(n.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The experiments showed basic possibilities to perform rapid estimation (for at least 2 days) of drug efficacy in experimental glanders and melioidosis in golden hamsters.
(2) Membrane preparations were derived from the spheroplasts of glanders and melioidosis causative agents.
(3) The results of the in vitro studies showed that most of the antibiotics were not active against the glanders causative agent, except for polymyxin M, levomycetin and their combination.
(4) Among the four studied strains, the causative agent of glanders was the least resistant to the chemotherapeutic drugs.
(5) Discussed are coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, chauffeurs' knee, glanders, caisson disease, and others.
(6) A dot enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dot ELISA) was developed for diagnosis of glanders in equines.
(7) Double immunodiffusion in gel test was used to determine the antigenic composition of the preparations of membranes isolated from the lysozyme spheroplasts of glanders (strain No.
(8) Of the antibiotics studied penicillin was more useful for obtaining melioidosis spheroplasts and ampicillin--for glanders spheroplasts.
(9) The rapid method developed by the authors was recommended for the use in primary estimation of the efficacy of new drugs in the treatment of tularemia, glanders and melioidosis.
(10) The authors examined the ultrastructure of the causative agents of glanders and melio idosis.
(11) Sensitivity of the glanders causative agent to 20 antibiotics representing different groups is described.
(12) A study of antimembrane sera in the agglutination and immunofluorescence tests demonstrated a heterogeneity of the glanders and melioidosis strains under study by the membrane thermolabile antigen.
(13) Spheroplasts were obtained from the causative agents of glanders and melioidosis under the effect of lysozyme and antibiotics.
(14) In the capacity of an inducing agent lysozyme was effective in high concentration only (0.4%); preliminary washing and incubation in sucrose were necessary to obtain glanders spheroplasts.
Strangles
Definition:
(n.) A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assay was developed using serum antibodies collected from horses convalescing from strangles.
(2) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(3) But I just felt like strangling him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest America’s most segregated city: the young black voters of Milwaukee There was the barber in Milwaukee, a city reeling from a succession of police shootings of black men, offended by Trump’s claim African Americans like him have “nothing to lose”.
(4) Look,” taking off her headscarf and exposing her neck, “they strangled me with a rope.
(5) We just want to do that in a low-carbon way, we’ve always said that.” Opposing all new runway construction risks binding the hands of the Liberal Democrats and strangling growth in the regions, activists were told during the debate.
(6) Three were shot, two were strangled, one was stabbed and one was killed through 15 blunt-force trauma injuries.
(7) Across the Pacific, the subtle, unremitting first impacts of the climate crisis are already strangling lives.
(8) They are strangling democracy; using their enormous wealth and power of influence to disseminate confusion about climate change, and prevent our leaders from taking action.
(9) The Abbott government has done another deal on the side to strangle the wind industry with unfair regulations, which don’t apply to industries with genuine health impacts, like coal and gas,” said the Greens deputy leader, Larissa Waters.
(10) Quite what Mourinho screamed into the pitchside microphone at the final whistle is unclear – the Portuguese claimed that he was singing – but there is no escaping the fact that Chelsea made hard work of what could have been a routine win and that there is a vulnerability about them defensively that is hard to reconcile with the team that strangled the life out of opponents last season.
(11) It is trade union members that would pay with their jobs for a Tory government that would cut immediately and strangle the economic recovery at birth.
(12) In Herbert Ross's Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), based on the Terence Rattigan stage play, he won hearts as well as minds with a tender performance as the shy schoolmaster who falls in love with Petula Clark, and in 1972 he gave an extraordinary turn in a cult movie rarely revived now, Peter Medak's The Ruling Class, in which he played a young man who succeeds to an earldom after the ageing incumbent dies in an auto-erotic strangling incident, and reveals that he believes himself to be Jesus Christ.
(13) We suggest that XPRP potentiates the damage of the secretory epithelium made by CCR, by strangling the posterior (long ciliary) blood supply of the ciliary body.
(14) The paper also projects the mentality of perpetrators who, after strangling their victims, tried to hide the crime by disposing of the dead bodies by burning, burying, hanging, throwing them into water, or concealing them in distant places in most of the cases.
(15) For example, it's fashionable to continually bash the Taliban regarding women, especially when a massive Western army has invaded, but remain silent over women who suffer under Western foreign policies (I posted a link of a young Syrian woman being strangled in public, but it was deleted instantly).
(16) '; I don't understand who invented that thing, 'R-Patz', I want to strangle them.
(17) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
(18) It found they were more confident than last year, but also rather worried about regulation strangling their firms, and the danger posed by high government debt levels.
(19) One account from Mabhouh's brother suggested he had been strangled and electrocuted.
(20) Pickles said: "If you want to rebuild a fragile national economy, you don't strangle business with red tape and let bloated regional quangos make all the decisions."