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Coco


Definition:

  • () Alt. of Coco palm

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Where to stay: Beachside bungalows at Coco Grove Beach Resort cost £19 per person.
  • (2) She was a once-in-a-lifetime gal.” A friend of Breaux wrote on Instagram: “God really does give his best angels their wings first.” Breaux was a student at Louisiana State University in Eunice and lived in Lafayette, where she was working at clothing retailer Coco Eros.
  • (3) Globiz hopes there's no repeat of last year's Star Magic Ball where Salvador prompted a major fist-fight to break out between two of the country's hottest young actors, Matteo Guidicelli and Coco Martin (think the R-Patz and Taylor Lautner of the Philippines).
  • (4) Thus we see Emma as aviator Amelia Earhart, fashion pioneer Coco Chanel and, perhaps most touchingly, the president of the United States.
  • (5) It is what I do with it, rather than what I am worth, that I believe is more important.” Unlike some of his predecessors, such as Bendor, the 2nd Duke, who lavished diamonds on his lover Coco Chanel and wanted Britain to ally with Hitler, the 6th Duke gave to and supported a string of charities and other worthy causes – £500,000 to farmers hit by the 2001 foot and mouth crisis, for instance – and served diligently on the boards of many military and other charities, including Emmaus , for the homeless, for more than 40 years.
  • (6) Doritos, Peperami and Coco Pops are the latest products to fall victim to shrinkflation as rising costs hit food producers.
  • (7) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
  • (8) OK.” Glen Coco (@MrPooni) To clarify, this is Matt Damon trying to school the producer of Dear White People on diversity in Hollywood.
  • (9) The undersea world at Cocos is as fantastical as the names of its inhabitants, from the sicklefin devil ray to the scarlet Mexican hogfish.
  • (10) The Australian border protection vessel carrying 157 Tamil asylum seekers is on its way to the Australian territory of the Cocos Islands, from where the department of immigration plans to transfer the asylum seekers to immigration detention on the Australian mainland, Guardian Australia can reveal.
  • (11) Rafael Gutiérrez, executive director of Costa Rica's national conservation system which manages Cocos Island, says his organisation is working to provide alternatives to illegal fishing, such as farming red snapper and harvesting the Piangua clam from mangrove swamps, as well as supporting the development of whale– and dolphin-watching businesses.
  • (12) The laborers were mostly mixed Malays, and about 500 of their ancestors remain on Home island, the Cocos’ northern landmass.
  • (13) It’s run by Coco, who’s about 90 years old and has no legs.
  • (14) It's insane.” He says more enforcement bases and vessels are essential if the radar is to help in the fight against the pirates: “Right now they are in a war but without any barracks.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turtles frequent Cocos Island off Costa Rica but can be drowned by illegal fishing.
  • (15) But Coco Torre, an avid football fan and the marketing manager of the United Football League of the Philippines, has been rooting for Brazil.
  • (16) It is prepared by extracting a mixture of ten medical herbs (Rehmannia glutinosa, Paeonia lactiflora, Liqusticum wallichii, Angelica sinesis, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, Panax ginseng.
  • (17) The food's good, and on a cold morning-after-the-night-before you can easily justify popping in to sup an ocho coco – a mix of tequila, coconut liqueur, passionfruit, coriander, ginger and lime to help the hangover.
  • (18) The Cocos Islands is a tiny green speck in the Indian ocean nearer to Penang than Perth, settled in 1826 as a resupply base for Indian ocean traders.
  • (19) In the same era, the Devonshire treasure, named for the ship that carried it, was bunkered on Cocos by Captain Bennett Graham.
  • (20) The young, timid Yves had gone, replaced by a charming, seemingly assured man who was more than just a household name – like Coco Chanel, he had become his brand's most alluringly potent incarnation.

Loco


Definition:

  • (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
  • (n.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
  • (2) No patient developed metastases without previous clinically-evident invasive loco-regional disease.
  • (3) It is of mechanical or mixed type, accompanied by local, pseudo-inflammatory signs being either apparent or discrete, very elective and very sharp pain upon palpation of a very limited area of a condyle or a tibial plate, with hyperfixation located through scintigraphy with technetium 99m polyphosphates, and regressing either spontaneously, or more quickly under treatment, of which thyrocalcitone is the essential part, without undergoing a phase of intense loco-regional demineralization.
  • (4) There was complete loco-regional tumour control in 51% of all patients (with and without distant metastases).
  • (5) Two of the 37 patients who underwent mastectomy developed loco-regional recurrences; both had invasive foci at their first operation and remain disease free at 8 years.
  • (6) Among the 25 cases of recurrence, 1 was exclusively local and 6 were loco-regional (T and N), while 18 patients presented metastatic progression, either exclusively, or with local or lymph node failure.
  • (7) All patients where managed similarly: 3 to 4 courses of chemotherapy (CMF: n = 24; AVCF: n = 42), then loco regional irradiation therapy with cobalt 60, followed by maintenance chemotherapy, only if the first chemotherapy had proved effective (CMF: n = 13; AVCF: n = 27).
  • (8) Since there seems to be a direct relation between tumor size and the chance of loco-regional recurrence and since salvage operations for local failure are not uniformly successful, electrofulguration for cure must be reserved for the very rare patient with a very small early-stage rectal cancer.
  • (9) Although the recurrence rates of 37% and 49% by 50 Gy and 40 Gy were not statistically different, there was a strong trend of a better control rate of loco-regional carcinoma by higher radiation doses.
  • (10) From these results, it is reasonable to conclude that Kupffer cells alone are activated in a condition without a supply of monocytes from peripheral blood; proliferate and cluster in the hepatic sinusoids; transform into peroxidase-negative macrophages, epithelioid cells, and multinuclear giant cells; and participate in granuloma formation in loco together with T lymphocytes.
  • (11) Patients with T1 squamous cell carcinomas had, in fact, the best prognosis (26.5% recurred) among the subgroups obtained by stratification of T number and cell type together; loco-regional failure as exclusive modality of relapse had a 5-year rate of 19.7% and metastatic failure of 30.0%.
  • (12) In patients with Dukes' B tumours, an increased risk of loco-regional recurrence was associated with perineural invasion, tumour located less than 10 cm from the anal verge, patient aged above 70 years, and small tumour size.
  • (13) An effort was made to neutralize the virus in loco either by infiltration of the inoculation site with povidone-iodine or with monoclonal antibodies, or by cauterization and excision.
  • (14) To establish whether predictive clinical patterns of disease occur in localized Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, survival and relapse patterns for 496 patients with stage I and II non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) treated with loco-regional irradiation (XRT) alone were examined.
  • (15) Radiotherapy alone may be appropriate treatment for extensive loco-regional tumours or in those that have already metastasized.
  • (16) Thus, adjuvant systemic treatment alone (chemotherapy or tamoxifen) did not prevent loco-regional recurrences in high-risk patients after mastectomy and axillary lymph node sampling.
  • (17) Three factors were found to be statistically significant: adjuvant hormonotherapy, loco-regional metastases, adjuvant adriamycin containing regimen (pejorative prognostic factor).
  • (18) Risk factors for loco-regional relapse (seven cases) included: large tumour bulk, treatment by XRT alone and use of 'limited' radiation fields.
  • (19) Following initial promising results in terms of loco-regional disease control in this group of high-risk patients, the protocol was extended to include 34 patients defined as having locally extensive disease.
  • (20) These changes may be related to the endothelial damage present scleroderma patients I the consequent "in loco" activation of blood coagulation may cause the microthrombosis that is very often observed in the earliest phases of the disease.

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