(n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
(n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
(v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
(v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) In almost all the cantons the consent of the parents is necessary.
(2) Member, Canton and Riverside Division, Cardiff, St. John Ambulance.
(3) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
(4) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(5) Most immediately in Zurich is the likely publication of a settlement made in court in the Swiss canton of Zug, in connection with alleged bribes paid to senior Fifa officials in the late 1990s by the marketing company ISL.
(6) Crude and relative survival rates were analyzed using data from 4,199 incident breast cancers in females and 39 breast cancers in males registered between 1974 and 1988 in the Cancer Registry of the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
(7) The follow-up sample consisted of 841 men in the Canton of Zurich who had been selected from a complete survey of men born in 1952.
(8) Separation forces were tested with an Instron machine (Instron Corp., Canton, Mass.).
(9) In the Canton of Graubunden, 33% of the 13-15 year old pupils and 34% of those aged 17-19 from a total of 166 smoked regularly or occasionally; none of the younger, but 8% of the older pupils had already tried drugs once.
(10) The authors study the various aspects of the 484 attempts of suicide examined over the year 1974 at the Psychiatric Policlinic of the Geneva Cantonal Hospital.
(11) Angry demonstrations over the government’s refusal to relieve Kobani , the Syrian canton under siege from the brutal group calling itself Islamic State (Isis), led to a spate of deaths.
(12) In the first survey, based on representative population samples, blood lead level was measured in the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg.
(13) Four spines were mounted in an Instron machine (Instron Engineering Corp., Canton, MA).
(14) We are redeploying 25km [outside Juba] but even if it is one battalion remaining and again they clash, is it really difficult to come back to Juba?” While the cantonment of troops may be a first step to end fighting, fundamental reforms of the security sector are needed to professionalise an army notorious for lack of discipline, human rights abuses and tribalism.
(15) At a lower level, France has the level of "canton."
(16) All renal allotransplants performed at the Cantonal Hospital, Zurich, in 1975 and 1976 were analysed with respect to pre-transplant blood transfusions, excluding secondary transplants, patients on dialysis outside of Switzerland, combined renal and pancreatic transplants, and women with previous pregnancies but without transfusions.
(17) Between 1978 and 1984, the University Hospital of Geneva (Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire) received 46 head injured patients who "talked and died" after their brain insult.
(18) (And even in Switzerland the tax policies vary canton by canton, and are regularly put to the vote.)
(19) The purpose of the present epidemiological study is to investigate and describe panic disorder and sporadic panic attacks among a cohort of young adults, aged 28 years, from the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
(20) Velásquez, 23, had been terrified by stories linking Zika to birth defects , so on Christmas Day she drove 25 miles south from the semi-rural canton of Aguilares to the nearest public hospital in the capital, San Salvador.
Panton
Definition:
(n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.
Example Sentences:
(1) A lysogenic conversion by a group A phage to production of Panton-Valentine leucocidin and by a group F phage to staphylokinase production could be demonstrated.
(2) He met Panton and Wallis again, on 29 March 2007 at Santini.
(3) On 9 April 2010, Yates, who said his diary was packed with work from dawn to dusk, lunched at Racine's in Knightsbridge, to brief Panton and two other journalists.
(4) For purification of F and S components of the Panton-Valentine leukocidin, an easy three-step method using fast protein liquid chromatography was developed to replace the time-consuming purification procedures previously published.
(5) Cayman Islands’ financial services minister Wayne Panton told the Cayman Reporter: “This is now yet again a further standard which is being proposed and which seems to be gathering momentum, which we are being asked to give in to.
(6) This mutant strain expressed a pleiotropic phenotype such as a concomitant reduction in the producibility of coagulase, alpha-toxin, and Panton-Valentine leucocidin.
(7) Robert Jay QC, counsel to the inquiry, said the email suggested that Panton had "plied" Yates with champagne and the favour was to be returned.
(8) The groups of patients with a low frequency, high frequency or pantonal hearing loss did not differ with respect to the distribution of coronary risk factors.
(9) Maureen Panton Malvern, Worcestershire • The “problem” of rising life expectancy is being dealt with by this government not only by increasing the state pension age but also by gradually dismantling the welfare state and NHS which gave rise to increasing life expectancy.
(10) Yates replied: "I hadn't been plied with champagne by Lucy Panton, and I think it's an unfortunate emphasis you're putting on it."
(11) The average hearing loss in percent (calculated on the basis of the pure tone audiogram according to D. Röser, 1973) amounted to 71.6% prior to treatment, the average sound audiogram corresponding to a pantonal hearing defect.
(12) Yates also admitted that he might have drunk champagne with the former News of the World crime editor Lucy Panton, whom he saw perhaps three times a year.
(13) One hundred and thirty-nine Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from various clinical samples of hospitalized patients were screened by immunoprecipitation for Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) production.
(14) Demetrious Panton , an employment lawyer with Artesian Law, representing the NHS administrator who believes she was wrongfully dismissed, said his client would not have been able to afford to take the case if she had had to pay such a fee.
(15) A large second-floor lounge, in cool colours and with classic Panton designer chairs, opens on to the deck area with sun loungers and a swimming pool.
(16) The inquiry was read an email from the former NoW news editor James Mellor to Panton requesting she call in the champagne favours.
(17) Now it has evolved to an ‘automatic exchange’ approach,” Panton explained, “which by definition will effectively mean if you commit to it you have some quasi-central register.
(18) Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) is a Staphylococcus aureus (SA) exotoxin, which kills human granulocytes and monocytes in vitro.
(19) Less than four months after Yates decided not to reopen the phone-hacking case, on 5 November 2009, he went to the Ivy Club with the NoW editor, Colin Myler, and crime editor, Lucy Panton.