What's the difference between engorge and octothorpe?

Engorge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To gorge; to glut.
  • (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.

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  • (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.

Octothorpe


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