(n.) A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
(n.) The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thom Yorke described the company as “the last desperate fart of a dying corpse” last year – the dying corpse being the music industry – while David Byrne suggested that "if artists have to rely almost exclusively on the income from these services, they'll be out of work within a year".
(2) Experimental blows with a saw like the used on the leg of a corpse showed an unexpected result: it was possible to produce wounds of the soft-tissues and the bone similar to those by hatchets.
(3) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
(4) The corpse was then “put into a sealed biosecurity device and transferred for incineration at an authorized disposal facility”.
(5) Speaking from his church residence beside the Congo river, where he says corpses now frequently wash up, Nzapalaing added: "We hope we are going to get the attention of the international community.
(6) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
(7) Practicability and efficiency of the cricothyreotomy set Nu-Trake was investigated in corpses (n = 10) in the institute of Pathology and clinically in laryngectomy patients (n = 5) including endoscopical controls.
(8) The follow samples were taken from 399 corpses: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF; n = 376, suboccipital), blood (n = 158, femoral vein), and urine (n = 101, at autopsy).
(9) In January, a video surfaced showing US marines apparently urinating on the corpses of three insurgents, and in February anger flared over the burning of the Qur'an.
(10) The idea excited both Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, but was crushed by Marshal Philippe Pétain , who described the plan as a “marriage to a corpse”, since France was about to surrender.
(11) Photograph: Fairfax Media via Getty Images Monis waged a campaign for years, writing letters to the families of Australian soldiers who had died in Afghanistan , labelling them child killers and their corpses unclean.
(12) Say whatever else you like, but at least it's a sign of life in a party that many have written off as a corpse.
(13) The vertebrae with deformation of the arcus parts are only from the lower vertebral column; on account of the weight of this body region, this suggests that the corpse lay in the dorsal position at the place of cremation.
(14) Jimmy Savile told hospital staff he interfered with patients' corpses, taking grotesque photographs and stealing glass eyes for jewellery, over two decades at the mortuary of Leeds general infirmary.
(15) The study of large arteries carried out in 30 corpses and the comparison of the parameters and outlines of these vessels with those recommended in applied hydraulics have shown correspondence between the arteries structure and the principles used for criation of optimal conditions of the liquid current in hydraulics.
(16) We have a saying in Yemen: ‘It’s forbidden to stab a corpse of the dead.’ We were already dead with poverty and this war is stabbing us again and again.
(17) The authors had collected two cochleas from human corpses died of brain injuries in order to know if the method of specimen preparation conventionally used was adequate for the preservation of ultrastructures and to study the ultrastructural characteristics of the human Corti's organ.
(18) The images, of corpses pulled out from beneath collapsed masonry, to a bloodied underground emergency room floor, are simply appalling.
(19) It is reported on early and late complications on the efferent urinary system by 667 transplantations of allogenic kidneys of corpses.
(20) In a galvanising moment similar to when the corpse of 13-year-old Hamza al-Khateeb was returned to his parents bearing marks of severe torture in May, Syrians have been expressing outrage.
Pyre
Definition:
(n.) A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequence suggests that pyrE expression is regulated by modulated attenuation, as has been proposed to be the case for both pyrB and pyrE expression in Escherichia coli.
(2) Sequence analysis confirmed this mapping and further showed that fpg is adjacent to rpmBG in the order fpg, rpmGB, pyrE.
(3) The nucleotide sequence of two kilobase pairs (kb) 5' to the orfE-pyrE operon has been determined.
(4) We have used the galK gene, minus its promoter, to quantitate transcription of the orfE--pyrE operon of Escherichia coli in front of and after the intercistronic attenuator.
(5) "If you're in India there'd be a funeral pyre and you get the women throwing themselves on it.
(6) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
(7) The incongruously epic promo clip for the cheap-as-chips credit-crunch anthem Dirtee Cash culminates in Dizzee being burnt as a guy on top of a pyre of books (featured texts include TS Eliot's The Wasteland and William Blake's Jerusalem).
(8) Furthermore, the major 3' end of the pyrE mRNA was mapped near a palindromic structure of similarity to the family of repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences, 35 nucleotide residues after stop codon of the pryE gene.
(9) The sequence revealed two open reading frames, orfX and orfY, consisting of 286 and 274 codons, respectively, and having a transcriptional orientation opposite that of the orfE-pyrE operon.
(10) The report by the scientists, released on 11 December, said that the pyre would have required 33 tons of logs, or nearly 1,000 tyres, to reduce 43 bodies to the remains presented as evidence by the attorney general.
(11) The mutation of one mutant of the last class, unlike those of the other nine mutants tested, lay outside the cysE-pyrE segment, in the 90 to 116 min region of the linkage map.
(12) It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre …” I don’t think this Ukip poster creators would be insulted by the Enoch Powell comparison Powell foresaw an unchecked inflow of black immigrants creating civil war; this poster tells us absolutely the same thing about the people headed our way, it claims, across borderless Europe.
(13) P1 transduction analyses indicate that the rfa-2 marker is nonallelic with the recently described cysE-pyrE-linked rfaD70 locus.
(14) He said detained members of the gang had led them to the tip where they said they had participated in the massacre and incineration of dozens of young people on a huge funeral pyre that burned for 15 hours on the same night as the students disappeared.
(15) The pyrE gene, encoding the pyrimidine biosynthetic enzyme orotate phosphoribosyltransferase, is the promoter distal gene of the dicistronic orfE-pyrE operon.
(16) The insertion, rec-258, was located between pyrE and dgo at min 82.1 on the current linkage map.
(17) The order of the genes in this region of the E. coli chromosome is: fpg--rpmBG--radC--pyrE.
(18) R-prime plasmids carrying the pyrE-rfa-cysE region of the chromosome of Salmonella typhimurium were isolated by using the vector pULB113 (RP4::mini-Mu).
(19) And there’s a growing natural cremation movement in the UK advocating outdoor funeral pyres.
(20) The results indicate that the NusA protein is required for proper regulation of pyrE gene expression and is involved, together with the NTP pools, in maintaining the coupling between transcription and translation in the pyrE attenuator region by inhibiting RNA chain elongation.