How do you use Rhesus in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like macaque, plus the exact meaning.
Rhesus in a sentence
Rhesus meaning
- A macaque monkey native to southern and southeastern Asia; Macaca mulatta.
- Alternative form of Rhesus.
Synonyms of Rhesus
Using Rhesus
- The main meaning on this page is: A macaque monkey native to southern and southeastern Asia; Macaca mulatta. | Alternative form of Rhesus.
- Useful related words include: rhesus monkey, macaca mulatta, macaque.
- In the example corpus, rhesus often appears in combinations such as: rhesus macaques, the rhesus, rhesus monkeys.
Context around Rhesus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 15 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rhesus
- In this selection, "rhesus" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, believe, 000, wild, macaques, monkeys and macaque stand out and add context to how "rhesus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 000 rhesus macaques can and a rhesus macaques monkey. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rhesus" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and abdulai, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rhesus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A small test in rhesus macaques was performed in March. (10 words)
For instance, our primate relative the Rhesus macaque shows seasonal declines in mood. (13 words)
A Chinese company called has also said its vaccine provided immunity to the rhesus macaques. (15 words)
The 700 or so rhesus macaques that live by the palace, descendants of the monkeys who lived in the area when it was a jungle centuries ago, regularly panic thousands of visitors by attacking them in organised bands, seeking food. (40 words)
From baboons facing down leopards, to lemurs exploiting a jungle pharmacy or rhesus macaques charming their way to an easy life, discover the survival strategies used by primates, often in the most unexpected places. (34 words)
About 7-8percent of the UK population have type-O Rhesus-negative blood but demand for this special group accounts for about 13 percent of all hospital requests, according to NHS Blood and Transplant. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
The medicine, anti-D, is given to pregnant mothers whose rhesus negative blood is at risk of attacking her baby's rhesus positive blood.
For instance, our primate relative the Rhesus macaque shows seasonal declines in mood.
A video shows the monkey - believed to be a Rhesus Macaque, which are native to the city - climbing up the front of the machine and tugging at the top of it.
Scientists believe Rhesus macaques and humans split from a common ancestor about 25 million years ago and share about 93% of the same DNA.
A Chinese company called has also said its vaccine provided immunity to the rhesus macaques.
A small test in rhesus macaques was performed in March.
During the 1930s, by bilaterally removing the temporal lobes of rhesus monkeys, Bucy and Klüver managed to replicate this disorder and research it further.
From baboons facing down leopards, to lemurs exploiting a jungle pharmacy or rhesus macaques charming their way to an easy life, discover the survival strategies used by primates, often in the most unexpected places.
Yet this palm-fringed haven — home to about 1,000 rhesus macaques—can feel strangely similar to a weekend watering hole or middle-school cafeteria.
The 700 or so rhesus macaques that live by the palace, descendants of the monkeys who lived in the area when it was a jungle centuries ago, regularly panic thousands of visitors by attacking them in organised bands, seeking food.
About 7-8percent of the UK population have type-O Rhesus-negative blood but demand for this special group accounts for about 13 percent of all hospital requests, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.
A rhesus macaques monkey observes kayakers as they navigate along the Silver River in Silver Springs, Florida, US.
A study released Wednesday finds that some of the wild rhesus macaques in Silver Springs State Park not only carry the herpes B virus, but have it in their saliva and other bodily fluids.
Harrison’s blood has unique, disease-fighting antibodies that have been used to develop an injection called Anti-D, which helps fight against rhesus disease.
In the study, scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center infected 44 rhesus macaques with simian human immunodeficiency virus, an HIV-like virus commonly used in nonhuman primate studies.
The first mammal in space was Albert II, a rhesus monkey, which died from the impact of re-entry.
And he points out that studies show that rhesus monkeys have shorter reaction times than American college students, suggesting that different reaction times may not tell us anything useful about intelligence.
For example, in some primate species, such as rhesus monkeys and baboons, females are more likely to engage in fights around the time of ovulation as well as right before menstruation.
If the results were the same in humans as they are in rhesus monkeys and baboons, then the increase in aggressive behaviors during ovulation is explained by the decline in estrogen levels.
Some primates, such as the rhesus macaque and gray langurs, can exploit human-modified environments and even live in cities.
Common combinations with rhesus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: