(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.
Mute
Definition:
(v. t.) To cast off; to molt.
(v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.
(n.) The dung of birds.
(a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.
(a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.
(a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.
(a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.
(n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.
(n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
(n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.
(n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
(n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.
(n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.
(n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
(2) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(3) But its protests were far more muted than the complaints which saw off plans for drills there earlier this year.
(4) to produce speech for the mute, man-machine communication through speech in industry control, data processing systems and uses in audiological diagnostics.
(5) Ten months on, reactions are likely to be more muted.
(6) When it transpired that he had, if not in the way he might have wanted, he and his corner leapt in the air, before the realization of the ugly mood of the crowd muted the celebrations.
(7) Likewise, his criticism of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill , which proposed the death penalty for same-sex acts, was muted.
(8) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(9) Additional studies revealed that the muted effects of PTHrP occurred via a PTH-independent mechanism.
(10) Winning a majority muted that speculation without eradicating the ambitions that fuelled it.
(11) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
(12) While calling for an end to the violence and democratic reform, western and other Arab countries have mostly muted their criticism of the killings and repression in Syria for fear of destabilising the country, which plays a strategic role across the Middle East.
(13) Another sci-fi film, Mute, which he describes as "my love letter to Blade Runner", is already in development and will be filmed in Berlin.
(14) It appeared, however, that she was muting her resistance to an expanded if limited ECB role, clearing the way for central bank and International Monetary Fund interventions that might take the edge off the immediate emergency and provide a breathing space for a more systemic political response.
(15) Indeed, the language of the ethic of care may give a voice to nurses who previously felt morally mute.
(16) Lysosomal enzyme secretion in response to thrombin treatment was partially reduced in muted platelets and markedly reduced in mocha platelets.
(17) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
(18) Even in the wake of Newtown, the shift toward gun safety policies has been relatively muted .
(19) Violence, public and domestic, in peace and war, is muted by the modulated tones of civilised life.
(20) If I had been seeing red upon learning the dark projections for my health, my world was returning to its known colors, now muted with that knowledge that comes eventually for everyone: that the body is not the friend you thought was.