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rhesus

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Rhesus (, Rhēsos ) is an Athenian tragedy that belongs to the transmitted plays of Euripides . Its authorship has been disputed since antiquity, and the issue has invested modern scholarship since the 17th century when the play's authenticity was challenged, ...

Usage examples of rhesus.

Pharmaceutical companies are trying combinations of nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors, everything from Abacavir to Zidovudine, to hit Rhesus.

For the past eight days Jack had experienced frequent seizures of chagrin when he contemplated what manner of disgust the chief would exhibit if informed that the life of a valuable Macacus Rhesus was being jeopardized in the performance of an utterly idiotic experiment.

He drew off a little bit of fluid from the flasks and injected it into three rhesus monkeys, to infect them with the Cardinal agent.

The ghats are thick with the perpetual smoke of corpses on fire, hovered over by rhesus monkeys and naked ascetics, their bodies covered in white paste made from the ash.

What he did gather was that the ABO system had been discovered as far back as 1900 but that since then a dozen or so other systems had been found, including the Rhesus 89 one, and all these could be tested for, thus fining down even further the possibilities of whose blood was whose.

The news that during these experiments White had succeeded in keeping the brain of a rhesus monkey alive for three days when separated from its body hit the headlines in specialist medical journals.

Their potential for violence was not, however, the primary quality that separated them from other rhesuses.

Here is my evidence: I have 0 positive blood (the rhesus antigen for which I am positive is D).

Muriel said someone at the sanatorium had told her that AB negative blood types amounted to only approximately three per cent of the global population, and it might be that their Rhesus Factor (whatever that was) was hostile or non-submissive to the virus or gas released from the rockets.

Because he might have been the oldest virus-free rhesus macaque in the world, Jimbo went for a cool ten thousand.

For example, in one study encompassing 401 pregnant female rhesus macaques, only one died in childbirth.

He balanced himself against the fireplace and stared into the dying embers, concentrating with all he had to remember the name of that old rhesus monkey.

They broke camp at midnightMax Lamb, the rhesus monkey and the man who called himself Skink.

A male rhesus monkey whose nose isn't working can still recognize an ovulating female monkey by the slight reddening around her vagina, even though her reddening is not nearly so obvious as in a female baboon.

A small, light-grey creature, rather resembling an Earthly Rhesus monkey, crouched on the low-hanging branch of one of the huge trees at the water's edge and watched curiously the snake crawling through the grass towards the tree's trunk.