(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.
Parchment
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum.
(n.) The envelope of the coffee grains, inside the pulp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(2) Place on a tray lined with parchment and bake for 10–12 minutes, then drizzle with syrup.
(3) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(4) Fragments of Dead Sea Scroll Parchments were extracted for collagen and subjected to amino acid analysis.
(5) In a bid to increase its resources, the almoner’s office last month reasserted the Vatican’s monopoly on the production of papal blessings on parchment, which some Catholics buy to mark special occasions such as baptisms and marriages.
(6) A 18-year-old female with unusual type of parchment-like right ventricle died of intractable congestive heart failure was reported.
(7) Leave them to rise on a piece of lightly greased baking parchment for 45-60 minutes – until the dough is 1½- 2 times as thick.
(8) In 48 specimen a combination of increased density of the condyle on the facial aspect with a thin bony lamella in the roof of the fossa, which either shows high density or very little material of low density, a so-called parchment fossa, was observed.
(9) 2 Once chilled, roll the pastry out on a piece of baking parchment so that it is large enough to line the base and sides of a 20cm-diameter cake or flan tin (I used a round loose-bottomed cake tin).
(10) Prepare the pudding basin and batter as below, and cover with baking parchment as instructed (even in the oven, this will help to keep some moisture in).
(11) Reflecting colours from the fatty layer of the precorneal film have been studied using mat filter (grease-proof paper, parchment paper, tracing paper) in front of the slit lamp mirror, maximally open light slit in a half-lit room, and magnification x 15.
(12) The microflora of an ancient Greek manuscript parchment was studied using different microscopic techniques.
(13) Among them, completely unremarked upon until Dr Schwartz happened upon it recently, was a parchment-bound album that a pencilled note identified as full of photos of Hitler's own paintings.
(14) For the meringue: egg whites 6 caster sugar 280g shelled hazelnuts 100g cornflour 1 tbsp For the filling: hazelnuts 150g vanilla pod 1 honey 4 tbsp double cream 400ml figs 9 Line a 33cm x 24cm Swiss roll tin with lightly oiled baking parchment.
(15) 6 Place the chicken breast down on to the baking parchment and put into the hot oven for 30 minutes.
(16) Unlike other artefacts which may be a bit more sexy, it’s a piece of parchment with some rather unintelligible words written on it in Latin,” acknowledged Sandra Matthews-Marsh, chief executive of Visit Kent, the body that promotes tourism in the county keen to put itself on the newly launched Magna Carta tourist map .
(17) Line the sides and base of a 33 x 23 x 5.5cm baking tin with baking parchment.
(18) The looming tussle to succeed the prime minister before the next general election also had a bearing on what made it on to the parchment in a thin Queen’s speech.
(19) Membrane potentials have been measured across parchment-supported cupric palmitate membrane separating various 1:1 electrolytes at concentrations C1 and C2 such that C2 = 10 C1.
(20) 6 Cut a small disc of parchment paper and place on top of the sauce, then cover with a lid.