(n. pl.) The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Example Sentences:
(1) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
(2) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(3) A patient with previously treated follicular carcinoma of the thyroid developed Graves' disease with a high titre of thyroid-stimulating antibodies (TSAb).
(4) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(5) Superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and its concentration were measured in thyroid tissues obtained from patients with Graves' disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, differentiated thyroid cancer, and endemic goiter (before and after iodine supplementation) as well as in normal thyroid tissue (paranodular tissue) from patients with follicular adenomas.
(6) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(7) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(8) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(9) On the other hand, immunofluorescence in anterior pituitary cells was faint and detected in only 2 of 28 patients with Graves' disease (7.1%) after absorption of their sera with rat liver aceton powder.
(10) In conclusion, not only TBII but also T3 release-stimulating antibodies may occur in a minority of patients with long-term remission of Graves' hyperthyroidism.
(11) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
(12) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(13) Thirty-eight bodies have been removed from the mass graves, but DNA tests have shown that none is that of a missing student.
(14) Posterior synechiae, pupil deformations, grave uveitis with hypotonia of 4-10 mm Hg are rapidly developing.
(15) Displacement of [125I]TSH bound to fat cell membranes by both Graves' Ig and unlabeled TSH were time and temperature dependent, with similar dissociation curves, suggesting a specific binding of Graves' Ig to the membrane sites related to the TSH receptor in the fat cells.
(16) We have obtained sera from 42 patients with active Graves' disease and no known connective tissue disorders.
(17) A total of 5.8% abnormalities were found including nodular disease, thyroiditis, Graves' disease, hypothyroidism, simple goiter, and iatrogenic hyperthyroidism.
(18) LATS was measured with the double isotope technique in IgG serum concentrates of 23 patients with Graves' disease before treatment and of 18 patients during treatment with carbimazole and triiodothyronine.
(19) To elucidate whether insulin-induced hypoglycemia enhances the release of beta-endorphin in man, plasma extracts obtained from healthy subjects and patients with Graves' disease before and 45 min after insulin injection were subjected to gel chromatography, and the fractions obtained were measured by RIA for beta-endorphin.
(20) From the findings of abnormalities in intrathyroidal T cell subsets, we suggest that the decrease in the function of suppressor T cells within the thyroids of Graves' disease patients may be due to a decrease in CD4+2H4+ cells within thyroid tissue.
Tallow
Definition:
(n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
(n.) The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
(v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.
(v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(2) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(3) Free fatty acids from both coconut and corn oils reduced diet palatability and intake; those from tallow and coconut oil markedly interfered (in vitro) with rennet clotting of milk replacers.
(4) In one experiment, finisher diets containing 2.5, 5.0, or 10.0% of added corn oil (CO), poultry oil (PO), tallow (T), or a commercial hydrolyzed animal-vegetable fat blend (HB) were fed.
(5) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
(6) Five crossbred beef steers (329 kg) were used in a 5 x 5 Latin square experiment with 14-d periods to determine the effects of supplementation with high-nitrogen (N) feeds alone or mixed with tallow on sites of digestion with a basal diet of bermudagrass hay.
(7) The solutions included those containing Dymed (polyaminopropyl biguanide, 0.00005%), chlorhexidine (0.005%), Polyquad (0.001%), chlorhexidine (0.005%) and thimerosal (BP, 0.001%), thimerosal (BP, 0.002%) and Tris(2-hydroxyethyl) tallow ammonium chloride (0.013%), and a solution preserved with 115 ppm benzalkonium chloride (BAK).
(8) In Experiment 1, a wheat-soy diet supplemented with sunflower oil was found to improve significantly (P less than .05) performance characteristics and reduce the mortality attributed to SDS as compared with the same diet supplemented with tallow.
(9) Thus, dietary beef and soy protein isolate had similar effects on cholesterol concentrations in plasma, LDL, HDL and organs, whether pigs consumed soybean oil or beef tallow as a major fat source.
(10) Each group of rats were pair-fed a nutritional adequate liquid diet containing either corn oil (CF) or tallow (TF) as fat as well as protein and carbohydrate.
(11) The dietary fats employed in these studies included corn oil, Tower rapeseed oil (RSO), partially hydrogenated soybean oil (SBO), and tallow.
(12) Growing rats were fed a nonfat dry milk supplemented with two levels of soy-bean oil (SBO) and tallow (T) such that either 30% or 50% of total dietary calories came from fat.
(13) Furthermore, the lung hydroxyproline content in bleomycin-treated animals was less with the beef tallow diet compared with standard lab feed (p less than 0.05).
(14) Dietary cholesterol supplementation elevated the cholesterol concentration in liver in the order: linseed oil greater than beef tallow greater than fish oil (8.6-, 5.5-, 2.6-fold, respectively).
(15) Small White turkeys were fed 10% dietary rapeseed oil or animal tallow to 6, 12 or 18 weeks of age.
(16) The response to excess dietary vit A was not influenced by the type of dietary lipid (corn oil, tallow, or poultry oil).
(17) Rats were fed three different concentrations of dietary linoleate as beef tallow, hydrogenated vegetable fat, or corn oil.
(18) Feeding tallow or the SBSS:tallow blend improved (P less than .05) feed efficiency and estimated dietary NE compared to control.
(19) The increased intake of fat due to feeding tallow caused both increased fat metabolism and fat excretion as based on chromic oxide estimates of digestibility.
(20) At all levels of fat supplementation, the high linoleate safflower oil consistently resulted in a 50% lower rate of fatty acid biosynthesis than did comparable levels of tallow or palmitate.