(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 +++.
Stanchion
Definition:
(n.) A prop or support; a piece of timber in the form of a stake or post, used for a support or stay.
(n.) Any upright post or beam used as a support, as for the deck, the quarter rails, awnings, etc.
(n.) A vertical bar for confining cattle in a stall.
Example Sentences:
(1) Slight modification of the stanchion housing has increased the longevity of the preparations.
(2) In south Texas it is necessary to stanchion animals in order to elicit patent infestation during summer months.
(3) Conception rate was 2.9% higher in stanchion than loose housed herds and 2.3% higher in grade than registered cows.
(4) Three inseminators probed cows during February--April, 1977, in nine herds in stanchion barn housing.
(5) A typical farm with a stanchion barn had manure removal costs of $0.348 per cow per day.
(6) Coincident with the developing infestation was a suppression of T-cell function that appeared to be stress-related as a result of stanchioning.
(7) Yes, injuries can happen at any time, but that’s little comfort for the Indiana Pacers whose 2014-15 title hopes, as meager as they were, essentially died the moment George’s leg got caught in a Las Vegas stanchion.
(8) Serum concentrations of thyroxine (T4), beta-carotene (beta K), vitamin A and conception after the first insemination on the zero, sixth and 21st day were studied in 63 heifers fed synthetic beta K supplement in groups I to IV at stanchion housing and low-carotene diet.
(9) More dystocia was experienced on farms where the stated policy was to administer extra vitamin D to dry cows, where dry cows were housed with the milking cows, or where calving occurred in maternity pens rather than stanchions.
(10) Starting on Days 27, 40, 68 and 82 after bolus administration, four replicates were confined to individual tick-collection stanchions for 4 to 5-day periods.
(11) However, stanchioned animals exhibit varied levels of susceptibility to infestation, suggesting that the noted variability may be influenced by the host immune response.
(12) Accident reconstruction revealed that the victim was the driver of the automobile and was transected by the highway sign stanchion as he protruded through the passenger side window of his moving vehicle.
(13) 2, lambs (n = 6 per treatment) were given a 6-h RIS treatment and control lambs remained in their home stanchions (CON).
(14) To study the effect of individual housing on behavior and adrenocortical activity, eight bulls were moved to a novel housing environment and subjected to 5 weeks of tethering in individual stanchions with a concrete and partially slatted floor.
(15) Heifers were randomly allotted to receive either 80, 100 or 120% of the National Research Council (NRC) requirements for energy, protein and dry matter intake for 139 d. Heifers were fed their respective diets in groups in outdoor lots for 114 d at which time individual feeding of diets was initiated in a stanchion barn.
(16) The results indicate that lying down in tether stanchions is aversive to the heifers and avoided as much as possible.
(17) Daytime activity of four lactating Holstein cows housed in total confinement in stanchion stalls for about 14 wk was observed continuously, and activities such as eating, drinking, resting, ruminating, and socializing were recorded.
(18) Lambs were stanchioned individually in environmental rooms; photoperiod treatments commenced on that day (d -14).
(19) Cows that were housed in stanchion barns were about twice as likely to be infested (24.7%) as were those in free stalls (11.1%).
(20) In this study, animals were infested with Psoroptes ovis while in stanchions.