(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?
Stem
Definition:
(v. i.) Alt. of Steem
(n.) Alt. of Steem
(n.) The principal body of a tree, shrub, or plant, of any kind; the main stock; the part which supports the branches or the head or top.
(n.) A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.
(n.) The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
(n.) A branch of a family.
(n.) A curved piece of timber to which the two sides of a ship are united at the fore end. The lower end of it is scarfed to the keel, and the bowsprit rests upon its upper end. Hence, the forward part of a vessel; the bow.
(n.) Fig.: An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
(n.) Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
(n.) That part of a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.
(n.) The entire central axis of a feather.
(n.) The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
(n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc.
(n.) The part of an inflected word which remains unchanged (except by euphonic variations) throughout a given inflection; theme; base.
(v. t.) To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
(v. t.) To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.
(v. t.) To oppose or cut with, or as with, the stem of a vessel; to resist, or make progress against; to stop or check the flow of, as a current.
(v. i.) To move forward against an obstacle, as a vessel against a current.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(2) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
(3) 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).
(4) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(5) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(6) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(7) Following BHT administration, the alveolar stem cells (type II pneumocytes) proliferate and differentiate according to a biphasic pattern, with proliferative peaks at d 3 and 7.
(8) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(9) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
(10) These results indicate that this population (approximately 0.1% of bone marrow) may contain the pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell.
(11) Brain-stem CBF varied the most but did not correlate with clinical signs of brain-stem dysfunction.
(12) We infer from these results that endotoxin ameliorates the cyclical changes in blood cell counts by regulating hematopoietic proliferative activity at the stem cell level.
(13) The effects of inhibitors of aldehyde dehydrogenase activity on the sensitivity of murine pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells to oxazaphosphorine anticancer agents, e.g.
(14) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(15) This has stemmed from an inadequate understanding of the mechanisms involved in the formation and propagation of this condition.
(16) We therefore think that the detailed examination of CALLA(-) non-T non-B ALL cells using myeloid specific antibodies is helpful in clarifying the characteristics of myeloid precursors and the common bipotential stem cell of lymphoid and myeloid progenitors.
(17) Imaging studies had shown no change in his brain stem lesion, which at autopsy was found to be a focal collection of fibrillary astrocytes.
(18) These cells were hypothesized to be the stem cells for the corneal epithelium.
(19) Auditory brain stem potentials (ABP) were recorded in 27 patients with Bell's palsy during the early phase of the disease and 1-3 months later.
(20) The results indicate that stimulation of trigeminal subnucleus caudalis, a brain stem region that processes nociceptor afferent information, evokes a prompt increase in plasma ACTH.