What's the difference between runt and runty?

Runt


Definition:

  • (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.

Runty


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a runt; diminutive; mean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Zinc was first recognized as essential for animals at the University of Illinois School of Agriculture in 1916, when it was found that zinc-deficient baby pigs were runty, developed dermatitis on their legs, and were sterile.
  • (2) In addition, some enhancer variants tended to establish a high-level persistent infection in the kidneys immediately following an acute infection; however, in all cases considerable histopathology was associated with these elevated long-term infections, and these mice were always runty.
  • (3) Avian reovirus (ARV) and avian nephritis virus (ANV) were individually isolated from runty 10-day-old broiler chicks.

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