(superl.) Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
Example Sentences:
(1) HM-8 from a scabby wheat kernel sample from England produced a novel toxin when grown in culture on rice.
(2) An experiment, involving 1200 broiler chickens, was conducted to evaluate the effects of stocking density (providing either 840, 720, 585, or 454 cm2 of floor space per bird) on the incidence of scabby hip syndrome at slaughter (42 days).
(3) The problems of combat measures against contagious ecthyma (scabby mouth) of sheep and the human Orf-virus infections are discussed.
(4) Scabby lesions of 40 (77%) out of a total of 52 cases were positive for the virions, while sera of all infected animals which reacted positively for pox viral antibodies (LSD) was significantly higher (P less than 0.001) in comparison to those of healthy-appearing animals.
(5) Turner gets older and even crankier; his paintings become more proto-impressionistic; his relationships with various women and incidental men rumble on; poor old Hannah Danby gets increasingly marginalised and scabby (she suffered from a disfiguring skin disease).
(6) Gentle scratching twice a week resulted in skin lesions that could not be distinguished from clinical scabby hips at slaughter.
(7) Clipping of the claws at day 25 could almost completely prevent scabby hips at day 45 when the birds were slaughtered.
(8) The investigation also showed that there existed close relationship between the level of T-2 toxin contamination and the epidemic of wheat scabby.
(9) Clinical signs exhibited were listlessness, scabby lesions on skin near the foot pads, mild alopecia and a reduction in body-weight gain.
(10) These results demonstrate that a cell culture produced scabby mouth vaccine is feasible.
(11) A study was made of deoxynivalenol (DON) incidences and levels in 1982 hard red winter (HRW) wheat grown in areas of Nebraska and Kansas known to have scabby wheat.
(12) Decrease in stocking density and an increase in feeding space resulted in a reduction of skin lesions at day 25 and resultant scabby hips after slaughter.
(13) The aetiology of scabby hips was studied in broilers by scratching the skin with chicken claws, clipping the birds' claws and varying the effects of stocking density and food trough allocation.
(14) Broilers from commercial flocks experiencing a 10-60% incidence of scabby-hip lesions at processing were examined, and selected skin lesions were cultured.
(15) Affected goats had a scabby or ulcerated prepuce, with a distorted or pinhole preputial orifice.
(16) She grew up a scabby-kneed mill-worker’s daughter in the foothills of the Appalachians, wearing dresses that her mother made from the free lengths of cotton that lined flour and feed sacks.
(17) Orf virus, derived from contagious pustular dermatitis (scabby mouth) lesions in sheep, was adapted to cell culture and subsequently evaluated as a potential vaccine for sheep.
(18) Corn cultures (five isolates each of Fusarium graminearum Group 1 from wheat crowns, Group 2 from scabby wheat grains and from ear rot of corn and five isolates of F. crookwellense) were screened for their ability to produce deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol (NIV), fusarenon-x (FUS-X) and zearalenone (ZEA).
(19) No positive correlation was found between feather condition and the severity of scabby hips at slaughter at day 45.
(20) The incidence of scabby hip syndrome was higher at the higher stocking density.