(v. i.) To act the virgin; to be or keep chaste; -- followed by it. See It, 5.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
(2) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
(3) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
(4) The hepatic balance for valine, leucine and isoleucine has been measured in anaesthetized virgin controls and 9 and 12-day pregnant rats.
(5) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(6) In the early, middle and late periods of pregnancy, axonal swelling, agglutination of axonal cytoplasm and mitochondrial breakdown were observed, but no marked degeneration appeared in virgin rat uteri.
(7) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
(8) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
(9) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
(10) These results suggest that HTB-9.3 clone represents virgin T cells and CB-11.4 clone-primed T cells at least in alloreactivity.
(11) Previous studies using anti-CD45R monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have shown that normal CD4+ T cells can be separated into virgin and memory cells based on their level of expression of CD45R.
(12) Overall, only 26% of respondents considered virginity at the time of marriage to be important.
(13) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(14) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(15) Second, female preintervention Comparison program virgins used effective contraceptive methods more consistently than those who attended the HBM-SLT program (p less than 0.01); among males, the intervention programs were equally effective.
(16) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
(17) In contrast to their inability to stimulate virgin, alloreactive CD4+ T cells, astrocytes were able to specifically stimulate an alloreactive CD4+ T cell line.
(18) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
(19) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
(20) The occurrence was highest, the degree most severe, and the location exclusively myocardial in C3H and C3Hf mated females, irrespective of parity, whereas virginal females of these strains were entirely free of disease even after administration of exogenous progesterone.
Virgo
Definition:
(n.) A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
Example Sentences:
(1) We subjected individuals of four species of cranes (Anthropoides virgo, Balearica regulorum, Grus grus and Grus japonensis) to acute heat stress to investigate the effectiveness of this trait as a thermoregulatory adaptation.
(2) The HTLV-III Bio-EnzaBead (Litton Bionetics, Charleston, SC) was less sensitive and specific than the Abbott HTLV-III EIA (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) or the Virgo HTLV-III ELISA (Electro-Nucleonics Inc., Columbia, MD).
(3) The results showed that bromoacetamide was fairly effective against Ganesella virgo, the intermediate host of Dicrocoelium chinensis and Eurytrema pancreaticum.
(4) (Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands) Ms Elizabeth Virgo.
(5) Photograph: Tony Virgo Imagine There’s No Ben Target (It’s Easy If You Try) Heroes @ The Hive, to 30 Aug I hear that Ben Target is doing an art installation piece this year but it’s also comedy, that means I don’t know quite what to expect so I’m excited.
(6) It is proposed that Moraba virgo, the only all-female grasshopper, originated by hybridisation between two extant species P169 and P196.
(7) Such an origin accounts for M. virgo's peculiar karyotype and pattern of late replication.
(8) Two commercial monoclonal antibody kits (Virgo and Mikrotrak for the identification of Herpes simplex virus (HSV) have been assessed.
(9) The kits tested were 5 ELISAs: Roche Diagnostica (Basel), Hoechst Enzygnostic (Sao Paulo), Virgo Electronuclionics (Columbia MD), Organon Teknika (Boxtel, Netherlands), Salck Industria e Comercio de Produtos Biologicos (Sao Paulo), and a passive hemagglutination test, (Salck Ind), and indirect immunofluorescence IIF (Virgo electronucleonics, Columbia), a dot blot (Embrabio, Empressa Brasiliera de Biotecnologia Ltda, Sao Paolo) and Karpas AIDS cell test, Fujichemical Industries Ltd (Chokeiji, Takaoka, Japan).
(10) This study compared conventional viral isolation (VI) in cell cultures with a commercial product--Virgo antigen detection system--for the identification and typing of herpes simplex virus (HSV).
(11) November sees it speed through southern Virgo to pass 17 arcminutes N of Spica on the 18th when it may be a fifth magnitude naked eye object, though low in Britain's SE sky before dawn.
(12) This paper reports results of comparative analyses of relative variability carried out on the obligate thelytokous grasshopper Warramaba virgo (Key) and three closely related sexually reproducing species.
(13) "Nice to see, even in the heat of battle", intones John Virgo as though he's said it seventy-three billion times before.
(14) A case report on a 26-year-old virgo intacta with a long standing history of pruritus vulvi, obstructive pulmonary disease, and chronic diarrhea presenting with an invasive squamous carcinoma of the vulva in association with chronic malabsorption and T-lymphocyte deficiency.
(15) The Virgo kit identified 37 strains (57%) as HSV2, and did not identify the remaining 3 (5%).