(n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
(n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
(n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(v. t.) To shield; to defend.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two cases are from a six-generation family with an autosomal dominant corneal dystrophy resembling Reis-Bucklers' dystrophy.
(2) At first I think the plant might be a holly fern or a rigid buckler fern because of its stiff bearing out of mossy limestone rocks.
(3) The Tanner and Whitehouse method showed better repeatability than the Greulich and Pyle atlas or the Buckler handbook when a sample of the radiographs were assessed twice by the same observer.
(4) The results showed that when a portion of 2C was present, the primary cleavage by the 3C protease was between 2C and 3A, and the cleavage site was QG, as predicted by J. I. Cohen, J. R. Ticehurst, R. H. Purcell, A. Buckler-White, and B. M. Baroudy, J. Virol.
(5) We have mapped a site within exon 1 of the murine c-myc gene that forms a variety of complexes with nuclear proteins derived from the murine WEHI 231 B-lymphoma cell line in exponential growth that are altered following treatment with phorbol ester, when transcription of this gene is reduced [Levine, R.A., McCormack, J.E., Buckler, A.J.
(6) Buckler, Charles E. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md.
Suckler
Definition:
(n.) An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The building of sophisticated housing is likely to be justified for pigs, poultry, dairy cattle and calves, but not for suckler beef and sheep.
(2) Many more dairy herds were affected than beef suckler herds, a difference attributable to the difference in feeding practices between the two herd types.
(3) In a two-year study of the incidence of subclinical mastitis in two beef suckler herds over 2400 quarter milk samples from 180 cows were examined.
(4) Cryptosporidium were more common in single and multiple suckler beef herds.
(5) Rotavirus infections were more common in dairy herds and single suckler beef herds whereas Salmonella infections were more often found in calf rearing units.
(6) K99+ E coli were found in one dairy herd and one multiple suckler beef herd both with unhygienic calving accommodation.
(7) Ten cows in a suckler herd totalling 60 sickened after grazing parkland which was heavily covered with acorns.
(8) 90 days' postpartum, 35.1% of sucklers and 66.7% of milkers showed their 1st estrus.
(9) The fore-milk samples from suckler beef cows were of value in the early detection of nonpregnant cows.
(10) Sows were screened routinely and in the worst affected herds, sucklers and weaners were also swabbed.
(11) Results of fore-milk progesterone estimations from suckler beef cows using radioimmunoassay for pregnancy diagnosis and, with manual examination per rectum, the measurement of embryonic fetal mortality are reported.
(12) Average PPEI length for sucklers was significantly different from that for milkers (131.5 vs. 77.9 days, p less than .01).
(13) Results of these tests indicated that: (a) in spite of extremely dirty udders, fewer contaminants were found in the suckler cow milk samples than in a group of over 1700 samples from typical dairy herds; (b) 18 per cent of all quarter milk samples were infected; (c) 67 per cent of all infections were due to staphylococci and 20 per cent to streptococci; (d) 56 per cent of staphylococcal infections were associated with cell counts less than 500,000 per ml compared with 39 per cent of other infections; (e) 70 per cent of samples had somatic cell counts less than 500,000 per ml.
(14) The body temperature was significant higher in calves of the suckler cow herd.
(15) The ovaries of 18 post-partum beef suckler cows were examined daily, using ultrasound, from Day 5 post partum until a normal oestrous cycle was completed.
(16) The percentage of animals with postpartum ovulation interval (PPOI) of more than 3 months was 23.8% for sucklers and 9.5% for milkers.
(17) Confidence in the accuracy of the dairy ME system has been built up, and its application to suckler cows has also proved successful.
(18) Fifteen cows among a herd of 50 suckler cows and calves rapidly lost body condition and became dull and anorexic after grazing pasture containing bog asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) during the summer of 1989.
(19) Two groups each of 10 suckler cows were given a basal diet of oat straw and pressed unmolassed sugar beet pulp for the last 19 weeks of pregnancy and the first 6 weeks of lactation.
(20) Eleven out of 36 suckler cows, all in late pregnancy, aborted seven to 10 days following introduction to a rye grass pasture heavily infested with ergot.