(n.) Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
(n.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, esp. to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
(n.) Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(4) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(5) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(6) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
(7) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
(8) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(9) We have characterized the binding of the selective muscarinic antagonist [3H]pirenzepine ([3H])PZ) and the classical muscarinic antagonist (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ((-)-[3H]QNB) to muscarinic cholinergic sites in rabbit peripheral lung membranes.
(10) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
(13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(14) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(15) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
(16) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
(17) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
(18) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(19) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
(20) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.
Mime
Definition:
(n.) A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
(n.) An actor in such representations.
(v. i.) To mimic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although she's been performing since 2000 – in the punk-cabaret duo the Dresden Dolls , in a controversial conjoined-twin mime act called Evelyn Evelyn (they wear a specially constructed two-person dress and have been castigated by disability groups for presenting conjoined twins as circus freaks, an accusation she denies) – in her new band, Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra , she's suddenly become a kind of phenomenon.
(2) Me and Taika would always do theatrical stuff, running around, miming, putting on voices.
(3) He taught us how to mime at home with games.” When he set up his own theatre company, the family moved to La Beauce, near Orléans.
(4) These results with this novel chemotherapy program in heavily pretreated patients suggest that MIME should be studied in less extensively treated patients and considered as a part of treatment programs for patients with Hodgkin's disease in first relapse.
(5) From 1981 to 1983, 208 patients with recurrent or refractory lymphoma were treated with methylglyoxal-bis-guanylhydrazone (methyl-GAG), ifosfamide, methotrexate, etoposide (MIME).
(6) Trump, signing an act to protect VA whistleblowers, revelled in the moment, using his fingers to mime a gun and mouthing his catchphrase “You’re fired!” at Shulkin.
(7) She has said all along she won't talk about him, and when I mention his name she mimes zipping her lips.
(8) He presented cabaret in working men's clubs ("I adored those audiences, they'd always want to dance with me afterwards") and toured Europe, developing a strange hybrid of drag, mime and conventional song-and-dance.
(9) Shoot!” He cocks his thumb to his index finger and mimes a pistol firing, though it’s not impossible I imagined that.
(10) Apart from spastic, extrapyramidal and cerebellar disturbances resulting from various types of diseases of middle and old age, the individual associated movements in miming and gesture become unharmonious and stiffer with increasing age and the hyperkinesia which was hidden by combined motoricity becomes more marked.
(11) He worked in mime, and he had a real theatrical background.
(12) However, MIME is well suited for remission induction in patients intended for subsequent autologous bone-marrow transplantation.
(13) She accused the singer on Twitter of miming on stage, adding "how disappointing": Kay Burley (@KayBurley) Oh, Dolly is miming.
(14) So every once in a while it would be, 'Yeah I read that book', and Alex would do like [James mimes a victory dance]."
(15) There are few feats of virtuosity better than his miming as he rehearses the song and as he performs a short introductory dance.
(16) But of all that what I found strangest was mime," Prada says.
(17) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
(18) I have to mime the lost purse, show the panic, pull out the drama, and then the relief.
(19) Without working too hard she studied for a PhD in political science, then devoted rather more effort to learning mime at the Piccolo Teatro.
(20) "If I'm miming something, be it a knife, a gun or a glass, I can't just let it disappear.