(a.) Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.
(n.) A member of any of the white races of mankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(2) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(3) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(4) Analysis of HLA DRB1 and DQB1 Bam HI RFLPs revealed four DRB1 (4.8, 5.2, 6.0 and 7.0 kb) fragments and a 3.2 kb DQB1 fragment to be significantly increased in Caucasians with seropositive RA compared to healthy individuals.
(5) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(6) We therefore developed a food frequency questionnaire and tested it against a 4-day weighed food record in 54 Caucasian women, between 29 and 72 years of age.
(7) The first individual is Oriental and carries Cw1 and Cw3 on the same haplotype, the other individuals are Caucasian and carry either Cw1, Cw3 or Cw1 and Cw3 on different haplotypes.
(8) Although complete data were not available, it appeared that the incidence of breast cancer is lower in this population of Hispanic women than in Caucasian women.
(9) It was also observed that the values obtained in the present study were lower than those for Caucasian children.
(10) An 8-year-old Caucasian male presented with two episodes of gross hematuria but was otherwise asymptomatic.
(11) Approximately 450 respondents over the age of 15 years were investigated in each of the following: a tribal Xhosa community in Transkei; a rural Tswana community in the northwestern Transvaal; an urban Negro population in Johannesburg; and a Caucasian community in the same city.
(12) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(13) Since immunological and hereditary factors may be important in chronic pancreatitis, histocompatibility antigens of classes I and II were studied in 50 British Caucasian patients, after exclusion of insulin-dependent diabetics for whom HLA associations are recognised.
(14) No study until now has examined the impact of the physical and psychological condition on voter turnout among elderly African Americans and Caucasians.
(15) The low values for triceps skinfold thickness are probably due to differences in the distribution of subcutaneous fat at different sites in the body as found between caucasian and non-caucasian population groups.
(16) Some of our results were different from the Caucasian both on the allele frequencies and the restriction fragment length.
(17) The variant promoter was not present in 35 Caucasian NIDDM patients or in 40 Pima Indians.
(18) alpha-Interferon has been shown to be the most promising antiviral agent in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Caucasian patients.
(19) The hypothesis that the index, body height2 divided by resistance (RI), can accurately predict fat-free body mass (FFB) and percent fat (%FAT) in children was tested on 94 caucasian children 10-14 yr old.
(20) Ours is the first population based study of its kind in Asian children, and challenges the view that there is a large difference in the prevalence of IDDM between Asians and White Caucasians.
Sambo
Definition:
(n.) A colloquial or humorous appellation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heads of WHO country offices in Africa are “politically motivated appointments” made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency’s chief in Geneva, Dr Margaret Chan, it said.
(2) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(3) According to Lewin, Burnside had also hoped to win a lucrative contract to promote sambo in the UK.
(4) New Century Media envisaged Putin handing the cup to the winning sambo team as well as a "prestigious black tie evening reception" afterwards.
(5) Didn’t they have anything other than Sambo-blaaaak babies?” The word “sambo”, and the caricature attached to it, has a multinational history – from its use in Latin American Spanish to refer to a person of Native American and African heritage, to the overseer in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the children’s book The Story of Little Black Sambo in which a South Indian boy tricks a gang of hungry tigers.
(6) This was acknowledged in a March speech by the national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in which he outlined the federal government's new "soft approach" to counter-terrorism .
(7) Depictions of black people, like Sambo, the piccaninny and many others , were manufactured and sold to the public – often to sell consumer products – as foils for whiteness.
(8) The national security adviser Lt Colonel Sambo Dasuki appointed Dr Fatima Akilu, a psychologist, to work as the director of behavioural analysis and strategic communication in his office.
(9) The Sambo market was once the place where shopkeepers from across the capital came to stock up their stores.
(10) Authorities in the northern state of Kaduna imposed a 24-hour curfew after protesters set fire to the residence of vice-president Namadi Sambo in the town of Zaria and forced their way into the central prison, releasing inmates.
(11) A photo on the sambo federation's website shows Cameron chatting to Putin's close friend , with Alex Nekrassov – who works for Burnside's PR consultancy firm New Century Media – translating.
(12) In Kaduna, home to the vice president Namadi Sambo, young men burned tyres in the streets and threw stones at police and soldiers trying to restore order, according to witnesses.
(13) Sambo Dasuki rejected suggestions that the Nigerian garrison in the town of Baga, overrun by the Islamist group at the beginning of the month, had been under-equipped, citing the substantial arsenal seized by the attackers that was displayed by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in a video claiming responsibility posted online on Tuesday .
(14) In June Shestakov hosted a sambo event at Kensington Palace, where he read out a message from Russia's president.
(15) Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian Winner : University of Leeds Runner-up : Royal Agricultural University Runner-up : University of Wolverhampton International projects ( Sponsored by IELTS ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jude Collins, IELTS communication advisor, presents the international projects award to Dr Katie Hampson, Maganga Sambo and Joel Changalucha from the University of Glasgow for the Boyd Orr Centre.
(16) Two mature elite Sambo wrestlers were studied during a 22-day pre-European Championship period, during which they were to lose weight and maintain their top physical performance characteristics.
(17) He is head of FIAS, the international federation for sambo, a Russian variation of judo.
(18) Boko Haram - the Guardian briefing Read more He severely criticised comments made by Nigeria’s national security adviser, Sambo Dasuki, at the same venue in January, in which he blamed the army’s defeats at the hands of Boko Haram on cowardice in the ranks .
(19) The scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr even calls what he terms “the everyday racism of American popular culture “Sambo Art” .
(20) I’m going to buy larvae-eating fish for the tanks today, and I’ll go to the clinic, and talk to my neighbours.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sambo fish are being distributed for mosquito control as they are believed to eat mosquito larvae.