(a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
(a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
(n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
(n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
(n.) A member of the Conservative party.
Example Sentences:
(1) This excellent prognosis supports a regimen of conservative therapy for these patients.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(4) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(5) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(6) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(7) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(8) In four main regions the conservation varied from 83-91% while in the remaining regions the homology dropped to between 56-62%.
(9) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(10) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(11) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(12) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(13) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(14) On the basis of primary sequence homology with other known Pseudomonas lipases, a number of putative active site residues located in conserved areas were found.
(15) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(16) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
(17) A comparison to other hsp70 genes did not reveal any conservation of this 23-nucleotide sequence.
(18) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
(19) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(20) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
Milker
Definition:
(n.) One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
(n.) A cow or other animal that gives milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that orf and milkers' nodule infection have distinctive histopathologic features, and, in contrast to some previous reports, viral changes may frequently be found.
(2) An infection of cattle by transmission of vaccinia virus from milkers vaccinated against small pox is reported.
(3) The monoclonal antibodies produced were tested for crossreactivity with bovine papular stomatitis virus (BPS) and milker's node virus (MNV) by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and immunoblotting.
(4) The typical presynaptic adrenoceptor pattern in the teat of fast milkers (low beta 2:alpha 2-adrenoceptor ratio) results in a decline of norepinephrine release by feedback mechanisms.
(5) Those lesions must be distinguished from milker's nodules, botryomycosis and above all felon because ORF disease never require surgery.
(6) We report the clinical and histopathologic features of 17 patients with orf or milkers' nodule infection.
(7) The organism was widely prevalent in the animal environment and could be isolated from milking utensils (56.67%), watering troughs (44.00%), drains (36.37%), shed floor (4.00%), barnyard soil (3.33%), and milkers' throats (50.00%) and hands before and after milking (7.14 and 10.71%, respectively).
(8) An epidemic of 44 cases of milker's nodules was recorded in the Tampere Central Hospital catchment area in Finland during the autumn of 1974.
(9) 90 days' postpartum, 35.1% of sucklers and 66.7% of milkers showed their 1st estrus.
(10) With regard to individual occupations too, the medical staff showed the highest incidence (20.8 per cent), followed by bricklayers and concrete workers (8.6 per cent), electroplating workers (6.7 per cent) and milkers (6.4 per cent).
(11) In an ecological investigation in 20 dairy herds of cattle we compared the characteristics of strains isolated from nasal swabs of milkers, from the udder of cows and from cases of mastitis in cows.
(12) Less common infections such as cowpox, pseudocowpox (milkers nodules), ORF, and coxsackievirus (HFMD) infection of the hand have been brought to the attention of the reader.
(13) Antibodies to L. interrogans serovar hardjo were the ones most frequently encountered among the milkers; however, antibodies to other serovars were also noted.
(14) Average PPEI length for sucklers was significantly different from that for milkers (131.5 vs. 77.9 days, p less than .01).
(15) The above findings do not support any conclusion as to whether the cows had been infected by the milker or vice versa.
(16) Two of the three persons handling the seals developed nodular lesions similar to "milker's nodules," the characteristic lesion in persons infected with parapoxvirus.
(17) Removing milker units as soon as milk flow stopped was compared to milking for a fixed time of 12 min in an 8-wk trial with 60 cows.
(18) The disease in humans is called Milkers' modules, in cows--pseudocowpox.
(19) The percentage of animals with postpartum ovulation interval (PPOI) of more than 3 months was 23.8% for sucklers and 9.5% for milkers.
(20) An account is given of the close correlations that exist between virus strains of bovine papular stomatitis, orf, pseudocowpox, and milker's nodule.