(a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
(n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(5) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(6) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(7) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(8) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(9) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
(10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(11) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(12) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(13) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(14) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(15) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(18) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(19) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(20) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.
Carib
Definition:
(n.) A native of the Caribbee islands or the coasts of the Caribbean sea; esp., one of a tribe of Indians inhabiting a region of South America, north of the Amazon, and formerly most of the West India islands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunoreactive gonadotrophic hormone-releasing hormone (ir-GnRH) was detected in extracts from optic tectum, cerebellum and brain stem of the Venezuelan freshwater fish "caribe colorado", Pygocentrus notatus by means of radioimmunoassay.
(2) The data are puzzling and consistent with the possibility that both the Carib-speaking Macushi and the Arawak-speaking Wapishana have derived the esterase A allele in question from some third group now extinct or thus far undiscovered.
(3) Alba, Petro-Caribe and Unasur are all well established and bearing fruit.
(4) The information was afterwards integrated with data from other Carib groups, and two types of genetic distances (Nei's and Edwards') were calculated a) between five groups, considering ten systems; and b) between nine groups, using five systems.
(5) She said the argument ended when other secret service officers at the Hotel Caribe paid her about $250.
(6) An ethnobotanical survey was conducted among the Carib population of Guatemala in 1988-1989.
(7) (Menispermaceae), Indigofera amblyantha Craib (Leguminosae), I. carlesii Carib, I., fortunei Craib, I. decoa Lindl.
(8) To determine safety and immunogenicity, a single 0.5 ml dose of a monovalent live-attenuated dengue (DEN) 4 (341750 Carib) vaccine was given sc to 3 groups of flavivirus nonimmune volunteers in increasing concentrations.
(9) She said that the desk clerk at the Hotel Caribe called at 6.30am to tell her it was time to leave, and the agent addressed her with an insult in telling her to get out.
(10) In an attempt to provide direct comparability between the two machines, multiple linear regression equations were derived from reflectance spectrophotometry readings on 308 Black Caribs and 175 Creoles in Belize, Central America, using both machines.
(11) The Hotel Caribe is less than 1,000 metres from the Cartagena Hilton where Obama was staying.
(12) Most of the gene frequencies fit well into the pattern of frequencies of the Amerindian Carib group.
(13) On the other hand, the relatively high similarity of the Gê and the Carib shows an association with two main factors: (1) reduced spatial dispersion of the Gê in the recent past, providing adequate conditions for within-stock gene flow, and (2) strong tradition of intergroup contacts among the Carib, frequently followed by genetic admixture and even fusion of groups, as verified for the Wayana and the Aparaí.
(14) This association is examined among the Black Caribs of St. Vincent, West Indies.
(15) The catecholamines noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA), and adrenaline (A) were measured in hypothalamic and telencephalic extracts of the Venezuelan freshwater fish "caribe colorado," Pygocentrus notatus, at different stages of the reproductive cycle.
(16) This survey demonstrated that the Carib population of Guatemala has survived in a transcultural environment of African and native Amerindian beliefs.
(17) Local police were called to the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena's upmarket Bocagrande neighbourhood after a dispute with a woman in the room of one of the agents.
(18) Dengue 4 (DEN-4) virus strain 341750 Carib was modified by serial passage in primary canine kidney (PCK) cell cultures.
(19) Nine Carib and eight Tupi groups were studied for a minimum of eight common polymorphic systems and compared in terms of genetic distances using the methods of Nei and Edwards.
(20) I’d have to say Slim was different with a capital D. You never knew what was coming next Facebook Twitter Pinterest A woman reclining in a hammock hung between palm trees at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 1956.