What's the difference between spay and spray?

Spay


Definition:

  • (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.

Spray


Definition:

  • (n.) A small shoot or branch; a twig.
  • (n.) A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray.
  • (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold.
  • (n.) A group of castings made in the same mold and connected by sprues formed in the runner and its branches.
  • (v. t.) Water flying in small drops or particles, as by the force of wind, or the dashing of waves, or from a waterfall, and the like.
  • (v. t.) A jet of fine medicated vapor, used either as an application to a diseased part or to charge the air of a room with a disinfectant or a deodorizer.
  • (v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
  • (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
  • (v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (2) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
  • (3) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (4) Thus, enhancers are required to obtain significant nasal absorption of glucagon and calcitonin and powders and spray solutions did not differ in terms of systemic availability.
  • (5) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
  • (6) BP sprayed almost 2m gallons of Corexit on the slick and at the leak site on the seabed.
  • (7) An infection rate of 0.46% was comparable to the incidence previously observed for conventional methods using an iodine spray as a skin preparation.
  • (8) The effect of spraying plants with rain-water was to enhance slightly the total content of all trace metals analysed.
  • (9) In pest control operations, organophosphorus compounds (OP) have been sprayed as insecticides, blood cholinesterase (ChE) activities and urinary alkylphosphate levels were measured for both OP-sprayers (n = 102) and non-sprayers (n = 35) in pest control companies, and the relationship between the analytical results and spraying conditions was investigated.
  • (10) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
  • (11) In global evaluations some 60% of patients had good to excellent results with the nasal spray and some 75% with the eye drops.
  • (12) Enrichment cultures were established with the aromatic fraction of a crude oil and screened for aromatic-degrading pseudomonads, using a sprayed plate technique.
  • (13) Heart rate increased significantly by 2.0 min in the tablet group but did not change in the spray group.
  • (14) Water from the reactors that were the source of Sonoda's drink is being used to spray trees to limit the buildup of dust and prevent fires.
  • (15) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An activist sprays T-shirts during a training protest organised by NoG20 Rhein-Main.
  • (17) We may be able to control as die back with fungicides but we would need to spray every few weeks over the whole country.
  • (18) The hydrolysate obtained was then subjected to two different dehydration techniques: drum drying at 121 degrees C and 18 seconds retention, and spray drying at 101 degrees C and 40 psi pressure.
  • (19) Large-scale residual spraying was not totally effective and was very costly, and mass chemoprophylaxis was not feasible.
  • (20) 46 boys were sent for operation and have been treated primary with LH-RH nasal spray.