(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 +++.
Redtop
Definition:
(n.) A kind of grass (Agrostis vulgaris) highly valued in the United States for pasturage and hay for cattle; -- called also English grass, and in some localities herd's grass. See Illustration in Appendix. The tall redtop is Triodia seslerioides.
Example Sentences:
(1) The News of the World's redtop rivals all saw their circulation boosted last Sunday, with the Sunday Mirror the biggest benificiary, adding more than 700,000 copies to about 1.9m.
(2) The Mail on Sunday was the only title in the Sunday middle and redtop market to record a month-on-month sales drop last month.
(3) He was furious, not just with the redtops, but with his colleagues.
(4) The working title on last weekend's dummy was "Sunday" and broke with the conventional "redtop" format for popular tabloids with a yellow and white masthead.
(5) But "coincidentally" suggests the culture secretary had at least considered the possibility that redtop phone hacking lay behind the amazing double-conception-and-birth that got Fearless Fred his big break.
(6) But, without his two redtops, the burden is big enough to make Russian oligarchs, let alone the News Corp board, flinch.
(7) From Monday the daily redtop, published by News International, will drop its cover price by 10p from 30p in the London area.
(8) The redtop already costs 20p in the London region and has steadily been cutting its price since August from a high of 35p.
(9) Media buyers have been expecting News International to return to the Sunday redtop market – News of the World shut on 10 July 2011, and a replacement was initially mooted for 7 August to try and capitalise on the start of the Premier League season.
(10) The major grass-pollen allergen, designated group I (GpI), was isolated from five grass pollens (meadow fescue, June grass, sweet vernal grass, redtop grass, and perennial ryegrass).
(11) A spokesman for Vodafone later said this had been a verbal request made in 2006, around the time of the arrests of the former News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator who worked for the now defunct News International Sunday redtop.
(12) Sales of its Scottish redtop rival the Daily Record grew by about 7,000 month-on-month to 300,483 with 1,963 bulks.