(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.
Yay
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(1) It’s a gentler symbolism than: ‘Yay, we’ve all left the BBC!’ Because we all love the BBC.” At an estimated cost of £160m for three series, the Grand Tour is also symbolic of the changes in the global TV industry.
(2) The iconic show that gave Americans Chico Escuela (“baseball’s been berry berry good to me”) in the 1970s (yay, stereotypes!)
(3) Yay me, I cheered, only for my cheer to catch in my throat and turn into a scream of horror when someone innocently showed me a magazine feature about Ms Deschanel’s style.
(4) When asked by the Hollywood Reporter how the Chinese film industry had reacted to that speech, Feng said: "Within the Guild everyone was like, 'Yay!
(5) In these and all other species for which there are data, 5' termini map to sequences that contain the trinucleotide YAY.
(6) As Michael Bloomberg, the New York mayor who has been a formative voice on gun controls , put it this week: "Everyone is going to have to stand up and say yay or nay.
(7) Out of the many stories in this collection my top two would HAVE to be The World’s Greatest Teen Detective by Derek Landy (Yay Skulduggery Pleasant!)
(8) • As brilliant as the Channel 4 presentation of Die Hard will be, for me the definitive version is the first version I saw, on ITV in the early 1990s – the one where Bruce Willis says "Yippee-ki-yay, kimosabe."
(9) Just yay!” tweeted Douglas Carswell , the Ukip MP when news of Corbyn’s polling result broke, while rightwing commentators urged Conservatives to register as Labour supporters to get him elected, under the banner #ToriesforCorbyn.