(n.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(2) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(3) Infectious virus was recovered 3 years after infection from selected tissues of 12 of 17 CAEV(63)-infected goats and 11 of 18 CAEV(Co)-infected goats.
(4) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(5) Voluntary intake and nutritive value of diets selected by goats grazing a shrubland at Marin county, N.L., Mexico were determined.
(6) In the second study, CFA, TiterMax, Adjuvax and RAS were compared in rabbits, mice and goats.
(7) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(8) In order to obtain baseline information about Lewis antigen expression in human urothelium in order that changes during malignant transformation can be evaluated, urothelium from eight individuals of known erythrocyte Lewis types were stained by a Tween-modified indirect immunoperoxidase staining technique using goat antibodies directed toward the Lewis a and Lewis b determinants and mouse monoclonal antibodies directed toward the Lewis a determinant in serial dilutions.
(9) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(10) The antigen bound antibody was separated from the free antigen by the double antibody method using goat anti-rabbit IgG serum.
(11) Twenty-eight pregnant goats in midgestation were exposed to a bovine pathogenic strain of Brucella abortus to determine the histologic changes associated with infection.
(12) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(13) Mature Fasciola gigantica obtained from naturally infected cattle were surgically transferred into the gallbladders of six fluke-free goats.
(14) The Palestinian Bedouin family live in Az-Zayyem, inside Area C, farming goats and camels for milk.
(15) In the second experiment, 2 antisera to mouse NGF were given daily into the footpad for 11 or 12 d; control animals were given normal goat serum.
(16) Therefore, the hypothesis of a fetal sensori-neural hearing loss due to oxygen lack was tested in the following animal models: a) Adult cats to which feline red blood cells were infused thus causing a polycythemia similar to fetal conditions; b) Adult rats acclimated to altitude in a hypobaric chamber, inducing erythropoiesis with elevated hematocrit and hemoglobin; c) Neonatal guinea pigs and goats studied when they were less than 12 hours old so that the fetal compensatory mechanisms were still present.
(17) The goat and rabbit mouse epsilon chain-specific antisera were adsorbed on normal mouse serum.
(18) The OMI averaged 2.2 and 2.1% of body weight for sheep and goats, respectively (P = .08).
(19) The goat isolates were obtained from animals with various disease conditions including respiratory tract disorders, vulvovaginitis, and wart-like lesions on the eyelid.
(20) Cerebrocortical necrosis appears to be unusual in goats, compared to cattle and sheep, but it should be entertained in the differential diagnosis of caprine nervous diseases.
Tur
Definition:
(n.) The urus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservative treatment and TUR of the lesions had no effect on the symptoms.
(2) Combined treatment included optical (retrograde and antegrade) urethrotomy and transurethral electroresection (TUR) of scar tissues, combined with postoperative endourethral phonophoresis with lidase (64 units) and an antibiotic.
(3) Of these, 208 were considered evaluable for a review of the impact of transurethral resection (TUR) on the dissemination of disease.
(4) Non-transition zone cancers detectable at TUR are predominantly large tumors that are poorly differentiated and lack the clear cell histologic pattern.
(5) Intravesical pressure was studied in 20 patients during transurethral resection (TUR) of the prostate using the Iglesias resectoscope with continuous irrigation and suction.
(6) 4 children with anterior urethral valve were treated by TUR-Valve.
(7) The explanation of this phenomenon may be the tumour cells implantation during the TUR.
(8) The results of 532 transurethral electro-resections (TUR) are compared with 67 open prostatectomies performed over a period of 9 years.
(9) Intravesical instillation of Tokyo 172 strain Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) was performed in 96 patients with initial superficial bladder cancer (Ta and T1) after transurethral resection (TUR) of tumour as a prophylaxis against tumour recurrence.
(10) It is likely that acetone does not turly trigger an activation of prekallikrein but supports spontaneous activation by slowing down the control of the feedback reinforcement of this activation, by damaging inhibitors.
(11) The TUR value of nickel-stimulated cultures in nickel-sensitive atopic dermatitis patients tended to decrease in comparison to non-atopic nickel-sensitive patients.
(12) 80 of 89 cases attained satisfactory voiding parameters after radical TUR-P. Postoperative incontinence was not seen and in some cases incontinence was improved.
(13) After TUR both the speed and the amplitude of isometric detrusor contractions during the stop test increased.
(14) In the third group the histologic changes in the bladder wall after treatment with the laser or TUR were evaluated by cold-cup biopsy (31 lasered cases and 24 resected cases) and by resector loop biopsy (11 lasered cases and 11 resected cases) between 12 and 24 months after treatment, without significant differences in terms of fibrosis.
(15) The results emphasize the requirement of a careful and comprehensive investigation of the TUR-material by the pathologist, on the other hand they support the opinion of the occurrence of various types of carcinoma of the prostate gland with different morphogenesis and prognosis.
(16) They described Turness as a "uniquely talented journalist who has shattered more than one glass ceiling and doesn't take no for an answer".
(17) The residual lesion had disappeared with DMSO bladder instillations for 4 months (12X) without side effects after TUR.
(18) Eleven patients with cancer of the prostate and 10 patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) had thirteen parameters of coagulation evaluated before and after transurethral resection (TUR).
(19) The surgical procedure was performed as double TUR.
(20) Biopsies performed in areas post-laser therapy (31) and post-TUR (24), and with the resector loop in 22 cases, revealed no histologic difference between both groups (replacement fibrosis and elastic fibers).