(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."
Pavo
Definition:
(n.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks.
(n.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lepocreadium album (Stossich, 1890) Stossich, 1904 is redescribed, figured and recorded for the first time in Blennius pavo.
(2) Eight species representing 8 genera of gallinaceous birds were used: Alectoris graeca; Colinus virginianus; Coturnix coturnix; Gallus gallus; Meleagris gallopavo; Numidia meleagris; Pavo cristatus; Phasianus colchicus.
(3) The vascular architecture of male gonads of Blennius pavo is studied by scanning electron microscopy of vascular corrosion casts.
(4) An outbreak of avian pox was detected among captive peacocks (Pavo cristatus) at Baghdad Zoological Park during spring, 1978.
(5) These results complete the determination of all the sequences of ovomucoid third domains in the four species genus Gallus, in the five species genus Syrmaticus, and in the two species genera Aix and Pavo.
(6) In a survey of the helminth parasites of Blennius pavo Risso, 1810 three different species of digenea were collected.
(7) Multilocus profiles were investigated in five different species of Galliformes (ring-necked pheasant Phasianus colchicus, Indian peafowl Pavo cristatus, Japanese quail Coturnix coturnix japonica, domestic chicken Gallus gallus, and red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus) using two human multilocus probes (33.6 and 33.15) in combination with each of four restriction enzymes (AluI, DdeI, HaeIII or HinfI).
(8) The tortas de pierna (roast pork leg), pollo (chicken) or pavo ahumado (smoked turkey) are worth the 10-minute walk from the Zócalo.
(9) Regeneration of pectoral fins was examined in Salaria pavo (Blenniidae, Teleostei).
(10) Fifteen fecal samples from peacocks (Pavo cristatus) in Saudi Arabia contained oocysts of Eimeria riyadhae n. sp.
(11) There are no field records of this association outside of Africa, where the parasite, herein reported from another introduced and domesticated bird (the common peafowl, Pavo cristatus Linnaeus), was recently listed from 2 native Phasianidae of the genus Francolinus.
(12) Susceptibility to infectious laryngotracheitis virus was studied in peafowl (Pavo cristatus), various species of pheasant (Phasianus colchicus, Lophura swinhoeii, Lophophorus impejanus), guinea-fowl (Numida meleagris), canaries (Serinus canaria), budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) and Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnic japonica).
(13) We report here for the first time the large-scale isolation of hypervariable minisatellite DNA sequences from a non-human species, the Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus).