What's the difference between fecund and prolific?

Fecund


Definition:

  • (a.) Fruitful in children; prolific.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Multiple spawnings of individual females were also observed during the spawning period affecting the relative fecundity of the eggs.
  • (2) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
  • (3) Effect of microsporidiosis on the fecundity of hosts A. c. caspius was studied.
  • (4) Fecundability was only 12% lower for women in the 30-39 year age interval than for women up to 29 years of age.
  • (5) Data in relation to evolution cycle, period between emergency of adults and first oviposition, fecundity, fertility, amount of blood ingested and fast resistance, are presented.
  • (6) We conclude that cycle fecundity rates and cumulative pregnancy rates are significantly greater using a combination of hMG and IUI compared with either modality alone in the treatment of male factor, cervical factor, endometriosis, or unexplained infertility.
  • (7) A model of functional epistasis is proposed in which it is assumed that coupling and repulsion genotypes differ in metabolic efficiency and thus in development time and net fecundity.
  • (8) We show by genetic crosses that each gene makes an equivalent contribution to the fecundity and fertility of the female and they do not individually provide unique functions to the embryo.
  • (9) were significantly higher in Booroola ewes containing a major fecundity gene (FF and F+ ewes) compared to those values in Booroolas with no copy of the gene (++ animals; P less than 0.025).
  • (10) Fecundity among genotypes was not different, although there was an effect on the total number of offspring suggesting differences in egg-to-adult survivorship.
  • (11) The higher fecundability of more recent cohorts is the most consistent observation.
  • (12) Electrophoretic partition of the semen plasma of dogs with fecundity disturbances also showed the presence of three fractions, whose migration path and protein concentration are identical with those found in the semen plasma of fertile dogs.
  • (13) mortality was high), while the nymphal instars showed an adverse effect on ecdysis and adults which emerged from the treated last nymphal instar were characterized by high mortality, abnormal behaviour and reduced fecundity and viability.
  • (14) Thus, parity had little effect on fecundity in aging females, whereas the cessation of regular ovulatory cycles during aging greatly decreased both the incidence of fertility and the litter size.
  • (15) Neither sex nor the age of the host was found to influence the fecundic life span or the survival of female adult worm.
  • (16) The viabilities and fecundities of these same lines were determined by a segregation test using the SM5 balancer chromosome.
  • (17) The numbers of vitellogenic oocytes in the ovary during the entire study also suggested that atresia of vitellogenic oocytes does not play a prominent role in determining fecundity.
  • (18) Fecundability of 104 healthy women attempting to become pregnant was halved by consumption of the equivalent of 1 cup of brewed coffee or more daily.
  • (19) A possible relation between prenatal exposure to cigarette smoking and adult fecundability in women was explored, with the use of data from a prospective study of 221 North Carolina couples.
  • (20) The processes, connected with the population's reproduction fecundity and the birth number play a great part in the health formation of different populations.

Prolific


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
  • (a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
  • (a.) Proliferous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
  • (2) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
  • (3) The effect of mycobacterial phenolic glycolipids from Mycobacterium leprae, M. bovis BCG, and M. kansasii on in vitro proliferative responses by human blood mononuclear cells from healthy BCG vaccinees was investigated.
  • (4) In the fimbria a significantly higher concentration (P less than 0.01) was observed in the proliferative phase.
  • (5) Confirming a low proliferative activity in CN and a high activity in melanomas (MIS, IM, MM), the results showed that dysplastic nevi (NAA, NCAA) had a proliferative activity intermediate between common nevi and melanomas.
  • (6) The mixed leukocyte reaction proliferative response against the B7 transfectant is inhibited by either anti-CD28 or B7 mAb.
  • (7) Following BHT administration, the alveolar stem cells (type II pneumocytes) proliferate and differentiate according to a biphasic pattern, with proliferative peaks at d 3 and 7.
  • (8) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
  • (9) There was no significant difference in sialic acid concentration in the uterus during the proliferative and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle.
  • (10) To find out whether the deeper inhibition of replicative activity in ventricular myocytes influences fibroblasts and endothelial cells from ventricles, the proliferative activity of non-muscle cells was studied.
  • (11) We infer from these results that endotoxin ameliorates the cyclical changes in blood cell counts by regulating hematopoietic proliferative activity at the stem cell level.
  • (12) In diabetic patients with proliferative retinopathy, K was lower (P less than 0.05) than in diabetic patients without retinopathy.
  • (13) We suggest that radiation-induced specific chromosome 2 rearrangement associated with IL-1 beta deregulation may initiate murine leukemogenesis through the uncoupling of normal proliferative control mechanisms in multipotential hemopoietic cells.
  • (14) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
  • (15) Proliferative responses to env were seen in 9% of control children compared with 27% of infected children (p less than 0.02).
  • (16) The relationship between interphase cytogenetics and tumor grade, stage, and proliferative activity was investigated in 27 transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary bladder.
  • (17) Although T cells exposed to antigen in B-depleted LN of mu sm and irradiated mice gave negligible T proliferative responses in vitro, low but significant levels of primed T helper function were detected in a sensitive T helper assay in vivo.
  • (18) These results suggest that HGF may act as a proliferative factor during fetal liver growth.
  • (19) Proliferative and cytollytical activity of lymphocytes was compared in lymphocyte alloimmunization of the spleen and intact thymus.
  • (20) The high proteolytic activity of BCC demonstrated in this study may be an important factor in the proliferative, invasive and destructive behaviour of this tumour.