(n.) A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Agglutination tests are not suitable for the estimation of the protective antibody level in the sera of vaccinated animals and should not be used for the quality control testing of blackleg vaccines.
(2) Results of changes in the haematological values in calves infected with blackleg organisms, showed an increase in RBC, PCV, Hb and the total leukocyte count.
(3) Songs helped shape popular moods: Richard Thompson’s Blackleg Miner highlighted the plight of colliery workers, while Song of the Lower Classes by the chartist poet MP Ernest Jones drew on rousing works such as Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy .
(4) High efficiencies of transformation to hygromycin resistance were achieved employing the bacterial hygromycin B phosphotransferase gene with N. crassa, the patulin-producer Penicillium urticae, and the causal agent of blackleg disease of crucifers, Leptosphaeria maculans.
(5) The Pathological Division devoted a good deal of its efforts to the production of biologic prophylactic products, with resounding success in controlling blackleg and other diseases.
(6) The house mouse (laboratory strain), Mus musculus (L.), the cotton mouse, Peromyscus gossypinus (LeConte), the broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps (Schneider), and the guinea pig, Cavia porcellus (L.), were successively infested five times with larvae of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say.
(7) Preconditioned calves were weaned 30 days before the sale, used to drinking from a tank, and vaccinated against blackleg, malignant edema, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), parainfluenza-3 (PI3) and bovine virus diarrhea (BVD) in 1970 and 1971, and Pasteurella hemolytica and multocida in 1971.
(8) The guinea pig laboratory model is considered to be a valid indicator of field performance for vaccines containing blackleg antigen.
(9) The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say, previously known to occur only in the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas, has been collected in Douglas and Jefferson counties in the northeast.
(10) Blackleg (Clostridium chauvoei) infection in Charollais cattle appears to have undergone some etiological and pathogenic changes which are reflected in the apparent failure of vaccination.
(11) Some examples of such associations of vaccines are: (1) cattle plague + pleuropneumonia and possibly anthrax, (2) anthrax + blackleg, (3) sheeppox + anthrax, (4) pleuropneumonia + blackleg, (5) Newcastle disease + fowlpox + fowl typhoid, (6) fowl typhoid + chicken pasteurellosis.
(12) The occurrence of both organisms in the same lesion has been rarely reported and differential diagnosis with blackleg is difficult in the absence of bacteriological tests.
(13) Canadian isolates of Leptosphaeria maculans, the causal agent of blackleg of crucifers, were examined for genetic relatedness by the random amplified polymorphic DNA assay.
(14) The PC program included weaning calves 30 days before sale, having calves eating grain from a bunk and drinking from a tank, vaccinated against blackleg, malignant edema, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) and bovine parainfluenza virus (PI3).
(15) Clostridium chauvoei CH3 and Kad1 strains were found to cause marked changes in the blood parameters during the course of blackleg disease.
(16) An iatrogenic cause cannot be overruled as routine mass vaccination against blackleg are practiced in the area with possible introduction of spores through infection material.
(17) Twelve commercial 5-component clostridial vaccines with known variations in potency of the blackleg (Clostridium chauvoei) component, were simultaneously tested in sheep and guinea pigs.
(18) After a general introduction and a section on the isolation of anaerobes, the various diseases caused by clostridia (botulism, tetanus, blackleg, malignant oedema, infectious necrotic hepatitis, enterotoxaemia and gas gangrene) and Gram-negative anaerobes (infections due to Fusobacterium and Bacteroides spp., such as diphtheria, footrot, etc.)
(19) In addition to establishing genetic relationships, DNA fingerprints generated by the random amplified polymorphic DNA assay have potential applications in pathotype identification and blackleg disease management.
(20) Few other presidents of the Royal Agricultural Society or the Royal Smithfield Club could recite a flock's afflictions as she could – "Orf scrapie, swayback, blackleg, water mouth or rattlebelly, scab and footrot, scad or scald" – or work with a sheepdog, and she appreciated a whippet or two about her feet.
Cheater
Definition:
(n.) One who cheats.
(n.) An escheator.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is possible to begin to fix the problem by identifying people who are extreme cheaters and are likely to lie on every occasion possible.
(2) One question came from an eight-year-old named Will, from Los Angeles, who asked: "How old will I be when … you can say that there are no more cheaters in baseball, not one?"
(3) (well, I know it isn't *you*, but you might know ... ) October 28, 2013 That would be MEGA-CHEATER SPITBALLER BAN HIM FOR LIFE Jon Lester.
(4) Empirical studies of deception have focused on the benefits of cheating but have provided no data on the costs associated with being detected as a cheater.
(5) There was no difference among the cheaters and non-cheaters in terms of competitiveness.
(6) Of course, some cheaters insert misspelled entities to create "false" original entities and fool the system (Google took care of it).
(7) Cheaters are cheaters,” she told the Irish Times.
(8) In the first part, we disentangle the theoretical concept of a "social contract" from that of a "cheater-detection algorithm".
(9) This provides a mechanism for removing cheaters and preserving the honesty of the Mendelian gene-shuffle.
(10) "I know what I did was wrong but he's the one with a wife and children – he's the cheater.
(11) A survey instrument, developed in 1968 and administered to 1,629 high school students in 1969, 1,100 students in 1979, and 1,291 students in 1989, asked them to respond to items regarding the following: (1) the amount of cheating believed going on, (2) who was most guilty, (3) reasons given for cheating, (4) the courses in which most cheating occurred, (5) how to punish cheaters and by whom, (6) beliefs regarding dishonesty in society, and (7) confessions of their own dishonest behaviors in school.
(12) Several clinical vignettes illustrate types of resistive children and adolescents: the shrugger, the silent child, the rose-colored-glass child, the mistrustful adolescent, the cheater and rule changer, the thrower.
(13) Another, which defends his record on trade with China, asks: "How can Mitt Romney take on the cheaters, when he's taking their side?"
(14) I want this agreement to remind every American that the EPA is on the job and we have your back when companies break rules designed to protect your health and when cheaters stack the deck against businesses that follow the law,” said EPA administrator Gina McCarthy.
(15) In the aftermath of the massive theft of nude celebrity photos last year, victim-blaming rhetoric centered not on, “Why didn’t they enact better security measures?” but, “Why did they have nude photos online in the first place?” For the Ashley Madison hack, the rhetoric is similar: they’re cheaters, so they got what was coming to them.
(16) The cheater moves a maximum of three cars ahead, till a smarter fellow cuts in front of him, hazard lights on, trying the same formula.
(17) It then follows that withholding information should be more prevalent as a form of deception than active falsification of information because of the relative difficulties associated with detecting cheaters.
(18) In July, the Security and Exchange Commission called Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors "a veritable magnet of market cheaters", with federal prosecutors announcing criminal charges against Cohen's hedge fund.