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Examples of sexing

sexing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The need for accurate sexing standards is par ticularly necessary for paleopathology studies.
However, they may also reflect differences in sexing standards among researchers.
The aim of the present study was to establish a rapid and reliable method for the sexing of preimplantation embryos in domestic cats.
An efficient genetic sexing system is required for the mass production of sterile males for release.
Slides were prepared from larvae, for which a successful morphology-based sexing method was not developed here.
By consistently glossing charges of exaggeration ('sexing-up') as accusations of lying, he placed questions of public integrity and trust in the foreground.
Sexing up the dossier: a semantic analysis of phrasal verbs for language teachers.
Hence, she argues that there is a certain generalised passivity ascribed to the body, which allows for making it the receptor of cultural sexing and gendering.
Therefore, for tsetse a non-destructive sexing method is required that does not impact on the productivity of the colony and which can be incorporated into a mass rearing system.
Sexing was done on reaching adulthood.
Sexing of live rabbit blastocysts.
Sexing embryos by cytological methods.
Use was made of this observation, in order to avoid carbon dioxide anaesthesia affecting flea behaviour, and the sexing of fleas was deferred until after the host-choice experiment.
Finally, we changed our method of anaesthetising the fish—which is essential to prevent injury during measurement and sexing.
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