(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.
Rusty
Definition:
(superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
(superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
(superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
(superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.
(superl.) Rust-colored; dark.
(superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
(superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
(2) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
(3) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(4) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
(5) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
(6) With the breakdown of trapped hemoglobin, iron-containing hemosiderin is stored in synovial tissue producing rusty discoloration and proliferative reaction.
(7) 3.26am BST 62 mins The hour coming up is not lost on our Twitter followers Rusty (@bussruckley) But seriously, can Jurgen make a sub before its too late?
(8) The man with the rusty teeth struggles over the word on the whiteboard, one of a handful the teacher has written for the class.
(9) Rusty (@bussruckley) @KidWeil these vuvuzelas are death.
(10) Regardless, the England manager is keen to include Wilshere in the squad in the belief he boasts the required pedigree to succeed, however rusty he is after his lay-off.
(11) Diagnosis of the first case was made from fragments of an endometrial polyp obtained after curettage done because of a rusty vaginal discharge and lower abdominal pain.
(12) As the interval arrived the home rear-defence had indeed been more composed, though Kompany’s rustiness caused two errors.
(13) He said allegations by a senior government official that the tools were rusty were untrue and that he wore gloves and a gown.
(14) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
(15) Didier Drogba was making the first start of his second coming in these parts, but was understandably rusty and, long before the end, rather wheezing.
(16) A faint dog-collar effect is lent by that all-white chin, the rest of his rusty beard creeping over his cheeks like a delightful kind of lichen.
(17) The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.
(18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
(19) Since Warp's minimal beginnings, they've built a legacy that has taken in a florally abundant range of styles, from the haunted psychedelia of Broadcast to Bibio, Boards Of Canada, Black Dog Productions and Rustie .
(20) Mesut Özil, Santi Cazorla and Alexis Sánchez, restored after his exertions at the Copa América, all revelled where they had been so rusty at the Emirates Stadium the previous week as Arsenal whipped up the kind of upbeat tempo they had enjoyed in the spring, when, albeit in a game of catch-up, they had been the Premier League’s resurgent force.