Definition of "oestral" []

• Oestrous (adjective)

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• "Percival, too, mentions at some length the effect of the removal of pain on the oestral and generative functions, quoting a case of a brood cart-mare by reason of bony deposits being stayed from breeding for some years."
• "It had been observed that if the doe were withheld from the buck at oestral periods atrophy of the ovary took place."
• ""It is a remarkable fact, in this connection, that the female of these animals will allow the approaches of the male only during and immediately after the oestral period; that is, just when the egg is recently discharged, and ready for impregnation."