What's the difference between menstruation and primate?

Menstruation


Definition:

  • (n.) The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighteen of the 23 women (78%) had been unable to work during the first day of menstruation, the rate of working days lost was reduced to 4% with ketoprofen and 9 with indomethacin.
  • (2) Heparin-like activity increased throughout the menstrual cycle and decreased during menstruation, suggesting a possible cyclical variation in activity.
  • (3) In a large proportion of these (29 out of 76), blood was noted to be present on waking, menstruation thus having begun at some time during the hours of sleep.
  • (4) Estrogen receptors are more frequently found in post-menopausal women than in women who are still menstruating.
  • (5) The voice of the womb manifests itself in the language of menstruation.
  • (6) Although there are several advantages for both the physician and patient to the IUD insertion during menstruation, there is no valid reason to delay insertion if the patient requests an IUD at any other time during her menstrual cycle.
  • (7) She explained that, as a baby, she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM): her clitoris cut off and her vagina sealed, with only a small hole remaining for urine and menstruation.
  • (8) Menstruation reoccurred within 21 days of treatment for 98%.
  • (9) The Depression Adjective Check List, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and a battery of factor analytically derived cognitive tests sensitive to anxiety or depression were administered to 50 women between the ages of 30 and 45 during the 4 days prior to the onset of menstruation and again 2 weeks later.
  • (10) The PMS women peaked on the day prior to menstruation, while the non-PMS women peaked on the first day of menstruation.
  • (11) When 15% was used as a single figure to represent the optimal, long-term bioavailability of iron in a general Western-type diet, the 95th percentiles of dietary iron requirements were 18.9 mg in adult menstruating women and 21.4 mg in menstruating teenagers.
  • (12) For young girls, or where conception is not desired, substitution treatment with an estrogen-progesterone combination is recommended, to prevent further hypoplasia of the internal genitals; in cases where estrogen production is sufficient, cyclic treatment with progesterone is enough to induce menstruation.
  • (13) A total of 35 menstruating women undergoing ovariectomy were randomly divided into five groups of 7 patients each, receiving a 4-week treatment with oral clonidine, lisuride and sodium valproate, transdermal 17 beta-estradiol, or placebo.
  • (14) RU-486 can be successfully used to regulate menstruation, especially in populations without access to medical are and pregnancy tests, and it may appeal to women who prefer not to know their status.
  • (15) Plasma concentrations of retinol-binding protein (RBP) were measured in a cross-sectional study of asymptomatic normal menstruating women (n = 94) who obtained Pap smears and participated in a double-blinded nutritional survey.
  • (16) Not only menstruating girls using tampons, but also quite young children can acquire this disease.
  • (17) Side effects such as nausea, intermenstrual bleedings, and absence of menstruation were most often observed with Femigen forte; about 30% of these users.
  • (18) In both groups the level declined during menstruation before the increase of endogenous female sex hormone levels.
  • (19) The data indicated that those patients who had sickle cell crises were significantly older and had been menstruating longer, with heavier periods.
  • (20) The reduction in MBL during OC use was most apparent during the first 2 days of menstruation.

Primate


Definition:

  • (a.) The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
  • (a.) One of the Primates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
  • (2) The p30 proteins of murine viruses also contain a second discrete set of antigenic determinants related to those in infectious primate viruses and endogenous porcine viruses, but not detected in the feline leukemia virus group.
  • (3) These results demonstrate that the renal nerves play an important role in the nonhuman primate in mediating increases in renal excretion during hypervolemia.
  • (4) These are much older than all other Fayum, Oligocene primates and are believed to be Eocene in age.
  • (5) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
  • (6) Evaluation of the roles of prolactin and placental lactogen in pregnancy in primates has revealed mammotropic, fetal osmoregulatory, metabolic, and steroidogenic roles, which appear to protect the uterine contents during late pregnancy and prepare the fetus for the changes in nutrition at the time of delivery.
  • (7) SR 42128 is a potent and long-acting tool for studying the role of the renin angiotensin system in primates and humans.
  • (8) An analysis of 54 protein sequences from humans and rodents (mice or rats), with the chicken as an outgroup, indicates that, from the common ancestor of primates and rodents, 35 of the proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to mouse or rat (rodent lineage) whereas only 12 proteins have evolved faster in the lineage to humans (human lineage).
  • (9) Four human and two nonhuman primate cell lines were studied to determine their growth characteristics in soft agar, and for invasive characteristics in a muscle organ culture assay system.
  • (10) Historically, research into the regulation of gene expression in primate lentiviruses has focused on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the primary cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in humans.
  • (11) This approximately 40-Myr-old specimen is the first fossil primate found in Burma since the fragmentary remains of the controversial earliest anthropoids Pondaungia cotteri Pilgrim and Amphipithecus mogaungensis Colbert were recovered more than 50 yr ago.
  • (12) It is believed that by looking at such subtle shape differences an understanding of what it means morphologically for a primate to be either more or less arboreal may be achieved.
  • (13) Our studies investigated whether social companionship, as a potentially positive psychological intervention, would increase lymphocyte proliferation and natural killer cell activity in the aged nonhuman primate.
  • (14) The results found with individual chromosomes in the different species also appear relevant, in the light of the evolutionary relationships between these nonhuman primates and man.
  • (15) In this experiment, 64 crown preparations were made in four primates.
  • (16) CSF and venous blood lactate, pH, PCO2, PO2, and bicarbonate were measured in five ketamine-anesthetized nonhuman primates, without mechanical ventilation, before and after they underwent infusions of sodium lactate.
  • (17) These two distinct classes of human pseudogenes provide a molecular record of the history of cytochrome c evolution in primates and demarcate a short period of rapid evolution of the functional gene.
  • (18) To study this phenomenon, a new model employing 54 primate tendons and stereomorphometric image analysis was used to quantitate adhesion volume after a standardized surface injury.
  • (19) The composition of the Trichostrongyloidea fauna of Chiroptera and its relationship with Trichostrongyloidea from other Mammals (Tupaiidae, Pholidotes, Primates, Sciuridés) are analysed.
  • (20) Oregon Regional Primate Research Center, Beaverton, Oregon.