(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%.
Toss
Definition:
(v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
(v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
(v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
(v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.
(v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.
(v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
(v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
(v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
(n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(2) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(3) "We realise that it's an election time and these issues are tossed back and forth, but regardless of who leads Australia, we will look to them for action."
(4) The jury concluded Duggan had tossed the gun away and was not holding a weapon when surrounded by police marksmen.
(5) For every drop shot that was loose, lazy and tossed away a point, there was another that smacked of insouciant brilliance.
(6) Any hint of Charlotte as a sexual being is tossed on to the historical furnace.
(7) Hoodies don't vote, they've realised it's pointless, that whoever gets elected will just be a different shade of the "we don't give a toss about you" party.
(8) In one email, an aide suggests she should “toss a wrench at someone”.
(9) Campbell got the parents to play a simple game in which one team tried to flip some cones over one way and the other to flip them the other way – to illustrate the point that when parents are not united in their approach, children will feel like the cones being tossed about.
(10) Kazakhstan win the toss and the warring cheersquads go quiet for now.
(11) Their appetite for double entendres on Bake Off - which prompted a complaint to the BBC’s Points of View that they get “smuttier and smuttier, and it is totally unnecessary” - was already evident at Light Lunch when word came down from on high at Channel 4 that there were too many references to “tossing a salad”.
(12) I was having some tapas and a large bottle of wine as I was flicking through Facebook and I said: ‘Who should I nominate?’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jennifer Mitchell, law student Labour & Liverpool: Jennifer Mitchell interview After tossing about some names, her boyfriend suggested her father.
(13) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
(14) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
(15) 10.32am BST The toss Cook has won it, and England are going to have a bowl.
(16) One throwaway moment with him tossing a hat into a van, I thought, well, nothing much we can do with that, but Will made it work beautifully.
(17) Mount Sinai is so overstretched they couldn’t give a toss either way.
(18) I think retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy.” The idea to march was first tossed around on a Reddit thread in January.
(19) Photograph: Franck Allais and Ed Johns for the Guardian Flatbread, baked golden and crispy, tossed in a light salad and dressing.
(20) You could toss a mullet net over any park bench between Key West and Pensacola and drag in two people who’d be more inspiring.