(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.
Spry
Definition:
(superl.) Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
(2) Harry was brought into the room in a wheelchair - little and frail but, given his great age, astonishingly spry-looking.
(3) She has spry, bright eyes which match her curly blonde locks, and there’s a playful elegance in the vivid turquoise scarf and pink necklace she wears against her black outfit.
(4) But Winning’s got an attractively impish spirit and there are some spry jokes here.
(5) Matthew Spry is director at planning consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners Interested in housing?
(6) Spry little David is the last surviving grandson of John D. It was Granddad Rockefeller who famously declared competition a sin, and built one of the world's great fortunes.
(7) But governments are forever telling us that this global corporate entity is in fact an agile, mobile and spry creature; that companies will relocate, taking jobs and tax revenue with them rather than succumb to any legislation that will limit their ability to extract as much profit as possible.
(8) Recent evidence suggests that although the eosinophil does posses some regulatory capabilities, its presence is, in fact, a harbinger of tissue destruction (Gleich and Adolphoson, 1986, Wardlaw and Kay, 1987; Spry, 1988).
(9) The cases of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, Eunice Spry – a Jehovah's Witness who forced sticks down the throats of her foster children and made them eat their own vomit – or Khyra Ishaq, who was starved to death because her Muslim mother and stepfather believed she was possessed by an evil spirit, were all received in horror and condemned by their faith communities.
(10) My mother-in-law is a reasonably spry, mentally alert 87-year-old.
(11) Shanbag, a spry, watchful man in his mid-50s, smiles quietly when I ask.
(12) These proteins were designated sprI and sprII (small, proline rich).
(13) It would have been amusing to see Barry Bonds rise up as a spry shooting guard only to suddenly become a center after seeing how many commercials they were giving Shaq.
(14) The plan then is to be put through his paces by Roger Spry, a highly respected fitness and conditioning coach whom Bamford has employed at his own expense to get him in the best possible shape for a shot at the big time.
(15) Spry and alert at 89, Luis Iriondo Aurtenetxea sat down with me in the offices of Gernika Gogoratuz, which means "Remembering Gernika" in the Basque language.
(16) Chabrol's last two films, La Fille Coupée en Deux (A Girl Cut in Two, 2007) and Bellamy (2009), both mordant crime thrillers with a valedictory nod to Hitchcock, showed him to be as spry as ever.
(17) The new proteins were designated sprI and sprII (small, proline rich).
(18) His film is a spry, experimental mix of narrative trickery and visual intelligence, a self-referential noir, featuring sex, drugs, murder and a minor role for the excellent Kenneth Cranham as a London detective trying to sell a movie script.
(19) Good!” said a spry-looking Bill Clinton , wearing light blue pants and a dark shirt, after Obama made his putt on the first hole at Farm Neck golf club in Oak Bluffs.