(n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast.
(n.) The living body; -- now commonly used in contempt or ridicule.
(n.) The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing.
(n.) A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(2) at -35 degrees C and as long as 10 hours at -5 degrees C. However, C. bovis died within 72-96 hours in muscles of cattle carcasses subjected to the activity of the temperatures minus 18-19 degrees C at a relative humidity of 86-90% under conditions of an industrial cold storage plant.
(3) These estimates were apparently the first published genetic estimates involving LCGR based on carcass data.
(4) After 14 days of enteral feeding, there were no significant differences between groups in the body weights and the weights of carcass, gastrocnemius muscle, liver, and spleen.
(5) The liver required two compartments and a delay, the carcass (small intestine, eyes, adrenals, testes, and lungs, plus remaining carcass) required three compartments, and the kidneys required two.
(6) Carcasses were subjected to low voltage electrical stimulation at slaughter.
(7) Least squares means were compared for differences in growth and carcass traits between pigs that inherited alternative paternal marker alleles.
(8) Postweaning growth and carcass characters of 110 steers from a complete two-breed diallel of the Devon and Hereford breeds were examined under two environments.
(9) Compared with the DOCA-salt rat, there were greater sodium concentration in the carcass, and less norepinephrine turnover rates in the heart and the spleen than in the DOCA treated rat given a high sodium normal chloride diet.
(10) Absorption was determined in the carcass and individual organs by means of a small-animal wholebody counter.
(11) It was demonstrated that Salmonella could survive in the slaughter hall, whereas Campylobacter died off, probably due to its vulnerability to drying conditions and its inability to grow at temperatures below 30 degrees C. Campylobacter was not isolated from the carcasses after cooling.
(12) A temperature of 37 degrees C produced less toxicity in most carcasses than in cultures.
(13) For heifer carcass traits from 3- to 6-yr-old dams, breed was significant (P less than .05 to P less than .01) for carcass weight, longissimus muscle area, percentage of cutability, and estimated kidney, heart, and pelvic fat.
(14) Larvae were recovered initially from the skin and carcass.
(15) However, our data showed that 31 (25%) of the confirmed cases occurred in workers at the further processing plant who had contact only with previously eviscerated carcasses.
(16) Insignificant 14C was detected by carcass analysis following cessation of exhaled 14CO2.
(17) Collagenous carcass of human derma is formed by interconnected fibrils, fibrillar fasciculi, fibers and their fasciculi.
(18) Live BW, carcass data, and organ data taken at 34 days of age on approximately 1,000 quail of both sexes from 110 sires and 290 dams were utilized to estimate genetic parameters from the initial generation of a selection study.
(19) The recovery in 'carcass' of [3H]cholesteryl ether 3 h after injection of [14C]18:2-sphingomyelin liposomes was 33% and of 14C label, 21%.
(20) Placenta, fetal brain, carcass, and liver all oxidized 14C-labeled B-hydroxybutyrate to 14CO2 when incubated in vitro in the presence of B-hydroxybutyrate.
Vent
Definition:
(n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
(v. t.) To sell; to vend.
(n.) A baiting place; an inn.
(v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
(n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.
(n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.
(n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
(n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.
(n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.
(n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
(v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.
(v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.
(v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.
(v. t.) To scent, as a hound.
(v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(2) Though the exercises have given the US a chance to vent its frustration at what appears to be state-sponsored espionage and theft on an industrial scale, China has been belligerent.
(3) Despite a 30% rate of luminal blockage in stents retrieved after indwelling times up to 3 months, the incidence of clinical obstruction in stented tracts up to 3 months was 4%, confirming other reports that significant urine flow occurs around rather than through hollow, vented stents.
(4) Methods compared were: (1) aspiration of stomach contents through a large, vented, multi-orificed gastric tube, and (2) indirect determination by a dye dilution method using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the marker.
(5) For Vent 1, serum hemoglobin levels increased from 40 to 249 mg. per 100 ml.
(6) We found that venting improves the speech intelligibility, especially in background noise simulating modulated speech.
(7) There was a 4-10% increase in His-Purkinje (HP) and ventricular (VENT) conduction time with each anesthetic.
(8) Thus, the clinically feasible intervention of left ventricular venting during reperfusion was not cardioprotective.
(9) 6.39pm BST AstraZeneca shares tumble as investors vent their disappointment over Pfizer bid - closing summary AstraZeneca's site in Macclesfield, Cheshire, today.
(10) The biochemical changes that occurred in the vented culture bottles stabilized more rapidly than those of the unvented bottles.
(11) Whether you're a microbe at a hydrothermal vent, or a computer programmer at a software company, we all function on that same biochemistry."
(12) First, in order to remove that part of the systolic force which is related to intracavitary pressure, left ventricular bypass was created and the left ventricle vented.
(13) In Experiment 1, carbon monoxide (CO) exposure from eight 60 ml puffs increased in an orderly fashion as a function of filter vent blocking.
(14) boluses at a cardiac output of 2 L. At a cardiac output of 4 L., Vent 2 removed 42, 76, and 49 per cent, respectively.
(15) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
(16) It was shown that parallel and side branch vents produce similar low frequency filtering effects and vent-associated reactance resonances.
(17) "If the fans want to vent their anger at me I can take it.
(18) The measurement has been carried out with and without venting.
(19) Trade union organisers said that the turnout had exceeded their expectations, and thousands had travelled by coach and by train from as far as Edinburgh to vent their anger at the government's cuts by marching through London to a rally in Hyde Park.
(20) She was outraged and turned to Twitter to vent her fury.