adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb’s digestive/reproductive/nervous system (= in someone’s body )
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These vitamins are essential for a healthy nervous system.
sexual/reproductive/sex organs
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the male and female sexual organs
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
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Fetal, infant and early childhood mortality and maternity related deaths to women of reproductive age are the classes of mortality examined.
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The whole woman of reproductive age produces an ovum a month, representing a single shot at a pregnancy every twenty-eight days.
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Body fat distribution in women of reproductive age seems to have more impact on fertility than age or obesity.
choice
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In contrast, the Genetic Supermarket promotes individual reproductive choice .
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Feminism is pro-woman rather than pro-abortion; we have always argued for freedom of reproductive choice .
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Genetic counselling was sought by all nine families, but it is still too soon to comment on their reproductive choices .
cycle
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Some mares react badly and their reproductive cycles cease or are disrupted.
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They can go through a reproductive cycle in as little as two weeks.
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This feature is thought to be related to the reproductive cycle .
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The freeing of women from the imperatives of the reproductive cycle allows them also to compete for these top jobs.
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Strongyloides is unique among the nematodes of veterinary importance being capable of both parasitic and free-living reproductive cycles .
function
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However, the long-term outlook for reproductive function is poor in patients who conceive before they have fully recovered from their illness.
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Moreover, female well-being was defined in terms congruent with both women's reproductive function and ideal feminine behaviour.
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Introduction Little is known about the effects of body fat distribution on reproductive function in women.
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Frisch suggested that underweight women would also have impaired reproductive function owing to a lack of oestrogen produced in adipose tissue.
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Under many circumstances, the evolutionarily stable allocation to male and female reproductive functions should be about the same.
health
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She left the field of reproductive health care entirely.
life
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The adult male's reproductive life has two phases.
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They tolerate cubs more than the females possibly because their reproductive life in the pride is so short.
organ
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No-one knows how the radiation will have damaged the reproductive organs of the children who receive continual doses.
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Similar mechanisms may account for other cancers of the reproductive organs .
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Of course, the assumption behind this is precisely that enunciated by Barnes, that woman are dominated by their reproductive organs .
pattern
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In the circumstances, programmes to alter reproductive patterns might incorporate special provisions for reaching individuals of lower socio-economic status.
rate
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But in some cases the necessary basic information is lacking; for example, the reproductive rate of some whales is unknown.
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Compared with deer, mountain goats have a slow reproductive rate .
success
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Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.
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There are several reasons why variation in daily reproductive success may not reflect variation in either seasonal or lifetime success.
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Altman focused on females in the troop, because it is easier to monitor their reproductive success reliably than that of males.
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Detailed life-history studies of this highly dimorphic animal reveal that the reproductive success of large males is much higher than small males.
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In real life, the criterion for selection is always short-term, either simple survival or, more generally, reproductive success .
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Differential reproductive success also occurs in other ways, however.
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The variability in reproductive success of males will therefore be greater than that of females.
system
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This symposium will address the question of effects of chemical substances on reproductive systems to both females and males.
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But there is some concern that melatonin may affect the female reproductive system .
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Without our reproductive system , there would be no life, so they can hardly be unimportant.
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The cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system , but it is difficult to find.
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Even low level exposure is known to interfere with the immune and reproductive systems .
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His reproductive system is still not there.
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Dioxins are known to cause cancer and to affect the immune and reproductive system of animals.
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The reproductive systems consist of filamentous tubes.
technology
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Genetic control is now at the forefront of medical, scientific and state enthusiasm over the new reproductive technologies .
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Legislators, medical ethicists and public health experts continue to debate limiting the use of such reproductive technologies .
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The relentless advance of reproductive technology has now split motherhood into three compartments, genetic motherhood, gestational motherhood and parental motherhood.
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Ownership Specific economic conditions are a further decisive factor in the new reproductive technologies .
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In vitro fertilisation is only the first of a long line of reproductive technologies which may be developed in the future.
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The deepest changes came only with the development of the new reproductive technologies .
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The only treatment is recourse to reproductive technology .
tract
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Following mating, the sperm are stored in special tiny tubules in the female's reproductive tract .
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Are women getting education and treatment for reproductive tract infections?
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In most mammals sperm are viable in the female's reproductive tract for a matter of hours.
years
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With so many just entering their reproductive years , population is destined to in-crease for decades more.
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The epidemic will take its heaviest toll among infants and among young adults in their prime productive and reproductive years .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the digestive/reproductive/urinary etc tract
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Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
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It is rare, however, for the urinary tract to be affected.
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Obstruction covered all mechanical obstruction to the urinary tract , excluding prostatic disease.
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Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract .
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There may be much urging to urinate, smarting, stinging, burning along the urinary tract .
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This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract .
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This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the human reproductive system
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there is some concern that melatonin may affect the female reproductive system.
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In good feeding conditions wider ranging groups occurs, evidently for reproductive reasons.
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In other species, territories are defended for energetic, rather than reproductive , reasons.
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In real life, the criterion for selection is always short-term, either simple survival or, more generally, reproductive success.
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In the last part of the century we squandered our energy on endless quarreling over reproductive rights, women bitterly against women.
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Not so: traditional breeders must operate within the reproductive boundaries that define species.
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The stickleback's territory is reproductive .
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Though there are skirmishes even yet, our rights as women will eventually be honored, including our rights to reproductive autonomy.