(n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.
(n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.
(n.) That which serves for payment or recompense.
(v. t.) To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.
(v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
(v. t.) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
(v. i.) To manufacture counterfeit money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(2) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(3) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(4) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(5) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(6) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
(7) For Bond fans, this is the best Christmas present – the return of James Bond and classic elements of the series with yet another classic title coined by Ian Fleming,” said Ajay Chowdhury of the James Bond International Fan Club .
(8) A 49-year-old man was operated for coin lesion detected on routine chest X-ray.
(9) Lavoisier subsequently coined the word "oxy-gène."
(10) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
(11) The chest X-ray film revealed a coin lesion in the right upper lung field (S1), the same segment as the previous pneumonia.
(12) If the eye shielding block cannot be placed at the optimal shielding point, a simple coin placed on the eye lid surface will also reduce the lens dose substantially when a regular eye shielding block is placed on the blocking tray (Lin's coin effect).
(13) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
(14) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
(15) A 58-year-old woman was referred to the Fukuoka University Hospital because a coin lesion approximately 5 cm in diameter was detected in the right lower lobe of the lung by routine roentgenographic examination.
(16) Kettering didn't let the matter lie - after all, clubs like Bayern Munich had been coining it in on the continent for years - and so, with Derby and Bolton, they put forward a proposal to the FA regarding shirt sponsorship.
(17) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(18) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(19) Bronchial cysts usually occur centrally near the mediastinum, but may present as a peripheral "coin" lesion requiring distinction from other causes of coin lesions of the lung.
(20) Using a small silicon microchip in a USB, a 'lab on a chip' as it has been coined, DNA data can be analysed within minutes and outside a laboratory.
Sicca
Definition:
(n.) A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
(2) A moderate, but highly statistically significant central corneal thinning was found in the keratoconjunctivitis sicca group.
(3) Our results also suggest that patent sicca syndrome is abnormally present in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and multiple nuclear dots antinuclear antibodies.
(4) In this study we tried to evaluate the diagnostic value of lactoferrin measurement in comparison with other tests for keratoconjunctivitis sicca.
(5) The sicca syndrome appeared during the acute phase of TEN or, more often, a few weeks later.
(6) Schirmer's test is useful to evaluate the ocular component of the sicca complex, which is the only component requiring therapy.
(7) Sicca syndromes with sometimes lymphocytic infiltrate similar to those of Sjögren's syndrome were occasionally imputed to drug reactions.
(8) A radiometric procedure was compared with the Minitek and Cystine Trypticase Agar sugar degradation methods for identification of 113 Neisseria species (58 Neisseria meningitidis, 51 Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 2 Neisseria lactamica, 2 Neisseria sicca).
(9) Twenty subjects, 17 females and 3 males, mean age 55.9, with Sjögren's syndrome (13 cases: classical or secondary form--7 cases: sicca syndrome) were submitted to biopsy of the minor salivary glands of the lower lip.
(10) In this restrospective study we review the clinical features of patients with the sicca syndrome in the presence and absence of rheumatoid arthritis.
(11) Features of sicca syndrome were noted in seventeen patients.
(12) In this way a seborrhoea oleosa is transformed into a seborrhoea sicca.
(13) Increased rose bengal dye uptake filaments, coarse mucus plaques and pre-exfoliative sheets are also seen in keratoconjunctivitis sicca.
(14) These include scleroderma or lupus erythematosus-like skin lesions, a Sjögren-like sicca syndrome, cholestatic liver disease and a variety of serological autoimmune phenomena.
(15) All cases should be followed up in view of the possible development of the full sicca syndrome later in life.
(16) A 66-year-old woman with keratoconjunctivitis sicca and xerostomia died of acute respiratory failure.
(17) Iritis occurred in 7.1% (5 men, 3 women), episcleritis in 1.8% (1 man, 1 woman), and keratoconjunctivitis sicca in 2.7% (3 women).
(18) Quantitative immunohistologic examination was performed on labial salivary gland biopsy samples from 80 healthy controls, 32 patients with primary SS, 14 patients with secondary SS, 5 with "probable" SS, 36 with keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) with a lymphocytic focus score less than 1 on the lip biopsy, and 18 with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without clinical evidence of SS.
(19) Treatment consists of measures to prevent damage from ocular and oral dryness (sicca complex) and to minimize systemic manifestations.
(20) Two patient subgroups were discerned: one in which severe renal disease, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia predominated, and a second in which sicca syndrome and involvement of the central nervous system, lungs and muscle occurred.