(v. t.) To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal).
(v. t.) The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cAMP-dependent protein kinase (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37), has been studied in the vaginal epithelium, vaginal stroma, endometrium, and whole uterus of spayed mice treated with oestradiol-17 beta, and in the vaginal epithelium and uterus of spayed mice.
(2) Sequential P treatment reduced the degree of nuclear staining in the oviduct and endometrium below that found in spayed animals; however, such treatment only lowered the amount of cytosolic, not nuclear, ER significantly below spayed levels in those same tissues.
(3) Therefore, the effect of E on GH in spayed monkeys cannot be accounted for by a direct action on somatotrophs.
(4) Its concentration was maximal at proestrus and after administering 2-20 microgram of estradiol to spayed rats.
(5) The mean age of dogs with urinary bladder neoplasia was 9.5 years; 6 were males, 13 were females, and 2 were spayed females.
(6) Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus canis were the most frequently isolated bacteria in specimens collected from the vagina (in the area of the urethral orifice) of 20 normal intact bitches and 20 spayed bitches.
(7) However, when calculated on the basis of the DNA content of the myometrium, which was 8 times higher in the spayed than in the pregnant animals, the specific activities were lower in the tissue from spayed animals.
(8) Scedosporium inflatum Malloch et Salkin was found to cause osteomyelitis in a 6-year-old spayed female beagle.
(9) Mating during a period of 40 min at the beginning of hormonally induced estrus in spayed female rats resulted in a rapid decrease in receptivity as measured hourly by the lordosis response.
(10) Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis was diagnosed in a 9-year-old spayed dog that had a series of epileptic convulsions a day before death.
(11) Spayed animals were given progesterone for 4 days and then an injection of BCG serum or vaccine in 1 uterine horn.
(12) If the spayed beagle dam can be considered a model in which one may equivalate bone changes occurring in the ovarian hormone-deficient human female, we reach the following conclusions: The presence or absence of quasi-physiological levels of single ovarian hormones do affect the status of trabecular bone.
(13) Resorptive and formative characteristics on the periosteal and corticoendosteal bone envelopes were assessed on the ribs of intact, spayed and medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA)-supplemented Beagle dams.
(14) A 5-y-old spayed female Corgi dog was dipped with a d-limonene-based compound for flea infestation.
(15) A correspondence between the appearance of vaginal smears and the layers of the epithelium from which the cells had desquamated was established in untreated rats during the estrous cycle, in control ovariectomized rats and in spayed rats injected with either estrogen or progesterone.
(16) Thirteen adult cycling female cynomolgus monkeys were ovariectomized and treated for 28 days with 1) an empty Silastic capsule (Spay), 2) a 2-cm E-filled capsule (E), or 3) a 2-cm E-filled capsule for 14 days plus a 6-cm P-filled capsule implanted for an additional 14 days (E + P).
(17) A 6-year-old, obese, spayed female Doberman pinscher dog was presented for clinical examination with a 1-day history of repeated seizures and a long-term history of periodic bouts of ataxia, circling, and head tilt.
(18) Treatment of carcinomas in spayed (hormone-independent), nonspayed (hormone-dependent) rats, and of tumors which were refractory to treatment with estradiol dipropionate caused regression of the tumors.
(19) The report cites the results of three experiments designed to determine the effect of estrogen treatment on spayed and entire ewes.
(20) When small amounts of this compound were applied to the vulvas of anestrous or spayed females, males placed with these females became sexually aroused and attempted to mount them.
Splay
Definition:
(v. t.) To display; to spread.
(v. t.) To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.
(v. t.) To spay; to castrate.
(v. t.) To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window, etc.
(a.) A slope or bevel, especially of the sides of a door or window, by which the opening is made larged at one face of the wall than at the other, or larger at each of the faces than it is between them.
Example Sentences:
(1) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(2) Both the absence of exaggerated splay in patients with reduction of glomerular filtration rate by as much as 85%, and the emergence of exaggerated splay in patients with more marked reduction of GFR, require explanation.
(3) The lipomas in this study demonstrated this tendency to splay apart and infiltrate the cranial nerves, with the fatty tissue adjacent to the nerves invariably containing portions of the cranial nerves.
(4) In vitro tests demonstrated approximately sevenfold greater filter length shortening (a measure of filter splaying) for the titanium GF in response to a given applied load.
(5) This rudimentary accessory ray caused a splay foot deformity that made it difficult for the patient to walk comfortably in shoes.
(6) At three to four days there was splaying and tortuosity of the loops of Henle.
(7) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
(8) Such loosening, when it occurs at microtubule ends, results in protofilament-like splaying and end-wise depolymerization.
(9) Hindlimb splaying was apparent in the 200-ppm males by wk 4; less severe splaying appeared in the 100-ppm group at wk 8.
(10) The behavior of the animals appeared splaying of the contralateral extremities, circling around counterclockwise and in a comatose motionless state.
(11) First, this idea that these men have "no choice" but to sit with their legs splayed, dominating-alpha-style.
(12) Time of use, the individual user, and bristle composition were found to have the strongest influences on splaying, and brush design was found to have the least influence.
(13) A novel feature is accurate compensation for 'smile' or 'frown' profiles as well as for the possible splay or curvature of lanes.
(14) It depicted the bird's splayed legs and, the critic went on to say, its "cunt".
(15) One of the most consistent features found was splaying of the roots of teeth adjacent to the lesion.
(16) After watched the video through splayed fingers, I can report that it's grim – kind of "Confessions of a supermodel and a New York indie band, both equally desperate for attention".
(17) The main differences compared with adult measurements were in the following dimensions: temple width, head width, bridge height, projection, splay angle and front to bend.
(18) In patients with GFR values below 15 ml per minute, increased splay was observed, and below a GFR of 10 ml per minute, the splay was very marked.
(19) The battery consisted of measures of grip strength, locomotor gait and landing splay, sensory sensitivities during conditioned avoidance performance, the action potential of the ventral caudal nerve, and the brainstem auditory evoked response.
(20) The 26 boys sharing the rite of passage sat naked on their blankets, legs splayed in front of them.