What's the difference between chinook and southwest?
Chinook
Definition:
(n.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.
(n.) A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.
(n.) A jargon of words from various languages (the largest proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks) generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the northwestern territories of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Antibodies against either Atlantic or chinook (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) salmon prolactin or human GH did not cross-react with Atlantic sGH.
(2) Direct inheritance studies confirm this model of two genetically independent (disomic) loci encoding sIDHP in chinook salmon.
(3) Of these fish, 237 Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) were reared in commercial salmon pens and 50 sockeye salmon (O. nerka) were caught during their spawning migration.
(4) The Americans say their airlift is a mercy mission – "When all those children come running to us, it just makes my heart drop," said Specialist Eric Schmidt, one of the Chinook-borne soldiers – but it also has a strategic component.
(5) The binding of 125I-chinook salmon growth hormone (125I-sGH) to rainbow trout brain membranes was studied.
(6) Enteric redmouth disease is described in chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) at a state hatchery in Sand Ridge, Illinois.
(7) Among the other category A incidents was a near-miss in which a model aircraft was flown close to a Chinook military helicopter coming in to land at RAF Benson.
(8) Adults £11, six-15 years £7.60 Royal Air Force Museum, Barnet, London History lessons come to life at this museum in north London, which houses over 100 aircraft including Harriers, Chinooks, Tiger Moths and an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jet.
(9) Based on a comparison of the individual acute values for chinook salmon to the expected environmental concentrations, the margin of safety for boron was only 56 in fresh and 46 in brackish water.
(10) The PRLs purified from chinook salmon and chum salmon (O. keta) pituitaries showed exactly the same competitive inhibition curves in the RIA, regardless of iodination of either hormone.
(11) However, Afghan and western officials privately confirmed that all of the dead were from the US, making it the heaviest loss of American lives since a Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in August, killing 30 Americans and eight Afghans.
(12) Fishing for chinook and coho salmon, steelhead and rainbow trout is legendary on the Rogue and a number of dams have been dynamited in recent years to restore fish migration pathways.
(13) Colonies of bacteria with the cellular morphology of a species of Nitrosomonas were found to be present in both the culture water and in the biological filter slime of a freshwater chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) culture system.
(14) Banner has spent the last few months at airshows at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, filming pilots perform an unlikely "Chinook ballet" for a new work.
(15) A highly specific radioimmunoassay (RIA) for the measurement of prolactin (PRL) in the plasma and pituitary of salmonid fishes was developed using a rabbit antiserum to chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) PRL.
(16) The ability of cortisol to stimulate gill, Na+,K(+)-ATPase activity in postemergent fry (2-3 months after hatching) was examined in chum (O. keta), chinook (O. tschawytscha), coho, and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar).
(17) A sensitive and selective high-performance liquid chromatographic assay was developed for the simultaneous quantitation of sulphadimethoxine (SDM) and ormetoprim (OMP) in chinook salmon muscle tissue.
(18) Blood plasma thyroxine (T4) and 3,5,3'-triiodo-L-thyronine (T3) concentrations in developing embryos of chum (Oncorhynchus keta), coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch), chinook (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha), and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) were measured by radioimmunoassay between hatching and completion of yolk-sac absorption.
(19) Juvenile chinook salmon in fresh water were vaccinated either orally or parenterally with heat- or formalin-killed bacterins prepared with Vibrio anguillarum.
(20) The early events that take place during the internalization of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) into Chinook salmon embryo cells (CHSE-214) were analyzed ultrastructurally.
Southwest
Definition:
(n.) The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
(a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) As it is generally observed in Mediterranean regions, Southwest France population is characterized by a certain heterogeneity in biochemical and genetic mutations.
(3) The Southwest Oncology Group conducted a pilot study in patients who had had total clinical resection of cancer of the colon and had a high risk of recurrence (Duke's C); the purpose of the study was to determine the toxic effects of intra-arterial chemotherapy combined with hepatic radiotherapy, in anticipation of their potential use in an adjuvant groupwide protocol.
(4) The dynamic impact tests at Southwest Research Institute for the first time exposed human volunteers to production-like driver air cushion system depolyments at impact levels equivalent to a 30 mph barrier crash (48 kph).
(5) The Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service (PSRMLS) studied how health professionals use documents obtained through the regional medical library (RML) network and how various factors, such as delivery time, affected that use.
(6) This paper summarizes research findings from members of the Southwest Medical Sociology Ad Hoc Committee concerning sociocultural barriers to medical care among Mexican Americans in Texas.
(7) Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) protocol 8228 is a prospective trial designed to investigate the prognostic significance of progesterone receptor (PgR) levels in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer patients who were treated with tamoxifen.
(8) DTIC was one of the first of several new agents evaluated by the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) and the M.D.
(9) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
(10) In the United States the rates are higher in whites than blacks, and clusters of high-risk counties have been found in the north central region, the southwest, and Appalachia.
(11) Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was first discovered and reported in Japan, where it has a high incidence in the southwest region.
(12) Observations at the urban site were compared with similar measurements at nearby non-urban sites and with the results of studies at two larger cities in the desert southwest, Phoenix and Tucson, AZ.
(13) Orosomucoid (ORM) phenotyping has been performed in 141 families with 407 children from southwest Germany.
(14) The spider is particularly prevalent in the Southwest, Southeast and California, and symptoms from its bite are painful and may be confusing to clinicians.
(15) Ticks were found almost exclusively on deer from southwest coastal sites in the state.
(16) We concentrated on literature pertaining to the pathogenesis and management of leishmaniasis indigenous to Southwest Asia.
(17) Illness was significantly associated with drinking water at the campsite (P less than 0.0001), drinking larger quantities of campsite water (P less than 0.001), and camping on the southwest side of the campground (P less than 0.001).
(18) The unsettled weather looks set to continue throughout this week and into the weekend when strong to gale force southwesterly winds will bring spells of heavy rain across the UK at times, according to the Met Office.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a joint statement two of China’s most powerful political bodies, the central committee and state council, described the new city, which will straddle three counties about 100km southwest of Beijing, as “a strategy crucial for a millennium to come”.
(20) The use of this combination in conjunction with vincristine and prednisone for relapsing patients is under investigation by the Southwest Oncology Group.