(n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.
(n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.
(n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
(n.) A small island near a larger; as, the Calf of Man.
(n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface.
(n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angus (A), Charolais (C), Hereford (H), Limousin (L), and Simmental (S) breeds were included in deterministic computer models simulating integrated cow-calf-feedlot production systems.
(2) Cultures could not be established on microcarriers in the presence of Ultroser G. However, microcarrier cultures started in the presence of 10% foetal calf serum, and transferred to 2% Ultroser G after 7 days resulted in high cell densities.
(3) Higuaín was not fully fit which, with Rodrigo Palacio out with a calf injury, perhaps in part explained why Alejandro Sabella had made the change.
(4) This suppressive activity is obtained in medium containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS) or similar amounts of heat-inactivated bovine serum, syngeneic, or allogeneic murine sera but not by unheated FCS.
(5) The possibility that mammalian DNA topoisomerase II is an intracellular target which mediates drug-induced DNA breaks is supported by the following studies using 4'-(9-acridinylamino)methane-sulfon-m-anisidide (m-AMSA): (a) a single m-AMSA-dependent DNA cleavage activity copurified with calf thymus DNA topoisomerase II activity at all chromatographic steps of the enzyme purification; (b) m-AMSA-induced DNA cleavage by this purified activity resulted in the covalent attachment of protein to the 5'-ends of the DNA via a tyrosyl phosphate bond.
(6) The calf pain prodrome of "tennis leg" requires rest and then a stretching program.
(7) A radioactive, photoactive Vinca alkaloid, N-(p-azido-[3,5-3H]-benzoyl)-N'-beta-aminoethylvindesine [( 3H]NABV) with pharmacological and biological activities similar to vinblastine was synthesized and used to identify specific Vinca alkaloid macromolecular interactions in calf brain homogenate by photoaffinity labeling.
(8) All four requirements were experimentally verified in calf trachea.
(9) A systematic structural comparison of several carp gamma-crystallins with high methionine contents was made by the secondary-structure prediction together with computer model-building based on the established X-ray structure of calf gamma-II crystallin.
(10) Native calf and rabbit erythrocytes bound the lectin, but human and rat erythrocytes required neuraminidase and trypsin treatment, respectively, for lectin binding to occur.
(11) It is concluded that BEC is the major infectious cause of neonatal calf diarrhoea in the Ethiopian dairy herds studied with RV and K99 ETEC also contributing to morbidity, either alone or as mixed infections.
(12) Each calf was given a score based on macroscopic and microscopic lesions.
(13) Calf birth weight and gestational length decreased (P less than .01) as the number of calves born increased from one to two to three.
(14) Variability of basal blood flow in terms of standard deviations and in terms of coefficients of variation computed from duplicate determinations were significantly higher than for the other parameters and significantly more elevated in the forearm than in the calf.
(15) Each group of cattle consisted of six permanent members, two members fistulated at the oesophagus and one worm-free tracer calf.
(16) 2, and the calf serum were 34 and 73, and 480 mug per mouse respectively.
(17) Bovine lens calf gamma-II crystallin contains five histidine residues at sequence positions 14, 53, 84, 117, and 122.
(18) Human liver slices were exposed to increasing concentrations of 1,2-propanediol up to a final concentration of 4.76 M in fetal calf serum.
(19) Pure cultures of oligodendrocytes or type 2-astrocytes can be generated in substantial amounts from CG-4 cells and maintained for several weeks in medium containing 5% fetal calf serum.
(20) Recent STM studies of calf thymus DNA and poly(rA).poly(rU) have shown that the helical pitch and periodic alternation of major and minor grooves can be visualized and reliably measured.
Fawn
Definition:
(n.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
(n.) The young of an animal; a whelp.
(n.) A fawn color.
(a.) Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.
(v. i.) To bring forth a fawn.
(v. i.) To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon.
(n.) A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ex-players fawning over Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
(2) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(3) The Fawn-Hooded strain of rats exhibits a hemorrhagic disorder, known as platelet storage pool deficiency.
(4) Fawns and adult deer greater than or equal to 5.5 yr had a significantly (P less than or equal to 0.05) higher intensity (means = 37 and means = 68, respectively) of infection than the 1.5- and 2.5-yr-old age groups (means = 19 and means = 26, respectively).
(5) When tested in cell electrophoresis platelets from fawn hooded bleeder rats showed a significantly lower electrophoretic mobility than normal rat platelets.
(6) This study indicates that the platelet aggregation defect described for the fawn-hooded rat strain is one that does not alter the time course of the morphologic features of hyperacute cardiac allograft rejection, and thus this platelet aggregation abnormality has no essential role in the pathogenesis of this type of tissue damage.
(7) Inoculation of the ovine RSV isolate into calves and deer fawns resulted in infection in both species, and at necropsy, pneumonic lesions were present.
(8) Following treatment with the antihypertensive, debrisoquin sulfate, the blood pressure of the fawn-hooded rats decreased until it approached the levels observed in normotensive Wistar rats.
(9) Reddish-tan and fawn-colored hyperpigmentation in tinea versicolor of this type is not due to melanin pigment.
(10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
(11) Fawn-hooded (FH) rats develop low-renin hypertension which is preceded by a decrease in urinary kallikrein.
(12) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(13) The first steps of thrombus formation, in particular the adhesion and reversible aggregation, were significantly reduced in this model in fawn-hooded bleeder rats.
(14) The present article summarizes some comparative studies of the Fawn-Hooded (FH) rat, a potential animal model of ethanol preference, and the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat, a potential animal model of depression.
(15) However, 5 (28%) of the treated does and 3 (17%) of the control does failed to maintain pregnancy and fawn in 1987.
(16) But, says Grant, British “fawning” over Donald Trump alienates many Europeans, making them doubt we share their basic values.
(17) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
(18) The effect of various doses of the 5-HT agonist m-chlorophenylpiperazine (MCPP) on neuroendocrine function (prolactin and corticosterone responses) were compared in three different rat strains: Wistar, Sprague-Dawley (SD), and Fawn-Hooded (FH) rats.
(19) Infections were significantly more prevalent among fawn and yearling deer.
(20) Free speech is also increasingly curtailed in Chinese universities , publishing houses and the fawning, party-controlled news media ; foreign NGOs have been shown the door; and even mild critics of the regime have found themselves spirited into secret detention.