(n.) A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brent and brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.
(a.) Steep.
(a.) Steep; high.
(a.) Smooth; unwrinkled.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brantly said he was first tested for malaria, but to his dismay, the results came back negative.
(2) The other missionaries, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol , were recently discharged from Emory University Hospital in Atlanta where they were treated for several weeks.
(3) At the hospital, one person in protective clothing guided another, believed to be Brantly, towards a building.
(4) Brantly said the virus was not on the radar when he and his family moved to west Africa two years ago, but he noticed a steady increase in Ebola patients in June and July.
(5) On Tuesday, Brantly and his wife, Amber, sat down with NBC News' Matt Lauer to speak for the first time about his experience fighting the deadly disease.
(6) That’s his heart,” said Jeremy Blume, a spokesman for the non-profit medical mission group Samaritan’s Purse, which Brantly was working for in Liberia.
(7) Today is a miraculous day,” Brantly said at a press conference at Emory hospital on Thursday to announce his discharge from care.
(8) His wife and children returned to the US on 20 July, but Brantly stayed on to continue his work.
(9) Aid workers Dr Kent Brantly of Texas and Nancy Writebol were the first Ebola patients to be treated in the US.
(10) Robin Brant (@robindbrant) in spite of description of responsibilities under his name on .gov.uk i am told that mark francois is the new min for armed forces.
(11) She and the couple’s children were living in Liberia with Brantly but left before he developed symptoms.
(12) Brantly and Writebol were both treated in the hospital’s containment unit, which is specially equipped to care for patients with serious communicable diseases.
(13) Brantly said he was thankful Amber and his two children had already left the country by the time he fell ill. His wife and children had returned to Texas for a wedding.
(14) Brantly and Writebol were both treated in Emory hospital’s containment unit, which is specially equipped to care for patients with serious communicable diseases.
(15) Sacra had gone back to Monrovia after fellow missionaries Brantly and Writebol were diagnosed.
(16) These secretory variants contain frameshift mutations leading to products with normal amino acid sequences to the points of the mutations followed by short, aberrant C-terminal sequences and then premature termination (Nukiwa, T., Takahashi, H., Brantly, M., Courtney, M., and Crystal, R. (1987) J. Biol.
(17) Nancy Writebol and Kent Brantly are the first Americans to survive the deadly virus that has claimed more than 1,500 lives, according to the World Health Organization.
(18) Brantly said he woke up on 23 July feeling a "little off".
(19) Hell yeah, I’m very worried.” Three Americans contracted Ebola in west Africa and were flown to the United States for treatment and later released: Kent Brantly, Nancy Writebol and Rick Sacra.
(20) Writebol said the next few days were a blur, as she was transported to the US where she joined her colleague Brantly in a two-room isolation unit at Emory University hospital.
Smooth
Definition:
(superl.) Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.
(superl.) Evenly spread or arranged; sleek; as, smooth hair.
(superl.) Gently flowing; moving equably; not ruffled or obstructed; as, a smooth stream.
(superl.) Flowing or uttered without check, obstruction, or hesitation; not harsh; voluble; even; fluent.
(superl.) Bland; mild; smoothing; fattering.
(superl.) Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless.
(adv.) Smoothly.
(n.) The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths.
(n.) That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything.
(a.) To make smooth; to make even on the surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron.
(a.) To free from obstruction; to make easy.
(a.) To free from harshness; to make flowing.
(a.) To palliate; to gloze; as, to smooth over a fault.
(a.) To give a smooth or calm appearance to.
(a.) To ease; to regulate.
(v. i.) To flatter; to use blandishment.
Example Sentences:
(1) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(2) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(3) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(4) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
(5) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(6) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(7) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
(8) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
(9) It inhibits platelet and vascular smooth muscle activation by cGMP-dependent attenuation of the agonist-induced rise of intracellular free Ca2+.
(10) It is concluded that a Na-H antiport system in vascular smooth muscle regulates Na influx rate, contributes to intracellular pH regulation and influences basal levels of Na,K-pump activity.
(11) By 30 min after insemination, the surface of the egg is relatively smooth.
(12) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
(13) Distribution patterns of phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylinositol in the smooth muscle as well as in the mucosa were different from those in the liver.
(14) Ultrastructural study of the uterine lesion demonstrated smooth muscle cells with only a few "autophagic" facuoles to cells nearly replaced by lysosomes.
(15) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(16) We conclude that once daily doxazosin provides smooth and effective blood pressure control throughout a 24 h post-dose period.
(17) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(18) Four fractions enriched, respectively, in plasma membrane (PM), smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER), rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), and mitochondria were isolated from estrogen-dominated rat myometrium.
(19) From the findings of this study the authors recommend wide excision of colorectal smooth-muscle tumours whenever there is a suggestion of malignancy.
(20) All smooth strains of Brucella bear two lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens in a ratio that defines the classification of strains in serovars, A (A greater than M), M (M greater than A) and A.M (A = M).