(v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
(v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.
(n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.
(v. & n.) See Molt.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cultures of medium ML-15 containing a feeder layer of Dog Sarcoma (DS) cells larvae successfully moulted and showed a small but significant increase in length.
(2) Neither was the autumn moult, induced early in intact females by the change to a short photoperiod, advanced in ganglionectomized females, showing that the latter were unresponsive to the artificial modification of the photoperiod.
(3) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(4) A sharp rise in trehalose level of haemolymph is observed towards the end of 4th instar accompanied with sudden fall of the sugar in fat body during the same period, but after moulting blood trehalose abruptly decreases.
(5) The allatectomy in the 4th instar larvae of Rhodnius prolixus stops moulting in 93 per cent of the cases.
(6) The metathoracic musculature of the American cockroach Periplaneta americana was denervated by dissecting the nerves originating in the metathoracic ganglion on one side within 2 days after the last moult.
(7) Body-plumage of hens moulted at 11 degrees C was 25% heavier than of hens moulted at 29 degrees C. 3.
(8) One hour after infection, primary larvae appear in the body cavity where they moult immediately.
(9) In females, however, the number of NSG was relatively more than that in males in the Spring premigratory phase but fewer in the moulting phase.
(10) Food intake raises and decreases gradually between two moults.
(11) Trans-stadial transmission was demonstrated through one moult only, and transovarial transmission did not occur.
(12) This in vitro assay, based solely on the occurrence or absence of worm aggregation following the final moult in culture, proved very easy to interpret rapidly and accurately.
(13) A molecular modeling study has proposed that, when Ca2+ binds to the N-terminal triggering sites, helices B and C separate from the helices D and A, thereby exposing a crucial interaction site for troponin I, the inhibitory subunit of troponin [Herzberg, O., Moult, J., and James, M. N. G. (1986) J. Biol.
(14) Three developmental stages were investigated--1 day, 14 days, and 6 weeks after adult moulting.
(15) The effects of the insect growth regulator diflubenzuron (DFB) were observed on the larval-larval and larval-pupal moulting cycles of Tenebrio molitor, after treatment at ecdysis.
(16) Virus persisted transstadially as shown by the presence of an average of 10(3.4) PFU in newly moulted adults.
(17) Cauterization of the pars intercerebralis after the critical period of the prothoracic gland activity does not affect moulting in any way.
(18) In normal, non-expanding toad epidermis more cells are produced than needed to replace cells lost by moulting.
(19) Variation in temperature (4-40 degrees C) had a significant effect on moulting rate of the ticks and transmission of theilerial parasites from nymphs to resultant adults.
(20) Thymus enlargement in both young and adults has been found to be accompanied by marked erythropoietic activity within the gland, and it is suggested that this activity is related to an increased demand for erythrocytes which may occur during moult and breeding.
Mue
Definition:
(v. i.) To mew; to molt.
Example Sentences:
(1) In cytotoxicity tests, MUE 38539 II yielded positive test results with B lymphocytes but not with monocytes of DR3-positive cell donors.
(2) Lymphocytotoxicity tests using MUE 38539 II were negative with DR7- and DQw2-positive cells.
(3) "It's a joke," said Mue, programme director at the Nairobi-based Kenyans for Peace With Truth and Justice .
(4) Of these cases, known as myelopathy of unknown etiology (MUE), 57 were followed-up for a mean of 2.33 years, 50 being chronic cases and 7 acute cases.
(5) A prominent soap actor, Dietmar Mues, was run over, together with his wife, as well as the sociologist, 1968-figure and Bob Dylanologist Günter Amendt, who in 1970 wrote what became the notorious Sex-Front, one of Germany's best-known books about sexual behaviour which was censored by the court.
(6) A typing serum MUE 38539 II, was found to recognize a DR3-associated split of DQw2.
(7) We conclude that after a long clinical follow-up and the use of MRI we were able to diagnose more than half the previously MUE patients.
(8) Njonjo Mue, a spokesman for the Kenyan section of the International Centre for Transitional Justice, said: "We think it is quite disappointing in terms of the search for justice for victims of post-election violence.
(9) The serum MUE 38539 II was exclusively cytotoxic with lymphoblastoid cell lines from those family members who were positive for DQw2, independently of the DR3 antigens of the cells.
(10) The decision rolls back half a century of developments in international human rights and criminal justice law, said Kenyan activist Njonjo Mue.
(11) "There is still the possibility that the executive could reject the vote," Mue said.
(12) We would be handing to al-Shabaab a ready-made army of, say, 200,000 young men who will be desperate Njonjo Mue, Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice “The majority of the people who are still in the camp are those who have been there for a very long time – including some of them for generations.” Njonjo Mue, of the human rights coalition Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice , said the logistics of emptying Dadaab “boggles the mind” and could play into al-Shabaab’s hands.