(v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
(v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
(v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
(v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(2) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
(3) 10 data are presented from the results of slaughtering.
(4) The results do not favour the possibility that transient motor reactions exhibited by swine during pre-slaughter CO2-exposure are manifestations of emotional stress.
(5) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
(6) In spite of small corpora lutea and increased follicular activity, none of the prednisolone treated heifers showed signs of oestrogen influence, and the two animals slaughtered 26 days after the start of treatment, did not ovulate or show signs of oestrus.
(7) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
(8) Carcasses were subjected to low voltage electrical stimulation at slaughter.
(9) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
(10) A total of 855 pig lungs were collected at slaughter and evaluated macroscopically.
(11) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
(12) It was demonstrated that Salmonella could survive in the slaughter hall, whereas Campylobacter died off, probably due to its vulnerability to drying conditions and its inability to grow at temperatures below 30 degrees C. Campylobacter was not isolated from the carcasses after cooling.
(13) Hopefully it could be just a week 7.03pm Michel texts Adam Smith thanks for your patience today 9.31pm Michel texts Adam Smith are you publishing the Slaughters and May opinion tomorrow?
(14) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(15) In general, as far as the investigated blood variables are concerned, there were distinct and significant differences in the mean values between farm and slaughter blood-samples.
(16) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
(17) More than 28,000 cattle were slaughtered in 2012 at a cost of £100m to taxpayers.
(18) A survey of gastrointestinal nematodes in Georgia cattle was conducted from 1968 through 1973 from actual worm counts from viscera of 145 slaughtered beef cattle or from egg counts made from fecal samples from 3,273 beef and 100 dairy cattle.
(19) In order to assess the extent of environmental pollution by Pb, Cd and Zn in the industrial area of Portoscuso (Southwestern Sardinia-Italy), anatomohistopathological, histochemical and chemical tests were carried out on the heart, liver, kidneys and bones of sheep slaughtered in the local abattoir.
(20) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
Slaughterhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Example Sentences:
(1) The types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) were similar in warts of butchers from these slaughterhouses and of 63 butchers from various slaughterhouses all over the country.
(2) In a cross-sectional study of 144 slaughterhouse workers, a cumulative prevalence of current and anamnestic cases of protein contact dermatitis of 22% was found, with the highest prevalence in workers eviscerating and cleansing gut.
(3) Antibodies to immunoglobulins (Ig) M, G, and A against Yersinia enterocolitica serotypes O:3, O:5, O:8, and O:9 and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotypes I and III were analyzed by enzyme immunoassay of the serum samples of 161 slaughterhouse workers, 147 pig farmers, and 114 grain or berry farmers.
(4) Pituitary and serum from 86 male or female horses of various reproductive states were collected in the normal breeding season (summer) and in the nonbreeding season (winter) at a commercial slaughterhouse.
(5) Groups were sampled weekly for campylobacters and finally at the slaughterhouse.
(6) The animals were sent in 22 deliveries to one slaughterhouse.
(7) This is in contrast with herd books, artificial insemination banks and slaughterhouse data bases in animals.
(8) The prevalence and distribution of Taenia saginata cysticercosis in Anambra State, Nigeria, was determined from analysis of official slaughterhouse records for 1973 to 1979 and from a special survey conducted at a typical slaughter slab in the State during September to December 1980.
(9) Morphological investigations of slaughterhouse material revealed a prevalence of 63% of the sows (n = 224) and 36% of the slaughter pigs (n = 209) with mucosal lesions in the pars oesophagea.
(10) Research is currently going on in order to improve the sensitivity of this antigen detection test, so that it can replace the current unreliable meat inspection methods in the slaughterhouse.
(11) Oocytes were collected from slaughterhouse ovaries by aspiration of 1-5-mm follicles.
(12) The research was focused on the presence of Salmonella serovars in samples collected from 2 stream sites equidistant from a cold storage plant and slaughterhouse, one downstream, and the other before the source of pollution.
(13) Animal rights organisations have been handing out awards and lavishing praise on slaughterhouse designers and burger restaurant chains after "negotiations" for small changes that leave the systems of exploitation intact.
(14) Confirmation of pregnancy was based on recorded farrowings or abortions; confirmation of non-pregnancy was based on return to oestrus and rebreeding, recorded non-farrowing, or inspection of the uterus of culled animals at the slaughterhouse.
(15) During 1983 and 1984, ileocecal lymph node specimens were obtained from clinically normal cattle at 76 US Department of Agriculture-inspected cull cattle slaughterhouses in 32 states and Puerto Rico.
(16) All these issues – the proposed sale, the slaughterhouse, the budget cuts and the pipeline – are interrelated, reflecting divisions between the Sioux and the outside world but also within the tribe, between those who see development as desperately needed and those who are opposed.
(17) The identification of cattle helminths in Ituri was carried out by post mortem examinations in slaughterhouses and tracer calves.
(18) As a routine diagnostic procedure in the slaughterhouse, trichinoscopy and the digestion method are possible alternatives, the latter being more sensitive.
(19) Three pigs from a slaughterhouse were found heavily infected with Cysticercus cellulosae.
(20) Sera (166) were collected on adult pigs at slaughterhouse in the following french departments: Finistere, Morbihan and Ille et Vilaine.