(n.) The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.
(n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
Example Sentences:
(1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(2) Della Roe, Dhu’s mother, said the loss of her daughter had triggered an emotional breakdown.
(3) The next step after Roe v Wade was the establishment of legislation in 1977 that protected the right of medical personnel who either refused to participate in abortion procedures or those who did participate.
(4) It is called the Constitution of the United States.” The anti-Planned Parenthood videos fail to make a case against abortion | Scott Lemieux Read more It’s not news that Rubio disagrees with reproductive freedom – he opposed Obama supreme court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because of his opposition not only to Roe v Wade but to any constitutional right to privacy.
(5) Roe obtained by using this technique were demonstrated to be sterile.
(7) Given that the next president could be in a position to replace Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer – two of the members of the razor-thin five-vote majority supporting Roe v Wade – Americans who don’t want to return women to the reproductive dark ages should vote accordingly come November.
(8) I just want justice for my granddaughter,” Roe said.
(9) Incubation of a concentrated aqueous extract of the roe with porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (EC 3.1.1.4) was the key step in the procedure.
(10) In 1992, the supreme court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v Casey nominally upheld Roe v Wade, but it replaced Roe’s clear rules with a holding that abortion regulations, even in the first trimester of pregnancy, were unconstitutional only if they constituted an “undue burden”.
(11) Roe worried about “all these gaffes” that Biden made as well as whether the 72-year-old had the necessary energy to serve in the Oval Office.
(12) At a meeting with Ms Dhu’s mother, Della Roe, grandmother, Carol Roe, and sister in Port Hedland this week, Barnett said the inquest would be held in the middle of the year.
(13) Female gouramis incorporated pulse-fed [U-14C]oleic, linoleic and linolenic acids more readily into roe than body lipids.
(14) Granulosa cells reacted for AChE only in cat and rabbit while luteal cells were reactive in cat, rabbit and roe deer.
(15) An unusual case of hermaphroditism in a 4 to 5-year-old roe is described.
(16) Following the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade a number of states passed laws in an attempt to fill the vacuum created by the broad Supreme Court guidelines.
(17) And I will stand up for that right.” Donald Trump's abortion remarks provoke biggest crisis of his campaign Read more While Americans are broadly split on the topic of abortion, a majority of the public supports upholding Roe v Wade.
(18) The authors have studied the seasonal microanatomical modifications of the ovary of the roe deer and testis of the roe buck.
(19) Interproton distance bounds determined from a quantitative analysis of the ROE data provide 41 constraints from which a family of closely related structures were calculated using distance geometry algorithms.
(20) The majority of patients with pseudo-condyloma were symptomless but with harbor roe-like warty papulae distributed symmetrically on both labia minora.
Rump
Definition:
(n.) The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
(n.) Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.
(n.) The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
Example Sentences:
(1) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
(2) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
(3) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(4) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(5) The Blairite rump wants more austerity and markets in public services, while their champion, Douglas Alexander, wants to "shrink" Labour's offer so the Tories and media have as little as possible to attack.
(6) An acceleration of growth in both crown-rump and tibial lengths occurred just before menarche in both groups, and this occurred at about 26 months for IH and about 32 months for OH females.
(7) Ultrasound scanning has revealed that some fetuses of women with insulin-dependent diabetes are smaller than normal in early pregnancy as judged by the crown-rump length.
(8) The dissection under an operative microscope of 46 foetuses from a homogeneous series measuring 80 to 390 mm C-R (crown-rump) is the subject of a gross anatomic study of the thymus.
(9) In the alcoholized mothers a nonsignificant decrease of the crown-rump length and a significant decrease of fetal and placental weight could be observed.
(10) Fetal crown rump length (CRL) was measured weekly in 33 singleton pregnancies that were established after in vitro fertilization, gamete intrafallopian transfer or natural intercourse in monitored infertility treatment cycles.
(11) The crown-rump length of 483 fixed human embryos of Carnegie stages 6-23 was analyzed and median and predicted mean lengths were calculated.
(12) So, the Scots learned to vote tactically, ganged up on the Tories and reduced the Conservative party in Scotland to a rump.
(13) But there will probably always be a rump that waves away terms like "human dignity" as so much leftwing blarney; who think foreigners are fundamentally different and are worth less, who think it's important to clean behind fridges, and furthermore, that women should be doing it; who think if they're ever caught out they can call it a joke, and that their joke will be hilarious.
(14) Large-rumped or fatted adult males (n = 3) remained in the social group and exhibited maximal development of sexual skin coloration as well as large testicular size and highest plasma testosterone levels.
(15) Measurements included crown-to-rump length (CRL), biparietal diameter (BPD), head and abdominal circumference (HC and AC), and femur length (FL).
(16) This is a significant rump of the superhero-addicted, mainstream-addicted audience.
(17) Total length, nape-rump length and tail length were recorded for each embryo and hatchling.
(18) A normal curve of fetal crown-rump length was derived from 214 examinations on 80 patients and by using these values in a further "blind" series it was found possible to predict the maturity of pregnancy to within three days, between the sixth and the 14th weeks of pregnancy.
(19) Clinically normal baboons (Papio cynocephalus anubis [Kingfjdon, 1971]) were used in an experiment which (1) examined growth in 48 subjects randomly assigned to three diet treatments (LC = low calorie; MC = medium calorie; HC = high calorie); (2) tested the hypothesis that different amounts of caloric availability during the neonatal period (birth to 16 weeks) had a significant effect on growth and development as measured by weight, crown-rump length, and triceps circumference in the subsequent infant, juvenile, and adolescent periods; (3) evaluated the rate of growth in these subjects; and (4) evaluated the extent to which they were capable of canalization (catch-up and catch-down growth).
(20) Our aims were to determine whether a relationship might exist between crown-rump length and esophageal length, for use in patients in whom height is difficult or inappropriate to measure, and to determine whether the mid-right atrium can be used as a radiographic landmark in fluoroscopic pH probe placement.