(n.) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman
(n.) A British fish; the whiff.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(2) In his interim Digital Britain report published last month, Carter called for the creation of a "second institution ... with public purpose at its heart" to rival the BBC and mooted the merger of Channel 4 into a wider entity, potentially involving parts of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
(3) The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck, who specialise in suing the media for clients, who include individuals or global corporations.
(4) Around the same time Clinton also beefed up President Carter's 1977 Community Reinvestment Act – forcing lenders to take a more sympathetic approach to poor borrowers trying to get on the housing ladder.
(5) Myers, who wrote a review of local radio for Lord Carter's Digital Britain report published in April , said there had been a breakdown in the relationship between commercial stations and the regulator.
(6) Helena Bonham Carter said the protest was a “perfect” response to the film Suffragette .
(7) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
(8) Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: "Nursing staff are seeing an increasing number of older people with HIV and too often they can see that the system is failing them.
(9) At the Forum Rodgers and Chic will be part of a lineup that includes DJs past and present, from Studio 54 legend Nicky Siano to Chicago house star Derrick Carter.
(10) Top Jamaican at Beijing Games tests positive for drugs in sample reanalysis Read more According to Reuters, traces of the drug are reported to have been found in Carter’s A sample when 454 frozen blood and urine samples from Beijing were retested by the International Olympic Committee last month.
(11) Carter is finishing off a capability review for the Department for International Development.
(12) Raegan Carter, with Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, has described Jindal’s decision as political grandstanding and called Jindal’s action against clinics illegal.
(13) latex agglutination test (LAT), two indirect hemagglutination tests (IHAT) (Carter-Wallace, USA and Ismunit, Italy), enzyme immunoassay (EIA) and indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFAT).
(14) In discussing the role of the United States in world politics, President Jimmy Carter described the changes in Europe as it prepares for unification into one economic bloc; the deteriorating conditions in the third world; the impact of the recent changes in communist countries; and the persistence of regional wars and civil disputes.
(15) Lorien Carter said her nephew had been “a beautiful young man”.
(16) US President George Bush left open yesterday the possibility of closing the Guantánamo Bay prison, a day after his White House predecessor Jimmy Carter called for it to be shut.
(17) That is the view Professor Carter has been espousing for a long time.
(18) Troy Carter, the force behind Lady Gaga , isn't just a talent manager.
(19) Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, said: "Alcohol abuse costs the NHS £3bn every year and nursing staff witness first hand the social costs of binge drinking every day.
(20) If you get moments like this, why would you ever call it a day?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fly-half Dan Carter says he’s ‘very proud’ to have won back-to-back Rugby World Cups after kicking 19 points in New Zealand’s 34-17 victory over Australia The outside-half Dan Carter , whose 19 points stretched his record in international rugby to 1,598, will not play international rugby again, having signed a contract with Racing Métro.
Cauter
Definition:
(n.) A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Potential causes for bowel burn associated with tubal cauterization are discussed.
(2) In one case the origin of infection was a cauterized wart that did not appear clinically infected.
(3) The use of drugs such as polydeoxyribonucleotide (PDRN) 5 mg (POLIDES 5--Farmigea), provided with reepithelialization and anticomplement action, seems to promote a quicker recovery of the cauterized or vaporized zone, avoiding, at the same time, the secondary inflammatory reaction.
(4) An effort was made to neutralize the virus in loco either by infiltration of the inoculation site with povidone-iodine or with monoclonal antibodies, or by cauterization and excision.
(5) The infective lesions of the corneal epithelium (dendritic and geographic ulcers) occasionally develop into noninfective indolent or trophic ulcers, particularly under the influence of cauterizing chemicals or corticosteroids.
(6) The risk of development of malignancy in the retained stump is almost eliminated by the laparoscopic removal of the upper endocervical canal and cauterization of the lower endocervical canal and exocervix.
(7) These observations suggest that the physiological maturity of the muscle was not appreciably altered even though glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity was higher (P greater than 0.05) and total phosphorylase activity was lower (P greater than 0.05) in the spinal cauterized fetuses than in the control group.
(8) The terminal innervation ratios were similar (P greater than 0.05) for muscles from control and cauterized fetuses.
(9) Cauterization of the pars intercerebralis after the critical period of the prothoracic gland activity does not affect moulting in any way.
(10) Following successful cauterization, goblet cells returned.
(11) With the trend of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) toward development at an earlier age in today's population, the importance of office cauterization in preventing cervical cancer becomes apparent.
(12) In order to study congenital constriction band syndrome, we performed local cauterization of the lower limb buds of embryos in fertilized white leghorn eggs between hour 0 on day 4 (day 4-0) and day 7-0 of incubation.
(13) Application of prednisolone disodium phosphate ointment to cauterized corneas also inhibited neutrophil migration at 6 h, but increased the extravascular neutrophils at 48 h. After 6 days of treatment, corneal blood vessel growth was significantly reduced.
(14) If operative intervention is advised, it should consist of one of several limited procedures that can be safely performed with low morbidity: anal encirclement, presacral packing, sclerosing injection, or linear rectal cauterization.
(15) In operated groups an ulcer was provoked by cauterization with a metallic plate in the gastric fundus.
(16) In males the development of gonadotrophs was strongly suppressed in number and in size after the cauterization, whereas in females the suppression was less prominent.
(17) Cauterization was performed anterior to the joint in nine experimental rhesus monkeys, while eight animals served as control subjects.
(18) After cauterization of a single bleeding point, the patient again received prednisolone.
(19) Rearing environment (enriched vs. normal) and method of vibrissae removal (cauterization of follicles vs. plucking) were examined to determine specific factors that m might influence the effect of vibrissae removal.
(20) Over a 2-year period 1013 phenol cauterizations were carried out on 631 patients.