(n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged aquatic birds, allied to the gulls, and belonging to Sterna and various allied genera.
(a.) Threefold; triple; consisting of three; ternate.
(a.) That which consists of, or pertains to, three things or numbers together; especially, a prize in a lottery resulting from the favorable combination of three numbers in the drawing; also, the three numbers themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) In group B there was a decrease (P is less than 0.01) in bone-forming and bone-resorbing surfaces after both short-tern and long-term treatment.
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(3) Two strains were isolated from ticks of the species Ornithodoros capensis Neumann 1901 collected from the nests of Sooty Terns, Sterna fuscata Linnaeus 1766 on coral cays off the east coast of Queensland, Australia.
(4) It is concluded that the carotid sinus pressoreceptor reflex considerably alters the systemic venous capacity which in tern alters venous return and cardiac output.
(5) Larvae of the first species can develop into adult forms in birds (terns, gulls, ducks) and in mammals (cats, golden hamsters, white mice).
(6) The response to a corset was slow, but the long-tern effects were at least as good as those of the other treatments.
(7) In Australia, levels of lead and mercury were higher in black noddy (A. minutus) and lower for sooty tern; and cadmium levels were highest for brown noddy (A. stolidus) and sooty tern, and lowest for black noddy.
(8) Whale N9 neuraminidase, like tern N9 neuraminidase, possesses high levels of hemagglutinating activity but, unlike the tern neuraminidase, failed to form large well-ordered crystals.
(9) The nucleoprotein (NP) genes of influenza viruses were sequenced from a variety of virus isolates derived from marine mammals: whales from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, seal and gull from the Western Atlantic, and a tern from the Caspian Sea.
(10) Detailed evidence has been collected from the following three groups of studies on herring gulls in the lower Great Lakes during the early 1970s; Forster's terns in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1983; and double-crested cormorants and Caspian terns in various locations in the upper Great Lakes from 1986 onwards.
(11) Metal levels for the tropical terns nesting in Puerto Rico and Australia generally were not lower than levels reported for temperate-nesting or mainland nesting birds (except for mercury in Australia).
(12) Experimental infection of golden hamsters, white mice and black terns with M. xanthosomus failed.
(13) Ruptured-yolk peritonitis was responsible for the death of a royal tern.
(14) In Puerto Rico, lead and cadmium levels were highest in bridled tern (Sterna anaethetus), and mercury levels were highest in sooty (S. fuscata) and roseate tern (S. dougallii).
(15) At one extreme, the Arctic tern travels up to 35,000km from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, while the bar-tailed godwit was recently discovered to fly from Alaska to New Zealand – a journey of 11,000km across the Pacific Ocean – in a single hop.
(16) In this paper we report concentrations of lead, cadmium, mercury, and selenium in breast feathers of common terns (Sterna hirundo) and roseate terns (S. dougallii) trapped during incubation at breeding colonies in New York and Massachusetts.
(17) These results suggest that terns are exposed to significantly higher levels of mercury in the northeastern United States than they are in the wintering grounds in South America.
(18) Twenty Forster's tern eggs were collected from separate nests at a natural colony with documented reproductive problems, situated at Green Bay, Lake Michigan, and an inland colony at Lake Poygan (control) where reproduction was documented as normal.
(19) However, when the neuraminidase was complexed with Fab fragments of monoclonal antibodies, which were made against the tern N9 neuraminidase, large crystals of the complexes were obtained which diffract X-rays to beyond 3 A.
(20) They were not found in sera from bridled terns (Sterna anaetheta) or brown gannets (Sula leucogaster) nesting on the same islands.