(n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
(n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
(n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
(n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
(v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
(v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pancreatic secretion was evaluated in eight pregnant female mongrel dogs prepared with Thomas duodenal and gastric fistulae, during pregnancy (corresponding to the third trimester in humans), during the puerperium, and several months after whelping.
(2) One of seven female coyotes (Canis latrans) captured in Webb County, Texas during September 1986 and confined and mated in holding facilities at Millville, Utah whelped the following spring.
(3) After all pups were whelped, each dog was euthanatized and necropsied, and the testis and epididymis were examined microscopically.
(4) Further consideration is given to its use to estimate the time of ovulation retrospectively and estimate the time of whelping prospectively.
(5) Large cells, probably of uterine symplasma origin, were observed in vaginal lavages following whelping or pseudopregnancy.
(6) Final body weight (FBW) of the whelps was to be predicted from their body weight (BW) in early August (r = 0.689).
(7) They are, however, expected to announce a deal for the Norwegian whelp Martin Odegaard any time now.
(8) It is probable that all breeds of dogs are at risk for these or other traits that influence whelping and neonatal care.
(9) Six bitches were sampled daily, for 10 days, before whelping and then, together with four puppies per litter, at whelping (day 11) and at 1 and 7 days thereafter.
(10) In a second experiment, female mink were provided diets containing 20 ppm ZEN, 20 ppm ZEN plus 0.5% HSCAS or a control diet from 1 January 1989 through whelping (25 April to 15 May 1989).
(11) The malformation rate from two cohorts of females whelping at different times of the year was low (less than 1.0%) and not significantly different.
(12) This included proportion of mink breeding (47 to 100%), proportion giving birth (33 to 80%), and average litter size (2.6 to 4.0 kits per whelping female).
(13) Finally, morphometric analyses revealed a significant increase in epithelial and connective tissue compartment thicknesses, as well as a marked increase in the volume fraction occupied by glands between 1 day and 161 days after dogs were whelped.
(14) Enzyme activities in bitches' serum remained within the normal range for adult dogs throughout whelping and lactation.
(15) Herpesvirus was isolated from the brain, lung, liver, spleen, kidney and intestine of one of the affected litter which died on day 10 after whelping.
(16) A smaller decrease in all 3 measures occurred between 161 and 337 days after the dogs were whelped.
(17) Beagle pups were delivered by cesarean section six days before their predicted whelping date and exposed to an alternating protocol of asphyxial episodes known to produce IVH.
(18) Both veterinary surgeon and dog breeder should be involved in assessing the whelping capability of brood bitches as one essential point in the selection of sound stock.
(19) The fifth bitch did not have elevated progesterone during the induced estrus, and upon return to estrus one month later was successfully bred and whelped a normal litter of 10 pups.
(20) Ip treated dogs whelped 5 pups; im 7 pups; and sc, 5 pups.
Youth
Definition:
(pl. ) of Youth
(n.) The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility.
(n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
(n.) A young person; especially, a young man.
(n.) Young persons, collectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) That most of the neoplasms found were adenomas and not invasive cancer may be due to the relative youth of most of those screened.
(2) We continue to work closely with Pacific partner countries and regional organisations to build resilience and manage the impacts of climate change on economic development.” Aluka Rakin, director of Youth to Youth in Health in Majuro, said the organisation’s clinic is falling apart.
(3) There was praise for existing programmes such as the Ferguson Youth Initiative, which gives young people the chance to earn a bike or a computer.
(4) Everyone gets a bit excited with the whole ‘youth’ thing but, at our clubs, the managers wouldn’t just play any old youngster.
(5) Temperature at 3 PM, sensitive skin type, youthfulness, and being male were also independently associated with sunburn.
(6) The report also recommends including justice and victim of violence targets in the national Closing the Gap strategy, recognising foetal alcohol spectrum disorders as a disability before the courts, and making a national commitment to a justice reinvestment approach to find community-based solutions to youth crime.
(7) In addition, youthful onset of tropical diabetic syndrome (J-type diabetes) is extremely rare.
(8) Roy Hodgson has opted for youth in his 23-man squad for the World Cup, with Everton's Ross Barkley , 20, and Liverpool's Raheem Sterling, 19, the most eye-catching inclusions for Brazil.
(9) The sodium to potassium ratio did contribute to the prediction of blood pressure in girls and when, in youths as well as in adults, both sexes were considered together.
(10) Israeli policemen search the area after a body of a Palestinian youth was found in a Jerusalem's forest area.
(11) I need to provide services, bring employment and gradually I will take the youth out of the militias.” Where are the world's most war-damaged cities?
(12) Plasma catecholamine levels and the haemodynamic response to the hand-grip test have therefore been evaluated in a group of young athletes, compared with a group of non-trained youths.
(13) The method used was the AFMS questionnaire, which is based on the Matthews Youth Test for Health and a Swedish version of the Jenkins Activity Survey.
(14) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
(15) Although both men and women throughout history have seen hair as an important aspect of appearance, it is especially important today, in light of the great emphasis on youthfulness.
(16) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
(17) The frequencies of patients with low thrombocyte monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity (defined as having an activity lower than 1 SD below the mean of a respective control group) were studied in 100 consecutive cases admitted to a clinic for child and youth psychiatry.
(18) Elferink told Guardian Australia the CLP had no plans in place to establish a youth court in Alice Springs, and that alcohol and other drug courts established by the former Labor government “didn’t work”.
(19) Data from the National Longitudinal Youth Survey (NLSY) were analyzed to study interrelationships between antisocial behaviors in early adolescence (ages 14-15) and late adolescent alcohol and drug use 4 years later (when adolescents were 18-19).
(20) In the course of their existence, they came to redefine the issue of pedophilia as one of youth emancipation.