(n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
(n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
(n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
(n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
(2) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
(3) Data from 1985 and 1986 showed that 85.6% of the bugs captured inside houses were notified by the population, which confirms that the best way to maintain the epidemiologic surveillance of Chagas' disease by the mobilization of local communities for effective participation in vector surveillance.
(4) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
(5) The number of people affected by an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug could have passed 1 million, the Health Protection Agency has reported.
(6) The BUG increases 3.9-fold in DNA content from day 0 (day of birth) to day 6 postnatally; the epithelium grows proportionately more than the mesenchyme during this period (12-fold vs. 2.3-fold).
(7) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
(8) The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the highly variable region of the kinetoplast minicircle of Trypanosoma cruzi directly in biological samples (feces of infected Triatomine bugs, blood samples of experimentally infected mice, and artificially infected human blood samples).
(9) At 67, Young apparently feels the strain as much as everyone: "[His] wrist bugs him, and he has to tape it when he plays," Sampedro said.
(10) Gordon has been doing live insect cooking demonstrations across the United States since 1998 and estimates that he’s cooked bugs for some 100,000 people.
(11) More than 150,000 people were struck down with the winter vomiting bug during the festive period, the latest figures suggest.
(12) It seemed to me that Kafka had trouble imagining a universe where Gregor the Bug scurried about on the street, doing all kinds of wild things.
(13) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
(14) A good example of this is the Innovative Medicines Initiative's new drugs for bad bugs programme .
(15) Indeed, diglycerides constitute the largest neutral lipid fraction in the hemolymph of silkmoths, locusts, cockroaches, bugs, etc.
(16) Television's natural instinct was now simply to go on and on, to consume the infinite time stretching out in front of it, like those cartoons where Bugs Bunny is frantically laying down railway track so the train he is on can keep moving.
(17) But I've changed my mind – I think the Olympic bug might have caught on.
(18) And Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein has been bugged, of course.
(19) The information was fed into a DNA synthesizer, which produced short strands of the bug's DNA.
(20) Using this method, far more bugs can be used than in conventional xenodiagnosis increasing the likelyhood of detecting at least one infected T. infestans.
Bur
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Burr
Example Sentences:
(1) The 12-fluted bur caused no clinically identifiable marks on the enamel surface.
(2) Of roots treated by diamond burs, 165 stained areas were evaluated; 9 (5.5%) exhibited bacteria.
(3) When Bur-tumor was analysed by immunoblotting with Bur-1 antibody a positive reaction was obtained with material migrating in the kD-45kD molecular-weight region.
(4) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
(5) Orthopedic new approaches to therapy of OA include removal of abnormal tissue to stimulate repair (e.g., burring, abrasion) and grafting (e.g., osteochondral grafts, perichondrium, periosteum) to the subchondral bone.
(6) In order to establish the complete amino acid sequence of the human IgA alpha1 chain Bur, IgA1 protease from Streptococcus sanguis was employed to generate Fabalpha and Fcalpha fragments in the final stage of this investigation.
(7) Creation of smear layers with abrasive paper or dental burs reduced permeability by 80-85%.
(8) The goal of the present in vivo study was to evaluate human roots by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), after treating the root surfaces either with conventional hand instruments or with newly developed diamond burs.
(9) T-shirts were rush-printed overnight, showing his bald, burly head above the logo: "Hi, I'm Joe Plumber and Obama is a punk."
(10) It also was recovered from El Bur and one with similar microscopic characters has been seen in Chad and also in "territoire français des Afars et des Issas".
(11) Moreover a fine diamond bur suitable for air-rotor stripping of posterior interproximal enamel is also described.
(12) In all groups a retrofilling preparation was made to a depth of a number 331 bur.
(13) The highest degree of microleakage was observed when the cavities prepared with a diamond coated bur (mean particle size 80 microns) were left unfinished.
(14) Acceptable finishing procedures for the composite materials tested include silicon carbide disks for accessible areas or 12 fluted finishing burs for more inaccessible areas.
(15) It is hardly suited to the hurly-burly of the hustings.
(16) Some normal cells in the lung, pancreas (acini), and kidney (distal tubules) also bound Bur-1 antibody.
(17) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
(18) I’d called it because of concerns about how we were going to go forwards, particularly on Brexit.” Bur she denied being out of touch in not realising the campaign was not going well.
(19) Method 4 comprised a green stone, a carbide finishing bur, and the Vivadent polisher for composite.
(20) The results of the study lead to the conclusion that criterion for diabetes compensation should be not only the blood sugar normalization bur also the correction of the lipid fractions changes.