(v. t.) A castrated animal; -- usually applied to a horse, but formerly used also of the human male.
(p. pr. a. & vb. n.) from Geld, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 5-year-old Thoroughbred gelding was examined because of a small axillary wound sustained 5 days earlier and had resulted in extensive subcutaneous emphysema.
(2) Experiment 1 was designed to determine the diurnal variation of glucose and two glucoregulatory hormones, insulin and cortisol, in four fasting geldings.
(3) Geldings from Cd-exposed living areas accumulated insignificantly more Cd in liver, kidneys and hair than mares.
(4) There were more male horses (stallions and geldings) than mares.
(5) This occurrence of problem behavior was not significantly different from the occurrence of these behavioral patterns in 46 geldings that had been castrated as stallions (over 3 years of age).
(6) The possibility of seasonal variation in the feedback effect of testosterone or oestradiol was investigated by giving replacement treatment to geldings for 2-3 weeks during breeding and non-breeding seasons.
(7) In the present paper, it is shown that: (1) this tumor contains glucocorticoid receptors, (2) its growth is also inhibited by treatment with dexamethasone (Dex), and (3) the growth rate of a cell line and several clones established from the tumor is negatively controlled by Dex 10(-7) M in culture medium containing 10% gelding serum.
(8) 1, semen was collected from 8 geldings every other day after castration until the number of spermatozoa per ejaculate was below 1% of the precastration value.
(9) Two-dimensional real-time echocardiographic examination of a 3-year-old Thoroughbred gelding with pleuropneumonia revealed an intact aneurysm of the right sinus of Valsalva, which was confirmed at postmortem examination.
(10) Uroperitoneum as a sequela to urethral calculus in an adult gelding was successfully managed by use of subischial urethrotomy and abdominal drainage.
(11) A case of colic in a Haflinger gelding is reported.
(12) Necropsy of a chronically lame 16-year-old thoroughbred gelding revealed granulomatous osteomyelitis and polyarthritis due to a widely disseminated infection by Micronema deletrix.
(13) Ciliates resembling Polymorphella ampulla (Dogiel, 1929) were found in large numbers in the crypts and lamina propria of the caecum and colon of a one-year-old Thoroughbred gelding that had shown recurring bouts of chronic diarrhoea and weight loss over a 5-month period.
(14) A fractured right supraglenoid tubercle in a 15-month-old Thoroughbred gelding was repaired by partial biceps brachii tenotomy, interfragmentary compression, and tension band wiring.
(15) Geldings were at a higher risk of developing sarcoids in comparison with stallions.
(16) The Ballarat-trained gelding started as a rank outsider yet made light of the 100-1 odds with a late move down the home straight, holding off the fast-finishing Max Dynamite, ridden by Frankie Dettori, by three-quarters of a length to secure victory.
(17) A well-circumscribed proliferative mass was protruding from the body of the mandible of a 4-year-old Appaloosa gelding.
(18) No significant sex difference was found between colts, geldings and fillies.
(19) A 16-year-old gelding was examined because of weight loss, inappetence, and intermittent fever of 2 months' duration.
(20) A 5-year-old Appaloosa gelding was presented with a history of intermittent multiple joint swelling, weight loss, and anemia.
Stallion
Definition:
(n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
Example Sentences:
(1) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
(2) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
(3) Similar to other seasonal breeders, it appears that stallions may possess an endogenous circannual rhythm in reproductive function that is subject to manipulation by altering the light:dark ratio, i.e., photoperiod.
(4) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(5) A 10-year-old Appaloosa stallion was referred for evaluation of colic.
(6) Ultrasonographic images of the accessory sex glands of 8 stallions were recorded immediately prior to sexual preparation, immediately after sexual preparation, and immediately after ejaculation.
(7) Hormonal effects of prolonged administration of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) were investigated in 7 fertile stallions in winter and summer.
(8) It was concluded, therefore, that hydrogen ion extenders depress fertilizing capacity of stallion spermatozoa immediately after extension and show little promise as semen extenders for short- or long-term storage of stallion semen.
(9) The spermatozoa in about 200 ejaculates from 36 stallions were examined to compare their survival time, motility and velocity before and after thawing.
(10) Repeated bacteriological examinations need to be undertaken before it can be concluded that a stallion is free of infection.
(11) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(12) It is concluded that intratesticular testosterone increases with age, is related in a positive manner to quantitative rates of sperm production, and can account for some of the differences in sperm production among individual stallions within a single breeding season.
(13) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
(14) Only in the oldest stallion (32 years) was there a significant lowering of fertility.
(15) Among 29 offspring in two stallion families there was evidence for one recombinant.
(16) Stallions may also harbor EAV in the genital tract and transmit the virus to mares during coitus.
(17) In the bull and ram, nucleolytic enzymes were found to be secreted by the seminal vesicles but in the boar, rabbit and stallion they originate mostly from the epididymis.
(18) The application of a long-day photoperiod (16 hours light:8 hours dark) in December, following 20 weeks of short days (8 hours light:16 hours dark), was effective in hastening the seasonal sexual recrudescence of stallions but was not effective in prolonging the interval of heightened reproductive capacity.
(19) A Thoroughbred stallion with erectile dysfunction following paraphimosis was managed to allow consistent ejaculation.
(20) Transmission of EAV infection by long-term carrier stallions would appear to occur solely by the venereal route.