(a.) Of both sexes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(2) This must mean that many same-sex contacts are by people who do not consider themselves gay or bisexual.
(3) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
(4) There were no significant differences in the adrenal weights of males or females, but females reared by bisexual pairs had larger absolute and relative adrenals than females reared in populations.
(5) The levels of specific antibodies were much higher in bisexual infection than in unisexual infection and closely related to the intensity and duration of infection.
(6) There was no acknowledgement in the agreement of the “deep pain these decisions will cause, nor any concern for the pastoral care of [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex] Christians,” she said.
(7) Rates of victimization of and attitudes towards lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals at a well-known national liberal arts college were reported and compared to other institutions.
(8) The accumulating process and concentration ratios of ingested blood meals in the larvae and nymphs of Amblyomma testudinarium, Haemaphysalis campanulata, H. concinna, H. formosensis, H. hystricis, H. kitaokai, the bisexual and parthenogenetic strains of H. longicornis, H. megaspinosa, and Ixodes persulcatus on rabbits and Argas japonicus on chickens were comparatively investigated.
(9) Paterson added in the letter, published on the PoliticsHome website : "However, the government is rightly committed to advancing equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and has already taken action to do so by allowing those religious premises that wish to carry out civil partnerships to do so, erasing historic convictions for consensual gay sex and putting pressure on other countries that violate the human rights of LGBT people.
(10) datch dattch A location-based app that seeks out lesbian and bisexual women nearby.
(11) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(12) Leaked Home Office documents show bisexual asylum seekers being asked degrading questions during hours of interrogation by Home Office officials – questions that included: "What is it about men's backsides that attracts you?"
(13) The AIDS epidemic is discussed in terms of its effect on general sexual attitudes and behavior of homosexual and bisexual men, then, in particular, on the issue of control over one's sexual behavior.
(14) The authors report on an anti-hepatitis C virus antibody (HCV Ab) prevalence (6.9%) in 622 homo-bisexual males from Northern Italy, voluntarily attending an HIV and STDs screening program in the period 1984-89.
(15) Symptoms of bleeding, almost always harmless skin or mucosal bleeding, were found in 45% of patients with a history of intravenous drug abuse and in 18% of the homo- or bisexual men.
(16) It turns out he is a member of the EDL's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender division, which has 115 members.
(17) Most of the cases in the U.K. have occurred in homo- or bisexual men, and the pattern of disease in the U.K. closely follows that of the epidemic in the United States.
(18) Transmission of HIV in many Caribbean countries has followed the pattern of initial predominance among homosexual and bisexual males, with the infection subsequently spreading into the heterosexual community.
(19) Of these, 13 were intravenous drug abusers, 13 were homosexual or bisexual, six were haemophiliacs, two were homosexual intravenous drug abusers and one was a heterosexual contact of a drug abuser.
(20) Over one third of the bisexual women reported having been involved in prostitution.
Unisexual
Definition:
(a.) Having one sex only, as plants which have the male and female flowers on separate individuals, or animals in which the sexes are in separate individuals; di/cious; -- distinguished from bisexual, or hermaphrodite. See Di/cious.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), enzyme, and morphological variation among 17 unisexual Ambystoma of hybrid origin.
(2) The levels of specific antibodies were much higher in bisexual infection than in unisexual infection and closely related to the intensity and duration of infection.
(3) Chromosomes of the Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, a unisexual species of hybrid origin, were investigated by C-banding, silver staining, and fluorescent staining with DAPI, quinacrine dihydrochloride, and chromomycin A3.
(4) This reduction coincided with the late stages of the infection and was also observed in unisexual infection with male worms.
(5) These data, together with unisexuality, demonstrate conclusively that the all-female R. ridibunda population at Trubeschloo originated from matings between two R. esculenta.
(6) Unisexually developed males incubated for 1 h in EBSS showed both lipid accumulation and release from the dorsal surface.
(7) Skin graft evidence is used to directly identify the unisexual parent of natural hybrids produced between the bisexual species Cnemidophorus inornatus and the unisexual Cnemidophorus neomexicanus.
(8) Additional studies carried out in mice after unisexual infection revealed that egg production is not a necessary prerequisite for several of the immunologic phenomena associated with acute schistosomiasis.
(9) Further experiments were performed to determine light preferences during oviposition when unisexual and bisexual females were in direct competition.
(10) Cnemidophorus uniparens is a parthenogenetic unisexual species of lizard in which each individual develops as a female, making it a unique animal model for the study of sexual differentiation.
(11) Mice were infected with fertile bisexual Schistosoma mansoni and compared with similar animals infected with unisexual worms or sterile bisexual worms.
(12) The results revealed: (1) three unisexual grooming subgroups; (2) two focal monkeys (one female and one male) which were each avoided by five animals, one female avoided by three animals, the rest avoided by one or none; (3) that each monkey was 'friendly' with one to three others and was 'antagonistic' toward all the rest; (4) that males were socially inactive, ranked below most females, associated primarily with each other, and, in this study, were killed by females during the mating period.
(13) This confirms our previous conclusion that the evolution of the parthenogenetic mode of reproduction and expression of male-like pseudosexual behavior that are characteristic of the unisexual C. uniparens has not been accomplished by evolutionary modifications in the pattern of sex steroid hormone secretion.
(14) Three populations of the North American cyprinodont fish Poecilia latipinna, considered to be one of the progenitor species of the gynogenetic unisexual P. formosa, were analyzed by C-banding and Ag-staining.
(15) Hence the unisexually grouped females were unable to perceive the pheromone from males and continued to remain in anoestrus following exposure to perfumed males.
(16) By hybridizing bisexual (gonochoristic) fishes, all-female clones have been produced that are comparable to those of a wild unisexual "species," Poeciliopsis monacha-lucida, living in northwestern Mexico.
(17) Parthenogenesis can only evolve in areas devoid of the generating bisexual species, because such species would prevent newly formed unisexuals from establishing clones due either to hybridization or competition.
(18) When assayed as separate unisexual groups, the oxygen uptake of male and female macrofilariae of both species was inhibited by classical inhibitors of respiratory electron transport (RET), and showed classical substrate bypass phenomena in response to succinate and ascorbate, N,N,N',N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine with respect to the RET inhibitors rotenone (inhibitor of complex I) and antimycin A (inhibitor of complex III).
(19) At 24 h post-culture females paired with males from mixed infections had an elevated uptake of [3H]thymidine compared to females that had not paired and uptake was also significantly different (P less than or equal to 0.001) from females exposed to males from unisexual infections.
(20) Both bisexual and unisexual male worm low infections were produced, and studied for as long as 27 weeks post-exposure.