(n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
(a.) Alt. of Malayan
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).
(2) Women with little or no education, rural residents, and those of Malay ethnicity are found to give less reliable data.
(3) While 88.9% of the Malay infants were breast-fed, only 69.7% of the Indian infants and 42.3% of the Chinese infants were breast-fed.
(4) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
(5) G6PD deficiency is common in all three ethnic groups (Malays, Chinese, and Indians) in Malaysia and screening is recommended.
(6) Racially the Malay drug abusers had the highest exposure rate (54.2%).
(7) There were no statistically significant differences in the immune status by sex and by ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays and Indians).
(8) There was a tendency for women in the 2nd group who failed to return within 6 weeks for interval sterilization to be Moslem Malays, to have a nuclear family, and to have 1 or no sons.
(9) Age-adjusted incidence rates among Chinese males and females were 17·3 and 7·3 per 100,000; among Malay males and females, the rates were 2·5 and 0·3 and among Indian males, 1·1.
(10) 90.9% of these were from Chinese and none from Malay patients.
(11) Most patients (76) were of Malay descent, while 52 patients were Chinese, and two came from elsewhere.
(12) The typical breast feeding mother was more likely to be a Malay, with lower family income and residing in the rural area.
(13) Almost 20% reacted positively at dilutions of 1:64 or higher and eight among the Orang Asli and Malays gave the highest titres of 1:256.
(14) Genetic distance analyses by both cluster and principal components models were performed between Koreans and eight other populations (Koreans in China, Japanese, Han Chinese, Mongolians, Zhuangs, Malays, Javanese, and Soviet Asians) on the basis of 47 alleles controlled by 15 polymorphic loci.
(15) It was also determined that Malay women were more likely to return to the clinic than Chinese or Indians and Pakistanis.
(16) National data show that the perinatal mortality amongst the Malays is higher than that of the Chinese but less than that of the Indians.
(17) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(18) This was an 8-mth-old Malay boy who was clinically diagnosed to have stage I Wilms' tumor.
(19) All the cases were Malays and most of the accidents occurred before the Hari Raya Idilfitri festive seasons.
(20) The results did not support an association between ISLE and acetylator status: the frequencies of slow acetylators in the ISLE patients who were Malaysian Chinese and Malay were 13 and 38% respectively.
Malayan
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.
(n.) The Malay language.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Phillipine rats (R. rattus mindanensis) the pair was subtelocentric with C-bands, but in Malayan black rats (R. rattus diardii) it was usually acrocentric with C-bands.
(2) During 1982-1990, a longitudinal observation on prevalence trend of malayan filariasis has been made in endemic areas with An.
(3) The contribution of disseminated fibrin clot formation to the pathogenesis of canine endotoxin shock was explored in control dogs and in those defibrinated with a purified fraction of Malayan pit viper venom.
(4) Only 68% of patients with Bancroftian filariasis but 90% of those with Malayan filariasis reacted to D. immitis FST antigen.
(5) The effects of unrefined equine antivenom and antithrombin III (AT-III) concentrate on the coagulopathy induced by systemic envenomation by Malayan pit viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma; MPV) venom were investigated in a rat model.
(6) Animals depleted of fibrinogen by treatment with Malayan pit viper venom were compared with untreated rabbits immediately and at 1 and 24 h after injury.
(7) Venom and oropharyngeal swabs from freshly captured Malayan pit vipers (Calloselasma rhodostoma) in southern Thailand and captive specimens in England were cultured aerobically and anaerobically to identify the bacterial flora which might contaminate wounds inflicted by bites of this species.
(8) He was the driving force behind the creation of the People’s Action party (PAP) in 1954, including within it people sympathetic to the communist insurgency, then at its height in the Malayan peninsular.
(9) This investigation was undertaken to establish the gross and ultrastructural organization of the photoreceptors and retina in the Malayan tree shrew (Tupaia glis).
(10) In a region of endemic Malayan filariasis, with a population of 67,778 and mf rate of 3.82-4.36%, treatment with DEC-medicated salt to a dosage of 3.2 g DEC per person was administered for 2 months.
(11) The effects of five Thai snake venoms--Malayan pit viper--MPV (Ancistrodon rhodostoma); Russell's viper--RVV (Vipera russelli); cobra--CV (Naja naja); king cobra--KCV (Naja hannah) and banded krait--BKV (Bungarus fasciatus)--on blood coagulation fibrinolysis and platelet aggregation were studied.
(12) A few years later, colonial officials in Kenya were urged not to follow the Malayan example: "It is better for too much, rather than too little, to be sent home – the wholesale destruction, as in Malaya, should not be repeated."
(13) Photograph: AP While unification made sense to the moderate majority of Singaporeans and Malayans, it soon ran into problems.
(14) The Malayan krait (Bungarus candidus) was confused with B. fasciatus in 5 cases and B. fasciatus antivenom was used inappropriately.
(15) stretches along the coast of the Pacific embracing the Indo-Malayan and Holarctic faunistic provinces.
(16) Chinese men had significantly more diverticular disease than Malayan men (P less than 0.01) and Indian men (P less than 0.02).
(17) The rural development programme of the Thai Government also played another important role in the reduction in the prevalence of malayan filariasis in this area.
(18) Ancylostoma malayanum was recorded from a Malayan Sunbear, Helarctos malayanus, in Nakorn Sri Thammarat Province, Southern Thailand.
(19) Bleeding following bites by the Malayan Pit Viper can either be local or systemic.
(20) Three hydrolases from the crude venom of the Malayan pit viper (Akistrodon rhodostoma) can be differentiated.