(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.
Slaughterman
Definition:
(n.) One employed in slaughtering.
Example Sentences:
(1) When, in Jerusalem, slaughterman Davey Dean boasts of the 200 cows he kills in a morning – "Wham!
(2) Bridger, a 47-year-old former slaughterman and labourer, denies all the charges.