(n.) A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.
(n.) An assemblage of splendors or excellences.
(n.) Fortune; fate; destiny.
Example Sentences:
(1) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(2) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(3) Intoxication produces a constellation of symptoms, with paresthesias and generalized muscle weakness being common complaints.
(4) The majority of them were able to perceive a connection between their worsened skin condition and the acute psychosocial constellation during their brief stay at home.
(5) First, the uremic syndrome may be viewed as a constellation of abnormalities which can be subgrouped by association so that azotemia may be correlated with neuropathic disease and hypertension with weight gain or body size, for example.
(6) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
(7) If in cases of discussed paternity in the child ahp was revealed and the Hp constellation of the mother: putative father was: Hp 1--1 X 1--1 or 2--2 X 2--2--provided that the paternity with the testing of other blood-group systems could not be excluded--it's necessary to try to identify the true Hp type of the child--since it might give the possibility for exclusion of paternity.
(8) These signal changes appear to make a specific constellation of findings for the diagnosis of vertebral hemangioma with MR imaging.
(9) Furthermore, there were no type differences in the frequency or severity of the symptom constellation reported during a competitive and highly challenging period of time.
(10) A constellation of morphologic abnormalities from all 3 cell lines produces a unique appearance.
(11) Mothers' opinions of their child's temperament constellation differed considerably from those resulting from the questionnaire analysis for the STWU and Difficult constellations.
(12) Its object was to define the angles and measurements within the bony lacrimal structures and to establish possible connections between the development of the postsaccal stenosis and certain bony constellations of the lacrimal system.
(13) As biological discharge phenomena evolve into vague psychological awareness, such an infant does not attain a sense of well-being, but rather attains a sense of "not-well-being" (Joffe and Sandler, 1965) which remains continuous or can be triggered--kindled--by any reactivating constellation, and the object is experienced as a source of unpleasure.
(14) The only contraindication to emergency portacaval shunt is the combined presence of ascites, jaundice, encephalopathy, and severe muscle wasting, a constellation that was incompatible with survival beyond one year.
(15) We describe an epidemic involving the explosive onset and rapid resolution of a constellation of symptoms that sent 17 seventh and eighth grade students and four teachers to the emergency department of a hospital after an apparent toxic gas exposure.
(16) When faced with the constellation of symptoms, including a delayed (two to three weeks) spiking plateau postoperative fever, abnormal results of hepatic function test and lymphocytosis in patients having received blood transfusion, the clinician must give serious consideration to the possibility of CMV infection.
(17) Thus, the helix-helix interaction in long coiled coils is characteristic of a global free energy minimum and not just of the regional constellation of side chains.
(18) There is no specific constellation of lymphocytic markers in peripheral blood which could indicate true thymic hyperplasia.
(19) The superego constellations in guilty, binge, sociopathic, and deteriorated alcoholics are delineated to explain the interaction of a treatment program with these patients.
(20) "There will be challenges as a result of cancelling Constellation, [but] the funding for Nasa is increasing, so we expect to support as many if not more jobs."
Dorado
Definition:
(n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.
(n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single specimen, a partially engorged female, of Ixodes brunneus was recovered from a common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) in Butler County, near El Dorado, Kansas (USA).
(2) The El Dorado Medication Error Tool (EDMET) is objective and simple to use.
(3) Iran is an El Dorado for oil,” said Paolo Scaroni, who when he headed the Italian energy giant Eni met with Iranian oil minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh about potential investments.
(4) Bouchart has long been a fierce critic of immigration policy in the UK, which she said was "considered an El Dorado" by immigrants.
(5) Greece, he said, was set to become an El Dorado for those who did so.
(6) We recently characterized a protein serine-threonine kinase (Pkn1) that is required for normal development (J. Munoz-Dorado, S. Inouye, and M. Inouye, Cell 67:995-1006, 1991).
(7) French champagne at Sherry's Restaurant for the top-hatted Wall Street speculators celebrating the discoveries of El Dorado; shots of five-cent whiskey (said to taste "like a combination of kerosene oil, soft soap, alcohol, and the chemicals used in fire extinguishers") for the unemployed foreign labourer sleeping in the gutters south of Canal Street.
(8) Hotel Posada Freeman, Mazatlán, Sinaloa This 12-storey hotel, built in 1944 on Old Mazatlán’s seafront (and not to be confused with the newer Posada Freeman Zona Dorado), hosted the likes of Rock Hudson and John Wayne while they shot westerns in Mexico.
(9) The content of cadmium and lead was determined in several most popular brands of cigarettes produced in Poland (Carmen, Caro, Extra Mocne, Klubowe, Popularne, Radomskie, Marlboro--produced on the licence of the Philip Morris and in cigarettes imported from Albania (Durres Special, Arberia), Yugoslavia (Jugo) and Cuba (Tobaco Dorado 767, Kim).
(10) One serving intelligence officer told the Guardian: “South Africa is the El Dorado of espionage.” Africa has also become caught up in the US, Israeli and British covert global campaigns to stem the spread of Iranian influence, tighten sanctions and block its nuclear programme.
(11) In the following paper (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, S., and Inouye, M. (1990) J. Biol.
(12) But what I really liked about being a thief was that every week you might find El Dorado," he said.
(13) In response to a request by the French authorities, there is now direct communication between our officials and migrants to explain to them that there is no El Dorado there [in the UK].
(14) Their father was shot in a dispute over land on a cattle ranch near the Brazilian town of El Dorado, in the Amazonian state of Para.
(15) Free from Fifa red tape, the rebel DiMayor clubs went feral, taking their blackballing as cue to cherry-pick whoever they fancied: the El Dorado era was born.
(16) But isn’t the UK, as the mayor of Calais put it , “El Dorado” for immigrants, with our generous benefits and booming economy?
(17) The gene has been expressed in Escherichia coli by using the lacZ promoter, and its gene product was overproduced (Muñoz-Dorado, J., Inouye, M., and Inouye, S. (1990) J. Biol.
(18) It was raining hard last Saturday morning as four companies of military policemen and a team of plain-clothes intelligence agents - about 150 troops in all - took up positions around the terminal of El Dorado airport.
(19) Doubles from €50 Hotel El Dorado, Carboneras Almería's fortifications.