foal

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This technology greatly assists those people monitoring mares for delivery in order to be present in cases where difficult births (dystocias) might be expected or in cases where the foal is at risk of neonatal isoerythrolysis (jaundice).

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  1. noun The young offspring of a horse or other equine animal, especially one under a year old.
  2. intransitive verb To give birth to a foal.

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  • But she felt better now that it seemed unlikely that the foal was there. —  Volk
  • So when this one saw that the foal was here, and all right, it canceled its charge. —  Volk
  • This technology greatly assists those people monitoring mares for delivery in order to be present in cases where difficult births (dystocias) might be expected or in cases where the foal is at risk of neonatal isoerythrolysis (jaundice). —  TheHorse.com News
  • Special soft feeding tubes that are placed through the nostril into the esophagus or stomach allow the foal which is too weak to nurse a supply of mother's milk. —  TheHorse.com News
  • A foal which is conceived by AI involving the use of semen that is used immediately following collection (within 24 hours) and at the place or premises of collection may be registered in the AMHA. —  TheHorse.com News
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  1. Middle English fole, from Old English fola; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fole, foile, from Anglo-Saxon fola, masculine, = OFries. folla, NFries. fole = Middle Dutch volen, Dutch veulen = Middle Low German volen = Old High German folo, Middle High German vol, vole, German fohlen = Icelandic foli = Swedish fåle = Danish fole = Gothic (Moesogothic) fula, a foal (see other Teutonic forms under the deriv. filly); = Latin pullus, the young of an animal, a foal, but particularly of fowls, a chicken (whence ult. English pullen, pool, poult, poultry, pullet, q. v.), = Greek πῶλος, a young animal, particularly a foal or filly; cf. Sanskrit pota, the young of an animal, putra, a son.
  2. from foal, n.
 

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