(a.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
Example Sentences:
(1) No wonder some older persons are drinking more than the permitted amount, which seems rather measly anyway.
(2) Really I suspect I’d be bored stiff, and anyway, like many people my age, I couldn’t afford it because my pension – combined state and measly private one – is too small.
(3) After shutting out San Francisco, allowing a measly four hits and striking out seven, the free agent to be politely fended off comparisons to Sandy Koufax , who was dramatically summoned from the bullpen by manager Don Mattingly to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
(4) We are the largest per capita emitter of carbon pollution of any developed country and the Turnbull government’s measly reduction targets will keep it that way.” But Frank Jotzo, associate professor at the Australian National University’s Crawford School, said while Australia’s financial contribution could be larger, the move signalled a much more positive approach to the Paris negotiations by the Coalition .
(5) The candleholder, by contrast, produced a ratings drop of a measly three points.
(6) Clearly, the greatest thing on TV right now is Channel 4's Homeland ( Sun, 9pm ), a strong acquisition, currently being fed to the UK in measly weekly ad-filled 45-minute morsels.
(7) The measly amount is not topped up with housing benefit, because that does not exist.
(8) And Labour delivered 63% of its 2015 vote to remain , not that much lower than the Liberal Democrats’ 70%, and way above the Conservatives’ measly 42%.
(9) Average pay among the top tenth of earners has increased by 1.8% over the past year, to £26.75 an hour, while the bottom tenth saw a measly 0.1% rise, to £7.01.
(10) Not that you care, NatWest, but one machine more, and one cashier less, and I'm warning you, I'm taking my account and measly savings elsewhere.
(11) Liverpool’s glaring weakness was in attack last season, where their recognised strikers Daniel Sturridge, Lambert, Balotelli and Fabio Borini produced a measly eight Premier League goals combined.
(12) Paternity leave is paid at a measly £136 a week – £100 less than a full-time job on minimum wage – and the government's recent shared parental leave is so complicated and filled with loopholes that it is expected that only 4% of dads will take it up.
(13) "Over the last year the number of savings accounts that beat inflation for basic rate taxpayers has dropped successively from 91 to a measly five today.
(14) Last year's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 got a measly 25% "rotten" rating on the review aggregator site rottentomatoes.com .
(15) He has left One Direction’s channel , with its measly 10 million subscribers, for dust.
(16) Every conceivable lever has been pulled to get growth going again – interest rates at 0.5%, a budget deficit worth 11% of national output, and £200bn of quantitative easing – yet the economy managed to grow by just a measly 0.2%.
(17) He introduces me to a young Unite activist who works in a Lloyds Bank call centre, and has managed to recruit most of its workforce, as well as take issue with a measly pay offer.
(18) In September 2007, Hayward took over at BP following a "dreadful" quarter: profits had slumped 12%, to a measly $5.3bn.
(19) At this year’s general election, turnout among the over-65s was 78%, as against a measly 43% for 18-24 year olds.
(20) Many had written off the 22-year-old after an injury-disrupted first season at Spurs in which he managed a measly three league starts.
Tapeworm
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) The plerocercoid stage of the tapeworm Spirometra mansonoides produces a functional analog of human growth hormone (hGH).
(2) The drug of choice against all kinds of tapeworms is Niclosamide.
(3) Untreated control dogs did not shed tapeworms of either species during a 3-day period of posttreatment fecal collections, but did have tapeworms at the time of necropsy.
(4) Hymenolepis nana (von Siebold, 1852), the dwarf tapeworm causing hymenolepiasis, has been reported to be the common intestinal cestode of rodents and man throughout the world.
(5) The anthelmintic effects of anti-tapeworm drugs, bithionol, paromomycin sulphate, flubendazole and mebendazole on immature and mature Hymenolepis nana in mice were compared.
(6) Infection in humans or animals by the common tapeworm of dogs and cats (Dipylidium caninum) requires ingestion of the intermediate host, the dog or cat flea containing the larva (cysticercoids) of the agent.
(7) The diphyllobothriid tapeworms are primarily restricted to the northern Canada.
(8) One hundred and seven 4-quinolinehydrazones were synthesized and tested in vivo against the tapeworm Hymenolepis nana.
(9) When the oncosphere of H. nana undergoes differentiation and development into the mature tapeworm, the infected mouse first produces anti-oncosphere antibody, followed by anti-cysticercoid, anti-adult scolex and finally anti-strobila (other than scolex region) antibodies of IgG, IgM and IgA isotypes as detected by indirect immunofluorescent antibody test.
(10) Factor analysis grouped the variables considered into 5 factors: the first was associated with veterinary assistance; the second with the animal's function and the presence of whipworms, hookworms and tapeworms; the third with cohabitation, origin and presence of coccidia; the fourth with the presence of fresh meat (cooked, raw or frozen) in the diet, age and positivity for ascarids; the fifth with sex and the presence of gastroenteric conditions.
(11) H. citelli was also shown to be expelled simultaneously during the rejection phase of H. diminuta in concurrent infections, indicating the susceptibility of the former tapeworm to the rejection mechanism initiated by the latter.
(12) The cytological structure of the tegument of H. nana corresponds in general to that of other tapeworms.
(13) The development of the tapeworm Khawia sinensis has been observed up to the stage of sexually mature parasites releasing eggs in an experimentally infected definitive host (Cyprinus carpio) at 15-16 degrees C. Juvenile, maturing, adult and gravid tapeworms were found 2-12, 19-24, 36-62, and 78-91 days post infection, respectively.
(14) Antigens of Taenia solium can be demonstrated by ELISA technique in stool samples of tapeworm carriers.
(15) However, immunocytochemically distinct subpopulations of perikarya and regionally defined areas of ectocytoplasm were identified along the tapeworm strobila by the use of monoclonal antibodies raised against a preparation of isolated tegument.
(16) An evaluation of possible predisposing factors provided further evidence of the important role of the tapeworm Anoplocephala perfoliata in initiating intussusception involving the ileum and caecum.
(17) Eggs of a tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium sp (probably D dendriticum), were detected in feces of a healthy, 5-month-old, Siberian Husky.
(18) These results were similar to other studies with different geographic strains of the T. saginata-like tapeworm in the Far East.
(19) The drug was found to be highly toxic to tapeworms.
(20) Mean villus height, crypt depth and the number of 5-HT-positive enterochromaffin (EC) cells have been examined in two regions of the small intestine (20-30% and 60-70% distance from the pylorus) of male, 6 to 8-week-old, C57 mice following a 5-cysticercoid infection of the rat tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta.