 day and 3 days of age.