(n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
(n.) The branches of a bridle bit.
(n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
(n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.
(v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to.
Example Sentences:
(1) In group III, multiple confluent ulcers were produced in the cheek pouch on one side, with a single ulcer in the contralateral cheek pouch; no drug was applied, and the tissues were prepared for histology.
(2) Cheek pouches were removed from BIO 87.20 male hamsters 4 weeks, 8 months or 18 months of age.
(3) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(4) The histopathologic investigations showed that the inflammatory reaction occurred in the buccal tissues was more powerful and the healing manifestations appeared earlier and continued more rapidly in the cheek.
(5) This difference, however, did not influence the detection of rhythmical ictal activity in cheek and sphenoidal montages in our study, nor the assignment of side, site or time of seizure onset by unbiased readers.
(6) We present a computer-aided videodensitometric method for the determination of oxygen saturation in red blood cells flowing through capillaries of the hamster cheek pouch retractor muscle.
(7) The nasal reconstruction in 8 patients and cheek reconstruction in 1 using a free flap from the deltoid region has been successfully undertaken in our department since August 1987.
(8) Results of both stathmokinetic and labelling experiments indicate that cell production in the cheek pouch epithelium of iron-deficient animals is impaired.
(9) After cultivation in vitro, cells from some transformed colonies produced tumors when inoculated into the cheek pouch of young golden hamsters.
(10) Serum starvation and RNA synthesis inhibition experiments using hamster cheek pouch carcinoma cell line 1 cells suggest that the c-Ki-ras protooncogene is indeed quiescent in the normal hamster cheek pouch epithelium and that failure to detect its mRNA is not related to the slower proliferation of the normal epithelial cells.
(11) Rich, clear and with real depth, these are the prize awaiting anyone who picks up the shin, cheeks and tails before they're put in the mincer.
(12) On stage at La Bastille after his election victory, footage showed that after Hollande gave Royal a kiss on the cheek, Trierweiler demanded of him: "Kiss me on the mouth."
(13) This study suggests that neural and adrenergic mechanisms are not the primary determinants of arteriolar tone in the hamster cheek pouch.
(14) After the medium was incubated at 37 degrees C for 48 h, 37-49% of the retinoid remained, whether or not tissue (neonatal Syrian hamster cheek pouch) was present, and irrespective of explant age.
(15) A new clinical method using a square rule leaned on the cheek using these reference points is recommended.
(16) The case of a patient with an extensive vertical laceration of the right cheek involving Stensen's duct is reported.
(17) Increases in permeability of the hamster cheek pouch were quantitated by the formation of microvascular leaky sites.
(18) Large defects after Mohs' surgery for these lesions may involve the nose, cheek, forehead, and other parts of the face as well as the eyelids, medial canthus, and lacrimal drainage system.
(19) If she seems little intense, it probably has something to do with why she is so wildly successful, yet we remain determined to reduce her – in her own tongue-in-cheek words – to a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
(20) At 32 days all the permanent cheek-teeth are erupted.
Chop
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To sever or separate by one more blows of a sharp instrument; to divide; -- usually with off or down.
(v. t.) To seize or devour greedily; -- with up.
(v. i.) To make a quick strike, or repeated strokes, with an ax or other sharp instrument.
(v. i.) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
(v. i.) To interrupt; -- with in or out.
(v. i.) To barter or truck.
(v. i.) To exchange; substitute one thing for another.
(v. i.) To purchase by way of truck.
(v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about.
(v. i.) To wrangle; to altercate; to bandy words.
(n.) A change; a vicissitude.
(v. t. & i.) To crack. See Chap, v. t. & i.
(n.) The act of chopping; a stroke.
(n.) A piece chopped off; a slice or small piece, especially of meat; as, a mutton chop.
(n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
(n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.
(n.) A movable jaw or cheek, as of a wooden vise.
(n.) The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbor, or channel; as, East Chop or West Chop. See Chops.
(n.) Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.
(n.) A permit or clearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infusion of vincristine may be safely incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy programs of the CHOP type for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(2) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(3) The lambs of the second group were given 1200-1500 g of concentrate pellets and 300 g chopped wheat straw, and those of the third group were given 800 and 1050 g each of concentrate pellets, and 540 g and 720 g of pellets of whole maize plant containing 40 per cent.
(4) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
(5) Chop-U units have CVs greater than 0.35, show a decrease in irregularity during the response, and show a variety of rate adaptation behaviors, including negative adaptation (an increase in rate during a short-tone response).
(6) Addictive onion consumption was prevented by mixing chopped or crushed onions in a total balanced ration.
(7) He was treated with CHOP therapy but with no response.
(8) Based on a preliminary trial that suggested that CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone), and PVB (cisplatinum, vinblastine, bleomycin), are at least partially non-cross-resistant, the Southwest Oncology Group treated patients with unfavorable histology, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with CHOP and PVB.
(9) Chris Hagan, managing director of the factory, says: "If you chopped them into smaller pieces, you could sell them to B&Q."
(10) As the result of differences in drug intake by individual calves, a pelleted feed additive given as top dress on chopped alfalfa hay gave an unsatisfactory mean anthelmintic response.
(11) Lincomycin-resistant Clostridium sporogenes obtained from the stools of a patient with lincomycin-associated pseudomembranous colitis produced a heat-stable cytotoxin in low titre when grown in chopped meat medium.
(12) From 1970 to 1988, 121 patients younger than 18 years of age with newly diagnosed Hodgkin's disease were treated at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP).
(13) The present study demonstrates that adrenal glands removed from rats and then chopped release an immunoreactive digitalis-like material into a serum-free minimal incubation medium.
(14) Remnants of each atrial specimen were chopped and added to the tissue bath.
(15) Direct inoculation to cefoxitin-cycloserine-fructose agar and broth was compared with alcohol shock-chopped meat broth inoculation for optimal detection of Clostridium difficile in fecal samples.
(16) Quinine applied on the intracellular side of the membrane in micromolar concentrations chopped the unitary K+ currents into bursts of brief openings.
(17) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(18) The authors devised a Markov-process model to compare the efficacy of a first-generation combination chemotherapy regimen (CHOP) with that of a third-generation regimen (MACOP-B) using currently available data.
(19) Complete response rates were similar: 66% for MATCOP patients and 61% for CHOP patients.
(20) External Cd or Mg ions chopped long-lasting unitary Ba currents promoted by the Ca agonist Bay K 8644 into bursts of brief openings.