(n.) A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris / rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.
Example Sentences:
(1) After a groundbreaking two-year investigation, Operation Bullfinch, seven men – including two sets of brothers – were convicted at the Old Bailey in May 2013 of 43 offences, which included trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution, procuring an illegal abortion, rape and physical violence.
(2) In increasing of the ambient temperature, the difference between the brain and body temperatures diminished from 1.4 degrees C (at the ambient temperature 0 degree C) to 0.5 degrees C (at the ambient temperature +37 degrees C) in bullfinches, the brain temperature being always the lower one.
(3) The technique is demonstrated using various seeds known to form part of the diet of the bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula L.), a pest of commercial orchards in southeast England.
(4) In late 2012, Operation Bullfinch resulted in seven men receiving prison sentences ranging from seven to 20 years for their involvement in an Oxford child sex ring.
(5) The popularity of craft beer has spread from its core followers in the hipster area of Shoreditch and Hackney across the capital and the rest of the UK.” The firm pointed to new entrants Long Arm Brewing in Ealing, Hackney-based 40ft Brewery and Bullfinch Brewery in Lambeth as evidence of London’s booming craft beer scene.
(6) Temporal characteristics of the vocalizations of bullfinches were investigated.
(7) The brain temperature in mice was higher than the rectal one by 0.4 degrees C. There were constant rapid oscillations of the brain temperature with the period of 1-2 min and the amplitude of 0.05-0.10 degrees C as well as slow oscillations with the period of 11-20 min and the amplitude of 0.5-1.5 degrees C both in bullfinches and mice.
(8) The calls produced by experimentally isolated bullfinches were subjected to sonagraphic analysis.
(9) These include the linnet , Dartford warbler , stonechat , meadow pipit , skylark , goldfinch , bullfinch, hedge sparrow , grey partridge and yellowhammer .
Olf
Definition:
(n.) The European bullfinch.
Example Sentences:
(1) The case is described of a 26-year olf woman, gravida 2, para 1, who presented with failure to conceive 18 months after revomal of a Lippes Loop IUD worn for 12 months.
(2) Many are accused of supporting the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
(3) Furthermore, with the exception of the OLF the direction of change was not similar to that caused by i.v.
(4) The immunodiagnostic pattern of OLF NB includes the following: (a) NSE present in irregular clusters of tumor cells, (b) S-100 present in peripheral cells which form a marginal network, (c) and GFAP rarely present.
(5) Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) combined with ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) in the thoracic spine can result in serious myelopathy, leading to circumferential compression of the spinal cord in advanced stages of the disease.
(6) One young girl said hot coals had been dropped on her stomach because her father was suspected of supporting the OLF, while a teacher described how he was stabbed in the eye with a bayonet after he refused to teach “propaganda about the ruling party” to students.
(7) In the Tarup district of Odense, an investigation was carried out concerning certificates in connection with maintenance allowances during a period olf two months.
(8) Results of laminectomy for OLF were poor because of the high occurrence of complications early on or later deterioration.
(9) During the past 10 years, we have followed 113 cases olf CML throughout their course and results of observations on the clinical, hematological and other apsects of the disease are presented in this communication.
(10) Our results show that OLFs isolated from the urine of salt-loaded healthy subjects strongly enhance basal and vasopressin-stimulated release of calcium in vascular smooth muscle cells and platelets similar to the effects we had observed with endothelin.
(11) Since then, numerous studies confirmed the presence of OLFs in serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and various organs including the heart and hypothalamus.
(12) Therefore, laminoplasty is recommended as a successful procedure for OLF-related thoracic myelopathy, avoiding further local mechanical stress due to tensile force.
(13) Histologic study revealed that the developmental mode of OLF was mainly endochondral ossification.
(14) In six cases, high intensity areas in the spinal cord caused by compressing OLF were demonstrated on T2-weighted images.
(15) Specificity of tissue location defines that the rod and cone transducins (TD1 and TD2, respectively) act as the coupling proteins between rhodopsin and cone opsins and their cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase effectors and that G(olf) is the G-protein which tranduces signals from odorant receptors to adenylate cyclase in olfactory sensory neurones.
(16) To examine the role of an ouabain-like factor (OLF) in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease in hypertension, we examined plasma levels of OLF in a malignant form of one-kidney, one wrap (1K,1W) hypertension.
(17) Transcript analysis of the region that rescues the olfE phenotype has shown one major transcript at 5.4 kb and a minor one at 1.7 kb.
(18) This operation consists of two steps: posterior and lateral decompression of the spinal cord by removal of the OLF (first step) and anterior removal of the OPLL for anterior decompression (second step), followed by interbody fusion.
(19) At the level of the thickest OLF in each patient, there were three types of OLF from computed tomography and operative findings: a lateral type in 3 patients, diffuse in 8, and thickened nodular in 3.
(20) Areas of high or intermediate signal intensity within the OLF on T1-weighted images were observed in three cases and were interpreted to be due to fat infiltration.