(n.) A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The difference in oxygen affinities between yak Hbs A1 and A2, which have identical beta chains, suggests the existence of yet unknown mechanisms determining oxygen affinity.
(2) Morphological and structural rearrangement of resistant pulmonary vessels and alveolar capillaries was assessed in lowland animals (rabbits) during high-altitude adaptation, in aboriginal high-altitude species (yaks, mountain goats) and on native highlanders.
(3) A caravan comprising 300 yaks, 50 mules and 100 porters wound through the Himalayan valleys, carrying 900 boxes of food, all because 13 white men wanted to reach the summit.
(4) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
(5) The Street View project takes viewers into the heart of the Sagarmatha national park, home to the world’s highest mountain, where icy blue rivers run below snow-capped peaks, monks play traditional music and yak-herders navigate precipitous stone-strewn trails.
(6) Chewbacca took nearly 1,000 hours to make by 10 hair inserters, who used yak hair.
(7) If the same-sized valves of this two kinds are used, the hemodynamic parameter of cambered bileaflet valve would be better than those of yak pericardiac valve.
(8) It is concluded that the yak has adapted genetically to high altitude by largely eliminating the hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstrictor response.
(9) Korean cattle (Hamhung, Pyongyang, Chinju Suwon, and Kwangju), Mongolian cattle, Hainan Tao cattle, northeastern Chinese cattle (Shuangliao, Shenyang, Tongliao, Lüta, and Chilin), Astatic Water Buffalo, Yak, Bos Banteng, American Bison, and Holstein-Friesian.
(10) Meanwhile, new apps like current US college buzz Yik Yak or recent novelty-buzz Yo are popping up all the time with new spins on messaging.
(11) Data are presented on yak platelet ultrastructure (in comparison with human platelets), and on acetylsalicylic acid influence on the platelet ultrastructure and function.
(12) Non-Mendelian distribution of some such nucleotide blocks has been obtained for interspecies crosses of cattle and yak.
(13) Acetylsalicylic acid influences the yak platelet plasma membrane inducing fragmentation, which is attended by a rise in the total number of platelets, by the appearance of a great number of microforms, and by the reduction of functional activity.
(14) Pyrrolizidine alkaloid poisoning seriously affects the livelihood of the local population which depends almost entirely on the yak.
(15) In yak, zebu and in hybrids (yak x cattle, zebu x cattle) a new AMY-1 allelic variant (AMY-1D) has been found using the same method.
(16) However, the difference has been found by blot hybridization between genomic organization of satellite IV in cattle and yak chromosomal DNA.
(17) The numbers, morphology and distribution of pulmonary endocrine cells in goats, sheep and the yak and its interbreeds with cattle, dzos and stols, were studied after their demonstration by means of the peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique with a polyclonal antiserum raised in the rabbit to human neuron-specific enolase, a marker for neuroendocrine cells.
(18) In the experiments on dogs inoculated intracerebrally with the "paralytic rabies" variant of the "Yak" strain of street rabies virus we observed spontaneous recovery of 1 out of 5 sick animals.
(19) Textile analyst Liqin Zhang gave evidence saying she identified wool and yak in the scarf samples.
(20) Naturally acquired antibody to H3N2 human influenza antigens was found in a yak-zebu crossbred in Nepal.
Yam
Definition:
(n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
Example Sentences:
(1) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(2) Yam 1B SN also inhibited DNA synthesis by human T and B lymphocytes and immunoglobulin generation by normal B cells as well as by Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B lymphoblastoid cell lines.
(3) The inhibitory activity of Yam 1B SN was inactivated at 56 degrees C and at pH 10 but was relatively stable at pH 2.
(4) TBTA exhibited a significant effect in vitro and in vivo on four yam rot fungal isolates tested.
(5) Fake meat diet Facebook Twitter Pinterest Impossible Foods’ plant-based mixture of potato and wheat, coconut fat, Japanese yam, vegetable broth, xanthan gum, sugars and amino acids is a dead ringer for the real thing.
(6) Yam, the staple food in several tropical countries, is a good source of the steroid used in the manufacture of the pill and other sex hormone preparations -- saponin diosgenin.
(7) In the early days of production of oral contraceptives (OCs), most yams were gathered from the wild in Mexico.
(8) In China, where Western corticosteroids are regarded as too expensive for the barefoot doctors, several species of yam are used.
(9) The classification of the YaM-55 strain with HAV was verified by specific serological studies and by molecular hybridization with cloned cDNA of HAV.
(10) To our knowledge only five cases have been reported (Chang-Lo, Yam & Rubenstone 1967; Chang-Lo et al.
(11) The complete amino acid sequence of acidic chitinase from yam (Dioscorea japonica) aerial tubers was determined.
(12) On July 25, the Jamaican Ministry of Health (JMH) contacted CDC for assistance in investigating the continued occurrence of THS; the collaborative JMH and CDC epidemiologic investigation focused on characterizing the epidemiology of THS in Jamaica and assessing the role of ackee fruit, renta yams, and other factors.
(13) A staphylolytic F2 enzyme from S. griseus S-35 and a chitinase [EC 3.2.1.14] from yam, both of which were completely inert toward M. lysodeikticus cell wall, passed through the adsorbent column.
(14) Zinc protoporphyrin levels, low in non-anemic infants, were slightly higher in 1st graders from all three neighborhoods; higher levels were found in both 3rd and 6th graders from Kiryat Yam, but only in 6th graders from Neve Shaanan.
(15) At the conclusion of mortuary ceremonies, the two sectors engage in competitive feasts in which the successful control of fertility is symbolized by the presentation of finished products of male vitality: yams and children, especially boys.
(16) The difference between London and a lot of other places is that London has been through it.” Neighbouring the Olympic stadium is Stratford indoor market, where West Indian yams sell alongside Polish sausages, cockles and whelks.
(17) The buffering capacity of some Nigerian local food substances was investigated using a modification of Toveys method (1974), Beans (red, and white), maize, rice (unprocessed with hull) and rice (unpolished) appeared to have high buffering capacity while yam, cassava and polished rice all showed weak buffering capacity.
(18) The First Section is a review of available data on molecular properties of the purified inhibitors from cereals, legumes, colocasia and yam.
(19) Yam glue was applied on the subjects' dorsal forearm.
(20) In Kiryat Yam, Pb(B) was higher in 31 children with ZPP greater than or equal to 40 micrograms dl-1 compared with 13 with ZPP less than 40 micrograms dl-1.