(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%.
Joss
Definition:
(n.) A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is believed he completed filming on the project alongside Joss Ackland, Steven Berkoff and Edward Fox and the movie is due to be released next year.
(2) Greenpeace energy campaigner, Joss Garman, said: "David Cameron made the introduction of new rules to stop the most polluting power stations one of his flagship green policies, and Nick Clegg helped ensure it was a key part of the coalition agreement.
(3) During the 1950s, he had another relationship which resulted in the birth of his first son, Joss Bennathan, but the boy's mother did not want to marry.
(4) It was nominated for a Hugo Award (the sci-fi Oscars) alongside Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who and convinced Buffy creator Joss Whedon to migrate to the net ("It was probably the best episode of the original Star Trek I'd ever seen," he said).
(5) In a forthcoming, illuminating feature from Irish film-maker Des Doyle, the Kickstarter-funded Showrunners: A Documentary Film , the august likes of Joss Whedon (Buffy and soon-to-air Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
(6) He is survived by Marlene, his sons Joss and Andy, daughter Julia, and by seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
(7) "It was down to four or five people and Joss said, 'Why the hell aren't you playing Thor?'
(8) With Joss Whedon returning to the director’s chair and providing the whip-smart dialogue, the sequel promises to be the comic-book movie that superhero naysayers just can’t help enjoying, providing the endgame doesn’t descend too far into Transformers-style brain-battery this time around.
(9) The idea that Nolan has taken on the Joss Whedon role for Warner makes absolute sense in the wake of his accepting the producer's role on Man of Steel.
(10) It feels like Joss Whedon has been writing the script for this NBA season, killing or otherwise writing-off popular favorites as if purposely trying to cause fans as much emotional pain as possible.
(11) Joss Whedon was stuck in London after a knee operation while Scarlett Johansson, pregnant, was also unable to come.
(12) Joss Garman, climate campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said: "This application is a worrying sign that the government has failed to shut the door completely on dirty coal in the UK.
(13) The dialogue of Joss Merlyn, the landlord of the Jamaica Inn played by Sean Harris, proved particularly problematic.
(14) Well Happy, which launched at the healthcare innovation expo on 13 March , has also been supported by various celebrities including singer Joss Stone, former Eastenders' star Joe Swash, designer Sadie Frost and actor Ralph Little.
(15) Jagger has formed a new band, SuperHeavy, with singer Joss Stone and Eurythmics founder Dave Stewart, and continues to produce films through his own production company.
(16) Fillion and Harris singing together is basically the same thing as Joss Whedon's Dr Horrible, except the duo was separated less than 30 seconds after they reunited and we all got a little bored again.
(17) Joss Garman, political director of Greenpeace, said: "Green-lighting a whole fleet of new fossil fuel power stations would cause a huge jump in emissions and blow this autumn's once-in-a-generation opportunity to replace dirty power stations with clean ones."
(18) Yang Ailun is head of climate and energy for Greenpeace China Joss Garman: It all hinges on Europe It happened before the Rio Earth Summit and also before Kyoto.
(19) Joss Garman, a Greenpeace campaigner, said: "By stripping away the simple requirement that our power stations need to become more efficient and less polluting, Clegg and Davey are undoing whatever good work their party has done on the environment since entering government.
(20) Yet after wrapping the thriller A Perfect Getaway, he suffered eight months of unemployment ("I couldn't get hired, I couldn't get a job") before finally landing a part in postmodern horror Cabin In The Woods, produced and co-written by Joss Whedon, later to direct Avengers Assemble.