(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(n.) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
(v. t.) To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc.
(v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) Intact rams exhibited GH secretory episodes of greater (P less than 0.01) amplitude than did castrated lambs.
(3) DES implantation increased the body weight of the ram by 10.4% and caused no significant change in total body water, body ash, or total muscle mass.
(4) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
(5) Castrated rams did not show this increase, with or without supplementary testosterone.
(6) Additional evaluation of the recoverability of H ovis and A seminis from the preputial cavity of rams from birth to 1 year of age indicated that the isolation rate from rams and predominance of the organisms in the preputial cavity differed greatly over this age period.
(7) Four rams each were either hemicastrated (HC) or left intact (INT) and blood samples were collected over a 2-wk period.
(8) The infection probably affected all sex and age classes, but field surveys of live animals and mortality suggested that mature rams died disproportionately.
(9) The ability of melatonin to influence LH pulse frequency in entire and castrated rams indicated that an effect of melatonin on the hypothalamic pulse generator is independent of testicular steroids.
(10) In addition, there was a marginally significant (P less than 0.1) relationship between prolactin secretion in the castrate ram and the stage of testicular activity in the entire rams with elevated levels associated with regressed activity.
(11) The effect of alpha-chlorohydrin on the metabolism of glycolytic and tricarboxylate-cycle substrates by ram spermatozoa was investigated.
(12) In the present study the influence of the period of the light cycle on variation in testicular weight in the ram was investigated.
(13) The androgenized ewes showed poorer oestrous responses to each hormone although rams showed interest in the ewes.
(14) Ram biceps femoris weights at market were greater than those of wethers (P less than .05).
(15) The effect of naloxone administration on the LH-RH secretion in hypophyseal portal blood and LH secretion in peripheral blood was studied in four short term castrated rams (between 2 to 4 days after castration).
(16) In a trial with rams, application of polyethylene powder (PE) as a marker for determination of feed passage rate through the digestive tract and three methods of its determination in feed and feces were tested.
(17) Macrophages and various subtypes of lymphocytes were identified in the ram and the rat testis by using cytochemical and immunocytochemical techniques.
(18) The tail(s) of the epididymis was the most frequent site of lesion development in the mature rams (86.4%).
(19) The interactions of ram spermatozoa with exogenous liposomes of varying composition were studied, with the aim of examining the mechanisms by which some lipids protect against cold-induced damage during cryostorage.
(20) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
Sdr
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These vessels were compared with PA and Ao from control Sprague-Dawley rat (SDR).
(2) In the SDR group, the level of FPB beta 15-42 was significantly correlated with the progression of diabetic retinopathy.
(3) Although physical abuse was primarily related to impression management, psychological abuse was affected by both impression management and self-deception aspects of SDR.
(4) To further examine the structural and hemodynamic changes of pulmonary hypertension in FHR, and to investigate the extent to which alveolar hypoxia may have promoted these abnormalities, hemodynamic and morphometric measurements were made in FHR (4 to 24 wk) and compared with age-matched Sprague-Dawley (SDR) control rats.
(5) Beijing is pushing for the yuan to become one of the reserve currencies in the International Monetary Fund’s special drawing rights (SDR) group.
(6) In stationary-phase cell-cultures, SDR was completely suppressed.
(7) This observation indicates that the SDR is a new model animal for type I dwarfism.
(8) However, the hypotensive effect of captopril in both GHR and SDR could not be well described by the model.
(9) However, the cessation of insulin administration to the SDR for 4 days resulted in significant increases in the levels of norepinephrine in the cortex and the hypothalamus, DA in the hippocampus, and homovanillic acid in the striatum.
(10) In exponentially-growing cell-cultures, early SDR was undisturbed but complete recovery was not achieved.
(11) In the present study the effects of GH-releasing factor and an analog of its second messenger, (Bu)2cAMP, on the total accumulation and secretion of GH were studied in primary cultures from SDR pituitaries.
(12) The levels of lipid hydroperoxides and antioxidants in plasma samples from Nagase analbuminemic rats (NAR) and control Sprague-Dawley rats (SDR) were measured in comparison with those from normal human subjects.
(13) To test whether the increase in lung preproET-1 mRNA was primary or secondary to established pulmonary hypertension, we compared preproET-1 mRNA expression prior to development of pulmonary hypertension in fetal (19 day gestation) and neonatal (5 day old) FHR and SDR.
(14) Stationary-phase cells did not exhibit split-dose recovery (SDR) in a simple way: there was an increase in sensitivity after 3-5 hours followed by a gradual increases with time.
(15) Spontaneously diabetic BB rats (SDR) and their nondiabetic littermates (NDR) were used in this study.
(16) Progressive renal failure was induced in adult female Sprague Dawley rats (SDR) by surgical removal of the right kidney, and segmental infarction of seven-eighths of the left kidney.
(17) Similarly, GH was not detectable in the pituitary cytosol from SDR of 7, 20, and 80 days of age.
(18) Qualitatively similar responses were also observed with platelets isolated from SDR implying that abnormal responses were not simply due to the storage pool deficiency in FHR.
(19) The neonatal morbidity (SDR, intraventricular hemorrhaging, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, etc.)
(20) The aim of this study was to determine whether there were differences in the oxidative deamination of dopamine in patients with Parkinson's disease who demonstrated a long-duration response (LDR) to treatment with dopa and carbidopa and in patients who demonstrated only a short-duration response (SDR) to the drugs.