(n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
(n.) One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
(n.) One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
(n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
(n.) A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.
(n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
(n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
(n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
(n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
(n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(2) In cultures of medium ML-15 containing a feeder layer of Dog Sarcoma (DS) cells larvae successfully moulted and showed a small but significant increase in length.
(3) Type II cells cultured on floating feeder layers in medium containing 1% CS-rat serum and 10(-5) M hydrocortisone plus 0.5 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP exhibited significantly increased incorporation of [14C]acetate into total lipids (238% of control).
(4) Dopamine, 5-hydroxydopamine (5-OHDA), 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), 5,6-dihydroxytryptamine (5,6-DHT) and 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT) killed the parasites in vitro, using a fibroblast feeder layer cell culture system, in four to 48 hours at concentrations of 10(-5)-10(-7) M. The 5-OHDA, 6-OHDA, 5,6-DHT and 5,7-DHT were also effective in vivo when tested by intraperitoneal injection of infected mice.
(5) This feeder cell system is proposed as an in vitro model for epithelial wound healing.
(6) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
(7) This feeder layer technique is very simple and flexible and could have wide applicability.
(8) It turned out to require additional stimulation by hemopoietic feeder cells: by irradiated marrow cells and spleen cells if they possess megakaryocytes and platelets or by platelets from the blood.
(9) Keratinocytes were plated onto tissue culture dishes using one of three basic serum-free media protocols; a) with no feeder layer in keratinocyte growth medium (KGM); b) onto mitomycin C-treated 3T3 mouse embryo fibroblasts; or c) onto mitomycin C-treated dermal human fibroblasts.
(10) The alginate matrix permits efficient cloning in limited incubator space, without the use of a feeder layer, and with minimal amount of medium.
(11) Obliteration of the AVM was accomplished by therapeutic embolization with placement of coils or balloons in the feeder vessels.
(12) MCBFV in MCA on the feeder side was statistically significant higher in those patients with large AVM (greater than 4 cm) size (p less than 0.01).
(13) Usually it is not possible to cure DAVMs by embolization alone: the approach now used for the main feeders arising from branches of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries is inadequate.
(14) One hundred fifty feeder steers (mean body weight, 195 kg) were assigned to 1 of 3 transport groups and were deprived of feed and water (fasted) for 24 hours.
(15) The day of the experiment a microdialysis probe was inserted in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of the rats and dialysates were collected every 20 minutes while the light and the feeder were off.
(16) The application of argon blue-green laser treatment at 0.1 watt for 60 seconds at two adjacent points on a feeder vessel was found to give rise to permanent vascular occlusion without causing complications.
(17) Whereas the cells from one patient formed colonies in the absence of exogenous stimuli, the cells from others were dependent on the addition of feeder leukocytes plus IL 2.
(18) Control CFU-GMs were also inhibited when they were cultured over feeder layers containing patients' BM cells (P less than .001).
(19) Such are the employability benefits associated with a Cambridge education that increasing numbers are sending their children to the various “ feeder schools ” around the city to boost their chances of a successful application.
(20) In the flocks included in the necropsy survey, annual mortality among adult and feeder sheep was estimated to be three percent.
Seeder
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, sows or plants seed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Groups of 5-24 chicks in isolators were exposed to C. jejuni-contaminated water or colonized seeder chicks.
(2) Results of the examination of caecal contents from untreated control birds indicated that the challenge organism was successfully established in contact chicks via the seeder birds.
(3) Each group was challenged with Salmonella infantis through contact with infected seeder birds and numbers of salmonellae in the caecal contents were determined weekly.
(4) Headley could have been sentenced to death if convicted of the most serious charges – conspiracy to bomb public places in India and six counts of murdering US nationals in India – but Seeder said the death sentence was "off the table" if Headley continued to co-operate.
(5) A seeder bird technique was used to challenge experimental and control birds with Campylobacter jejuni biotype 2 (broiler origin).
(6) Lungworm-infected seeder calves were used on two 1.41 ha paddocks to ensure that groups of 11 susceptible trial calves would be exposed to heavy early season challenge with Dictyocaulus viviparus.
(7) These seeders are also hand held making them suitable for use in smaller fields.
(8) A total of 18 deaths occurred including 13 untreated contact birds, 3 Broilact-treated contact birds and 2 seeder birds.
(9) The individual-bird challenge test system appeared to yield a more precise measurement of protection than the seeder-bird system and indicated that trypticase soy broth is as effective as VL broth for anaerobic culture of the protective microflora.
(10) In each of the individual trials, birds exposed to coccidiosis via the feed had significantly (P is less than 0.5) higher incidence of light to severe histological lesions that those exposed via "seeder birds" or contaminated litter.
(11) Contamination of the pasture was established by experimentally infected seeder calves.
(12) The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre has developed a low-till seeder, ideal because soil scientists advocate not breaking the structure of the soil at the top as a way to improve water retention and reduce erosion.
(13) Lungworm-infected seeder calves were used on four 1.41 ha paddocks to ensure that groups of 11 calves would be exposed to a heavy challenge with Dictyocaulus viviparus.
(14) For her part, Ross describes herself as "a seeder, a builder" and seems to delight in her role as a patron of the arts, someone who can seek out talented individuals and make them an offer they can't refuse.
(15) Three seeder birds were placed in each group of 60 birds.
(16) "He has provided significant help to the United States and aided other countries," said Seeder.
(17) Statistical analysis with direct seeding (seeder birds; severe coccidial exposure) showed that feed levels of 84 and 102 ppm gave maximal improvement of weight gain and 4-week feed conversion, respectively.
(18) His attorney, Robert Seeder, said after the hearing that Headley's decision to talk was "a manifestation and example of his regret and remorse" and was not based solely on the fact he would avoid a possible death sentence.
(19) Randomly selected boxes of treated and untreated (control) chicks were taken to the laboratory and challenged with either Salmonella infantis or Salmonella enteritidis (PT4) using the seeder bird technique.
(20) Contamination of pens with Eimeria meleagrimitis, E. adenoeides, and E. gallopavonis was accomplished by the infected seeder bird technique.