(a.) Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Continuous, parasympathetic nerve stimulation, at frequencies varying from 1 to 10 Hz, caused a copious flow of saliva.
(2) Although, as she said in her statement to MPs, there were no deaths and no miscarriage of justice, there is copious evidence that the police at the least mislaid the rule book in their attempt to break the miners’ strike.
(3) Megakaryocytes without copious cytoplasm may be regarded as normally occurring cells in the peripheral venous blood.
(4) The majority of the choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive neurons had fusiform, oval, or polygonal somata with somatic diameters greater than 20 microns and contained deeply invaginated nuclei surrounded by copious cytoplasm.
(5) Suspensions of cells from colons of F344 rats always contained copious mucoid gel that was partially eliminated by washing the cells three times in culture medium with 10% fetal calf serum.
(6) The role of copious irrigation and drainage in the treatment of tuboovarian abscess (TOA) is crucial, especially for the patients who want to remain fertile.
(7) Copious fistulae output led to extensive wound breakdown, dehydration, and failure to thrive.
(8) Under treatment with erythromycin the clinical picture of intense swelling of the lid and the copious purulent discharge abated during the following 2 days.
(9) Ninety single-rooted teeth with mature apices were prepared chemomechanically by the stepback technique using files and copious irrigation with 2.5 per cent sodium hypochlorite.
(10) Two types of the viral DNA were found that differ only in four nucleotides (nt) in the 5' noncoding part and whose sizes are 4009 nt (more copious) and 4012 nt, respectively.
(11) Mesenchymal hamartoma of the liver is a rare benign tumour of childhood, characterised by an admixture of ductal structures within a copious loose connective tissue stroma.
(12) The bad news is that we may also learn a lot more about him (particularly from copious investigations by the Times , chronicling the high jinks and low politics of Nigel and his followers in Strasbourg).
(13) Reported effects of balding reflected considerable preoccupation, moderate stress or distress, and copious coping efforts.
(14) This produces a more copious precipitate of calcium antimonate than fixation without oxalate.
(15) We achieved our lowest rate of serious complications following surgery for pediatric perforated appendix with the use of aggressive fluid resuscitation, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, copious peritoneal irrigation, and delayed wound closure and without drainage.
(16) Such cells have copious cytoplasm known to be rich in peptides such as enkephalins.
(17) Surface zone cells formed two types of cell cluster; one that was highly cellular with little extracellular matrix, and the other less frequent, which formed copious amounts of fibrillar matrix.
(18) It is, for example, entirely warranted vis-à-vis anyone who posts copious "inspirational" quotes online; anyone who plays Farmville; and anyone who posts pictures of themselves with firearms.
(19) After copious irrigation and débridement, small superficial burns may be treated without dressings or topical therapy.
(20) On the other hand, maitotoxic compounds were detected in all 7 strains in copious amount, especially in clone GTH2.
Prodigious
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.
(a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(2) Although a weak correlation between urinary calcium excretion and stone number was observed, the cause for prodigious stone formation could not be explained.
(3) He has classical roots in common with Michael Clark, the Royal Ballet prodigy turned punk choreographer.
(4) Jack Charlton, maintaining the remarkable standard of his World Cup performances, had to intervene with a prodigious sweeping tackle on the ground to get them out of trouble.
(5) The periplasmic C proteins (C1 and C2 isoelectric forms) were produced in prodigious quantities from the cloned strains.
(6) Rivals and analysts underestimated his single-minded determination and prodigious work ethic, and overlooked an unofficial campaign that began years before his name went on the ballot papers for the second time.
(7) He kept up a prodigious work rate even when ill. At the height of his activity he was simultaneously writing about politics, wine and television as well as radio programmes, a weekly diary and a stream of books.
(8) Winner of the National Book Award in 1993, Vidal's literary output was prodigious, with more than 20 novels, including the transsexual satire Myra Breckinridge, the black comedy Duluth, and a series of historical fiction charting the history of the United States.
(9) It is suggested that in its myriad roles, ranging from cooking to the prodigious function of sacrifice in human history and psychology, the decisive position of the role of fire in the emergence and development of homo sapiens may conceivably include a significant "overdetermining" position among the multiple elements conditioning the appearance of human speech and language.
(10) They were quick to the ball, strong in the tackle and their workload was prodigious.
(11) The two-year-old artificial intelligence startup was founded by former child chess prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis alongside Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.
(12) In case his writers are wondering what word to use instead, he offers a "handy list of synonyms" that includes "huge", "prodigious", "elephantine" and the very adult Swiftian term "Brobdingnagian".
(13) Its prodigious collection of print, audiovisual, and electronic information; its imaginative research projects; its excellent outreach program; and its innovative services and products are indispensable to all practicing health professionals, scientists, and medical educators, as well as to journalists, government officials, and others.
(14) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
(15) The oral cavity is populated by a prodigious microbial flora that exhibits a unique successional colonization of enamel and subgingival root surfaces.
(16) The only greenery more impressive than the massive trees are the prodigious mosses and lichens hanging from every branch.
(17) Bilic’s side were the more threatening team as the first half wore on and their prodigious work-rate, typified by Mark Noble chasing down a lost cause and winning a corner from James Milner, was impressive.
(18) But Google's acquisition of DeepMind Technologies earlier this year, founded by a former child chess prodigy only two years ago, will be followed by more big-money transactions involving home-grown tech companies.
(19) But the Brits announcement has not come in isolation; it follows the collapse in the last two years of three dance music magazines (Muzik, Ministry and Jockey Slut), the news that London superclub Ministry of Sound's revenues have fallen by more than a third since 2001, and, most recently, the commercial failure of the latest albums from Britain's two biggest dance acts, Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy.
(20) Freud is notable not only for his prodigious output - at any one time he will be at work on five or six paintings and, perhaps, an etching - but for the intense way in which he scrutinises his subjects (he is adamant that they 'affect the air around them', so his sitters must be present even when only the background is being painted).