(n. pl.) Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Example Sentences:
(1) % hatch X 20000) of ticks from treated cattle with that of ticks from untreated cattle.
(2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(3) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(4) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
(5) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(6) Postpartum milk samples from 61 heifers and 24 tissues from 2 reactor cattle were culture-negative for B abortus.
(7) Analysis of literature data in which both the in vivo protection test and the in vitro neutralization test results were available on the same sera showed consistency with the above conclusions for both cattle and swine sera.
(8) The results of this study suggested that there are differences in hormone concentrations that are related to size rather than being the result of differences in physiological maturity of different breeds of cattle.
(9) Report on the results of serological studies on the species Leptospira interrogans in cattle (19,607), swine (6,348), dogs (182) and horses (88) from the Netherlands during the period from 1969 to 1974.
(10) The occurrence of fungi in tissue specimens from 72 cattle was examined by culture, histopathology and indirect immunofluorescence staining (IIF).
(11) Thirty-two homologous genes now have been mapped in humans, mice, and cattle.
(12) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(13) 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.
(14) Mature Fasciola gigantica obtained from naturally infected cattle were surgically transferred into the gallbladders of six fluke-free goats.
(15) Studies in cattle assessing changes in number and size of antral follicles, concentrations of estradiol, androgens and progesterone in serum and follicular fluid, and numbers of gonadotropin receptors per follicle during repetitive estrous cycles and postpartum anestrus are reviewed.
(16) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
(17) Also, 17 cattle similarly were given a placebo injection and served as control animals.
(18) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(19) Studied were the composition and the technologic properties of the milk of Dutch Black pied cattle under this country's conditions.
(20) In neutrophilous peripheral blood leucocytes of healthy and leucotic cattle the PAS reaction attained the values of ++ to +++.
Hovel
Definition:
(n.) An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
(n.) A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
(n.) A large conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
(v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
Example Sentences:
(1) There, I came to a muddy hovel and made my way down into a damp, dark cave.
(2) The scene in the hovel was a little muddled, and it was not until the scene with the flowers that the study of a man seeking in wandering wits a refuge from intolerable reality really came into the round.
(3) Nor am I living in a hovel with a dirt floor and no running water,” she said.
(4) I recently issued myself with an eviction notice for the end of April to get out of my little hovel – a threat already pushed forward from Christmas.
(5) A few kilometres away, outside the town of Azaz, 60-year-old Hamida is living in a concrete hovel with her two grown-up daughters.
(6) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie.
(7) March 23, 2013 Guardian executive hovel... 3.14am GMT I want a mini snow plough They're whizzing around the playing surface clearing snow at a furious pace.
(8) For Waugh, the club consisted of “epileptic royalty from their villas of exile; uncouth peers from crumbling country seats; smooth young men of uncertain tastes from embassies and legations; illiterate lairds from wet granite hovels in the Highlands; ambitious young barristers and Conservative candidates torn from the London season and the indelicate advances of debutantes; all that was most sonorous of name and title”.
(9) I walked for another hour and got back to my hovel.
(10) • thethirty-ninesteps.co.uk , open daily noon-10pm, noon-11pm Thurs-Sat The Hovelling Boat Inn, Ramsgate The Hovelling Boat, which recently celebrated its first birthday, was named after a pub that existed on the site until 1909.
(11) But everyone also does tons of drugs, makes really experimental music, does crazy shit and lives in a hovel with no heating."
(12) They would throw together weird hovels, filled with random doors and windows, huge gaps in the walls, bizarre jutting extensions, like nightmarish sets from a German expressionistic horror movie."
(13) Photographs in the Amnesty report reveal the filthy insides of Qatar's accommodation for the workers who build their air-conditioned palaces, malls and five-star hotels: dank, windowless hovels, dangerously hot without air-conditioning; primitive dormitories cramming together crowds of men far from their homes and families.
(14) I get by.” Squinting across the riverbed Cabrera could see a new neighbour: Sergio Avinia, 42, a recent arrival cleaved from a family in California, waist-deep in a hole, bare-chested and sweating, excavating a hovel with improvised tools.