(n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
(n.) A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.
(a.) Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.
(a.) Belonging to an individual of the female sex; characteristic of woman; feminine; as, female tenderness.
(a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(2) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
(3) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(4) Determination of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) levels in the peripubertal female rats revealed that plasma LH was increased transiently immediately after NPY administration.
(5) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(6) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
(7) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(8) Groups of inbred female mice of strains CBA or C3H were infected genitally with a pathogenic human strain of Chlamydia trachomatis (N.I.1, serovar F) known to produce salpingitis and infertility in mice.
(9) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(10) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(11) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(12) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(13) The serum ACE activity showed no significant difference between male and female in the control or sarcoidosis groups.
(14) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(15) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
(16) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(17) Female littermates injected with 0.15 M NaCl served as controls.
(18) In both cases, female cells presented more nucleoli than the respective male cells.
(19) The high concentrations of gonadotropins present in immature female rats by the end of the second week of life were suppressed by treatment with an antagonist against luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH-A; Org.
(20) The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the signaling behaviors of female Long-Evans rats varies over the estrous cycle.
Neuter
Definition:
(a.) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
(a.) Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.
(a.) Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
(a.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
(n.) A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.
(n.) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
(n.) An intransitive verb.
(n.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Monti introduced balanced budgets into the Italian constitution, effectively neutering its provisions for social need's precedence over market imperatives.
(2) And, hey, until Friday morning, most surveillance reform advocates were worried about the Senate ramming through the currently neutered version of the USA Freedom Act as its fig leaf of reform, before going back to business as usual and proposing bills that will give the NSA more power – not less.
(3) Treatment varies with the type of aggressive behavior but may include neutering, desensitization and counter-conditioning techniques, punishment, drug therapy, and management changes.
(4) I know it is regarded as an act of faith by some that all print journalists should be baying for BBC blood, wanting it neutered or drastically reduced.
(5) But also, how cool that you are all talking about that.’” The film has opened to mainly negative reviews, with the Guardian’s Henry Barnes feeling that the compromises Emmerich has made “ leave Stonewall feeling neutered ” while Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson called it “ alarmingly clunky ”.
(6) The White House sent draft legislative wording to the House and Senate leaders on Saturday evening, which authorised actions designed only to neuter the threat of chemical weapons or to prevent their proliferation.
(7) Direct Action climate scheme has been 'neutered', says Nick Xenophon Read more But almost all analysis suggests it would be impossible for Direct Action to meet the target the government has set for 2030 – a fall of between 26% and 28% compared with 2005 levels.
(8) An 8-year-old neutered male cat with a history of intermittent collapse and dyspnea was evaluated.
(9) This would pave the way for a neutered parliament in which the opposition could never take control.
(10) For dogs, younger dogs and male dogs were less likely to have been neutered than older dogs and female dogs.
(11) And this is the most pessimistic of all his ideas: that three decades of neoliberalism have got into people's consciousness and infected the way young people respond to poverty just as they have neutered the way politicians express themselves.
(12) But it's difficult to see how anything could neuter the weight of evidence relating to the joint UK-Libyan rendition operations of 2004: there's just so much of it.
(13) The effects of age, sex, and neutering on the prevalence of feline intestinal parasitism were evaluated by fecal examination of 1,294 cats admitted to the University of Missouri Veterinary Teaching Hospital for the 3-year period, 1974 to 1976.
(14) Opposition parties said the new rules raised serious questions about police accountability because they leave the PIRC neutered when its authority to compel officers to give interviews could be needed most.
(15) Sera from 25 males (18 intact, 7 neutered) and 14 females (7 intact, 7 spayed) were assayed.
(16) Castration or ovariectomy of Cu-deficient rats had little effect on CH or the other parameters associated with Cu deficiency, and supplementation of the neutered animals with estrogen or testosterone was similarly without effect.
(17) For both dogs and cats, infection rates were generally higher in males than in females and in those that were sexually intact, compared with those that were neutered.
(18) • The neutering of a national not-for-profit pension scheme launching in October that was supposed to benefit millions of low-paid and temporary workers.
(19) It is worth noting, for example, that around 60% of the electorate voted for parties that explicitly promised to abolish or neuter Duncan Smith’s unpopular bedroom tax, and the squeezed middle are yet to feel the impact of potential further cuts to tax credits and child benefit.
(20) In situations where human preference is most likely to occur, neutering risk is also high.