What's the difference between egg and uniparous?

Egg


Definition:

  • (n.) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
  • (n.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
  • (n.) Anything resembling an egg in form.
  • (v. t.) To urge on; to instigate; to incite/

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
  • (2) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
  • (3) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
  • (4) Increasing concentrations of cholesterol monotonically increase the dipole potential of egg phosphatidylcholine monolayers, from 415 mV with no cholesterol to 493 mV with equimolar cholesterol.
  • (5) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
  • (6) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
  • (7) Saturated acyl residues predominated in lysolecithin and unsaturated ones in acids released by hydrolysis of egg lecithin.
  • (8) By 30 min after insemination, the surface of the egg is relatively smooth.
  • (9) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
  • (10) Larvae from fresh water eggs, cultured in fresh water and 'normal' laboratory cultures reached 50% infectivity in 3-5 days, losing potential infectivity in 11-15 days post-hatching.
  • (11) Plakoglobin is present in the fertilized egg, increases in abundance by neurula stage, then declines at the tailbud and tadpole stages.
  • (12) Fertilization of golden hamster eggs was blocked both in vitro and in vivo by antibodies produced in rabbits against specific hamster ovarian antigens (HOA).
  • (13) Multiple spawnings of individual females were also observed during the spawning period affecting the relative fecundity of the eggs.
  • (14) The faeces of forty-two were examined microscopically for nematode eggs.
  • (15) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
  • (16) The time of sperm penetration in the mouse eggs, however, was delayed for one-half to one hour when ejaculated sperm were used.
  • (17) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
  • (18) The pattern of day to day variability in egg counts from individuals can be characterized by the linear relationship between the logarithms of the variances and means.
  • (19) Rhabdomeres are substantially smaller and visual pigment is nearly eliminated when Drosophila are carotenoid-deprived from egg to adult.
  • (20) In conclusion, the main finding of the present investigation, based on the development of ME fragments comprising 40-50% of the total egg volume, is that ascidian embryos are capable of regulative development.

Uniparous


Definition:

  • (a.) Producing but one egg or young at a time.
  • (a.) Producing but one axis of inflorescence; -- said of the scorpioid cyme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In two cases, the detachment occurred unilaterally; one was a gilt showing severe lameness which precluded mating and the other was a uniparous sow which showed only slight lameness.
  • (2) To evaluate the relationship between these two breast-cancer risk indicators the urine oestriol ratio was determined for recently delivered uniparous women aged 19-23, 25-27, and 29-34 years and nulliparous women of comparable ages.
  • (3) The estimated odds ratio for women with 5 or more births versus uniparous was 0.60 in analyses with adjustment for age and residence characteristics.
  • (4) In a stratified analysis, for age group 45-74 years, the relative risk for uniparous women was between 3.8 and 4.5 dependent on age at first birth compared to women with 8-9 children, age at first birth before the age of 25 and last birth after the age of 30 years.
  • (5) Small rate differences were found for premenopausal women between uniparous women and women with 6-7 children, but postmenopausal women with many children had lower rates of breast cancer mortality than uniparous women.
  • (6) However, in younger age groups, uniparous women seem to be at higher risk than nulliparous, and the effect of later pregnancies is less clear in this group.
  • (7) Uniparous, Metyrapone-treated, female rats manifested an unusually high incidence of saccular aneurysms of the aorta.
  • (8) Within the 38 weeks of study, 73% of ad libitum fed uniparous mice at risk and 11% of CEIR uniparous mice at risk developed mammary tumors, yet mice of both dietary groups delivered and weaned healthy litters with comparable efficiency.
  • (9) Sixty-four per cent of the women operated upon were multiparous, 27 per cent were uniparous and 8 per cent were nulliparous.
  • (10) Uniparous women had, however, higher risk of developing breast cancer under age 60 than nulliparous women.
  • (11) Conservative interventions have been more frequent on young women (under 35: 97%) and desiring children either because nullipara (65%) or because uniparous (27%).
  • (12) Nulliparous women had the same mortality rates as uniparous women in all age groups.

Words possibly related to "uniparous"