(n.) A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female of other animals, as the rabbit. See the Note under Buck.
(n.) A feat. [Obs.] See Do, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report deals with the shortened estrous cycles, masculinization, depressed fertility, and the systemic hormone profiles resulting from a granulosa cell tumor in a doe.
(2) An anonymous source, “John Doe”, gave the archive to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung .
(3) The defence has also been handed in discovery documents by the prosecution indicating the likely questions that John Doe will be asked by the government and his probable answers.
(4) It is unclear if John Doe is the same source who sold information to the Danes.
(5) Results calculated using this methodology were compared with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) guidelines for a southeastern U.S. site.
(6) A single placenta in each doe was perfused via the umbilical arteries with Krebs' bicarbonate buffer at pH 7.5 (phase 1), 7.0 (phase 2), and 7.5 (phases 3-5).
(7) Connolly told a local paper , “Our position, if the termination for parental rights is granted, is that [she] would not have standing to obtain the abortion.” He’s arguing that Doe’s parental rights should be rescinded because she is facing charges of chemical endangerment of a child.
(8) In the doe, the highest levels were found in fat followed by liver, kidney, spleen, heart, brain and blood.
(9) The woman, known as Jane Doe, had filed a lawsuit in order to be granted a furlough to obtain the procedure.
(10) He outlines the history of the Department of Health and Human Services' "Baby Doe" regulations, and the legal battles over the regulations and over the care of New York's "Baby Jane Doe."
(11) Hypoxia was induced by letting the doe breathe a low-oxygen gas mixture.
(12) In responding to the three hypothetical cases of severely handicapped newborns, up to 32 percent of the respondents said that maximal life-prolonging treatment was not in the best interests of the infants described but that the Baby Doe regulations required such treatment.
(13) The "doe's eye" anomaly appears to be the only morphological symptom of the disease.
(14) Thus, glucocorticoid treatment of the pregnant doe results in structural changes in the fetal lung tissue, an acceleration of some aspects of type II cell differentiation, and a concomitant increase in epithelial-mesenchymal interactions.
(15) In these years the day of the devoted amateur passed; the trained medical librarian came into being and matured.This, the first Janet Doe Lecture, is named for one who illustrates the best in medical librarianship, serving with scholarly distinction.
(16) With the aim of determining the efficiency of a simple and non destructive method for measuring the ovulation rate, 20 doe rabbits were subjected to coelioscopy and slaughtered on day 14 of gestation.
(17) So even though abortion technically was legal” for those women, “it wasn’t available,” Doe said.
(18) Doe 2 aborted a fetus 5 days before term; MAT antibody was found in the pleural fluid of the fetus (1:16,384) and in the doe's serum (1:4,096 on the day of abortion).
(19) A 5-year-old Toggenburg doe was examined because of wasting, decreased milk production, and progressive abdominal distention.
(20) Yield was found to be related to litter size, the time the doe and her kittens were removed from the nest, the number of fleas put onto a doe before littering and the mean ambient temperature to which the doe was exposed in the week pre-partum.
Wether
Definition:
(n.) A castrated ram.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estimates for the biological half-lives of the antibodies ranged from 18 to 24 days in neonatal lambs and 12 to 17 days in adult wethers.
(2) In trial with adult wethers and weaned lambs the effect of enzymatic preparation Pektofoetidin G3x (mostly pectinase and cellulase) on rumen fermentation was studied.
(3) Ram biceps femoris weights at market were greater than those of wethers (P less than .05).
(4) In an experiment with wethers we investigated the effect of complete pelleted feed ration on the concentration of volatile fatty acids in the rumen and intestinal tract.
(5) Four crossbred wether lambs (38 kg) with permanent ruminal and abomasal cannulae were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square arrangement of treatments to determine the effect of feeding frequency (FF) on forage fiber and N utilization.
(6) Eight crossbred wethers were fed two levels of Ca, designated high Ca (.82%) or normal Ca (.48%), with four treatment each, three of which differed in dietary cation-anion balance.
(7) Neither rate of testosterone infusion had any effect on the raised gonadotrophin levels in wethers.
(8) The experiments performed on two wethers provided with simple rumen cannulas and reentrant cannulas, inserted into the proximal duodenum and ileum, showed a passage of 15N from labelled urea, injected intravenously, from the blood to the digestive tract.
(9) Eight variants of recipes for mixtures of straw and concentrated feed with 10 to 60 per cent straw more or less finely ground (86 to 314 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) and fattening feed for lambs (50 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) were checked concerning the digestibility of crude nutrients for fullgrown wethers and 60 to 80-, 80 to 100-and 100 to 120-day-old lambs which had been ablactated at an age of 60 days.
(10) Twenty-four wethers had ad libitum access to a total forage diet (pearl millet forage), water and trace mineralized salt.
(11) Experiments were conducted with two wether sheep which were fitted with rumen cannulae and chronically implanted intravascular thermocouples.
(12) Wethers received one of two dietary treatments for 30 d before determination of tissue blood flow: 1) a low-endophyte diet (less than .05 ppm ergovaline) or 2) a high-endophyte (1.18 ppm ergovaline) diet.
(13) The experiments were performed with inocula from wethers receiving two rations, with two pH regimes and using as inocula either whole rumen contents or the corresponding rumen fluid.
(14) Maintenance of adipose tissue from wethers (castrated male sheep) in tissue culture for 24 or 48 h with insulin resulted in an increased proportion of acetyl-CoA carboxylase being present in the active state; this effect was enhanced by dexamethasone and was antagonized by growth hormone.
(15) Several benign and malignant tumors of bone and cartilage were examined by means of type-specific collagen antibodies in connection with indirect immunofluorescence technique in order to determine wether there is a positive correlation between cell morphology and gene expression as refered to the synthesis of tissue- or cell-specific collagen.
(16) Higher faecal egg counts, larger worm burdens and heavier worms were recorded in immunosuppressed wethers.
(17) This study was undertaken to determine wether serum C3 and C4 values can help distinguish SLE activity from pre-eclampsia.
(18) Apparent digestibility and nutrient utilization were studied in a digestion and balance trial with 30 wether lambs (BW 32 kg).
(19) In trial 1, two qualities of alfalfa and smooth brome hays replaced 0, 15, 30 or 100% of an ammonia (NH3)-treated corn cob negative control diet in a digestion trial using 26 mixed breed wethers (31.8 kg).
(20) Wethers were studied for the effect of the complete pelleted feed ration on the intake of water and concentration of pH and ammonia in the rumen.