(n.) A plant (Celosia cristata), of many varieties, cultivated for its broad, fantastic spikes of brilliant flowers; -- sometimes called garden cockscomb. Also the Pedicularis, or lousewort, the Rhinanthus Crista-galli, and the Onobrychis Crista-galli.
Example Sentences:
(1) The types called 6 and 11 produce benign papillomas, called condylomata acuminata, visible to the naked eye, not only on the vulva, vagina, penis (cockscomb), but also in the anus, and occasionally the larynx, mouth (tongue) and oesophagus.
(2) In conjunction with an ecological study of jaguars in the Cockscomb Basin of Belize, Central America, fecal samples from jaguars (Panthera onca), jaguarundis (Felis yagouaroundi), ocelots (Felix pardalis), and pumas (Felix concolor) were examined for parasite products (eggs, larvae, and oocysts).
(3) The assay was applied to various types of human, bovine, and rabbit cartilage and to samples of other tissues including nucleus pulposus, annulus fibrosus, skin, aorta, cervix, cockscomb, synovial fluid, and vitreous humor.
(4) We conclude that the chicken cockscomb topical bioassay is a useful method for assessing relative potency of antiandrogens.
(5) To explore this discrepancy, we directly compared the antiandrogenic potency of these two compounds in vivo using the chicken cockscomb topical bioassay.
(6) In contrast, topical spironolactone in concentrations as low as 0.06% produced maximal inhibition of cockscomb growth at all androgen doses.
(7) High overhead the Sea Quest's flame was all but out: a dirty smoke plume took its place as cockscomb.
(8) At onset of the disease small wart-shaped papules are found, which multiply to form a cauliflower-like or cockscomb-like mass.
Snood
Definition:
(n.) The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.
(n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
(v. t.) To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation of oocyte maturation by 1-methyladenine causes snoods to disappear, presumably by disassembly, about halfway to the time of germinal vesicle breakdown.
(2) The putatively stressful procedures of sexing, toe trimming, snood removal, beak trimming and injection of antibiotic solution, as performed in a commercial hatchery, elevated blood glucose levels and depressed hepatic glycogen levels in newly-hatched turkey poults.
(3) This argument has more holes than one of my hand-knitted snoods.
(4) In the toms, using TAM advanced semen production by 4 wk (13.5 versus 17.5 wk of age) and increased the size of the snood and testes.
(5) "C all me Gloria," oozed Gloria Price, draping herself around Lloyd Mullaney's neck like a menopausal snood.
(6) By immunofluorescence microscopy of isolated cortices and electron microscopy of isolated cortices and intact oocytes, snood fibers exhibit complex striations with a periodicity of approximately 0.75 micron.
(7) ( £18.99 ) Neckwarmer My best cycling friend is my Buff ( from £15, buffwear.co.uk ) – a windproof modern-day take on the snood.
(8) Three children with wandering spleens were treated by a new splenopexy technique, the splenic snood.
(9) Snood fibers form loops and branches throughout the cortex of a premeiotic oocyte, except at the animal pole where they emanate from a nonstaining zone surrounding the centrosomes.
(10) The large-meshed network resembles a snood (hair net).
(11) The chancellor, in a black skull and crossbones patterned snood at the royal family's favourite ski resort, was the perfect new year image of us all not being in it together.
(12) Snoods are not colocalized with the cortical arrays of microtubules and are unaffected by drugs that disrupt microtubules or microfilaments.
(13) The simplicity and technical ease of the splenic snood operation recommend it as an improved method to avoid splenectomy and safely normalize intraabdominal anatomy in the management of the wandering spleen.
(14) As protesters finally shuffled out of the Westminster Bridge kettle in single file, after seven hours imprisoned in freezing temperatures without food, water, toilets or freedom of movement, I saw several of them look the police in the eye – for that was all they could see, beneath a riot shield visor and a raised black snood – and say, some with humour, some with anger – but all with total defiance, "see you at the next one, mate".