(n.) A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.
Example Sentences:
(1) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(2) Liver growth responded positively to the combined rGRF and ASS treatments whereas the pancreas exhibited loss of weight; on both of these organs, GH may act directly.
(3) "But I suspect that some of my fellow Americans are indeed wondering who Buridan is, and what's up with his or her ass?
(4) Another officer grabbing Mann by the collar and threatening his family – to arrest his wife’s “black ass” and ensure he would not see his young son grow up, Mann recalled in an interview – if he did not snitch on a heroin dealer.
(5) After application of 3 x 0.5 g of ASS frequency of DVT decreased only to 15.3% and shows poor prophylactic efficacy.
(6) As a result of this antithrombotic prophylaxis with ASS is not indicated in polycythemia even in predominance of vascular complications and absence of bleeding tendency.
(7) In order to asses accuracy and consistency of diagnostic opinion in suspected pancreatic disease, using available diagnostic procedures 74 patients, subjected to selective angiography, pancreatic function test (Lundh test), and scintigraphy, were studied retrospectively.
(8) Whittingdale said the use of social media such as Twitter to breach injunctions was in danger of making "the law look an ass".
(9) Cartoons that talk about fucking each other in the ass.
(10) When that phrase first flew across the Atlantic, we didn't know how to pronounce it: ha rassment or har ass ment?
(11) The experiences of 217 volunteers fitted with the cervical cap were analyzed to asses the cap's effectiveness.
(12) The trade-off begins to look like a real pain in the ass if one has been here for years and years and is barely eking out a living.
(13) Bateman insists that he “loved” working as a child actor and that it was the perfect path for someone who was “a disruptive smart ass” at school.
(14) This questionnaire was designed to asses an in-hospital teaching program for post-MI patients in these areas.
(15) The origin and course of the collateral sesamoidean (suspensory navicular) ligament of the horse and ass and its attachment to the distal sesamoid bone were studied by means of dissection.
(16) "And if you come back here by the telephones where the press can't see it, I will kick your ass right now."
(17) A prospective study has been made in order to asses the efficacy of subcutaneous salbutamol as acute treatment for asthmatic crisis, comparing the results with those of adrenaline.
(18) Rheoophthalmography permits to assess indirectly the degree of compensation of hemodynamic disturbances and can be used to asses clinical evolution of diabetic retinopathy.
(19) The effects of acute ethanol treatment and dietary folate deficiency on maternal-fetal folate transfer were studied to asses the hypothesis that the potentiation of ethanol's toxic effect on the fetus during ongoing folate deficiency was due to the impairment of folate transfer.
(20) After months of simpering, “some old-fashioned ass-kicking” may be back on the cards.
Rasse
Definition:
(n.) A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They are already alienated and marginalised, without faith in their future," said Abu Rass.
(2) But Thabet Abu Rass, professor of geography at Ben Gurion University in the main Negev city of Be'er Sheva, described the plan as a "declaration of war" on the Bedouin, intended to squeeze them into a tiny geographical area, hamper demographic growth, deny them equal rights as Israeli citizens and eliminate their way of life.
(3) The data obtained suggest that the RASS might act as a trigger mechanism underlying a greater incidence of essential hypertension in old age.
(4) (2) Do local RASs exist and, if so, what is their physiological importance?
(5) The patient with RVI showed depressed RV function by AS measurement with decreased rASs of all regions in the acute phase.
(6) Last but not least, the introduction of the converting-enzyme (CE) inhibitors, generating an enormous scientific interest in the role of the RAS, has contributed to the concept of "tissue" RASs, since some of the effects of these drugs were thought to be reconciled better with "tissue" than with plasma RAS inhibition.
(7) But Abu Rass, who works with Adalah, a legal organisation for Israeli Arabs, said the Bedouin would oppose the Prawer plan "by all possible means".
(8) The discovery of the components of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in various tissues gave rise to the idea that functional "tissue" RASs exist that are more or less independent of the hormonal RAS.
(9) The existence of a brain renin-angiotensin system (RAS) as one of various tissue RASs is now firmly established.
(10) The localization of Ang II generation within tissue RASs in the adrenal gland or in the kidney, where Ang II may be generated through CE at the tubular brush border, are far from being elucidated.