(n.) A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
(n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
(n.) A mass of solidified metal in a furnace hearth; a salamander.
(n.) A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, or the like.
(v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate.
(v. t.) To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over; to besprinkle.
(v. i.) To scatter seed for growth and the production of a crop; -- literally or figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(2) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(3) Serum from piglets of vaccinated sows had no more bactericidal activity than did sera from non-vaccinated sows.
(4) The results indicate that additional feed in late gestation improves reproductive performance in sows.
(5) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(6) In acute experiments on pregnant sows under sodium pentobarbitone anaesthesia, acid base balance, oxygenation and plasma metabolite concentrations were well maintained in the dam and all fetuses which remained undisturbed in utero, irrespective of the duration of the experiment.
(7) Littermate pigs were reared artificially or on the sow.
(8) The animals were sold only to smaller farms (less than 500 sows for breeding) with concentional keeping patterns which were kept under constant diagnostic supervision.
(9) Sow had a couple of chances and the substitute Emmanuel Emenike drew a sharp last-minute save out of Szczesny but Giroud's penalty, after Kadlec's foul on Walcott, represented Arsenal's emphatic final word.
(10) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
(11) Landrace sows lost less weight during lactation (P less than .05) when fed diet F than when fed diet N. The total number of pigs born, born alive, and alive at 21 d and at weaning were higher (P less than .01) for S-line Duroc sows, and litter size at 21 d and at weaning was higher (P less than .01) for S-line Landrace sows than for C-line litters within each breed.
(12) Patterns of estradiol and LH secretion around estrus were similar in normal sows and those treated with GnRH.
(13) The adrenocortical response and open field behavior of a random sample of 37 individually confined gestating sows in different parities were tested around day 85 of pregnancy.
(14) The possibility of transplacental transmission of PRCV was investigated in two litters born to sows that had been inoculated with this virus in late pregnancy.
(15) Isolations were made from the kidney and genital tract of each sow.
(16) Critics have warned that the boom is benefiting only a narrow elite while leaving the poor and jobless behind, exacerbating inequality and potentially sowing seeds of unrest.
(17) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
(18) Despite hypocalcaemia and hypophosphataemia of the homozygote sows at term, fetal Ca and Pi concentrations were normal.
(19) Number of pigs born alive was lower for sows treated with P.G.
(20) Sera from adult sows showed a higher rate (73.1%) of positive titers than those from 3-6 month-old pigs (40.7%).
Soy
Definition:
(n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water.
(n.) The soja, a kind of bean. See Soja.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultures of Streptococcus mutans HS-6, OMZ-176, Ingbritt C, 6715-wt13, and pooled human plaque were grown in trypticase soy media with or without 1% sucrose.
(2) A significantly lower protein digestibility was observed when the diets containing soy protein were fed.
(3) We compared the effects of meals containing the same amounts of either isolated soy or beef protein on acid secretion and serum gastrin concentration in normal humans.
(4) The test organism, grown under anaerobic conditions in Trypticase soy broth, was diluted in buffered salt solution, and about 2 x 10(4) cells were suspended in 10 ml of an aerated broth.
(5) Six cultures of Bacillus and six lot numbers of Trypticase soy agar (BBL) were used to test the hypothesis that a microorganism grown on various lot numbers of the same chromatogram.
(6) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
(7) Later, animals exposed to lifelong 5 or 2% soy lecithin preparations were hypoactive, had poor postural reflexes, and showed attenuated morphine analgesia.
(8) Nevertheless, the food conversion index of the chicks consuming the diet prepared with fish silage proved to be better that the conversion index of the diet prepared with fish and soy flours.
(9) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
(10) The results of our study show that the substitution of soy protein for casein can be of benefit in those patients who need a long-term hypocaloric diet.
(11) Retention of 65Zn from an intrinsically labeled soy test meal was higher in rats adapted to chicken protein than in rats adapted to soy protein.
(12) EWOS' commercial diet (E-diet) for mice and two test diets, one containing 2% soy oil (S-diet) and the other 2% soy oil and 0.1% methoxy-substituted glycerol ethers (MGE-diet), instead of the animal fat in the E-diet, were used.
(13) Mixing 10% soy protein with ground meat prior to frying prevents the formation of these mutagens presumably by affording a lower surface temperature.
(14) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(15) The BMC was similar at 6 weeks in both groups but was lower in infants fed soy-based formula than in those fed cow milk-based formula at 3, 6, and 12 months.
(16) Growth, protein and dry matter digestibility, nitrogen retention, and morphology of the intestinal mucosa of calves on the all milk-protein diet were superior to those of calves on diets containing a soy product.
(17) The study of amino acid pattern shows that sulphur containing amino acids are limiting to almost the same degree in meat and meat soy blend.
(18) Adding 600 ppm supplemental zinc to a "corn-soy" diet for periods from 7 to 42 days did not materially affect stable zinc level in any tissue studied.
(19) In a study by Chan et al., the BMC of 40 white infants fed soy-based formula and 10 infants (of unstated race) fed human milk was measured at 2 weeks and at 2 and 4 months of age.
(20) Three groups of kittens were adapted to purified diets containing 43.5% soy protein that were either taurine-free (OT) or contained 0.15% taurine (NT) or 1.0% taurine (HT).