(n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
(n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
(n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Example Sentences:
(1) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(2) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(3) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(4) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(5) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(6) Neither light nor electron microscopy revealed significant morphologic alterations in the cochlear elements of the exposed offspring.
(7) The relationships of birth weight and maternal diabetes to the development of obesity were examined at 5-19 yr of age in the offspring of Pima Indian women.
(8) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
(9) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(10) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(11) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(12) The five offspring are ancestors of all known carriers.
(13) We have studied the effect of ampicillin and cloxacillin treatment of mice in the final week of pregnancy on the development of the lymphatic system of their offsprings.
(14) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
(15) The effects of repeated N2O exposures were investigated for offspring of mice exposed to air or N2O (5%, 15%, or 35%) for 4 hours per day on days 6 through 15 of pregnancy.
(16) Whether normal individuals with such a duplication carry increased risk of having offspring with an obesity syndrome is yet to be determined.
(17) Offspring of marmosets reached adult values of 14CO2 exhalation at 8 days postnatally when using [14CO2]-methacetin as substrate and at 30 days postnatally using [14C2H5]-phenacetin in the breath test.
(18) The sample consisted of 102 Japanese families, each including both parents and one of their offspring, and on average all subjects had relatively well-aligned permanent dentitions.
(19) At Day 56, serum IgM concentrations were significantly lower in the low zinc offspring.
(20) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
Soapy
Definition:
(superl.) Resembling soap; having the qualities of, or feeling like, soap; soft and smooth.
(superl.) Smeared with soap; covered with soap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dose sites were washed with soapy water 24 h posttreatment.
(2) Frozen bubbles Last month, photographer Angela Kelly took a solution of soapy water out into the cold in Washington state, to make an amazing series of frozen-bubble photos .
(3) darlingi females exposed for 2 min, but after the material had been washed twice in soapy water the bioassay mortality fell to only 21.4%.
(4) Equipment used for sprouting seeds should be cleaned thoroughly using hot soapy water; always wash your hands before and after handling seeds."
(5) 4) Press the Sugru down on all sides and smooth the surface by rolling your finger over the Sugru and by wiping soapy water over it.
(6) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(7) Most globular proteins are waxy inside and soapy outside.
(8) "They're not just crime mysteries and detective series … they're quite soapy and they are very willing to go into the detail of the characters' back life.
(9) The bicycle tube was inserted into the vagina and air and a soapy solution were pumped in.
(10) This study was designed to assess the microbiologic effectiveness of a practical cleaning-disinfection procedure, consisting of hydrogen peroxide, 100 degrees C soapy water and 100 degrees C rinse water, which might permit reuse of tracheal suction catheters in the home setting.
(11) There appears to be no simple relationship between the slip performance of a cane tip on ice-rink ice and that developed on soapy wet tiles.
(12) A variety of commercially available cane and crutch tips were tested on surfaces of ice and soapy tile under varying axial (thrust) loads.
(13) Data of 7000 patients submitted to surgical procedures from 1980 to 1988 were evaluated regarding a surveillance and a prevention program that was performed at 1984 (short term prophylaxis in contaminated and any clean-contaminated procedures; skin washing before the operation with a soapy solution of povidone iodine; regular report of all data about wound infection incidence to staff).
(14) Set in Los Angeles, it features a glamorous cast and soapy storylines including infidelity, artificial insemination, bisexuality and interracial romance.
(15) His themes could be discordant and experimental (The Prisoner – Patrick McGoohan’s head-trippy spy thriller , not the Aussie prison soapie), light and whimsical ( the sitcom Shelley ), or toe-tappingly nostalgic (The Jazz Age).
(16) They include freezing your clothes, instantly turning boiling water into snow, and... making these soapy ice-bubble things: Last month, photographer Angela Kelly took a solution of soapy water out into the cold in Washington state, to make an amazing series of frozen-bubble photos .
(17) After stage A1, when the exoskeleton feels soft and soapy, and A2, when the abdomen attains parchment consistency, the exoskeleton continues to harden until stage C1, when the telson carinae can no longer be depressed with a fingernail.
(18) The occasional listener to The Archers clearly mustn’t underestimate the effect of Tom Archer’s recasting after 17 years, plus some newly soapy plotlines.
(19) For 2 mM sodium saccharin (NaSac), 75% of the responses were "sweet," 6.5% "sugar"; for NaSac in 10 mM citric acid (ArtLem), 43% "sour," 20% "citrus," and 11% "sugar"; for 214 mM monosodium glutamate (MSG), 28% "salty," 14% "sour," and 10% 1st "soapy," then "no taste," and finally "bitter."
(20) Illustration: Emma McGowan You will need : 1-2 mini packs of Sugru Soapy water Scissors 1) For all breaks, make sure the surface is clean, dry and free from grease.