(n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
(v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Demonstration of low levels of Pit-1 expression in Ames dwarf (df) mice implies that both Pit-1 and df expression may be required for pituitary differentiation.
(2) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(3) Mortality was less in the N-XL as compared to DB, but NB hens showed 11.7% more mortality than dwarfs.
(4) Examination of pituitary structure indicated that dwarfs had very small pituitaries, with an immature pattern of somatotrope distribution, and giants had very large pituitaries, with some hypertrophy of somatotropes.
(5) The defect in thyroid function in the dwarf bird apparently was not at the level of synthesis but at the level of uptake of iodine.
(6) This unique physiological situation was created by crossing IGF-I Tg mice to GH-deficient, dwarf mice in whom somatotrophs were genetically ablated by the expression of a diphtheria toxin transgene in the somatotrophs.
(7) The above results suggest that hormone deficiency in Snell dwarf mice is a result of a defect in the hormone-producing cells in the gland.
(8) Mutant mice are dysmorphic, dwarfed, and have a shortened life span.
(9) Experiments for uptaking and distribution of the culm stabiliser "camposan" with the agens ethephon are very important to tell something about the dwarf behaviour of the treated plants of rye.
(10) The transplacental activity of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) was tested in rats, rabbits, Syrian golden hamsters, Dzungarian dwarf hamsters, guinea pigs, dogs, and rhesus monkeys.
(11) The primary structure of rice dwarf phytoreovirus (RDV) genome segment S3 was determined.
(12) West African Dwarf sheep were challenged with a low mouse brain-passaged Rift Valley fever virus (Ib-AR 55172) isolated from Nigeria.
(13) The osteochondrodysplasia rat, inherited by a single autosomal recessive lethal gene ocd, shows a typical dwarfing syndrome with systemic subcutaneous edema.
(14) A proportion of 73% CL and CLA in the overall ovarian changes after treatment with 750 IE PMSG (2 days before removal of the sponge) and 125 micrograms PGF2 alpha (at the time of the sponge removal) proved an acceptable method of treating African dwarf goats as regards the requirement of labour and material as well as the superovulation effect.
(15) But that would be dwarfed by the costs of actually leaving the EU.
(16) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(17) The presence of growth lines in the distal radius was evaluated prior to treatment in 23 psychosocial dwarfs and 25 patients with idiopathic hypopituitarism.
(18) Hymenolepis nana (von Siebold, 1852), the dwarf tapeworm causing hymenolepiasis, has been reported to be the common intestinal cestode of rodents and man throughout the world.
(19) Ectopic pituitary transplants produced the expected increase in plasma prolactin levels in male and female dwarf mice as compared to sham-operated dwarf or untreated normal mice.
(20) A marked increase in the number of lymphoid cells in dwarf mice was observed by treatment with thyroxin, even if treatment was started either at 7 days or 3 months of age.
Elves
Definition:
(pl. ) of Elf
Example Sentences:
(1) The ratio of ELV values for BSP and dBSP appeared to be related to overall hepatic function, with ratios greater than 1 in the normal dogs and less than 1 in the patients.
(2) In the present study, we have determined whether or not left adrenal products are important to the changes induced by ELV and whether or not reflux of left renal vein content occurs in the ELV rat.
(3) Additionally, when 85Sr-labelled microspheres were infused into the left renal vein, they did not appear in either left or right testes of ELV animals.
(4) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(5) Maximally (ED100) and half-maximally (ED50) stimulating doses of LH and LHRH were selected from these studies and administered to sham-operated and ELV rats 30 days after the operation to induce ELV.
(6) The amino acid sequences of the VPs of ELV and four other tymoviruses align unequivocally and their relationships, as assessed from the percentage of identical residues, correlate well with previously reported serological tests which have shown ELV to be distant from other tymoviruses.
(7) On the other hand the equivalent liver volume (ELV) and storage capacity were lower with dBSP.
(8) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
(9) The examinations consisted of clinical and laboratory assessment, resting ECG, 24-hour ECG monitoring, X-ray evaluation of cardiac volume (CV), and evaluation of echocardiographic left ventricular shortening (ELVS) and of isotopic ejection fraction (EF).
(10) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(11) We love our elves.” We’d said we’d quite like to try cross-country skiing so Björn simply pulls up by the side of the road, straps us into our skis and we set off.
(12) It is possible that the previously determined ELV-associated decrease in intratesticular testosterone concentrations is subsequent to a wash-out phenomenon that follows the increased testicular blood flow that also is known to be associated with ELV.
(13) These values were similar for right control testicles and left and right testicles of ELV animals.
(14) The nucleotide sequence of the genome of erysimum latent tymovirus (ELV) has been determined.
(15) ELV was transmissible by Aphis frangulae gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Myzus persicae neither in short nor in long feeding times.
(16) Although its pressure dependence has been recognized, its temporal relationship to ventricular elastance (Elv(t)) has not been established.
(17) Elv(t) was derived using an elastance-resistance model of the left ventricle assuming an ejection fraction of 0.50 and a dead volume (Vd) of 3.0 mL.
(18) In the first study, testicular blood flow and temperature were studied in control animals and those with ELV, left adrenalectomy (LAX), or ELV + LAX.
(19) The results demonstrate that ELV does not alter the blood-testis barrier (BTB) to 3H-inulin (MW 5000), it being largely excluded from entry into the tubule lumen in both control and ELV animals.
(20) Back in the 90s, a group of conservative lawyers called “the elves” secretly worked to keep the Paula Jones case alive.