(n.) A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
(n.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 6-month-old Appaloosa colt had a deviation of the premaxilla and nasal septum as well as a dorsal hump of the nasal bone and maxillomandibular malocclusion.
(2) One of the most annoying complications of rhinoplasty is the supra-tip hump (pollybeak).
(3) The visible rib humps from 30 scoliotic patients were measured in the form of plotted curves by a group of paramedical and medical staffs.
(4) (3) The nucleus centralis lateralis receives fibers from most parts of the nucleus lateralis including the "dorsolateral hump".
(5) After exposure to fast neutrons the yield of translocations follows a humped curve with a maximum of chromosome exchanges after exposure to 100 rad.
(6) The medialmost D0 projects onto the dorsolateral hump; D1 projects more laterally onto the main, magnocellular part of the ND, and D2 projects ventrally onto the parvicellular subdivision of the ND.
(7) During the restitution of S2, an early biphasic upward hump was present at short DIs.
(8) The corticonuclear fibers to the dorsolateral hump and lateral nucleus originate from the medial and lateral portions of the lateral cortex, respectively.
(9) Successively: correction of the dorsum (resection of the bony hump) with incorrect nasofrontal angle, residual hump, "saddle nose"; lateral osteotomy and bony step; transversal and paramedian osteotomy with possibility of "open roof" so as residual deviation.
(10) To test the hypothesis that a curve with two peak values (double hump) recorded by laser Doppler flowmetry over the skin of the lower limb during postocclusive hyperaemia reflects pathological vascular resistance in the aortoiliac segment.
(11) An ongoing controversy is whether the I gamma hump component triggers calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum or arises as a consequence of the release.
(12) A prospective study to investigate changes in the rib hump or rib deformity after correction of the lateral curvature in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is reported.
(13) A small step or hump nearly coincident with S1 was observed in 10 of these 16 patients.
(14) Rabbits with experimental acute serum sickness (AcSS: Group I) had focal proliferative and exudative glomerulonephritis with immune deposits, scattered subepithelial electron-dense deposits (humps), mild and transient proteinuria, normal creatinine clearance and slightly increased production of IL-1 and TNF from isolated glomeruli.
(15) In 7 normal healthy Egyptian one-humped camels aged 3-4 years, the relationships were studied between enzyme activities of lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), creatine phosphokinase (CPK), alkaline phosphatase (ALP), acid phosphatase (ACP), and cholonesterase (CHE) of serum and organs as well as between ACP and ALP and between LDH and CPK.
(16) This fused unit is permanently altered when the hump is removed.
(17) Adipocytes in the UMN and HUMP also became more numerous relative to those in the other depots following both moderate and strenuous exercise.
(18) The dose-response curves were superficially the same shape, with a peak yield of cells containing a multivalent at 4 Gy, although only in the pachytene data was there any statistically significant hump.
(19) A quantitative analysis of Ca2+ and current signals during the hump suggested that the luminal membrane contained high densities of K(+)- and Cl(-)-selective channels, roughly 10 times higher than those found in the basolateral domain.
(20) Only the rib hump of thoracic and thoracolumbar are correlated with evolutivity.
Zebu
Definition:
(n.) A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a large, prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common ox to that of a large mastiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) Severe pathological changes were observed in the adrenal and thyroid glands of Zebu (Bos indicus) heifers infected with Trypanosoma congolense.
(2) Serum samples from infected and non-infected Zebu cattle and samples from Friesian cattle with experimental infections were exmained for the presence of trypanosomal antibodies.
(3) Evidence at present available suggests that trypanotolerant cattle are more likely to be an economic alternative to drug-treated zebu at higher rather than lower challenge levels.
(4) Zebu bulls chronically infected with Trypanosoma vivax and T. congolense were treated at the 12th week post-infection with novidium and slaughtered at different times after treatment to determine histological evidence of healing of the genital lesions.
(5) Zebu oxen had higher pvCO2 and FFA and lower pH, pvO2 and lactate in response to exercise.
(6) 2000 males and females of Glossina palpalis gambiensis were released in the presence of a Zebu treated with flumethrin pour-on in a fly proof stable.
(7) The condition was more prevalent in zebu-Friesian crosses than the local breeds.
(8) In April, May, June, and September, the probability that A. americanum detaching from cattle would drop into a quadrat presumed to be habitable for ticks was significantly lower for Zebu cattle (4.0-29.9%) than for British (64.9-72.6%) or Zebu-British (48.1-78.7%) cattle.
(9) Brown goats originating from Zaria and areas north of it, and Friesian-zebu calves from the Shika Agricultural Research Station, were uniformly and highly susceptible to the disease.
(10) A comparative study of haematological changes subsequent to Trypanosoma vivax and Trypanosoma congolense infections was carried out using 24 Zebu bulls during a period of 12 weeks.
(11) In various respiratory areas of the mucosa of the nasal conchae of the zebu (Bos indicus) there is a quantitative variation of goblet cells.
(12) N'Dama cattle showed a significantly lower prevalence of strongyle infection, as measured by faecal egg output, than F1 (P < 0.01) and Zebu (P < 0.001) cattle.
(13) The Zebu proved to be trypanosensitive with high parasitemia, pronounced anemia and died or were drug treated in extremis.
(14) Total numbers of mature female ticks carried from either type of infestation were significantly lower (P less than 0.01) on zebu than on British calves.
(15) Blood samples were obtained from 70 healthy gobra zebu from three different farms each one with a different feed (natural pasture, concentrates and groundnut hay) to exhibit the influence of type of feeding.
(16) The morphological events occurring in the Brazilian Nelore zebu testis from 3 to 18 months of age are described.
(17) In yak, zebu and in hybrids (yak x cattle, zebu x cattle) a new AMY-1 allelic variant (AMY-1D) has been found using the same method.
(18) Boran cows weighed an average of 70.8 kg more (P less than .01) than Zebu cows.
(19) Beef fattening experiments were undertaken on the Lilonge Plain with Malawi zebu (Mz) and Friesian X Malawi zebu (F X Mz) steers.
(20) The prevalence of bovine anaplasmosis was studied in 320 Zebu cattle randomly selected from three regions of Uganda: (Central, Southwestern and Northwestern) using dot-ELISA, Western immunoblotting, rapid card agglutination test (RCAT), capillary tube agglutination test (CAT), complement fixation test (CFT), and parasitological techniques.