(n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
(n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
(a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of the chromosome findings in 25 male tortoiseshell or calico (T-C) cats showed a variety of aneuploidy, polyploidy, mosaicism, and chimerism.
(2) Season of invasion coincides with the period of migration of calico and humpback salmon which are additional hosts of Diphyllobothriidae.
(3) A case is reported of hemorrhagic calico papillitis showing unilateral hematuria.
(4) In 2014, Calico announced a partnership with drugs firm AbbVie to investigate ways to combat ageing and its associated ailments, entailing joint investment that could reach more than £1bn.
(5) The operative methods applied vary: they include pelvic flap pyeloplasty, caudal transposition of the kidney, interposition of the small intestine, trans-ureterostomy, calico-ureterostomy, of bladder flap transplantation and autotransplantation of the kidney.
(6) I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.” Sergey Brin Google co-founder Sergey Brin, 41, is known for his love of special projects like Google Glass and CEO Larry Page has credited him for helping bring its new biotech company Calico to fruition.
(7) Our approach can help Calico immensely and if their approach is successful it can help me live longer,” explains Venter.
(8) Short for California Life Company, Calico is more circumspect about its aims than Alphabet’s other biotechnology subsidiaries.
(9) It is the first time that Alphabet has provided specific numbers for its core business (Google’s search engine, YouTube, Android, Google Play and other units that form the heart of its business) and for the rest of the companies businesses (Google X, its research arm, Calico, its biotech company, Google Fiber, high speed internet, Nest, smart home devices and other bets on future technologies).
(10) Therefore, in the first case a calico-ileo-ureterostomy and in the second patient a calico-jejuno-ureterostomy were performed.
(11) In the "Zhigulevsky" preserve, 46 coarse calico napkins impregnated with 1 ml of an attractant, were placed alternatively as controls and experimental along the road with the interval of 5 meters.
(12) In the evening, an elderly person would have difficulty in identifying a cat as a calico cat if the cat were atop a wall and running quickly through the visual field.
(13) Adductor muscles of calico scallops, Argopecten gibbus, collected off the southeastern coast of the United States from May 1982 to December 1984 were examined for the presence of larvae of the parasitic nematode, Sulcascaris sulcata.
(14) If there is found the following trias: unilateral hematuria, pseudopapillomatous cellgroups in urine, missing pathological changes in urological X-ray examinations (or only minimal blurs at the fornices) the diagnosis of calico papillitis has to be considered carefully.
(15) Calico may get too side-tracked by basic research, worries de Grey; Venter’s approach may take years to bear fruit because of issues about data gathering, thinks Barzilai; while the money on offer from the Palo Alto prize is a paltry sum for the demanded outcome and potential societal impact, says Johnson.
(16) Mortality One of the more fantastical projects in the Alphabet stable is Calico, a biotechnology company aimed at the medical holy grail – a cure for, or rather the prevention of, death.
(17) But the appearance of Calico and others suggests the world might be coming around to his side, he says.
(18) Calico has the money to do almost anything it wants,” says Tom Johnson, an earlier pioneer of the field now at the University of Colorado who was the first to find a genetic effect on longevity in a worm.
(19) The frequency of viral infection in cats with a solid color in their coat, excluding tabby, calico, and tortoise, was higher (12.2%) than the frequency in the remainder of the cats (5.5%; P = 0.011).
(20) This was an affluent, socially mobile consumer society, delighting in every imported treat from calicoes to tea, and obsessed with fashion.
Muslin
Definition:
(n.) A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings suggest that single-point cortisol values can be misleading in many Muslin countries during or shortly after Ramadan.
(2) Young healthy albino male mice were subjected to repeated exposure to kerosene by wrapping each of their hind feet with a muslin cloth (1 x 10 cm) wetted with kerosene (0.1 ml).
(3) The arachnoiditis is considered to be due to an inflammatory response to muslin gauze placed close to the optic nerves and chiasm.
(4) I've started rounding up muslins and moses baskets, and my hospital bag is already packed.
(5) It has been suggested that the accompanying loss of vision is due to a muslin-induced optic neuropathy.
(6) All that was needed was a scrap of sticky muslin stretched on the roof and a spectrometer - admittedly a highly sophisticated piece of scientific equipment - to analyse the gamma rays given off by the minute particles of dust it collected.
(7) It has been famous for its muslin and jute production.
(8) I’d be rediscovering the old me, the real one that was somewhere buried beneath the piles of muslin wipes and my failing fortysomething body.
(9) And second, muslin gauze wrapping induced a foreign-body granuloma at the site (parasellar region), and resulted in development of oculomotor palsy.
(10) Wrap the spices with the herbs and garlic in muslin cloth and tie securely.
(11) The specimens were then wrapped with muslin soaked in the conditioner and covered with polythene sheeting for 1 week.
(12) They conclude that reinforcement with muscle is of little value, but that muslin gauze and plastic produced satisfactory results.
(13) Experimental venous pouch aneurysms in rats were wrapped with muscle, bovine collagen, muslin, cotton, or polyvinyl alcohol.
(14) On an informal level, too, members of the Muslin Brotherhood began taking it upon themselves to break up public dance performances – including, last month, this rather bland ballet-styled cabaret show in Cairo .
(15) Microorganisms penetrated single-wrap muslin as early as 3 days and double-wrap muslin and single-wrap two-way crepe paper in 21 to 28 days stored in open shelves.
(16) Empirical evaluations closely simulating actual use conditions were employed to compare critical property levels of commonly used muslin (140-thread) and nonwoven sterile-wraps.
(17) That is not a line from a novel but from one of Austen's 1811 letters to her sister Cassandra, in which she discloses she went shopping for fabric but was "tempted" by a pretty-coloured muslin.
(18) Familial occurrence of fistula auris congenita (ear pits) is described in a Muslin kindred of Indian origin.
(19) Microbial penetration of sterile packs was studied by using double-wrap (two layers each) muslin, single-wrap (two layers) muslin inner covering with single-wrap (one layer) two-way crepe paper outer covering, and single-wrap (two layers) muslin inner covering with single-layer BAR-BAC wrappers to wrap 20 gauze sponges (2 by 2 in.).
(20) He was intubated with a red rubber tube wrapped with aluminum tape and outermost with muslin strips.