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bovine, a.|ˈbəʊvaɪn|
[ad. L. bovīnus, f. bōs, bov- ox; cf. F. bovine.]
Belonging to, or characteristic of, the ox tribe. Also ellipt. = bovine animal.
1817G. S. Faber Eight Dissert. (1845) I. 405 The worship of the bovine Apis. 1865Athenæum No. 1969. 103/3 No wild bovine is now known in Syria. 1877J. Allen Amer. Bison 468 Particularly bovine, also, is the satisfaction they take in rubbing themselves against trees.
2. fig. Inert, sluggish; dull, stupid; cf. bucolic.
1855O. W. Holmes Poems 235 Where bovine rustics used to doze and dream. 1879Contemp. Rev. 291 Neither in the ranks of bovine Toryism nor of rabid Radicalism.
Add:3. Special collocation. bovine spongiform encephalopathy, spongiform encephalopathy of cattle, a fatal neurological disease characterized by behavioural disorders including unsteady gait and nervousness; abbrev. BSE s.v. B III. 1. Cf. mad cow disease s.v. *mad a. 9.
1987G. A. H. Wells et al. in Vet. Rec. 31 Oct. 420/2 Studies have been initiated but until further characterisation is achieved the authors suggest for this disorder the provisional appellation: bovine spongiform encephalopathy. 1987New Scientist 5 Nov. 30/1 Like scrapie..bovine spongiform encephalopathy is insidious and progressive. 1991Independent 1 Nov. 7/1 ‘Mad cat’ disease—the feline form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)—is likely to have been caused by contaminated cat food.
▸ bovine growth hormone n. Physiol. = bovine somatotropin n. at Additions; abbreviated BGH.
1957Acta Endocrinologica 26 299 This investigation was carried out in order to determine the electrophoretic behaviour of *bovine growth hormone in human serum. 1964Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 2391520 Gel filtration was able to remove serum protein contaminants from bovine growth hormone. 1986Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 July b7 The outcry over a bovine growth hormone, produced by genetically tailored bacteria, foreshadows the controversy that might erupt. 1999D. T. Avery in G. Tansey & J. D'Silva Meat Business ii. 20 For a country such as India, which has enormous unmet milk demand and a severe feed shortage, the bovine growth hormone should be a powerful conservation tool.
▸ bovine somatotropin n. (also bovine somatotrophin) Physiol. the somatotropin (growth hormone) of cattle; (also) (more fully recombinant bovine somatotropin) a pharmaceutical preparation of this, produced by recombinant DNA technology and used commercially to increase milk yields in dairy cattle; abbreviated BST.
1975Archivum Immunologiae et Therapiae Experimentalis 23 541 *Bovine somatotropin could have therapeutic applications similar to those of other drugs which exert nonspecific action in diseases of the liver in humans. 1987Guardian (Nexis) 6 Feb. Some county branches..would like to see Bovine Somatotrophin, a new wonder drug which boosts milk output from treated cows, banned from the British pharmaceutical market. 1989Canad. Jrnl. Fisheries & Aquatic Sci. 46 178 Recombinant bovine somatotropin and a recently engineered analog for bovine somatotropin were compared for their growth-promoting ability in underyearling coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). 1995Canad. Forum May 48/1 In 1986, recognizing the marketing problems in selling a growth hormone, BGH manufacturers started using the scientific term bovine somatotropin or BST. |