(n.) A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Coombs's theory of data (1952, 1964) and his unfolding theory of preferential choice (1950, 1964) provided the conceptualization of metacognition in this psychophysical task context.
(2) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
(3) Thymopoietin injections, from 4 wk of age, reduced the titer of Coombs' antibodies and thymocytotoxic antibodies in NZB mice and caused an increase in Thy 1+ spleen cells in these animals.
(4) With the awareness of quality of life as a primary goal in terminal cancer patients, widespread attention has been drawn to the direct delivery of long-term intraspinal analgesics to cancer patients for who all medical pain control regimens have failed (Coombs & Saunders, 1974).
(5) Amniocentesis is indicated in only a few circumstances: previous child with erythroblastosis fetalis, significant increase in maternal Coombs titer, presence of Kell antigen in the father, and after comparison of the relative risks of hemolytic disease and amniocentesis in each patient.
(6) PRP, administered intraperitoneally into NZB mice, twice a week, at doses 0.01-1 microgram per mouse, significantly lowered the incidence of positive Coombs' reaction and prolonged the mean age of the mice.
(7) The erythrocyte direct Coombs' test remained positive for 3-45 days, and histological examination of splenic material showed no erythrophagocytosis.
(8) Of certain interest are 1) the tendency of modern diuretics (thiazides) to cause a moderate and reversible thrombocytopenia and 2) the positive antiglobulin reaction (Coomb's test) sometimes seen after alpha-methyldopa therapy and in a few cases causing autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
(9) The results obtained with the Rose Bengal test correlated very well with those of the standard tube agglutination test, whereas results with the rapid plate agglutination test and the Coombs (antiglobulin) test were inferior.
(10) A previously apparently healthy male patient developed Coombs-positive haemolytic anaemia and thrombocytopenia during phenoxymethylpenicilline intake.
(11) This youth presented with Coombs positive autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
(12) "He's got another seven years before his first look," Coombs said.
(13) Furthermore, Ts-enriched populations when depleted of G-8-binding cells lose their ability to suppress in vitro anti-MRBC responses of spleen cells from Coombs-negative NZB mice depleted of CD8+ cells, as well as those of unfractionated spleen cells from Coombs-positive NZB mice.
(14) In both cases the anaemia improved and the Coombs test became negative spontaneously in the 4th and 5th months of life, respectively.
(15) "The stress that [she] was under was mostly to give context to what was going on at the time," Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, told NBC's Today show on Thursday.
(16) The two disorders can be differentiated with the indirect Coombs test.
(17) Updated at 4.15pm BST 4.13pm BST Defense attorney David Coombs' planned news conference this afternoon is unusual because Coombs doesn't like the media much, Paul Lewis writes: He's rarely if ever spoken to reporters during the trial.
(18) Positive control red cells were required to standardise canine Coombs' reagents for the laboratory diagnosis of AIHA.
(19) We have further investigated the phenomenon of spontaneous anti-(Coombs) antiidiotypic antibodies in the F1 hybrids of New Zealand black (NZB) and CBA mice.
(20) Blakelock died from his injuries while Coombes was so severely wounded he never resumed active duty.
Cwm
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) At the end of your journey is the Idwal Cottage youth hostel, and Cwm Idwal nature reserve.
(2) Cell wall material (CWM) was prepared from sections of fresh and aerobically-stored asparagus (Asparagus officinalis, L. cv.
(3) Early on Saturday morning, he reached the summit of Nuptse, the first and lowest of the three main summits in the Everest "horseshoe" that surrounds the glaciated valley called the Western Cwm.
(4) Nepal earthquake: death toll could reach 10,000, says PM – live updates Read more The climbers, including British guides and their clients, had been trapped at camps one and two on the mountain’s Western Cwm since Saturday, when a series of avalanches triggered by the weekend’s powerful earthquake devastated Everest base camp below them, killing 18 foreign climbers and Sherpas, and injuring 61.
(5) Steck's plan would have brought high-altitude mountaineering one step closer to one of the challenges on Everest that is often mentioned but usually dismissed as fantasy: the Everest horseshoe, climbing the entire ridge that surrounds the Western Cwm.
(6) In addition, the U3 region of CWM-S-5X contained a viral enhancer sequence that was identical to that found in MCF 247, a recombinant AKR virus that is thought to contain the Bxv-1 enhancer.
(7) Among those ferried down the mountain was Dan Mazur, a Bristol-based guide who had been stuck at camp one in the Western Cwm since Saturday.
(8) Fourfold or greater rises in anti-CWM and anti-PSSF antibodies were detected for eight of the patients with invasive candidiasis at 14 to 22 days after the onset of fever.
(9) We found that neonatal CWD mice that were injected with the phenotypic mixture of the spontaneous CWD class II env recombinant, CWM-T-15, and the AKR endogenous ecotropic virus, Akv 623, developed non-T-cell lymphomas more rapidly than controls inoculated with either virus alone or with a CWD ecotropic virus.
(10) The results indicate that (1) the two CWD class II env recombinants that were tested contained oncogenic determinants; (2) phenotypic mixing with ecotropic viruses was required for the full expression of the pathogenic potential of the CWM-T-15 recombinant; and (3) the distinct phenotypes of the CWD viruses likely reflected the differences in the origin of the viral enhancer element.
(11) Instead, they're scrubs-clad Casualty actors, lunch-breaking and lounging in the mid-June sun, overlooked by the cheerily vacant streets of long-running Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm.
(12) Polymers were solubilized from the CWM by successive extraction with cyclohexane-trans-1,2-diamine-N N N' N'-tetraacetate (CDTA), Na2CO3 and KOH to leave the alpha-cellulose residue which contained a significant amount of cross-linked pectic polysaccharides.
(13) According to reports from climbers at Everest base camp three helicopters were running shuttles into the camps in the Western Cwm above the ice fall – a jumble of ice cliffs and crevasses - where the usual climbing route, equipped with ropes and ladders, was badly damaged by Saturday’s earthquake.
(14) Finally, restriction enzyme sites in the CWM-S-5X provirus were analogous to those reported within Bxv-1.
(15) Bez now lives part-time on a commune, the Cwm Yr Heol Farm near Swansea in south Wales, where he is learning to keep bees but was back in Manchester on Tuesday to help promote the initiative.
(16) Himalayan Experience pulled its climbers and sherpas off the mountain in mid May because of the threat of falling rocks and ice, particularly in the notorious Khumbu icefall which flows downhill from the Western Cwm.
(17) Nucleotide sequence analysis of a cloned CWD xenotropic provirus, CWM-S-5X, revealed that the envelope gene was closely related to but distinct from those of other known xenotropic viruses.
(18) The service, which broadcasts programmes including Welsh soap opera Pobol-y-Cwm and live rugby union, is focused on the estimated 500,000 Welsh speakers and learners, and operates a children's zone, Cyw.
(19) She was discussing a new three-year supply agreement with the BBC including the contract for Welsh news and the channel's soap opera, Pobol-y-Cwm.
(20) For patients with no evidence of candidiasis, significant rises in anti-CWM and anti-PSSF antibodies were observed at a frequency of 20 and 10%, respectively.