(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."
Sculptor
Definition:
(n.) One who sculptures; one whose occupation is to carve statues, or works of sculpture.
(n.) Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(2) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
(3) Imhotep’s abilities appear to have been extraordinary: other records show he was a doctor and high priest, as well as the king’s chief carpenter, head sculptor, and second-in-command.
(4) In previous articles the contributions of doctors in Australia as painters, sculptors, writers on art and supporters of art galleries and artists have been discussed.
(5) The latest piece, by Turner-nominated sculptor and installation artists Cornelia Parker, is a mocked-up photo showing Gormley's famous Angel of the North sculpture leaning at a forlorn angle with a symbolically clipped wing.
(6) Since he co-founded the Akram Khan Company 10 years ago, his collaborators have also included composer Steve Reich, sculptor Antony Gormley and writer Hanif Kureishi.
(7) He is not only one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century, he is also one of the most important teachers of sculpture in the 20th century.
(8) Self-administered symptom questionnaires were completed by 20 female nail sculptors and 20 matched controls.
(9) Huge sums of money flowed into the pockets of jobless painters, sculptors, writers, musicians and poets in a bid to create work at a time of immense hardship.
(10) Whether you're a sculptor, painter, photographer, or simply want to show off some impromptu acts of creative genius, the Alley wants to hear from you.
(11) Similar to the modern sculptor of inanimate art forms, plastic surgeons have utilized new materials and devised new techniques to achieve aesthetic improvement of the face, trunk, and extremities.
(12) The 1992 retrospective at the Barbican finally demolished the patronising view of Gill as a Catholic sculptor, setting him in the mainstream of modern British art.
(13) The data collection programs (written in SCULPTOR) to feed the ruleset have been tested in the hospital clinic and compared with the resident data collection system for usability, and impact on the running of the clinic.
(14) Together with Cotillard’s younger identical twin brothers, Guillaume and Quentin (a writer and a sculptor), they lived in a flat on the 18th floor of a tower block where they were allowed to draw freely on the walls.
(15) For the next three months it will be in the Hayward's project space, presenting work by the Indian builder and sculptor Nek Chand, whose work featured in the first room of Exhibition #1, the museum's inaugural show in Primrose Hill, north London, four years ago.
(16) David Taylor, paintings and sculptor curator at the National Trust, said: "The debate over whether this is or isn't a Rembrandt has been going on for decades.
(17) I think if Willem de Kooning, the God of abstract expressionism, had been a sculptor and not a painter, this is the sort of work he would have made.
(18) The sculptor Rudolph Markoeser even carved his bust in ebony.
(19) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian It is a dream that preoccupied the Italian futurist sculptors a century ago, drunk on the smell of engine oil, their striding figures buffeted with the thrill of the new machine age.
(20) Her fascination with Barbara Hepworth began after what she describes as a “visceral” encounter with the sculptor’s work in St Ives.