(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%.
Moss
Definition:
(n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water.
(n.) A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border.
(v. t.) To cover or overgrow with moss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained from a such study are here compared with levels obtained from a comparative determination of the metals in the mosses by three other techniques: Differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV), Direct current plasma (atomic emission) spectroscopy (DCPS) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy.
(2) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(3) Water was being trapped by capillary action between the minute overlapping moss leaves long enough for it to deposit its load of calcium salts, enclosing the plants in a stone straitjacket.
(4) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
(5) The West Ham striker Andy Carroll has lambasted the referee Jon Moss for an unacceptable performance, even accusing the official of trying to even things up by awarding Leicester a stoppage-time penalty.
(6) It was lined with moss and three trunks had grown out of its sides.
(7) Two of the epitopes (I and III) are widely conserved in 34 kDa proteins (presumably B-36 homologues) from the various species tested (Chlamydomonas, moss, fern, oat, onion, carrot, and bean).
(8) Prof Gus John, who led the Moss Side Defence Committee that criticised the Hytner report into the 1981 Moss Side riots, says "key lessons will be missed" if the government fails to set up a proper inquiry.
(9) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(10) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
(11) The dark-green Audi in which he journeyed to his last escapades had moss growing in its foot-wells ("three different sorts", he pointed out, proudly), and a variety of useful knives in the glove-box.
(12) I was flicking through a copy of this month's Vogue and there's Kate Moss topless.
(13) While environmental samples of moss from the Wisconsin supplier were negative, Sporothrix schenckii was cultured from multiple samples of the sphagnum moss obtained from one of six Pennsylvania tree nurseries, representing the nursery that was identified as the source for 79 (94%) of the moss-associated cases.
(14) The staff member reiterated concerns outlined by former integrity commissioner Philip Moss in his review into allegations at the centre, and said that asylum seekers feared giving information to staff “and would not complain because they might be targeted”.
(15) Green, who has enlisted his friend Kate Moss to design a range for Topshop, is the closest thing business has to a rock star.
(16) Top tip: The Hall of Mosses trail in Hoh is a short, one-mile loop through old growth rainforest.
(17) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(18) "If necessary the police should be properly equipped and even armed, before such a step was taken," said the Downing Street note of a conversation between the home secretary, Willie Whitelaw, and Thatcher on 11 July when riots erupted in Moss Side, Manchester.
(19) If you use that locally you're supporting decarbonising, you're displacing coal and you're supporting renewables," said Andrew Austin, chief executive of IGas, the operator at Barton Moss.
(20) Gathers no Moss Inspired by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, director Mike Figgis filmed his latest digital work, Suspension of Disbelief , in Highgate, London.