(v. t.) Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth.
(v. t.) Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
(2) 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).
(3) It wasn’t an easy decision because I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,” acknowledged Aarons.
(4) Nulliparous women were also more likely to discontinue the condom because of pregnancy, as were non-Protestants and the Australian-born.
(5) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(6) There were 101 unwanted pregnancies, and 1 child was born with intersexual genitals.
(7) There are no published reports of its detection in neonates born to affected mothers.
(8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
(9) There were 4 spontaneous first trimester abortions and 21 live-born neonates without major problems related to the treatment or to the maternal disease.
(10) The expectation of life at birth was only 30-35 years, but it was long enough to allow for children to be born and for the populations to expand.
(11) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(12) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
(13) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(14) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
(15) It is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, where the incidence is highest in the eastern and midwestern states.
(16) < 37 weeks) small for gestational age (SGA) born from 1980 to 1987 in Pavia and admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of S. Matteo Hospital (Pavia).
(17) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
(18) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(19) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
(20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
Viviparous
Definition:
(a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous.
Example Sentences:
(1) This series of transitions at the embryonic age (up to the time of egg viviparity) is connected with ecological peculiarities of different species.
(2) The uterine epithelium of the viviparous Salamandra atra and the ovoviviparous Salamandra salamandra was studied in non pregnant and ovulating females and in females during different stages of pregnancy.
(3) Based on in vivo and in vitro modulation of immune responses by placental products, it is concluded that: 1) allograft enhancement and high production of IgG1 antibodies are not linked to the same glycoprotein, 2) the immunomodulators in relation to the protection of viviparity appear to be located at the exclusion limits of Sephacryl S-200 (i.e.
(4) Splenic cells from pregnant and non-pregnant viviparous lizards (Chalcides ocellatus) were stimulated in vitro with the mitogens, concanavalin A (Con A), phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
(5) It therefore appears that in the genus Wuchereria, as in the other viviparous filarioids, the phenomenon of speciation is evident first of all in the morphology of the microfilaria, the stage most susceptible to selection pressures.
(6) A plasma steroid binding protein (SHBP) with medium-high affinity and limited capacity was characterized in the viviparous water snake, Nerodia.
(7) We investigated the regulation of Re by progesterone in a mammalian model (proestrous hamster uterus) and an avian model (DES-primed chick oviduct), under the same assay conditions, in an effort to compare progesterone action in viviparous and oviparous species.
(8) This character opposes these species to the other viviparous Filariae and stresses the originality of the Oswaldofilariinar.
(9) The neurosecretory A cells of the pars intercerebralis of the viviparous fly Glossina fuscipes fuscipes present important changes during the genital cycle.
(10) Viviparity, on the other hand, allows the growth of a much larger fetus, offers great protection and is highly efficient.
(11) Steroid concentrations in plasma and follicular tissues (theca plus granulosa layers) were determined by radioimmunoassay in the aplacental viviparous ray, Torpedo marmorata, during various stages of the reproductive cycle.
(12) Etiology was determined to be a viviparous pinworm-like nematode of the genus Proatractis (Family Atractidae).
(13) In this paper is also presented a discussion about the different modes of reproduction oviparity and viviparity (placental and non-placental) and their variations according to families, genus and species.
(14) The ability of arachidonic acid (AA) and prostaglandins of the two series to induce parturition in vivo and oviducal contraction in vitro was studied in the viviparous lizard Sceloporus jarrovi.
(15) In the viviparous guppy, fertilization and gestation are intrafollicular.
(16) Here we described the emergence of T-cell immune capability in the viviparous lizard (Chalcides ocellatus) throughout embryonic development (stages 36-41 of Zada and El Deeb, 1984) and in newborns.
(17) Uterine contractility was investigated in the viviparous lizard Tiliqua rugosa.
(18) On the basis of these observations we speculate that viviparity might occur in vivo with consequent autoinfections; if so, this might explain some puzzling clinical and epidemiological features of haemonchosis, as well as the incomplete efficacy of current control measures.
(19) In a previous study we characterized an oviduct progesterone receptor in the viviparous snake, Nerodia, and in this study we describe changes in receptor during the reproductive cycle.
(20) The Viviparous-1 (Vp1) gene is required for expression of the C1 regulatory gene of the anthocyanin pathway in the developing maize seed.