(n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
(n.) A thing (only in phrase below).
Example Sentences:
(1) The actuarial 4-year MFS rate of poor responders after salvage chemotherapy also was poorest in the study arm (41%); it was unchanged in the control arm (53%) as compared with that of poor responders from the COSS-80 study without salvage chemotherapy (52%).
(2) The analysis of the results of two German Pediatric Oncology (GPO) cooperative, neoadjuvant chemotherapy trials after a followup of 7 (COSS-80) and 5 years (COSS-82) allows several conclusions concerning both systemic and local treatment of patients suffering from osteosarcoma.
(3) All patients had received chemotherapy, predominantly according to the COSS 80 and COSS 82 protocols.
(4) Following this observation, it was the aim of the next study, COSS-82, to improve the MFS of patients with poorly responding tumors by altering their postoperative chemotherapy regimen.
(5) 16 biopsy specimens from patients with osteosarcoma who had been treated according to the protocol of the study COSS-80 and COSS-82 were examined.
(6) During the 7-day detachment interval, rod outer segments (ROSs) and cone outer segments (COSs) degenerated, but inner segments remained intact and the rest of the retina appeared normal.
(7) Baupin’s wife, Emmanuelle Cosse, the French housing minister, who was previously head of the EELV party, said she was shocked by the allegations against her husband.
(8) Preoperative chemotherapy according to the COSS 86 protocol, including two courses of cisplatin, was used for high-risk osteosarcoma.
(9) ROSs and COSs both showed an increase in length and a tendency to return to their normal configurations with increasing time after reattachment.
(10) The frequency and severity of clinical and subclinical heart damage were studied in patients who had been treated with adriamycin (ADR) as part of the Cooperative Osteosarcoma Studies (COSS).
(11) We present a protocol, "COSS 77", presently employed in several university hospitals of West Germany and Austria.
(12) This is significantly better (p less than 0.05) than the results obtained from the COSS-77 group.
(13) In a study of 118 psychiatric patients two questionnaires of similar content that are supposed to predict compliance with pharmacotherapy in psychiatry were examined, "COSS" and "KK-Skala".
(14) On the day the allegations against Baupin broke, his wife, Emmanuelle Cosse, a government minister and former leader of the EELV party, was the target of abuse on social media saying that Baupin had allegedly acted as he did because she was fat and ugly.
(15) French female journalists are fighting back against sexist politicians | Lénaïg Bredoux Read more Baupin, 53, who is married to Emmanuelle Cosse, leader of the Green party, has vehemently denied the allegations and said he will fight them.
(16) Intensified adjuvant chemotherapy increased the 4-year metastasis-free survival probability from 50% (COSS-77) to roughly 80% (COSS-86).
(17) In the process of disk renewal in retinal cone outer segments (COSs), apical displacement of disks must be coupled to systematic reductions in disk area and perimeter in order to retain overall conical geometry.
(18) The actuarial 4-year MFS rate of the study arm as a whole was inferior to that of the control arm (49% v 68%; P less than .1) and also inferior to the COSS-80 study (68%; P less than .01), indicating a failure of the employed salvage strategy in general and especially of the effort to restrict the use of the very effective but highly toxic drugs DOX and CPDD to patients resistant to a less toxic initial treatment.
(19) Primary metastases, which were confined to the lungs in 42 cases, were detected in 59 out of 421 patients from the prospective therapy trials COSS-80 and COSS-82.
(20) The expected CDFS rate at 40 months of the 115 evaluable COSS-80 patients was 67%.
Hoss
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Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dr Josef Mengele, left, with Rudolf Hoss, Commandant of Auschwitz, Josef Kramer, Commandant of Belsen and an unidentified German officer.
(2) He's up over 80 pitches now, but as TBS says, Wainwright routinely hits the 120's on pitch count, which kind of makes him a modern day Old Hoss Radbourn , but not really.
(3) His character had a team of young detectives, Nina Hoss and Daniel Brühl among them, and on and off set he would be very much like their mentor.
(4) The hypo-osmotic sperm swelling (HOSS) test was performed on semen samples of five normospermic men from couples with prolonged infertility.
(5) Another investigation into the leak of a highly classified US-Israeli cyber operation to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program – ahead of the 2012 election, which permitted Obama to shore up his national security bona fides – has stalled, although retired General James “Hoss” Cartwright, a former vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is said to be the target .
(6) Doggart’s attorneys, Bryan Hoss and Janie Parks Varnell, said that since his arrest their client had stopped consuming prescription medication and alcohol – the “substance abuse problems” Lee had referenced at Doggart’s initial detention hearing, which had partially motivated her to hold Doggart without bail.
(7) It would appear that the HOSS test does not assess fertilizing capacity.
(8) U-50,488H which stimulates PI turnover response in this preparation (Periyasamy and Hoss, 1990, Life Sci.