(n.) The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mean prevalence was 0.7% (range 0.4-38.5%) in sheep, 1.4% (range 0.2-7.7%) in goats and 80% in dromedaries.
(2) Llamas and alpacas, like dromedaries, have an extra fetal membrane that is derived from the epidermis of the fetus.
(3) In evolutionary terms this indicates that dromedary RNAase has evolved independently during the larger part of the evolution of the mammals.
(4) Twelve strains of Congo-CHF virus have been isolated from ticks taken on bovines and dromedaries in that area.
(5) These assays were highly specific for camLH since neither dromedary follicle-stimulating hormone, growth hormone nor prolactin cross-reacted significantly.
(6) Beta 2 in dromedary is the P2-glycerate contact histidine.
(7) The effect of inositol hexakisphosphate on the EPR properties of the nitric oxide derivative of ferrous dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) hemoglobin has been investigated at 110 K. In the absence of inositol hexakisphosphate, the nitrosyl derivative of dromedary hemoglobin shows an EPR spectrum with a rhombic shape and a weak hyperfine splitting in the gz region, a feature that is generally taken as characteristic of the high-affinity state of tetrameric hemoproteins.
(8) Involuntary regurgitation is a particular hazard in dromedaries and every effort should be made to avoid this potentially life threatening complication.
(9) They are isolated and purified from dromedary post-hyphophysis, freshly collected in the meat centers of the south of Tunisia.
(10) For comparison, O2 kinetics for the RBC of a low-altitude camelid (dromedary camel) and the pygmy goat were determined and previously measured values for human RBC were used.
(11) The interaction of dromedary hemoglobin with various solvent components [2-(p-chlorophenoxy)-2-methylpropionic acid (CFA), 2,3-bisphospho-D-glycerate (glycerate-2,3-P2) and chloride] has been studied.
(12) Polyclonal antibodies against luteinizing hormone in dromedary (camLH) were raised in a rabbit and enabled the development of homologous immunoassays (radioimmunoassay, competitive enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) and sandwich EIA) for the measurement of circulating camLH in plasma.
(13) This difference may be due to the greater number of basic residues exposed to solvent and to the higher flexibility of dromedary hemoglobin.
(14) The fertility rate of hydatids was 50% in sheep and 67.8% in dromedaries; and degenerative changes were shown by 65.8% of hydatids from dromedaries as compared to 16.3% in sheep.
(15) The author presents an overview of established knowledge on this major disease for the dromedary, which has hitherto been underestimated.
(16) As a general rule the equipment and techniques used for adult cattle may also be used in the dromedary.
(17) Regression of the corpus luteum was found to occur in the dromedary by 2 different ways, termed vascular and avascular types.
(18) The sequence of the main hemoglobin component of the guinea pig (Cavia aerea f. porcellus, Caviidae) and that of the hemoglobin of the dromedary (Camelus dromedarius, Camelidae) is given.
(19) Post-ovulatory corpora haemorrhagica and mature corpora lutea were seen in the ovary of non pregnant dromedary only during the spring season.
(20) Position 39 in horse and dromedary ribonuclease is not deleted but is occupied by tryptophan.
Elephant
Definition:
(n.) A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Elephants are the largest land animals now existing.
(n.) Ivory; the tusk of the elephant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hymen was not penetrated as a result of intromission and therefore the site of ejaculation would have been in the urogenital canal of the 4 primigravid elephants.
(2) In June, a notorious elephant poacher led a gang of bandits in an attack on the Okapi wildlife reserve in DRC, killing seven people.
(3) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
(4) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
(5) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(6) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(7) Prince William is due to make a speech about conservation at an elephant sanctuary in China on 4 March.
(8) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(9) We’ve sent one of our writers to Kenya to meet the elephants, and some of the people who seek to look after them, just as news breaks that elephant numbers are dramatically down.
(10) It’s home to a quarter of a million people, about 150 elephants and a host of other wild animals ranging from bears and tigers to flycatchers and martens.
(11) Kenya's president has set fire to more than five tonnes of elephant ivory worth £10m to draw attention to poaching deaths.
(12) On the other hand the government and the police have got a duty to ensure that people in the Department of Defence are not breaching national security by giving stuff to you.” The Greens senator Scott Ludlam, who provided his own circumvention tips during the Senate debate on Tuesday, said Turnbull’s explanation indicated data retention could be a “$300m white elephant”.
(13) Through the year, a herd of elephants may move over a very large area in search of food and water – sometimes more than 1,000 square kilometres.
(14) At 5pm each night, local TV stations broadcast the locations of all elephants on the plateau.
(15) Sudanese poachers were responsible for the recent mass slaughter of 26 elephants at world heritage Dzanga-Ndoki national park in the CAR.
(16) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(17) … the party wants to run a highly disciplined election campaign – there can be no place for a rogue elephant."
(18) In January, poachers shot down a helicopter in Tanzania and killed its British pilot during an operation to track down elephant killers while, in October last year, 14 elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe .
(19) It would be kind of a big elephant to have missed."
(20) A realistic elephant might serve as a memento to the hundred elephants killed for their ivory every day.