(1) Because swine are used often in cardiovascular research, and because systolic time intervals (durations of preejection and ejection) are useful in evaluating the ventricular function in health and disease and the effects of drugs on ventricular function, systolic time intervals for left and right ventricles were obtained from 12 healthy anesthetized shoats.
(2) The camels and small shoats [sheep and goats] sat close to the sea to feel cool … this is the first time I have experienced this rising sea, and the drought being so continuous, and the rains being so poor.” More than 240,000 people do not have enough food in Somaliland because of this acute drought caused by poor Gu rains (the region’s main rainy season) from April to June this year, and in 2014.
(3) Radiologic checks of the thoracic organs and laboratory diagnostics provided useful data as to the temporal course of the radiogenic pulmonary affections and the tolerability of fractionated whole-body hyperthermia including superimposed local heating on shoats.
(4) In a pilot study, 8 shoats of the "Edelschwein" breed were submitted to a combined treatment with hyperthermia (5 X 60 min; 42 degrees C in the thoracic region) followed by irradiation of the right lung (5 X 4 Gy).
Sloat
Definition:
(n.) A narrow piece of timber which holds together large pieces; a slat; as, the sloats of a cart.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Saccharomyces cerevisiae CDC42 gene product is involved in the morphogenetic events of the cell division cycle; temperature-sensitive cdc42 mutants are unable to form buds and display delocalized cell-surface deposition at the restrictive temperature (Adams, A. E. M., D. I. Johnson, R. M. Longnecker, B. F. Sloat, and J. R. Pringle.