(a.) Reproducing by spontaneous fission. See Fission.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, that might mean five more years of pain, though I suspect in these fissiparous times it won’t last so long.
(2) Groping for British emblems to bind together an ever more diverse and fissiparous society, politicians struggle to find cultural and emotional social glue.
(3) But Clegg must be thinking very carefully about his options – the Liberals have a terribly fissiparous history.
(4) The mortality and fissiparity frequency of the subjects were studied.
(5) At doses where an antioxidant effect prevails, fissiparity is stimulated.
(6) The toxicity of selenium (Na2SeO3) and mercury (HgCl2) was determined by using a freshwater planarian which is particularly sensitive to pollution, and belongs to a fissiparous breed of Dugesia gonocephala.
Multiparous
Definition:
(a.) Producing many, or more than one, at a birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were 49% primiparous and 51% multiparous women.
(2) The incidence of grand multiparity was only 4.7%; however, 25% were less than 30 years old.
(3) Ninety multiparous Holstein cows were used to determine the effect of ration energy density and bST on lactation performance and whole body chemical composition.
(4) The problem of a pregnancy with a prior cesarean section is an ever-increasing one and, in our practice, approximately 25% of multiparous patients have had a prior cesarean delivery.
(5) Fewer multiparous cows given two injections 14 d apart and inseminated after estrus conceived than did cows given two injections and a progesterone intravaginal coil inserted 8 d after the first injection (42 vs. 66%).
(6) An interaction was found between race and maternal age and between multiparity and type of hospital of birth.
(7) An MLC reaction inhibiting serum from a grand-multiparous woman (16 successful pregnancies) is described.
(8) The increased incidence of gallstones in multiparous women may be related to hormonal effects on the gallbladder and its contractility.
(9) The cessation of regular cyclicity during aging occurred significantly (p less than 0.01) earlier in virgin than multiparous rats.
(10) Two cytotoxic human-human hybridoma IgM antibodies to HLA were generated by EBV transformation of PBMC from multiparous women and fusion of EBV transformed cells with the human fusion partners KR4 or KR12.
(11) It has previously been shown that J.H., a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-Dw2 homozygous multiparous woman, fails to respond in a mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) to her Dw1 homozygous husband W.H., and that her T cells suppress the responses of HLA matched responders to W.H.
(12) The litter sizes of 8- to 10-mo-old primiparous females were not different from those of multiparous rats.
(13) Multiparity and twin pregnancies are predisposing factors.
(14) In the first-litter sows lower serum levels were found for all three Ig classes as compared to multiparous sows.
(15) The majority of patients are multipare between 28 and 47 years old.
(16) Both patients are elderly multiparous females with long-standing peripheral venous disease and a history of previous gynaecologic surgery.
(17) Adherence inhibition was not observed when PC from tumor-immunized or multiparous mice were exposed to antigen extracts from adult syngeneic livers or kidneys.
(18) Logistic regression analyses of the multiparous and nulliparous populations showed independent sets of significant (p less than or equal to 0.05) risk variables.
(19) Indications were multiparity, previous caesarean section and socioeconomic reasons.
(20) Sixty percent of the mothers smoked and 50% had other identifiable risk factors for preterm delivery; 20% of the multiparous patients had previously experienced a perinatal death, preterm delivery or had a baby with intra-uterine growth retardation.