(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.
Image
Definition:
(n.) An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.
(n.) Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.
(n.) Show; appearance; cast.
(n.) A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.
(n.) A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.
(n.) The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.
(v. t.) To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
(v. t.) To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(2) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(5) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(6) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(7) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(8) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
(9) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(10) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(11) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(12) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(13) Although MR imaging can accurately show high-grade chondromalacia patellae, it is less accurate in the detection of low-grade disease.
(14) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(15) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
(16) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(17) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(18) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
(19) This method provided myocardial perfusion images of high quality which were well correlated with N-13 ammonia images.
(20) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.