(n.) The dead and putrefying body or flesh of an animal; flesh so corrupted as to be unfit for food.
(n.) A contemptible or worthless person; -- a term of reproach.
(a.) Of or pertaining to dead and putrefying carcasses; feeding on carrion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of methylation sites in alpha Bgt has been shown to decrease significantly upon binding of the toxin to the AcChR [Soler, G., Farach, M. C., Farach, H. A., Mattingly, J. R., & Martinez-Carrion, M. (1983) Arch.
(2) Poor operative technique, resulting in sepsis and extrusion, is threatening the reputation of the Small-Carrion penile prosthesis in some areas.
(3) The pK value for Lys-258 is as low as that for a group in the active site region which can perturb a 19F nuclear magnetic resonance probe inserted into that region (Martinez-Carrion, M., Slebe, J. C., Boettcher, B., and Relimpio, A. M. (1976) J. Biol.
(4) A., Richman, D., & Martinez-Carrion, M. (1984) Proc.
(5) The Small-Carrion prosthesis has been implanted successfully in 14 of 15 patients.
(6) Today erectile impotence is surgically best treated with the implantation of a Small-Carrion prosthesis through the infrapubic approach.
(7) The use of the Small-Carrion penile prosthesis in 160 patients is evaluated.
(8) Carrion-frequenting blow-flies (Chrysomyia albiceps and C. marginalis) were allowed 4 days of feeding on 32P-orthophosphate-labelled blood or an impala carcass (Aepyceros melampus) in the northern Kruger National Park, South Africa.
(9) Animals that rely upon the carrion of elk killed by wolves also suffered.
(10) The program requires, as input, the identity of arthropod taxa recovered from human remains in a death scene investigation and machine-readable data on carrion-associated arthropod taxa and their known successional patterns of activity for the same geographical area.
(11) Chemical modification of the Torpedo californica acetylcholine receptor (AcChR) by the fluorescent agent N-(1-pyrenyl)maleimide (PM) under nonreducing conditions resulted in the labeling of cysteine residues in all subunits and marked inhibition of the AcChR ion channel opening [Clarke, J. H., & Martinez-Carrion, M. (1986) J. Biol.
(12) Every day the news cycle throws up fresh carrion; some events suit one side better, which is a little galling for the other side, as this week's Conservative-gasm has demonstrated.
(13) In order to examine the impact of a penile prosthesis on the quality of life of the recipients, we mailed a questionnaire to all patients (N = 49) who received a semi-rigid (Small-Carrion) prosthesis at the Seattle VAMC from 1976 to 1981.
(14) Herein we report on our experience with the Small-Carrion penile prosthesis in 23 patients.
(15) Morphologically and developmentally this chromomycotic agent is closely related to Fonsecaea pedrosoi (Brumpt) Negroni and should be classified as Fonsecaes dermatitidis (Kano) Carrion.
(16) The insertion of two silicone rods into the penile corpora cavernosa (Small-Carrion penile prosthesis) is a considerable procedure for operative management of erectile impotence.
(17) However, of 849 carrion-associated insects and soil invertebrates collected from around decomposing rats, eggs of C. hepatica were found in only two species of beetles.
(18) We report 3 cases of fractured semirigid Small-Carrion and Finney penile prostheses.
(19) Seventy-six patients with impotence have undergone insertion of the Small-Carrion penile prosthesis at Duke University Medical Center.
(20) Bach polled 49 votes in the final round of voting, ahead of Carrion with 29, Ng with six, Oswald with five and Bubka with four.
Vulture
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.
Example Sentences:
(1) The exact number of lawsuits involving vulture funds operating in offshore tax havens is unclear, as many of these funds are highly secretive of their holdings.
(2) Domestic cats, 11 other species of carnivorous mammals, 6 species of snakes, and white-backed vultures were tested for their possible role as definitive hosts of Benoitia besnoiti by feeding with cystic material from chronically infected bovines.
(3) Margaret Lyons of the Vulture blog summed up the US response to MacFarlane's turn when she wrote: It's frustrating enough to know that 77% of Academy voters are male.
(4) A senior Gulf diplomat said: “They are inviting the vultures to the banquet table.
(5) Facebook or Google's YouTube are not the culture industries so much as the vulture industries, taking an information surcharge from us while we amuse each other, and selling us to advertisers.
(6) We saw no one apart from some old men in a hut who offered us water, unless vultures, choughs and the odd goat count.
(7) People are rare here, outnumbered by the eagles, vultures and cabra (goats).
(8) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(9) The vultures, led by a US billionaire, are mainly hedge fund investors who snapped up Argentinian bonds at rock-bottom prices following the country's $95bn default on its foreign debt in 2001.
(10) The debate was interrupted after 20 minutes when about 30 student demonstrators walked into the hall and began to barrack Hunt, chanting "Minister of culture, Tory vulture" and "Tory scum".
(11) The World Bank estimates that more than one-third of the countries which have qualified for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief have been targeted by vulture funds.
(12) UK legislation on vulture funds has already had an impact, when Liberia last year reached agreement to repay just over 3% of the face value of a $43m debt.
(13) The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank said many countries had been pursued by vulture funds, including Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, and the DRC.
(14) The sequences are compared with those of the Golden Eagle, and with those of the Andean Condor, a New World vulture.
(15) "To those who say we should negotiate with the vultures, I say the vultures are vultures because they don't negotiate," economy minister Axel Kicillof said defiantly.
(16) When it comes to greenlighting a film, the ‘comp’ is king – that is, the comparison to other, similar films, which studios use for box office projections and determining a budget,” says Kyle Buchanan, senior editor at Vulture.
(17) They buy up the debts of countries in chaos and war, speculating on the fact that when investors finally come back into the country – often encouraged by generous debt writedown schemes and International Monetary Fund programmes – the vultures will get their money back with huge interest on top, benefiting from the fledgling trade and new liquidity.
(18) Last year, the boutique Los Angeles fashion label Wildfox dedicated its entire Spring collection to a recreation of Cher, Dionne and Tai’s unmistakable wardrobes, while Vulture tracked down the bulk of the film’s cast (plus Rollin’ With My Homies hitmaker Coolio) for an oral history of the iconic ‘party in the Valley’ scene .
(19) Instead of a temporal fovea as in eagles and hawks, an afoveate temporal area is present in chimango, condor, and vulture.
(20) Cho revealed, in an interview with the website Vulture , that a kiss was originally part of the scene, but was ultimately removed.