(n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
(n.) A kind or crowned piece in the game of draughts.
(n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.
(n.) A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.
(v. t.) To obstruct or restrain the flow of, by a dam; to confine by constructing a dam, as a stream of water; -- generally used with in or up.
(v. t.) To shut up; to stop up; to close; to restrain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(2) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(3) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
(4) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(5) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
(6) In contrast, the same concentration of isopropanol produced narcosis in the dams, retarded body-weight gain and reduced the feed intake.
(7) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(8) A dam Johnson's point may need proving towards Roberto Mancini rather than Manuel Pellegrini, but Manchester City will still be aware of a Sunderland player with a cause in the Capital One Cup final.
(9) Pups were weaned either to the diet of their dam or to the diet fed to dams in the other treatment group in a crossover design.
(10) After 21 days of gestation the morphine-dependent dams were decapitated and the foetal brains were dissected.
(11) The open reading frame can be expressed from the dam-regulated mod promoter (for modification of D108 DNA), yet also contains its own dam-independent promoter for expression that is detectable by northern blot analysis late in the D108 lytic cycle.
(12) Simmental sires had significantly heavier calves at birth and S and H dams tended to have more calving difficulty and lower survival rates.
(13) Primary CMV infection of dams extending into early pregnancy induced augmented cytolysis of CMV-infected fetal cells, but not MA104 NK cell targets, throughout gestation and resulted in 70% loss of conceptus.
(14) Mature Angus dams at Goudies had 3.7% calf deaths at birth (4.9 vs 2.4% for males vs females), a further 1.8% calf deaths to weaning and 4.6% assisted births.
(15) Further, the presence of the dam in the goalbox reduced plasma corticosterone elevations, particularly among 15-day-old pups and at 60 min.
(16) On day 18 the dams were killed and the male fetuses were examined for testicular differentiation.
(17) Within this group, fetal resorption had a significant effect upon the sex ratio, and this relationship was significantly affected by the number of implanted embryos: resorbing dams produced male-biased litters at small and intermediate numbers of implantation sites and female-biased litters when the number of implanted embryos was large.
(18) Ewe lambs from treated dams had approximately 12% greater rate of growth (P less than .04) than ewe lambs from control dams.
(19) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
(20) 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.
Mam
Definition:
(n.) Mamma.
Example Sentences:
(1) PFP-MAM is separated by capillary GC and identified mass spectrometrically by selected ion monitoring (SIM).
(2) In this study the morphology of the lateral geniculate nucleus and occipital cortex in rats with methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM Ac)-induced micrencephaly was examined.
(3) The use of monoclonal antibodies and alpha MAM-6 indicated that the majority of TEC were of medullary origin.
(4) The results suggest that rats exposed to MAM in varying doses would be useful for evaluating the developmental process of neurons and its unification.
(5) Also analogues seem to be the producing of the so-called instinctives as mam(m)a and papa by somewhat older babies which are able to pass over from the babbling into permanent words of the adults' speech in which they persist if used without shifting of sounds since they are produced de novo generation by generation, but they are subordinate to shifting and possible extinction if used in the form of derivatives in the standard language, and some phenomena of the phylogenesis as the survival of less differentiated species contrary to the relatively quick extinction of the highly specialized ones.
(6) Liver microsomes isolated from rats fed the 3 diets metabolized MAM to formic acid and methanol in vitro, but liver microsomes from rats fed the continuous ethanol diet were 12 to 15 times more active than liver microsomes from rats fed the control diet.
(7) Too proud to ask for help, the alarm bells rang in the week before his death when he accepted a tenner from his mam.
(8) A quantitative sandwich radioimmunoassay, using 115D8 as catcher and as tracer antibody, has been developed to detect MAM-6 in serum.
(9) To further analyze the apparent colocalization of ricin and MAM-6 in the perinuclear Golgi region, immunogold cytochemistry on ultracryosections was performed.
(10) The brain weights in the MNU- and MAM-treated pups on postnatal day 22 were significantly less than those in the control pups.
(11) MAM-6 might be considered as a marker of severe (premalignant) dysplasia in adenomas of the large intestine.
(12) Microradiographical and histological investigations showed that the cranial base lordosis was more pronounced in the MAM rats than in the controls, and that the width of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis was reduced mainly due to reduction in the central zone.
(13) These results suggest that working memory disorders of MAM rats on radial maze tasks may be due to the lowering of cholinergic functions in their hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
(14) Cumulative properties indicate that MAM is the guinea pig analogue of human Mo1 and mouse Mac-1.
(15) The controls of a fibroblastic cell culture derived from gill tissue of bluegill sunfish showed spontaneous transformation after 6 months of passage, similar to the transformation observed in the experimental MAM acetate treated gill cultures.
(16) One of the antigens, MAM-6, appeared to be an important epithelial marker, present in all normal and neoplastic breast tissue samples, in about 80% of non-mammary normal tissues and in more than 90% of non-mammary epithelial tumours.
(17) Pretreatment with CCl4 caused not only early death from chemical toxicity of MAM but also an increase in small-bowel tumors.
(18) Unlike paramagnetic material, MAM appears effective as a small-bowel contrast material.
(19) 5HT-immunoreactive neurons in the MAM-rats were reduced in number and irregularly distributed in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei compared with those in the control.
(20) Treatment with MAM, 3 to 6 hr after Con A addition, partially blocks the enhancement.