To which animal does the adjective ovine refer?
Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma as an animal model for human lung cancer, because OPA is histologically similar to human adenocarcinoma in situ of the lung. Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell, was euthanized after it was confirmed that she had OPA. Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA), also known as ovine pulmonary adenomatosis, or jaagsiekte, is a chronic and contagious disease of the lungs of sheep and goats. OPA is caused by a retrovirus called jaagsiekte sheep retrovirus (JSRV). The disease has a long incubation period, and therefore signs usually occur in adult animals (over 2
Failure to refer Any sentence in which we attach a predicate to the name "Genghis Khan" is true if the predicate obtained in the actual world. Any sentence in which the predicate does not obtain for Genghis Khan is false. The Wikipedia statement “"Genghis Khan founded the largest contiguous empire in world history"” is thus true, and the statement “"Genghis Khan was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London"” is false. As an example for a name that fails to refer to a real object, Russell used “"the present king of France"“ in a 1905 article. According to the Russellian