(n.) The female of the sheep, and of sheeplike animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
(2) Lambing rates approach 1.5 lambs per ewe per year, but a death rate of 23 per cent and an offtake of 27 per cent, means that flock numbers are probably slightly declining.
(3) Only one ewe aborted, 10 days after the first infecting dose, at 94 days of gestation; L monocytogenes was isolated from several sites in both its aborted fetuses.
(4) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
(5) Three of the tumours represented primary soft tissue lesions, while locally recurrent tumour or pulmonary metastases were studied from the 4 skeletal tumours, all of which had been diagnosed previously as Ewing's sarcomas.
(6) In this ewe, and in 4 of 7 other sheep diagnosed as having abomasal emptying defects, aspartate transaminase and sorbitol dehydrogenase activities were high, and histopathologic evidence of hepatic congestion and ischemia was found.
(7) Similar sponges were reintroduced into four ewes at each of the intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 days later; three ewes served as controls.
(8) Synthetic LHRH administered to ewes by intravenous infusion or subcutaneous injection was readily detectable in peripheral plasma.
(9) The effect of age of the ewe and pregnancy on concentrations of plasma calcium, phosphorus and magnesium and its relationship to the bent-leg syndrome in lambs, were investigated.
(10) After surgical resection the facial mass was diagnosed as Ewing's sarcoma histopathologically.
(11) Although a PGF2 alpha analogue (Lutalyse) infusion into the uterine vein of two ewes with persistent CLs failed to induced luteolysis, it did stimulate a large release of OT into the UOV.
(12) Seven lactating Lacaune ewes underwent either a total luteectomy on day 19 of pregnancy (D19) (compensated from that stage by a daily progesterone supplementation of 25 mg to ensure embryonic survival; group 1:4 animals) or a control laparotomy (group 2: 3 animals).
(13) Faecal samples of the Romanov ewes more often harboured Nematodirus eggs while the larvae recovered from cultures of these samples contained a higher percentage of Teladorsagia.
(14) In experiment 2, antibodies (Ab) were extracted from sera obtained from experiment 1 ewes and then were injected i.v.
(15) Serologically the aborted ewes were positive for brucellosis by one or more tests.
(16) Children with osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma rarely have bone disease distant from the site of their primary bone lesion at presentation.
(17) The androgenized ewes showed poorer oestrous responses to each hormone although rams showed interest in the ewes.
(18) Plasma melatonin concentrations were higher during the hours of darkness in the ewes and fetuses in both the normal and altered groups; i.e.
(19) Four of these ewes received a second increase in GnRH pulse frequency, every 2 h and hourly on the subsequent 2 days.
(20) Ewing's sarcoma is considered a primary malignant tumor of bone.
Wee
Definition:
(n.) A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance.
(a.) Very small; little.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three brands of Ca supplement, a laboratory-reagent grade CaCO3 and a certified reference material (International Atomic Energy Agency H-5 Animal Bone) wee analysed for Cd and Pb by four different analytical techniques, viz., anodic stripping voltammetry inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, flame atomic absorption spectrometry and electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry.
(2) An alphavirus group-reactive hemagglutination (HA) site, a WEE complex-reactive HA site, and a WEE virus-specific HA site were identified.
(3) Paired sera from 20 humans with eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus infections and from 17 humans with western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus infections, all with previously demonstrated fourfold or greater rises or falls in hemagglutination-inhibiting, complement-fixing, or neutralizing antibody titers, were tested for immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies by an enzyme immunoassay.
(4) Studies were undertaken to develop an amplified ELISA for the rapid detection of WEE virus from mosquitoes.
(5) The SNP MP John Nicolson said of Daley’s case: “His poster sales have gone up and now there are wee girls and wee boys putting his poster up on the walls.
(6) He’s spat on and has wee thrown at him.” Rutherford is also concerned about the governance of the sport.
(7) dorsalis also demonstrated some alterations in response to WEE viral infection that were unique relative to Cx.
(8) Antibodies specific for three epitopes were able to passively protect mice from WEE virus challenge.
(9) Current monitoring systems to detect western equine encephalitis (WEE) virus in mosquitoes involve isolation in suckling mice or cell culture followed by serological identification of the isolates obtained.
(10) The Toon, on the other hand, are in a wee spot of temporary bother.
(11) These viruses are the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE), St. Louis Encephalitis (SLE), Mucambo (MUC) and Pixuna (PIX).
(12) 8.08pm BST 6 min: Baines goes on a wee jog down the left, and guides a cross-cum-pass into the area for Rooney, arriving late level with the left-hand post, ten yards out.
(13) The postoperative changes in condylar position wee assessed in terms of direction and amount.
(14) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
(15) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
(16) Flocks of sentinel domestic pigeons (Columbia livia) detected increases in St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) and western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus activity in southern California concurrently with flocks of sentinel chickens.
(17) The infection and morphogenetic events associated with the replication of Western equine encephalomyelitis (WEE) virus within the mesenterons of Aedes dorsalis and three strains of Culex tarsalis are compared and contrasted.
(18) Two species of ticks that are ectoparasitic on rodents in Kern County were evaluated as vectors of WEE virus.
(19) Plaque-neutralizing antibody responses to VEE virus in the EEE virus- and WEE virus-seropositive equids were similar in time of onset and titer to the antibody responses of nonimmunized equids.
(20) IgM antibody declined but persisted for at least 3 months after the onset of illness in one individual each with EEE and WEE.