Oestrus

What does it matter if adults can only see a pair of bifurcated mobile phones, with Mandeville's eye-catching groin definition creepily hinting at of mascottian oestrus or, possibly, a urinary tract infection? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Naftolin, A, et al. Neuronal membrane remodeling during the oestrus cycle: a freeze-freacture study in the arcuate nucleus of the rat hypothalemus. ❋ T.S. Wiley (2010)

I didn't even know that dogs menstruated, or estrated -- make that "underwent estrus" (or is it oestrus?). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Guilt's malignancy stalks a gas-lit shadow-dance upon the walls, perversity arouses oestrus in the embers of our trance; magic moments muted in taut breath are crushed in weighted consequence, discretion flees the night to heighten senses steeped in self-pity, drowned in self-indulgence. ❋ Ivan Donn Carswell (2008)

The theory of human oestrus remains controversial because its effects are subtle; human females show none of the distinct genital swellings seen in other female mammals “in heat”. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He says the changes in the female voice during peak fertility support the view that women are “different” at that point in the menstrual cycle – in other words, that they experience oestrus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I didn't even know that dogs menstruated, or estrated--make that "underwent estrus" or is it oestrus? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The ceryx and the purple murex have this organ firm and solid; and just as the myops, or horse-fly, and the oestrus, or gadfly, can pierce the skin of a quadruped, so is that proboscis proportionately stronger in these testaceans; for they bore right through the shells of other shell-fish on which they prey. ❋ Unknown (2002)

From the flat animalcule that skims over the surface of rivers comes the oestrus or gadfly; and this accounts for the fact that gadflies most abound in the neighbourhood of waters on whose surface these animalcules are observed. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Effect of lunar cyclicity on oestrus rhythmicity in the Indian water buffalo. ❋ Unknown (1981)

He will weigh feeds offered and refused on one day per month, measure the animal to estimate weight, weigh milk produced by animals when they come into lactation, and record the dates of first oestrus, service, and calving. ❋ Unknown (1979)

As regards the oestrogenic, or follicle, hormone it was established that extracts from certain organs, e.g. the ovaries and placenta, bring about the characteristic oestrus phenomena in castrated female rats. ❋ Unknown (1966)

These warbles -- or _larvæ_ of the _oestrus bovis_ -- so nearly resemble bots in the horse -- or _larvæ oestrus equi_ -- that, were it not for their increased size, they might readily be mistaken the one for the other. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)

The author has been informed, by persons in whom he ought to have confidence, that the _free use of the card_, during the above-named months, is a specific protection against the attacks of the _oestrus bovis_. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)

It must, however, be borne in mind that the warbles are the _larvæ_ of the _oestrus bovis_, which is said to be the most beautiful variety of gad-fly. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)

[109] The actual period of the menstrual flow corresponds, in Heape's terminology, to the congestive stage, or _pro-oestrum_, in female animals; the _oestrus_, or period of sexual desire, immediately follows the ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

When the dog's attentions become a little too marked, the bitch squats firmly down on the front legs and hind quarters though when the period of oestrus comes her modesty may be flung to the air and she eagerly turns her hind quarters to her admirer's nose and elevates her tail high in the air. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)