What's the difference between boar and sow?

Boar


Definition:

  • (n.) The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
  • (2) The group of animals with sexual disorders included boars with inferior ejaculate quality and low fertility (24 animals) and cases with disturbed sexual potency (33 boars).
  • (3) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
  • (4) The nuclei were isolated from boar spermatid or sperm cells at three distinct stages of spermatogenesis: just before the completion of a maturation process in the testis (late spermatid), immediately after a subsequent transformation into spermatozoa (caput spermatozoon), and after full maturation (cauda spermatozoon).
  • (5) In addition, prior saturation of the substrate layers with acrosin inhibitor (SSPI-I, II) from boar seminal plasma prevented the lysis reaction.
  • (6) E. coli from wild boars in a zoological garden has less sensitivity than from domesticated animals.
  • (7) This study investigated the applicability of the method to boar sperm motility measurement.
  • (8) In the same boar, the lengths of the fully synapsed arms of the quadrivalent varies from one quadrivalent to the other and heterosynapsis was obvious.
  • (9) Using the indirect immunofluorescent technique, the occurrence and distribution of the low molecular weight acid-stable acrosin inhibitors from boar seminal plasma (BSAI) in the boar genital tract was studied applying specific inhibitor-directed rabbit-immunoglobulins.
  • (10) Type 2 abnormalities were seen in only two boars, at 0.66 and 1.33 per cent.
  • (11) The stepwise freezing procedure A appeared as the best alternative for boar semen, considering this in vitro evaluation.
  • (12) In the domestic pig seasonal influences on prolificacy still exist: for example, AI boars not only show decreased steroid synthesis, sperm counts and libido in summer compared with the optima which occur in winter but also a biphasic pattern with a transient increase in spring.
  • (13) Sperm extracts prepared from directly frozen-thawed sperm suspension and 0.1-10 mM of taurine or hypotaurine had no effect on the fertilizing ability of boar spermatozoa.
  • (14) Furthermore, cross-hybridization to the M53 cDNA revealed homologous mRNA species in rat, human, rabbit, ram and boar epididymal RNA.
  • (15) Performance test records collected from 1978 to 1987 from on-farm tests of young Polish Large White boars from 94 herds and reproductive records of Polish Large White sows from 81 nucleus farms were used to estimate the phenotypic, environmental, and genetic trends.
  • (16) A simple, cheap and rapid method for the quantitative determination of the boar taint substance, 5 alpha-androst-16-en-3-one, in pig adipose tissue is described.
  • (17) High-resolution two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analyses have indicated that several major boar sperm plasma membrane polypeptides (PMPs) increased in concentration during maturation in the epididymis.
  • (18) Homogenates of boar Cowper's gland contain both factor and mucin; thus direct-reading non-diffusible N-acetylneuraminic acid appears when such homogenates are stored.
  • (19) The importance of rank changes coupled with the increased accuracy of these more complex evaluation methods strongly suggest that best linear unbiased predictors of genetic value be utilized in comparing boars in central test stations.
  • (20) Serological results obtained in badgers and wild boars also demonstrates the absence of direct or indirect horizontal transmission of the recombinant virus.

Sow


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sew. See Sew.
  • (n.) The female of swine, or of the hog kind.
  • (n.) A sow bug.
  • (n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
  • (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
  • (n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
  • (n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
  • (v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
  • (v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
  • (2) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
  • (3) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
  • (4) The results indicate that additional feed in late gestation improves reproductive performance in sows.
  • (5) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
  • (6) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
  • (7) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
  • (8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
  • (9) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
  • (10) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
  • (11) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
  • (12) Patterns of estradiol and LH secretion around estrus were similar in normal sows and those treated with GnRH.
  • (13) The adrenocortical response and open field behavior of a random sample of 37 individually confined gestating sows in different parities were tested around day 85 of pregnancy.
  • (14) The possibility of transplacental transmission of PRCV was investigated in two litters born to sows that had been inoculated with this virus in late pregnancy.
  • (15) Isolations were made from the kidney and genital tract of each sow.
  • (16) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
  • (17) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
  • (18) Despite hypocalcaemia and hypophosphataemia of the homozygote sows at term, fetal Ca and Pi concentrations were normal.
  • (19) Number of pigs born alive was lower for sows treated with P.G.
  • (20) Sera from adult sows showed a higher rate (73.1%) of positive titers than those from 3-6 month-old pigs (40.7%).

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