(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%.
Loss
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation.
(v. t.) The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing.
(v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable.
(v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.
(v. t.) Failure to gain or win; as, loss of a race or battle.
(v. t.) Failure to use advantageously; as, loss of time.
(v. t.) Killed, wounded, and captured persons, or captured property.
(v. t.) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) These studies, in addition to demonstrating that the placenta contains TRH deamidase activity, suggest that losses of fetal TRH through the placenta are not large.
(3) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(5) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(6) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(7) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.
(8) Adenosine diphosphate (ADP) afforded significant protection only at the very highest concentration (5.0 mM); inorganic pyrophosphate (PPi) did not protect against loss of latency at any concentration.
(9) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
(10) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
(11) Hearing loss at 8 kHz would shorten the I-V interval, while a loss at 4 kHz would be expected to lengthen the interval.
(12) It is concluded the decrease in cellular volume associated with substitution of serosal gluconate for Cl results in a loss of highly specific Ba2+-sensitive K+ conductance channels from the basolateral plasma membrane.
(13) With prolonged ischemia, it is only transient and is followed by a gradual loss of the adenylyl cyclase activity.
(14) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(15) Periodontal disease activity is defined clinically by progressive loss of probing attachment and radiographically by progressive loss of alveolar bone.
(16) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(17) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
(18) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(19) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
(20) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.