(v. t.) To swallow with greediness or in large quantities; to devour.
(v. i.) To feed with eagerness or voracity; to stuff one's self with food.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 3,532 females of various engorged weights was collected from all calves, resulting in a mean female tick yield of 1.78% based on the number of larvae used for all infestations.
(2) Extremely high concentrations of Vg were observed in the hemolymph of female nymphs (fourth instar), particularly engorged nymphs, treated with CyM (10 micrograms).
(3) The percentage of nymphs infected correlated with the viremic titer on the final day of engorgement (the time of maximum blood uptake).
(4) In addition to increased numbers and weights of larvae engorging on tick-resistant animals depleted of complement, the basophil packed lesion at the tick attachment site was greatly reduced.
(5) At two visits in the first two weeks postpartum, infants were weighted naked, and mothers reported the magnitude of postpartum breast engorgement when their milk came in.
(6) However, no engorging females of any of the tick species were found on treated animals.
(7) The average weight of blood portion in females of different species engorged for the first time ranged from 0.05 mg (X. conformis) to 0.72 mg (C. lamellifer).
(8) Only six patients exhibited at least two symptoms of mammary engorgement (congestion and pain or milk let-down): in this group, blood mean PRL levels were significantly less suppressed on postpartum days 2, 6, 21 and 28 (p less than 0.05 to p less than 0.001) than in the group of mothers completely free of any mammary symptoms.
(9) Foci of alveoli filled with alveolar macrophages engorged with diesel particles were scattered in the lung parenchyma.
(10) Subsequent to a final rapid phase of engorgement, the basophilic cell reorganizes its cisternae of rough endoplasmic reticulum into whorls and parallel arrays and resumes a secretory role.
(11) This paper describes the development of the gland cells and formation of the intra-cuticular lumen and its ultrastructure during engorgement and oviposition in ixodid ticks.
(12) A single subcutaneous injection resulted in significantly fewer engorged female B. decoloratus on treated animals for up to 28 d after treatment.
(13) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(14) Amblyomma cohaerens nymphs, which had been collected as engorged larvae from African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) in the Mara region of Kenya, transmitted a theilerial parasite to a steer.
(15) Adult A. variegatum engorged to more than 2.49 x were affected by immersion in water for longer than 7 days.
(16) triseriatus engorging on the dogs 1-5 days after feeding by infected mosquitoes failed to become infected.
(17) A periorbital bruit and venous engorgement of the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae are pathognomonic features.
(18) Ticks fed on ivermectin-treated cattle had a smaller mass when engorged and laid smaller egg-masses, both absolutely and as a proportion of engorged mass.
(19) A dot blot hybridization procedure was developed to detect human blood meals in engorged mosquitoes.
(20) Nascent virus was first visualized by TEM in several tissues, including midgut, fat body, and salivary glands, of high-titer-infected mosquitoes 48 h after they engorged.
Greedily
Definition:
(adv.) In a greedy manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) At home they greedily chug down a quart of amped-up babyccino .
(2) The expenses affair of 2009 fed the impression – mostly unfair – that MPs were in it only for themselves, greedily lining their pockets.
(3) Marco Reus sprints on to it, gallops through on goal like a rugby player greedily accepting an interception and flicks the ball past Joe Hart and into the bottom left-hand corner.
(4) Now that the party's over, all of those must-watch Heat games, some greedily picked up by networks betting the streak would continue, have reverted back to pumpkins.
(5) "My memories of WC2006 are of countless speculative attempts by Lampard and Ballack to greedily try a solo master-blaster into the net," recalls Laurence Welford.
(6) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "children's blood".
(7) Rudin in Turgenev’s eponymous novel desperately wants to surrender himself “completely, greedily, utterly” to something; he ends up dead on a Parisian barricade in 1848, having sacrificed himself to a cause he doesn’t fully believe in.
(8) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "Children's Blood".
(9) Lisicki leads 4-2 and she's eyeing up the first set greedily now.
(10) Let us together set our sights on a Britain where three out of four families own their home, where owning shares is as common as having a car, where families have a degree of independence their forefathers could only dream about.” Anyone under the age of 45 is now much less likely to be a homeowner than people of the same age 25 years ago Two years later the writer Neal Ascherson wrote a prescient column in the Observer that he recalls as “the most popular column I ever wrote … It was greedily read by the yuppie generation – and then fiercely denounced for being wrong.” Foreseeing that soaring house prices meant that London’s middle-class young would inherit many millions when their parents died, Ascherson predicted an “explosion of liquid wealth that would create instant and colossal inequality”: a society with an upper class rich enough to maintain servants, in a “court city” drained of industry that had reverted to the production of luxurious baubles.
(11) My uncle is eyeing the girl's backside greedily: – My dear boy, have you seen that waitress – nice, uh?
(12) Not when Italy had accumulated 35 shots, compared to England's nine, and greedily kept 64% of possession.
(13) The red fluid is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "Children's Blood".
(14) Formby wrote: "In claiming that our union members may consider Unite to be too political – straight from the Eric Pickles textbook where union membership should only be a workplace transaction – Dugher, those greedily sought rightwing headlines in the bag, exposed a seriously poor grasp of the drive, collectivism and democracy that serve our movement proudly.