(a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
(a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
(a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
(a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the presence of a loss-of-function runt mutation masculinizes triploid intersexes.
(2) In rabbits starved for 24 hours, and in runt rabbits body temperature did not rise, but a decline started 60 min after endotoxin administration, corresponding to the transient fall observed in well-fed animals and continuing until about the 100-120th min; thereafter body temperature tended to stabilize at the low level.
(3) Reduced function of runt results in female-specific lethality and sexual transformation of XX animals that are heterozygous for Sxl or sis loss-of-function mutations.
(4) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.
(5) Under specific pathogen-free conditions, NZB nude mice survive less than 3 weeks, dying of a runting-like disease with infection by local normally noninvasive organisms.
(6) Ever since the abnormalities of runt disease were first described they have repeatedly been compared to those observed in patients with certain lymphomas (17).
(7) Some runts failed to increase their metabolic rate in the cold and these had the lowest deep body temperature.
(8) This results in "multisuckling", with its large number of runts.
(9) Possible candidates include the primary pair-rule genes, hairy and runt.
(10) The role of selenium deficiency in the etiology of the runting-stunting syndrome (RSS) of broiler chickens in Australia was investigated.
(11) The runt gene is required in a developing Drosophila embryo for proper segmentation.
(12) Attempts to cause lethal runting of F1 hybrid mice injected at birth with spleen cells from unresponsive mice gave variable results.
(13) Immunization of females prior to mating altered the size of their litters and the incidence of postnatal death and runting, and the effect varied with the antigen used.
(14) In the absence of defectives all animals died, but in their presence 17 of 23 animals survived and 15 of 23 became runted and chronically infected.
(15) Newborn mice, runting-like disease; bacterial inoculation; immunological response in.
(16) Alternatively maternal HLA homozygosity may predispose to fetal changes comparable to runting.
(17) Long-term effects of tolerant infection included mild runting, decreased survival time, and almost total sterility among females, largely caused by fatal virus infection of embryos.
(18) The affected mice were moderately runted and had deformities in all four limbs.
(19) The influence of prenatal growth retardation on epidermal growth and keratinization was studied in small-for-dates human babies, runt piglets and in rat fetuses subject to maternal protein deprivation.
(20) The heat productions of newborn runt and normal piglets were estimated over a range of ambient temperatures.