(n.) The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.
(n.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.
(n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.
(n.) One who is hoggish; a greedy person.
(v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.
(v. t. & i.) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(2) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(3) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(6) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(7) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(8) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
(9) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(10) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
(11) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(12) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(13) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(14) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(15) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(16) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
(17) It is probably that tolazoline also releases acetylcholine from the guinea pig atria.
(18) Cell recovery data for the hamster, rat, guinea pig, and rabbit were related to body size with the hamster having the lowest count and the rabbit the highest count.
(19) Clonidine has previously been shown to potentiate HIB in guinea pigs.
(20) Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the soluble form (S-COMT) of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT, EC 2.1.1.6) were produced using a purified preparation of the enzyme from pig liver as antigen.
Pigsty
Definition:
(n.) A pigpen.
Example Sentences:
(1) 81.5% of the cowsheds, but only 20% of the pigsties were found to be infested.
(2) The samples with the highest aflatoxin concentrations came from metallic storage containers for complete feed mixtures in front of the pigsties.
(3) Cowsheds and pigsties were studied for infestation with the stable fly.
(4) He had to leave the rusty old laboratory he affectionately calls the Pigsty.
(5) He then reopened his long-running feud with Forbes and David Milne, another prominent objector who owns a former coastguard station on a headland overlooking the North Sea, describing their properties as "slums" and a "pigsty".
(6) Wild house mice (Mus domesticus) captured in a Flemish pigsty were infected intravenously with 4 x 10(6) variable units of Mycobacterium bovis BCG and examined by Western blot analysis for IgG secretion against BCG culture filtrate (CF) antigens.
(7) The germ density of the air during 2 cycles each of the rainy and dry seasons was investigated in the empty pigsty as well as after the 6th day of occupation by means of sedimentation in endo agar.
(8) The variables used in the experiment were found to exert a favourable effect on the state of health and growth of pigs but they had no essential influence on the level of immunoglobulins and increase in the titre of antibodies against E. coli (0141, 0149), isolated from pigs kept in the same pigsty.
(9) The area in which O. moubata is found in pigsties includes much of the African swine fever (ASF) enzootic area, and it seems likely that the enzootic area could become larger in future.
(10) Trump has described Forbes's home and decrepit outbuildings as a "pigsty" and a "slum".
(11) Also investigated was the position of the litters in the middle or one of the marginal rows of boxes of the pigsty.
(12) It was demonstrated that Candida carriers accounted for 2.6 per cent among the animals raised under primitive pigsty conditions, and for 2.5 per cent of those raised under industrial conditions.
(13) It is reported about two pig-breeders with the typical symptoms of an exogen allergic alveolitis after having worked in a pigsty.
(14) So too is Michael Forbes, the obstinate quarryman who became Trump’s most famous opponent after the property magnate described him as a “disgrace” for refusing to sell to him his “pigsty of a home” which sits in the middle of the Trump estate.
(15) If we thought it was necessary we’d be for it,” said Pauline Harkin, the tenant at Blackgrounds Farm, a low farmhouse and a cluster of pigsties converted into stables where the only sound was the atonal chirp of sparrows.
(16) It’s a corbelled pigsty,” says Duane Fitzsimons next day, pointing out a tiny medieval stone building near the lighthouse.
(17) Life of Brian ended up being banned in Harrogate, parts of Surrey, east Devon (where councillors refused even to watch it, arguing, "You don't have to see a pigsty to know that it stinks") and Cornwall (where, after one screening, a local councillor rather overstated the case by arguing for all the participants in the film to be locked up in Broadmoor).
(18) Trump had blasted Forbes on national television for “living like a pig” and his working farm “a pigsty”.
(19) The distribution of ticks of the Ornithodoros moubata complex in different habitats in Malawi, particularly pigsties and houses, was established from a four-phase survey undertaken between 1982 and 1985.
(20) In the period from January 1983 to December 1985 we examined thirty-five samples of commercial feed mixtures for pigs and thirty samples of pigsty dust deposition from large pig-houses in a region with extensive mining (lignite extraction) situated in the Hodonín district.