(n.) A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said he had recently shown a family moving from London around a four-bedroom house with a paddock, on sale for £375,000.
(2) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(3) The values tended to recover slowly after the removal of the cast, then more quickly after the horses returned to the paddock four weeks later.
(4) Peak infestations in both paddocks also occurred simultaneously in May.
(5) Six experiments were conducted to determine the relationship between the serving capacity of bulls as predicted by a 40-min yard test and their fertility during paddock mating, measured by the conception rate at first oestrus and the pregnancy rate at the end of 10 weeks of mating.
(6) In zoological and judicial terms, the deer habituated to paddock keeping still belong to wild animals that are held captive.
(7) Observations for estrus were conducted three times daily in a dirt paddock containing a testosterone-treated cow.
(8) Theileria infections were induced in cattle by feeding ticks on them from 3 sources: (a) adult rhipicephalid ticks obtained from the vegetation in a paddock containing an eland EAO at the Animal Orphanage, Nairobi National Park, Kenya, (b) Rhipicephalus appendiculatus adults fed as nymphs on the same eland, (c) R. pulchellus adults fed as nymphs on an eland W 68 captured in the Machakos district of Kenya.
(9) Six year-round, all-forage, three-paddock systems for beef cow-calf production were used to produce five calf crops during a 6-yr period.
(10) All 18 2-year-old Brahman bulls grazing in a paddock containing Castanospermum australe trees were diagnosed as heterozygotes for Pompe's disease by measurement of mononuclear cell alpha-glucosidase activity.
(11) Instead Key flailed all round the paddock and was forced to retreat centimetre by centimetre.” The controversy leaves a picture of “loose governance of his office ... and of his cabinet” as well as “bad judgment in talking to Whale Oil”, he says.
(12) Disk meter height responses to SR did not differ (P greater than .10) between steer and cow-calf paddocks.
(13) It reported that the previous evening, Richard Casey, the minister for Australia’s science agency, the CSIRO, had announced that a sheep paddock outside Parkes in western New South Wales would be the site of Australia’s new, £500m giant radio telescope.
(14) Consumption of a sodium chloride based supplement followed by food and water restriction in yards for over 30 hours, resulted in nervous disorders in 5 of 60 three-year-old steers within hours of being released into a paddock.
(15) In Trial 2, eight ruminally cannulated steers (avg wt 234.4 kg) grazed a 2.4-ha paddock of Vona-variety wheat and were assigned randomly to either MRDD or C treatments.
(16) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(17) Feral pigs were excluded from one paddock for most of lambing by means of an electric fence.
(18) Three paddocks were contaminated with Haemonchus contortus eggs from early spring to mid summer by yearling sheep.
(19) Paddock 1 was used for the controls, paddock 2 for the levamisole group (dosed at 3, 6 and 9 weeks after the start of grazing) and paddock 3 for the ivermectin group (dosed at 3 and 8 weeks after turn-out).
(20) By making use of artificially infected donor sheep, six camps (paddocks) were seeded with a resistant field strain of H. contortus until it was confirmed by means of worm-free tracer lambs that the grazing had become infective.
Piddock
Definition:
(n.) Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Professor Piddock has pointed out , with such scarcity of funding, research teams tend to compete against each other rather than collaborate.
(2) This underfunding was highlighted by Ellis Bragginton and Laura Piddock from Birmingham University, who found that of almost £14bn research funding for bacteriology in the UK from 2008 to 2013, just £95m (0.7%) was awarded for work on new antibiotics.
(3) Professor Laura Piddock, of the University of Birmingham's School of Immunity and Infection, called for action to counter the "spectre of untreatable infections".
(4) Laura Piddock, professor of microbiology and deputy director of the institute of microbiology and infection at the University of Birmingham and director of Antibiotic Action, said she was glad Davies was drawing political attention to the antibiotic discovery void.
(5) Prof Laura Piddock, director of Antibiotic Action and professor of microbiology at the University of Birmingham, said the evidence supported the serious concerns that antibiotic resistance would undermine many areas of medicine, including cancer treatment.