pigs

Noun

plural form of pig

Initialism

(genetics) Phosphatidylinositol glycan anchor biosynthesis, class S, a human gene.
(economics, widely considered derogatory)
1. (since the 1990s) Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain, countries of southern Europe noted for similar economic environments.
2. (since 2008) Portugal, Ireland and/or Italy, Greece and Spain, grouped on the basis of their high indebtedness during the European sovereign debt crisis.

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Specifically, a virus or bug passed to a pig is considered a huge threat in the medical community, because pigs can pass their diseases onto humans.
Pigs and goats, however, with cattle, horses, asses and dogs, have been introduced, have multiplied, and in considerable numbers run wild.
The one fact which the Lamarckians can produce in their favour is the account of experiments by Brown-Sequard, in which he produced epilepsy in guinea-pigs by section of the large nerves or spinal cord, and in the course of which he was led to believe that in a few rare instances the artificially produced epilepsy and mutilation of the nerves was transmitted.
Pigs, sheep and goats are also kept in considerable numbers.
On many of the islets numerous tropical fruits are found growing wild, but they are no doubt escapes from cultivation, just as the large herds of wild cattle, horses, donkeys, pigs, goats and dogs - the last large and fierce - which occur abundantly on most of the islands have escaped from domestication.

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