(superl.) Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
(2) In this group there was only one case of mild ankle discomfort (3.5%).
(3) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(5) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
(6) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
(7) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(8) The effects of IFN and mild hyperthermia on the responses of human promyelocytic HL-60 cells were investigated.
(9) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
(10) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
(11) Alterations in mean systolic blood pressure appeared to be modest, consisting of a 10 percent decrease from the control level, related to sedation, and a 10 percent rise from baseline during the procedure, associated with a concomitant mild tachycardia.
(12) Mild fibrosis, swollen mitochondria, and hyper-contracted and overdistended sarcomeres were typical ultrastructural alterations.
(13) It is assumed that the mild analgesia produced by acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and indomethacin is due to a common mode of action, namely inhibition of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction in the synthesis of prostaglandins.
(14) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
(15) Haematological findings in 9 dogs with splenic or hepatic haemangiosarcoma included a mild to moderate normochromic anaemia, neutrophilia, thrombocytopaenia, poikilocytosis and increased target cells.
(16) The perinatal mortality was 21% in the mild group and 36% and 138%, respectively, among moderate and severe cases of hypertension.
(17) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
(18) The patient had mild solar sensitivity by age 7, dyspigmentation by 10 years, and he still currently has moderate symptoms.
(19) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
(20) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
Milt
Definition:
(n.) The spleen.
(n.) The spermatic fluid of fishes.
(n.) The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.
(v. t.) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
(2) Although these findings strongly support the hypothesis that 17,20 beta-P is a preovulatory female sex pheromone in goldfish which stimulates male GtH levels and milt production prior to spawning, the milt increases occurred earlier than predicted, suggesting either that preovulatory 17,20 beta-P release begins earlier than the data indicate or that other steroids known to have pheromonal activity are released before 17,20 beta-P.
(3) This stimulatory effect lasted from 20 min to at least 2 hr for GtH (20 degrees) and from less than or equal to 1 hr to greater than or equal to 24 hr for milt (14 degrees).
(4) Testicular contractions may, however, serve to load the SD with milt.
(5) A large amount of milt was observed during spawning, and the amount was correlated with plasma levels of GtH.
(6) Twenty-five males survived the whole experimental period and were divided into four groups according to the amount of milt and endocrine profiles.
(7) Plasma levels of DHP were higher in males that were producing milt than in any other group of males.
(8) Time of ovulation, fecundity, and egg size were recorded in mature females, and sperm counts were carried out on the milt from the male fish, from both the stressed and control groups.
(9) The increase in milt may be due to both neurally and hormonally mediated events that ensure milt availability for imminent spawning activity.
(10) We can propose that the synchronous GtH surge in both sexes causes ovulation and milt production to occur at the same time, favoring a higher rate of fertilization of the eggs.
(11) An ATP-dependent purine deoxyribonucleoside kinase activity is known only in salmon milt extracts (H. L. A. Tarr, Can.
(12) Males held with these females, or exposed to their odors, had increased GtH levels and milt volumes at approximately the time when increased 17,20 beta-P release by ovulatory females commenced.
(13) The 17,20 alpha-[3H]P label was produced by incubating place milt with 17 alpha-hydroxy [3H]progesterone.
(14) In male salmon with expressible milt, 17 alpha,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one was present with a gradual increase of both free and conjugated form at the advent of spawning, suggesting that this steroid may also play a role in reproduction in male fish.
(15) Milt was obtained only from fish held at 6 and 12 degrees.
(16) Disney animator Milt Neil said it took "20 Disney drawings to produce the movement Trevillion captures in one".
(17) Although males had increased GtH and milt levels after 1 hr of spawning, males allowed to interact with nonspawning females also had elevated GtH; thus, behavioral interactions appear capable of elevating GtH in the absence of either pheromone.
(18) After juvenile rats had been X-rayed, organ cultures of their milts and kidneys showed alterations analogous to those of "old" donor animals.
(19) In goldfish, the gonadal steroid, 17 alpha,20 beta-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one (17,20 beta-P), functions as a potent preovulatory female sex pheromone which stimulates rapid elevations in serum gonadotropin (GtH) levels and subsequent increases in milt production in males.
(20) Glycolipids were purified from the total lipid extract of the testis or milt of a kind of puffer (Fugu rubripes rubripes) by adsorption column chromatography using silicic acid and magnesium silicate and by preparative silica gel TLC.