(a.) Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.
(a.) Destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal.
(a.) Undisguised.
(a.) Destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean.
(a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.
(a.) Destitute of the natural covering.
(a.) Marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our knowledge of the pathogenesis of ordinary baldness is far from complete but a genetic predisposition is necessary and androgen production must be present.
(2) Antiandrogen therapy for androgen-induced baldness is in its infancy.
(3) "The idea that there is this contrast between a world of subtlety, and a world of bald, flat generalisations doesn't sound like what it's like at all.
(4) A left scalp skin flap (2.5 by 7 cm) based on the superficial temporal artery and vein was transferred to the bald area, with microvascular anastomosis to the superficial temporal vessels on the right side.
(5) One milliliter of solution was applied twice daily over 150 cm2 of bald scalp to each subject for 6 days.
(6) T-shirts were rush-printed overnight, showing his bald, burly head above the logo: "Hi, I'm Joe Plumber and Obama is a punk."
(7) She had frontal balding, mid-face hypoplasia, a small nose, macrostomia with down-turned corners of the mouth, gingival hypertrophy, and hypoplasia or absence of the clitoris.
(8) Improvements in the technique and instrumentation used in hair transplantation have led to the production of better grafts, a more natural hairline, a greater number of grafts from a donor site, the effective control of postoperative bleeding, and the reduction of large areas of baldness prior to hair transplantation.
(9) The operative indications are difficult because of the variety of baldness and the multiple techniques available.
(10) These operations allow massive transfer of genetically determined permanent hair to the cosmetically deficient areas of the scalp, whether the condition of baldness is the result of injury or hereditary factors.
(11) Use of this method for the treatment of bitemporal recessions and type 6 male pattern baldness is discussed in detail.
(12) Currently, the technique is most frequently used in scalp surgery for correction of male pattern baldness.
(13) Reported effects of balding reflected considerable preoccupation, moderate stress or distress, and copious coping efforts.
(14) The pathology of the bald scalp showed the presence of tubular epithelial structures devoid of hair bulbs extending from the epidermis to the deep dermis and the superficial hypodermis.
(15) The main problem in conventional operations for baldness has certainly been the resultant scar.
(16) Six new types of developmental mutants were obtained from the bald variant bld-1 after treatment with mutagens (UV light, gamma radiation, nitrous acid) and after natural selection.
(17) Since substantial 3 beta HSD activity was present in the cytosol, and cytosol of B glands showed increased 3 beta HSD activity, the increased conversion of DHA to AD may be a critical step for androgenic action and may be responsible for excessive androgenicity in male-pattern baldness.
(18) Larger "bald heads" occur favourable at the "deep" acetabula revealing high CE-angles and at low CCD-angles.
(19) In the patient with LGD on entry, there was an aggregate of very large cells covered by short microvilli with bald patches.
(20) The established format sounds a bit staid until Balding starts discussing it.
Egghead
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "False analogy syndrome", as a philosopher might call it, is the scholastikos's most besetting sin – as in this classic case of advice given by an "egghead doctor": "'Doctor,' says the patient, 'whenever I get up from my sleep, for half an hour I feel dizzy, and then I'm all right.'
(2) It examines the related claims that only children have a less happy youth because they are pressed into adult thinking and behavior too early and that they stand out as "little eggheads"--good at school, but not very sportsmanlike, and unpopular among their peers.
(3) In the New York Post, he branded the admittedly esoteric Daniel Libeskind, the original architect of the Freedom Tower, as "an egghead".
(4) Over the last 12 months shows including Eggheads, The Review Show and the Saturday night National Lottery show In It to Win It have moved to the BBC's new headquarters in Pacific Quay, Glasgow.
(5) Yet for all the elements of an old-fashioned local politician O’Malley displayed – he still seemed ready to tick off economic development projects and was visibly displeased that a gas station owner hadn’t been mowing a stretch of land next to the sidewalk when driving by – there was still an egghead side to him that appeared.
(6) I find her sprawled on a sofa in the sitting room, watching a man from Newcastle answering questions about Peter Shilton on BBC2's early evening quiz show Eggheads.
(7) She made her name as BBC1 and BBC2's controller of "daytime and early peak", backing shows such as Doctors, MasterChef, Eggheads and The Great British Menu.
(8) Come on, people: nothing says "uncool" like the Egghead-in-Chief coaxing a crowd to applaud by saying, "Joe looks cool in those glasses, too, doesn't he?".
(9) My thanks to some egghead on the Fifa website for figuring all that out so that I didn't have to.
(10) The "little egghead" hypothesis was only partly confirmed.
(11) A former senior producer on Panorama and editor of BBC1's 1pm and 6pm news bulletins, Hunt made her name as BBC1 and BBC2's controller of "daytime and early peak", backing shows such as Doctors, MasterChef, Eggheads and The Great British Menu.
(12) And if a few eggheads and hackers get crushed on the way well, that's too bad.
(13) Most of those in the first half of the book, a hundred or so, have as their theme (and victim) a character called in Greek a "scholastikos" – sometimes translated as an "egghead" or "absent-minded professor".