(n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
(n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.
Example Sentences:
(1) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
(2) Group-2 mares (n = 32) were given a single dose of progesterone (625 mg, IM) in sesame oil.
(3) Increased concentrations of LH in ovariectomized mares during Periods 3 and 4 were associated with well defined pulsatile profiles.
(4) The affected bowel was replaced through the laceration, and the vaginal defects were sutured with the mares standing, utilizing epidural anesthesia.
(5) Progesterone levels declined after Day 18 of the cycle in cycling mares, whereas they increased in the pregnant mares.
(6) There was, however, no difference in the overall elimination rate constant between foals and mares.
(7) However, when hypoxia occurred during colic surgery in the last 60 days of pregnancy, the mares either aborted or delivered severely compromised foals that did not survive.
(8) Mares may suffer from a variety of genital injuries including vulval separations, vaginal lacerations and, less commonly, vaginal rupture.
(9) Other than a brief increase (P less than .05) in PRL secretion in mares treated with E2, secretion of PRL did not differ (P greater than .1) among groups.
(10) Danazol was found to inhibit multiple enzymes of steroidogenesis directly in the pregnant mare serum (PMS)-treated hamster ovary and the rat testis and adrenal in vitro.
(11) An intra-abdominal abscess was diagnosed in a 7-year-old mare by palpation per rectum and from abnormal clinicopathologic findings.
(12) We have observed pinealitis in a mare with equine recurrent uveitis.
(13) In Experiment 1 pregnant mare's serum (PMS) was injected sc in doses of 25 IU between 8 and 9 A.M. on Day 0.
(14) Nine Przewalski's horse embryos were transferred surgically, and 2 non-surgically, to domestic Welsh-type pony mares.
(15) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
(16) A sandwich enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) using a microtiter plate was developed.
(17) Plasma concentrations of estrogens, gestagens, cortisol (F), 13, 14-dihydro, 15-keto PGF2 alpha (PGFM) and pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) in 10 Thoroughbred mares were measured for a 11-month pregnancy period.
(18) In mares in Group P + B there was no correlation between age and the values measured.
(19) The LH response to GnRH agonist (area under curve) was similar among groups at d 0 but was greater (P less than .05) for mares in group 3 on d 7 and 14 and groups 2 and 3 on d 21 than for controls.
(20) Asked if a Weston-super-Mare dairy farmer's claim that fewer than 100 been killed so far was accurate, a spokesman at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), would not confirm or deny the figure.
Saturn
Definition:
(n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time.
(n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.
(n.) The metal lead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our results indicated that Saturn's magnetic field was being dragged round Enceladus in a way that suggested it had an atmosphere."
(2) A linear accelerator (Saturne CGR 20) was utilized to deliver 15-20 Gy to the tumor volume.
(3) Six wore daily wear soft contact lenses, two wore extended-wear soft contact lenses, one wore a polymethylmethacrylate hard contact lens, one wore a gas-permeable hard contact lens, and one wore a Saturn lens (combined hard and soft lens).
(4) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(5) delta-Aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a heme precursor accumulated in acute intermittent porphyria and saturnism, undergoes autoxidation leading to ammonium ion and probably the corresponding alpha-ketoaldehyde.
(6) Some of the useful clinical radiation characteristics required for treatment planning using the 6,9,13,17, and 20 Me V scanning electron beams obtainable in a CGR Therac-20 Me V Saturne linear accelerator are outlined.
(7) A crew of robots and humans – headed by a captain named Pirx – is sent out into space to launch two satellites into Saturn’s rings.
(8) They have sent back images of Saturn's rings, Jupiter's red spot and sulphur volcanoes on its moons Europa and Io, and of "winter" on Uranus.
(9) For example, the Saturn project in Germany uses sensor-based technologies for sorting and recovery of nonferrous metals.
(10) In this respect, Saturn's satellite Titan is exemplary.
(11) Similar modules, also launched using reusable boosters, would remain in Earth’s orbit to refuel the interplanetary craft to be able to use multiple trips, including to other parts of the solar system such as Enceladus, a moon of Saturn on which Nasa’s Cassini mission recently found evidence of a polar subsurface water ocean that could harbor life.
(12) The effect of pure preparation of ordram, fosalon, DDT, methoxychlorine, hydrel, dihydrel, 2,4-D, 2M-4C and of technical preparations of saturn, linuron, ronstar and keltan on the membrane functions (respiration and motility) of Azospirillum brasilense and Chromatium minutissimum cells and on malate and NADH oxidation by the isolated membranes of Micrococcus lysodeikticus was investigated.
(13) Radiation therapy using a Rokus-M installation or a Saturn linear accelerator was performed in 26 cases, chemoradiation treatment--14 and cytostatic therapy alone--in 79 patients.
(14) Overall, the SoftPerm lens is a vast improvement over the Saturn II and is a reasonable means of correction of irregular astigmatism.
(15) It is hoped that this report will draw the attention of the practising physician and Preventive Medicine Departments to this unusual cause of saturnism.
(16) I still remember reading The Rings of Saturn for the first time.
(17) A sequence of nonrigid and rigid percepts (both 2-D and 3-D) precedes this Saturn-like configuration.
(18) Our results suggest that alcohol influences the lead metabolism and that the usual drinkers constitute a risk population for saturnism.
(19) The authors have developed a method for implantation of the Saturn-type intraocular lens (IOL), designed by Krasnov and Pivovarov, during a simultaneous cataract extraction with trabeculectomy.
(20) In all the patients manifested disturbances in the microcirculatory bed of the bulbar conjunctiva are revealed, the general character being identical at saturnism and TEL-intoxication.