(n.) One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
(n.) A cow or other animal that gives milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that orf and milkers' nodule infection have distinctive histopathologic features, and, in contrast to some previous reports, viral changes may frequently be found.
(2) An infection of cattle by transmission of vaccinia virus from milkers vaccinated against small pox is reported.
(3) The monoclonal antibodies produced were tested for crossreactivity with bovine papular stomatitis virus (BPS) and milker's node virus (MNV) by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA) and immunoblotting.
(4) The typical presynaptic adrenoceptor pattern in the teat of fast milkers (low beta 2:alpha 2-adrenoceptor ratio) results in a decline of norepinephrine release by feedback mechanisms.
(5) Those lesions must be distinguished from milker's nodules, botryomycosis and above all felon because ORF disease never require surgery.
(6) We report the clinical and histopathologic features of 17 patients with orf or milkers' nodule infection.
(7) The organism was widely prevalent in the animal environment and could be isolated from milking utensils (56.67%), watering troughs (44.00%), drains (36.37%), shed floor (4.00%), barnyard soil (3.33%), and milkers' throats (50.00%) and hands before and after milking (7.14 and 10.71%, respectively).
(8) An epidemic of 44 cases of milker's nodules was recorded in the Tampere Central Hospital catchment area in Finland during the autumn of 1974.
(9) 90 days' postpartum, 35.1% of sucklers and 66.7% of milkers showed their 1st estrus.
(10) With regard to individual occupations too, the medical staff showed the highest incidence (20.8 per cent), followed by bricklayers and concrete workers (8.6 per cent), electroplating workers (6.7 per cent) and milkers (6.4 per cent).
(11) In an ecological investigation in 20 dairy herds of cattle we compared the characteristics of strains isolated from nasal swabs of milkers, from the udder of cows and from cases of mastitis in cows.
(12) Less common infections such as cowpox, pseudocowpox (milkers nodules), ORF, and coxsackievirus (HFMD) infection of the hand have been brought to the attention of the reader.
(13) Antibodies to L. interrogans serovar hardjo were the ones most frequently encountered among the milkers; however, antibodies to other serovars were also noted.
(14) Average PPEI length for sucklers was significantly different from that for milkers (131.5 vs. 77.9 days, p less than .01).
(15) The above findings do not support any conclusion as to whether the cows had been infected by the milker or vice versa.
(16) Two of the three persons handling the seals developed nodular lesions similar to "milker's nodules," the characteristic lesion in persons infected with parapoxvirus.
(17) Removing milker units as soon as milk flow stopped was compared to milking for a fixed time of 12 min in an 8-wk trial with 60 cows.
(18) The disease in humans is called Milkers' modules, in cows--pseudocowpox.
(19) The percentage of animals with postpartum ovulation interval (PPOI) of more than 3 months was 23.8% for sucklers and 9.5% for milkers.
(20) An account is given of the close correlations that exist between virus strains of bovine papular stomatitis, orf, pseudocowpox, and milker's nodule.