(n.pl.) Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion or distillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The faeces of forty-two were examined microscopically for nematode eggs.
(2) Access to human faeces, poor feeding and lack of deworming were also very evident.
(3) 0.5 to 1 gram pure Bismuth per day and person leaves the patients naturally by faeces.
(4) Of a given dose of DDE, 31% was excreted in the faeces as polar metabolites within 14 days, and 3-4% dose as DDE.
(5) Examination of cattle faeces demonstrated that six-month-old calves excreted moderate numbers of N battus eggs in June and July, thus contaminating next season's sheep grazing.
(6) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
(7) At different times after starting feeding or injection, tissues (albumen gland, digestive gland and digestive tube, central nervous system, remainder parts), hemolymph and faeces were analyzed for unchanged 2,2'- or 4,4'-DCB.
(8) Buxtonella sulcata cysts were recovered from the faeces of adult cows on nine commercial dairy farms.
(9) Investigation of the concentration of norfloxacin in the faeces revealed that a substantial fraction of the dose was either absorbed or inactivated by faecal substances.
(10) Enterococcus faecalis was predominant in human and poultry faeces, Streptococcus bovis was typical of the bovine faeces and to a lesser extent also of pig faeces whereas Enterococcus durans, Ent.
(11) 15N excretion in urine and faeces increased in comparable relations in 6 cases of lysine increase levels only.
(12) Twenty-four (82.7%) out of 29 patients suffering from hospital acquired urinary infections by Klebsiella pneumoniae had the same species in their faeces.
(13) In a series of outbreaks of food-poisoning associated with the consumption of cockles, no bacterial pathogens were demonstrable either in faeces of patients or in cockles.
(14) Additionally the excretion of NDEA-F6 and NDBA-F14 in expired air, urine and faeces was studied after oral application to the rat.
(15) Presumably IgG in the gut is partially destroyed before being excreted with faeces.
(16) An experimental model of colonic urinary diversion was performed on male Wistar rats to see if faeces, urine or a faeces and urine mixture produces tumours.
(17) Faecal cultures were established using bovine faeces containing known numbers of eggs from either Oesophagostomum radiatum, Haemonchus placei, Cooperia pectinata or a mixture of all three.
(18) On the basis of previously obtained evidence that Gram-negative bacteria may influence the activity of leukaemia, a study of the composition of the flora, the immune stimulation by the Gram-negative bacteria and the endotoxin concentration in faeces was conducted in patients with low-grade malignant B-cell lymphoma as well as in patients with acute leukaemia.
(19) Rotaviruses and mycoplasma-like particles were observed in the faeces of calves with and without diarrhoea.
(20) The hepta-, hexa- and penta-carboxylic porphyrins found in the faeces of rats poisoned with hexachlorobenzene have been separated by high-pressure liquid chromatography and characterized largely by spectroscopie methods.
Floater
Definition:
(n.) One who floats or swims.
(n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus while the majority of patients with flashes and floaters do merit an urgent ophthalmological opinion, those who complain of a single, isolated floater can safely be reviewed as routine outpatients.
(2) Although there were no specific symptoms which could be correlated to an increased incidence of retinal breaks, those patients who complained of isolated uniocular floaters had an insignificant incidence of breakage, when compared to asymptomatic fellow eyes.
(3) A substantial proportion of the mycobacterial population on an inert surface floated off during its exposure to the glutaraldehyde solution but the 'floaters' were killed at an equivalent rate to the attached bacilli.
(4) Forty-nine patients with bilateral pigmentary dispersion syndrome (abnormal accumulation of pigment in the anterior chamber, principally from the posterior layers of the iris), including 31 patients with pigmentary glaucoma, underwent 10% phenylephrine testing in one eye for evaluation of liberation of pigment floaters into the anterior chamber and the influence of phenylephrine on the intraocular pressure.
(5) Prior to drug application, aqueous cells were observed in none of the cases, while after mydriasis, apparent aqueous floaters appeared in 9.2% of the cases, all of whom were over 40 years of age.
(6) This is underscored by our current inability to explain satisfactorily several patterns including the relative significance of floating, geographic biases in the incidence of cooperative breeding, sexual asymmetries in delayed dispersal, the relationship between delayed dispersal leading to helping behavior and cooperative polygamy, and the rarity of the co-occurrence of helpers and floaters within the same population.
(7) Of 100 patients with a prepapillary annular opacity in age-related posterior vitreous detachment with collapse, 44 had floater symptoms corresponding to their opacity.
(8) 2.02am BST Tigers 1 - Red Sox 0, top of 3rd Don Kelly hits a floater into left field that looks like it will find a piece of turf but Drew tracks it down for the first out.
(9) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
(10) Parker makes a floater that ends the scoring for a crazy last minute.
(11) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
(12) The patients studied comprised four cases with rhegmatogenous retinal detachments and one case with the sudden onset of vitreous floaters with posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
(13) All patients had either a vitreous hemorrhage, or photopsia and floaters.
(14) Vitreous flare was present in 44% and increase of floaters in 55% of the eyes.
(15) The extreme sensitivity of the instruments enables real-time detection of refractive effects from tear films on the cornea and real-time tracking of floaters.
(16) In 7 eyes a special form of rosettes was found: a rosette scattered in the vitreous body like a floater.
(17) However, equal numbers of whole and PP floaters were deficient in their capacity to present antigen compared with similar populations from spleen.
(18) The project has three phases: a one-day environmental photojournalism workshop; a photography exhibition in schools, malls and government offices and education about how to recycle plastic bottles, such as using them for seaweed floaters.
(19) 1.46am BST Indiana Pacers 14-10 Miami Heat - 5:50 remaining, 1st Quarter The Pacers commit yet another turnover as the officials say the ball has gone off of Lance Stephenson, and Mario Chalmers converts a floater on the other end.
(20) A proportion of the cells remain in the medium as floaters.