(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.
Young
Definition:
(superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
(superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
(superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
(n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(2) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
(3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(4) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(5) The authors followed up the occurrence of inflammation-mediated osteopenia (IMO) in young and adult rats weighing 50 g and 150 g, respectively.
(6) Blocks of hippocampal tissue containing the fascia dentata were taken from late embryonic and newborn rats and transplanted to the hippocampal region of other newborn and young adult rats.
(7) Hanley Ramirez was hitting behind Michael Young and now he's injured.
(8) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
(9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(10) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(11) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(12) Younge, a former head of US cable network the Travel Channel, succeeded Peter Salmon in the role last year.
(13) A young man being treated with primary adjuvant Adriamycin and DDP for osteogenic sarcoma is described who developed a gingival line which temporally was related to DDP administration.
(14) N-Acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (GAD) activities did not change significantly duringlate fetal, neonatal or young adult stages but increased significantly with advancing age.
(15) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
(16) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(17) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
(18) • young clownfish will lose their ability to "smell" the anemone species that they shelter in.
(19) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
(20) The effect of dietary fluoride (F) on nephrocalcinosis was studied in young, female rats.