(n.) A worthless, snarling fellow; -- used in contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
(2) Girls loved him, his flouncy lace sleeves, tight trousers, big hats, curly hair.
(3) We also recognized areas of early involvement with deposition of this "peculiar curly" material between a distorted epithelial basal lamina and a normal undisturbed Bowman's layer.
(4) Rosemary antioxidants (RA) and Curcumin (Cur) have weaker scavenging effects than Vc, but stronger than VE.
(5) The analysis and expression of the cur genes for detailed molecular studies of the mechanism of polyketide biosynthesis is discussed.
(6) The subunit protein of curli was highly homologous at its amino terminus to SEF-17, the subunit protein of thin, aggregative fimbriae of Salmonella enteritidis 27655 strain 3b, suggesting that these fibres form a novel class of surface organelles on enterobacteria.
(7) The structures were curly, fibrillary strands, resembling paramyxoviral filaments morphologically, but larger in diameter (25 to 40nm).
(8) Preincubation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells with interferon alpha (IFN alpha), interleukin 2 (Il-2), interleukin 1 (Il-1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha greatly increased the rate and magnitude of Cur killing.
(9) He is sporting a bohemian look, with a long, curly ponytail and large spectacles.
(10) The PT23 Cur gene(s) was located on pCOP1 by subcloning PstI restriction endonuclease fragments of pCOP1 in the broad-host-range vector pRK404.
(11) We have investigated in detail the cytokine induced killing of a NK resistant renal carcinoma cell line Cur by human NK cells.
(12) The copper resistance (Cur) genes encoded on pXV10A, a 190-kb plasmid in Xanthomonas campestris pv.
(13) No differences were observed in the severity of symptoms or levels of viral DNA when transformants and controls were challenged with the related geminiviruses beet curly top virus and tomato golden mosaic virus, demonstrating the specific nature of the interaction.
(14) My dark, curly (and at the time) unnecessarily long hair was an obvious display of my Greek heritage.
(15) When males with curly wings were mated, females dropped either unfertilized egg cases (no mating) or partially fertilized egg cases.
(16) In plants infected with the curly top virus, the crystalloids do not differ from those in non-infected controls in structure and conformation.
(17) A curly-toe system was observed in coturnix chicks fed low levels of folacin and might also be a consequence of folacin deficiency.
(18) Curli, an extracellular structure that binds fibronectin, was recently described (A. Olsén, A. Jonsson, and S. Normark, Nature [London] 338:652-655, 1989).
(19) BGMV DNA 1 and beet curly top virus (BCTV) DNA are closely related, whereas BGMV DNA 2 and BCTV DNA are not related.
(20) SamCam: He's not the plebby, curly-haired golfer, is he?
Tur
Definition:
(n.) The urus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservative treatment and TUR of the lesions had no effect on the symptoms.
(2) Combined treatment included optical (retrograde and antegrade) urethrotomy and transurethral electroresection (TUR) of scar tissues, combined with postoperative endourethral phonophoresis with lidase (64 units) and an antibiotic.
(3) Of these, 208 were considered evaluable for a review of the impact of transurethral resection (TUR) on the dissemination of disease.
(4) Non-transition zone cancers detectable at TUR are predominantly large tumors that are poorly differentiated and lack the clear cell histologic pattern.
(5) Intravesical pressure was studied in 20 patients during transurethral resection (TUR) of the prostate using the Iglesias resectoscope with continuous irrigation and suction.
(6) 4 children with anterior urethral valve were treated by TUR-Valve.
(7) The explanation of this phenomenon may be the tumour cells implantation during the TUR.
(8) The results of 532 transurethral electro-resections (TUR) are compared with 67 open prostatectomies performed over a period of 9 years.
(9) Intravesical instillation of Tokyo 172 strain Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) was performed in 96 patients with initial superficial bladder cancer (Ta and T1) after transurethral resection (TUR) of tumour as a prophylaxis against tumour recurrence.
(10) It is likely that acetone does not turly trigger an activation of prekallikrein but supports spontaneous activation by slowing down the control of the feedback reinforcement of this activation, by damaging inhibitors.
(11) The TUR value of nickel-stimulated cultures in nickel-sensitive atopic dermatitis patients tended to decrease in comparison to non-atopic nickel-sensitive patients.
(12) 80 of 89 cases attained satisfactory voiding parameters after radical TUR-P. Postoperative incontinence was not seen and in some cases incontinence was improved.
(13) After TUR both the speed and the amplitude of isometric detrusor contractions during the stop test increased.
(14) In the third group the histologic changes in the bladder wall after treatment with the laser or TUR were evaluated by cold-cup biopsy (31 lasered cases and 24 resected cases) and by resector loop biopsy (11 lasered cases and 11 resected cases) between 12 and 24 months after treatment, without significant differences in terms of fibrosis.
(15) The results emphasize the requirement of a careful and comprehensive investigation of the TUR-material by the pathologist, on the other hand they support the opinion of the occurrence of various types of carcinoma of the prostate gland with different morphogenesis and prognosis.
(16) They described Turness as a "uniquely talented journalist who has shattered more than one glass ceiling and doesn't take no for an answer".
(17) The residual lesion had disappeared with DMSO bladder instillations for 4 months (12X) without side effects after TUR.
(18) Eleven patients with cancer of the prostate and 10 patients with benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) had thirteen parameters of coagulation evaluated before and after transurethral resection (TUR).
(19) The surgical procedure was performed as double TUR.
(20) Biopsies performed in areas post-laser therapy (31) and post-TUR (24), and with the resector loop in 22 cases, revealed no histologic difference between both groups (replacement fibrosis and elastic fibers).