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Burro


Definition:

  • (n.) A donkey.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Burros & Artes offers tailormade tours from two to eight days from an idyllic base in the Vale das Amoreiras near Aljezur, just over the border in the Algarve.
  • (2) Late primary anti-burro RBC sera (greater than 200 days), despite low titers, are, on a volume for volume basis, feedback inhibitors at least as good as early (8-12 days) primary antisera on primary responses but are more effective in suppressing secondary responses (B memory cells).
  • (3) Irradiated hapten-primed T cells help the induction of precursor helper T cells specific for burro red blood cells (BRBC) in the presence of haptenated BRBC and chicken red blood cells (CRBC), but do not help in the presence of haptenated CRBC and BRBC.
  • (4) • 3404 East Route 66, 928-526-9434, themuseumclub.com 14 Dollar Bill Bar, Oatman, Arizona Oatman is a mining town with wild burros (donkeys) roaming the streets and shaking down tourists for treats.
  • (5) The predictions from IIT heavy gas models indicate a fairly similar trend to the observed values from Thorney Island, Burro Series, and Maplin experiments with a tendency toward overprediction.
  • (6) The platelet-aggregating ability of this stimulator from the vessel wall of the irradiated burro was nearly fourfold greater than that from the aorta of an unirradiated control.
  • (7) The aggregator moiety in the aorta extracts invariably had a higher affinity for platelets in citrated platelet-rich plasma of human beings than for platelets of homologous burros.
  • (8) To clarify the cause of this syndrome, the functional abilities of platelets in 7 irradiated and 3 control burros were studied in vitro.
  • (9) The irradiated burros were survivors (greater than 18 years) of total-body exposures to near-lethal doses of gamma-radiation.
  • (10) Purified monoclonal antibodies and a purified burro polyclonal anti-prothrombin immunoglobulin were individually coupled to Sepharose and used in a tandem series of columns to purify each of the vitamin K-dependent proteins from eluates of barium citrate precipitates of plasma.
  • (11) Incubation with burro plasma decreased platelet aggregating activity and changed the collagen ultrastructure (demonstrated with scanning electron microscopic imaging).
  • (12) Pretreatment of splenic macrophages with anti-Ia serum specific for the various known I subregions and complement deleted the macrophages required for an in vitro antibody response to burro erythrocytes.
  • (13) After this incubation period spleen cells were washed and cultured for 4 days with the thymic-independent antigen dinitrophenylated polyacrylamide beads (DNP-PAA) or the thymic-dependent antigen trinitrophenylated burro the erythrocytes (TNP-BRBC).
  • (14) Of the sera from conventional swine tested, the highest "natural" HA titers were directed towards rabbit, cat, swine dog, and burro erythrocytes (greater than 1:1,000), intermediate titers were detected against human A, B, and O, and sheep, pig, and chicken erythrocytes (1:64 to 1:1,000), whereas the lowest titers were found against ox and goat erythrocytes (less than 1:8).
  • (15) Photograph: Lois Pryce I love Bertha’s Café on Playa el Burro .
  • (16) The sentinel burros detected WEE serologic conversions at two sites in New Mexico and at one in Texas.
  • (17) Plasma samples were collected weekly in 24 Standardbred mares, every 7-10 days in 10 pony mares, and daily in late pregnancy from 16 burros.
  • (18) Mouse bone marrow contains theta-negative lymphocytes that can suppress an in vitro plaque response by spleen cells primed in vivo with burro red blood cells (BRBC).
  • (19) Hyperimmune Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus sera from a number of mammalian species were successfully titrated by RIA; the species tested were human, guinea pig, white rat, rabbit, burro, dog, monkey, sheep, and cotton rat.
  • (20) By equilibrium centrifugation in discontinuous gradients of bovine serum albumin, precursors of cells that produce antibody to sheep erythrocytes migrate to denser regions, whereas the precursors of immunocytes that produce antibody to burro erythrocytes remain in the lower density regions.

Burrow


Definition:

  • (n.) An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.
  • (n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation.
  • (n.) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
  • (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5.
  • (v. i.) To excavate a hole to lodge in, as in the earth; to lodge in a hole excavated in the earth, as conies or rabbits.
  • (v. i.) To lodge, or take refuge, in any deep or concealed place; to hide.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, a Defra report in 2005 concluded that gassing "cannot be reliably expected to kill all the animals in a complex burrow system".
  • (2) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
  • (3) Building techniques are minutely reported; burrow construction simplifies defence and allows re-use by succeeding generations.
  • (4) Burrows had resigned as governor of Bank of Ireland, leaving the lender in dire straits, with big losses and mounting debt threatening its very survival.
  • (5) C.subimmaculatus was closely associated with a particular substrate and the presence of burrowing crabs.
  • (6) The latest comes from Cambridge University, where Malcolm Burrows and Gregory Sutton have found that some insects have "gears" – in principle, much like those in cars.
  • (7) What it says is that their moral code is lacking any kind of compass we can endorse,” said Sharan Burrow, the Ituc general secretary.
  • (8) A broadening and an anterior elongation of the head-foot produced a wedge to facilitate burrowing.
  • (9) Chronic exposure of nestlings to the hypercapnia and hypoxia within burrows seems to significantly alter their ventilatory response to these respiratory stimuli.
  • (10) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
  • (11) Mycobacterium leprae is found in armadillo burrows in Louisiana, U.S.A., and ocular abrasions may be the portal of entry for these organisms in wild armadillos.
  • (12) The burrows of R. opimus were the main shelters and breeding places of the sandflies, but infection was not transmitted equally in all burrows.It was known that the distribution of sandflies within the burrows was influenced by the humidity in the different parts of the burrow and a survey showed that the highest rate of infection of gerbils occurred in the burrows in those areas with the highest subsoil moisture content.Studies of the prevalence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis among people in the settlements of the Murghab oasis showed that the years with the highest infection rate were also years with slightly higher rainfall and lower air temperatures in this area.
  • (13) I found myself skirting the wood’s perimeter, a no-go zone of the past for us, and came next to a gravel-pocked face mined by rabbits with one of the burrows crowned with the skull of an ancestor.
  • (14) C. californiensis, when placed in simulated burrow conditions, regulates the PO2 very loosely in its immediate microhabitat, using its pleopods.
  • (15) The results of our physiological analysis in the burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia) also reveal a tilted horopter in this terrestrial avian species.
  • (16) Chris Burrows, chairman of the Greater Manchester branch of the Police Federation, said: "We are already suffering massive cuts in the police budget.
  • (17) It is expedient to consider the relations revealed between the burrow biocenosis components in investigation of plague enzootic aspects and development of new biological insecticides for control of the infection carriers.
  • (18) The mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi) burrows throughout its life in subterranean tunnels.
  • (19) Burrow's shortness inevitably made him the butt of a thousand jokes.
  • (20) Like many of the millions who burrowed underground to extract diamonds, gold and other minerals, Gura came a long way from home in search of a working wage.

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