(a.) Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native, or one of the people, of Asia.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the purpose of developmental evaluation of growing children and the nutritional assessment of individuals or populations, reliance on current North American standards for size, maturational timing, body fatness or osseous development may be unwise not only with respect to various African, Asiatic and Pacific populations but often with respect to adults and children in North America.
(2) Subsequent tests of serum samples from US blacks and whites, from Japanese, Ainu, San (Bushmen), Negros, Asiatic Indians and Jews from Cochin India demonstrated that the antibody detects an antigen that is usually present in a haplotype when Gm (15) is absent from it.
(3) Cyclic changes in serum concentration of luteinizing hormone (LH) were observed throughout the estrous cycle of Asiatic elephants (Elephas maximus).
(4) In negroids BPH is more frequent than in Caucasians, while in Asiatic races BPH is less frequent.
(5) Karyological investigations of East-Asiatic mice (28 animals) from 5 catching points in the region of West Sayans revealed the presence of 1-12 B-chromosomes in these animals.
(6) A total of 2,184 serum specimens obtained from unrelated Israeli Jewish and self-identified Milwaukee, WI, Jewish blood donors were classified as Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Asiatic, or North African and tested for G1m (a, x, z, and f), G3m (b0, b1, b3, b5, g), A2m (1 and 2), and Km (1).
(7) In Grevy's zebra and in the African and Asiatic wild asses, the stallions are permanently territorial and have exclusive mating rights within their territories.
(8) Extensive Ag-antigene typings were carried out on 13 human population samples, including sub-Saharan African, European, west and east Asiatic, Melanesian, Australian aborigine, and Amerindian groups.
(9) These findings lend support to the hypothesis that dietary factors are of major importance in determining the susceptibility of Asiatic Indians to tuberculosis.
(10) A nine-year-old boy was bitten in the tongue by an Asiatic fer-de-lance, a Trimenesurus wagleri.
(11) On the basis of chemical and spectral evidence, their structures were characterized as methyl asiatate, methyl maslinate, two new sapogenols, methyl 1 beta,2 alpha,3 beta,23-tetrahydroxyolean-12-en 28-oate (mucunagenin a), its urs-12-en isomer (mucunagenin b), 3-O-(6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucuronopyranosyl) methyl asiatate 3-O-[alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl(1----2)]-6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucur onopyranosyl methyl maslinate, 3-O-[alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl(1----2)]-6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucur onopyranosyl methyl asiatate and 3-O-(6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucuronopyranosyl) asiatic acid 28-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside.
(12) Mongol spots were present in 9.6% of the white babies, 95.5% of the black babies, 81% of the Asiatic babies, and 70.1% of ladino infants.
(13) Diurnal fluctuations in serum Ca, inorganic phosphorus, Mg, and alkaline phosphatase activity and their relations to lighting and feeding schedules were investigated in nocturnal rats and diurnal asiatic chipmunks.
(14) All of the North American Crotalid species of snakes contain MDP in varying degrees of concentration, but none of the Asiatic snake venoms tested reacted with the antiserum to the myocardial depressor protein.
(15) Of these, 79.5% were white, 6.2% were black, 11.2% were ladinos, and 2.6% were Asiatic.
(16) The Taliban control the roads to the Hazarajat region of Afghanistan and, at their unofficial “checkpoints”, they stop vehicles and search them for Hazaras, distinguished by the Asiatic features that set them apart from the country’s Pashtun majority.
(17) The transferrin C2 gene was found in a significantly lower frequency among Liberians compared to European and Asiatic populations.
(18) For European and North Asiatic groups, the FST values are the lowest observed, and the reason may be a long process of homogenization.
(19) In three years, Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated from 1238 people, consisting of 820 North American Indians or Metis, 318 people of Caucasian origin, 97 Eskimos and 3 Asiatic Indians.
(20) In this survey of 388 nephrotic children MGN was found in 51.9% of black and 20.9% of mixed race boys, and 25% of black and 5.6% of mixed race girls respectively, but was not present in 53 white and Asiatic nephrotic children.
Shahin
Definition:
(n.) A large and swift Asiatic falcon (Falco pregrinator) highly valued in falconry.
Example Sentences:
(1) JP French Associates , York-based speech experts who frequently provide evidence in British court cases, listened to Shahin’s discussions of Morsi’s prisons at the request of British lawyers for Morsi’s political party .
(2) At a rally in Haifa, Shahin Nasser, an Israeli-Arab, said: "Today we are changing the rules of the game.
(3) Faced with this possibility, the tape suggests that the four men – allegedly Sisi’s chief of staff, General Abbas Kamel; an assistant defence minister, General Mamdouh Shahin; the head of the navy, Admiral Osama el-Guindy; and Egypt’s police chief, Mohamed Ibrahim – secretly and retroactively gave the police nominal jurisdiction over part of the navy base in which Morsi had been held.
(4) In two reports seen by the Guardian, they concluded that there were “no indications” the recordings had been fabricated, and that “the evidence provides strong support for the view that the questioned speaker is Mr Mamdouh Shahin”.
(5) Shahin Abbasov Georgia In Georgia , a country where former AC Milan star Kakha Kaladze now serves as energy minister, support for Italian football cannot be underestimated.
(6) Last week, two leading liberal academics – Emad Shahin and Amr Hamzawy – were placed under investigation after criticising first Morsi's regime and then the abuses of the Sisi era.
(7) Analysis of Google Earth images also suggests that the naval base in which Morsi was held did change in the manner in which Shahin is alleged to have described.
(8) This is an incredibly niche issue: the number of women who wear the niqab at all are "pretty few and far between", said Shahin Ashraf, the Muslim chaplain at the University of Birmingham.
(9) Shahin Najafi, a Germany-based Iranian singer, recently released a song with references to Ali al-Hadi al-Naqi, the tenth of the 12 Shia Muslim Imams, a religious figure highly respected by millions in Iran .
(10) In a second leak, the man alleged to be Shahin promises Kamel that he will interfere in the trial of the son of a military colleague, a young police officer accused of gassing to death 37 prisoners inside a police truck .
(11) "I am still convinced that he is the sole leader who can achieve the aspirations of the Syrian people," Riyadh Shahin, 44, a government employee, told the Associated Press.