(n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques).
(n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor.
Example Sentences:
(1) This BOA technique was used to test the hearing of 82 profoundly involved handicapped children.
(2) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
(3) If the deal is completed without a hitch the winger will join his team-mates in Hong Kong, where André Villas-Boas's side will compete in the Asia Trophy.
(4) Moreover, with the long-term injury casualty Younès Kaboul still to feature in pre-season, Jan Vertonghen out with ankle damage and William Gallas released, Villas-Boas now has only one fit, senior centre-half in Michael Dawson.
(5) "The BOA and the panel both stress that no advance notice out of competition testing is a fundamental part of ensuring an effective fight against doping in sport," he said.
(6) Revenge would be sweet, having been knocked out by PSG last season , while Chelsea’s Champions League win in 2012 came at the end of a campaign where domestically they struggled – though not quite as egregiously – after André Villas-Boas left mid-season and was replaced by Roberto Di Matteo.
(7) André Villas-Boas Villas-Boas was only 33 when he won the Europa League with Porto Gianluca Vialli Sven-Göran Eriksson Pep Guardiola You got… Perfection You hero You star You've done very well there You've done well there You've done OK there Sorry to break it to you but that's a bad score Come on.
(8) However, it is early days for Pochettino’s side and Tottenham’s credentials will be fully tested by Liverpool, whose 5-0 victory at White Hart Lane last season led to André Villas-Boas losing his job.
(9) Tottenham Hotspur have been widely criticised for not substituting the player but Villas-Boas insisted the club did nothing wrong and accused "incompetent people" of turning on Spurs solely to attract attention to themselves.
(10) Former sports minister Richard Caborn pushes for a “dual use” solution for athletics and football, but claims he is voted down by the 2012 chairman, Lord Coe, the Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell, the London mayor, Ken Livingstone, and the BOA’s Lord Moynihan.
(11) He is likely to become Villas-Boas' second major acquisition of the summer following the signing of Brazil international midfielder Paulinho from Corinthians.
(12) Significant correlations (p less than 0.01) were found between pain during walking and the psychosocial questions in the SIP, between the BOA score and questions in the SIP concerning the physical performance, and between self-selected walking speed and the physical questions.
(13) Villas-Boas paid £15m to bring the Belgian from Fulham and the signs are that he could prove a bargain, as Dembélé is emerging as one of the most complete midfielders in the Premier League, boasting strength, tenacity, creative passing, tricky dribbling and dangerous shooting.
(14) "We just let it slip in the end," André Villas-Boas acknowledged.
(15) Rodgers' doubts about working for the Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy, were reinforced on Monday when Villas-Boas' brief reign was ended after Liverpool's 5-0 rout of Tottenham's expensively assembled team the previous day.
(16) Alfred, a student of the “father of American anthropology” Franz Boas , gathered and preserved information about native peoples and traditions in California, excavated archaeological sites in Mexico and Peru, and some years before his daughter’s birth had briefly practised as a psychoanalyst.
(17) The IOC declared that the threat sent on Wednesday "appears to be a random message from a member of the public", while the BOA director of communications, Darryl Seibel, said it would not alter the stringent security operation in place to protect British athletes at the Games.
(18) The scent gland secretions of Dumeril's ground boa (Acrantophis dumerili), pooled from two adult males and a female, were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
(19) Despite accepting GB Taekwondo's nomination, the BOA, which said it reserved the right to re-examine the affair in the light of an ongoing inquiry by the WTF, was highly critical of the selection procedure.
(20) After an infrared stimulus from a carbon dioxide laser, which has a monochromatic output at 10.6 micrometers, we find evoked potentials in boas with chronically implanted electrodes.
Bom
Definition:
(n.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endocrine cells in the airway epithelium of human fetal lungs are known to contain an amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT), and a peptide, bombesin (BOM).
(2) Injections of BOM into the posterior hypothalamus did not affect body temperature control.
(3) The distribution and fine structure were studied of the following 3 peptide-containing fibers of enteric origin, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), bombesin (BOM) and cholecystokinin (CCK)-like immunoreactive peptide in the celiac-superior mesenteric ganglion complex (CMG) of the guinea pig.
(4) The present study demonstrates calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), somatostatin (SOM), bombesin (BOM), and substance P (SP) at the electron microscopic level in lumbar dorsal root axons of normal rats.
(5) Those containing VIP or CCK formed symmetrical synapses, while those containing BOM formed assymetrical ones.
(6) The labeled axons were exclusively unmyelinated for SP, SOM, and BOM, and predominantly unmyelinated for CGRP.
(7) The two growth rates of BoM and BrM show negative allometry, the rate of increase of BoM being 2.45 and that of BrM 1.16 between the 1st day and day 19-25.
(8) Bombyxin-II (Bom-PTTH-II) reveals a structural homology with human insulin and similar biological properties to adenocorticotropic mammal hormone.
(9) The focus of this paper is to use this sequence data coupled with a review of the literature and our own work to examine the nine known functional regions of ColE1: imm (colicin E1 immunity), rep (replication function), inc (plasmid incompatibility and copy number control), bom (basis of mobility), rom (modulator of inhibition of primer formation by RNA I), mob (plasmid mobilization), cer (determinant for conversion of plasmid multimers to monomers), exc (plasmid entry exclusion), cea (structural gene for colicin E1), and kil (structural gene for the Kil protein).
(10) However, the exact endocrine cell type that contains 5HT and BOM has not been described at the ultrastructural level.
(11) In the hindgut BOM-IR neuronal cell bodies were found.
(12) The results explain the prevailing hypothermic effect of BOM as the consequence of the concerted decrease in threshold temperatures and "gains" of all autonomic thermoregulatory effectors and suggest the activation of warm inputs, relative to cold inputs, at the hypothalamic level as the underlying mechanism.
(13) Mobilization of the plasmid ColE1 from cells containing a conjugative plasmid (such as F) requires the synthesis of ColE1 mob proteins, and the presence, in cis, of bom (basis of mobility), a region of ColE1 containing the origin of transfer (oriT).
(14) Using indirect immunofluorescence, 5HT- and BOM-like immunoreactive cells were observed both in nonincubated airways and in explants maintained for five days in organ culture.
(15) Fifteen patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal were treated with a combination of bleomycin, vincristine, and high-dose methotrexate (BOM) with leucovorin rescue.
(16) 1-26 August, 1.30pm, Assembly Rooms, £10 Jane Bom-Bane Musical mechanical hat woman.
(17) The small amount (1%) of D-histidine found is due to racemization in the synthesis of BOC-His(BOM).
(18) These results demonstrate that both 5HT and BOM content in endocrine cells of explants from human fetal airways can be well maintained in organ culture for at least 5 days and that they are responsive to pharmacologic inhibition of 5HT synthesis.
(19) She was speaking at a ceremony on Tuesday to mark the opening of two new nature reserves: the 34,000-hectare (83,980 acres) Bom Jesus Biological Reserve in Paraná, and the 8,500-hectare (20,995 acres) Furna Feia National Park in Rio Grande do Norte.
(20) Insect melanization hormones Bom-MRCH in their structural characteristics and properties resemble those of mammal MSH, and leucosulfakinins Lem-SK-I and -II show some similarities with gastrin II and cholecystokinin.