(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.
Stallion
Definition:
(n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
Example Sentences:
(1) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
(2) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
(3) Similar to other seasonal breeders, it appears that stallions may possess an endogenous circannual rhythm in reproductive function that is subject to manipulation by altering the light:dark ratio, i.e., photoperiod.
(4) It's so magnificent, like the swishing mane of a thoroughbred stallion … Too late, snip snip, off it comes.
(5) A 10-year-old Appaloosa stallion was referred for evaluation of colic.
(6) Ultrasonographic images of the accessory sex glands of 8 stallions were recorded immediately prior to sexual preparation, immediately after sexual preparation, and immediately after ejaculation.
(7) Hormonal effects of prolonged administration of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) were investigated in 7 fertile stallions in winter and summer.
(8) It was concluded, therefore, that hydrogen ion extenders depress fertilizing capacity of stallion spermatozoa immediately after extension and show little promise as semen extenders for short- or long-term storage of stallion semen.
(9) The spermatozoa in about 200 ejaculates from 36 stallions were examined to compare their survival time, motility and velocity before and after thawing.
(10) Repeated bacteriological examinations need to be undertaken before it can be concluded that a stallion is free of infection.
(11) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
(12) It is concluded that intratesticular testosterone increases with age, is related in a positive manner to quantitative rates of sperm production, and can account for some of the differences in sperm production among individual stallions within a single breeding season.
(13) Four pony mares were readily infected with the organism of contagious equine metritis by intracervical inoculation and one by coitus with an infected stallion.
(14) Only in the oldest stallion (32 years) was there a significant lowering of fertility.
(15) Among 29 offspring in two stallion families there was evidence for one recombinant.
(16) Stallions may also harbor EAV in the genital tract and transmit the virus to mares during coitus.
(17) In the bull and ram, nucleolytic enzymes were found to be secreted by the seminal vesicles but in the boar, rabbit and stallion they originate mostly from the epididymis.
(18) The application of a long-day photoperiod (16 hours light:8 hours dark) in December, following 20 weeks of short days (8 hours light:16 hours dark), was effective in hastening the seasonal sexual recrudescence of stallions but was not effective in prolonging the interval of heightened reproductive capacity.
(19) A Thoroughbred stallion with erectile dysfunction following paraphimosis was managed to allow consistent ejaculation.
(20) Transmission of EAV infection by long-term carrier stallions would appear to occur solely by the venereal route.