(n.) A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.
(n.) A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.
(n.) A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doubles from €70 B&B Hotel Cala Chica, Las Negras, Cabo de Gata natural park Cala Chica The Cabo de Gata is going upmarket at Las Negras, an enclave of visitor facilities on a long sweep of dark volcanic sand backed by stark mountains.
(2) In Sierra Chicas, close to the Andes in the heart of Cordoba, you'll stay in a beautiful room warmed by a wood-burning stove and decorated with antiques while spending your days hacking out into 15,000 acres of estate.
(3) • Doubles from €57, breakfast not included, torreluz.com Cala Chica, Las Negras Everything in this cool and classy haven, from breakfasts and bathrooms to the front door, is so much more stylish than you’d expect for the price.
(4) The finding of seropositive children under the age of 10 years in the Costa Chica, Acapulco and the Tierra Caliente regions, with family clustering of putative cases, indicates that recent transmission must be considered.
(5) In March 1992 surveys were sent to CHICA-Canada members practicing in LTC facilities.
(6) Recognizing the unique and varied needs of infection control practitioners (ICPs) in long term care (LTC) facilities across Canada, CHICA-Canada established a task group to explore this area of practice and to determine the needs that could be met by CHICA-Canada.
(7) We report two cases of patients from Costa Chica of Guerrero state, Mexico, with cardiologic problems compatible with Chagas disease.
(8) The 26-room Cala Chica – baby sister to the spa-hotel Cala Grande that looms behind – has smart Spanish-contemporary style, a large pool, mountain and sea views and airy rooms, some with heated Jacuzzis on the terrace.
(9) The Boca Chica area of Cameron County was selected as a study site to investigate vertebrate involvement in the natural cycle of epidemic VEE on the basis of considerable evidence of VEE virus activity there in equines, humans, and mosquito vectors.
(10) Sierra Chicas, Argentina A stay at an estancia – a traditional Argentinean ranch – isn't just a holiday.
Chick
Definition:
(v. i.) To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.
(n.) A chicken.
(n.) A child or young person; -- a term of endearment.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(2) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
(3) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
(4) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(5) The chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) model was used to study vascular effects of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and hyperthermia (HPT) and the synergism of these modalities.
(6) This study examines the morphology of sporadic congenital microphthalmia in 1-day-old chicks, with particular emphasis on the neural retina.
(7) Kidney DAAO activity was significantly higher in chicks fed either the DL-AA or .5 DL-AA diet as compared with the L-AA diet.
(8) By 3 d in the chick embryo, the first neurons detected by antibodies to Ng-CAM are located in the ventral neural tube; these precursors of motor neurons emit well-stained fibers to the periphery.
(9) The resulting cortexolone-Sepharose absorbed easily the cytosolic chick thymus glucocorticoid receptor.
(10) Chick sympathetic nerve fibers densely innervate expansor secundariorum muscle, but not skeletal muscle.
(11) The onset of vitamin A deficiency had no effect on oviduct growth in these chicks; even though vitamin A-deficient chicks showed a severe decline in growth rate while controls (fed the same diet supplemented with retinyl palmitate) continued to grow, estrogen stimulated resulted in similar oviduct size.
(12) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(13) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
(14) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
(15) The growth of the subantarctic King penguin chick is distinguished from that of other penguins by its long winter fasting period (from 2 weeks to 3 months).
(16) Dissociated cerebral hemisphere cells from 4- to 7-day-old chick embryos were cultured either on a collagen or a polylysine substrate in a serum-containing medium.
(17) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
(18) The myogenic potential of chick limb mesenchyme from stages 18-25 was assessed by micromass culture under conditions conductive to myogenesis, and was measured as the proportion of differentiated (muscle myosin-positive) mononucleated cells detected.
(19) Both the formazans and tetrazolium salts were screened for their antiviral activity against the Ranikhet disease virus and vaccinia virus in a stationary culture of chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryo.
(20) Studies have been made on the activity of glycosidases from eye tissues of developing chick embryos and adult hens.