(n.) One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.
(n.) A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set.
(n.) A small sail carried at or near the stern of small boats; -- called also jigger, and mizzen.
(n.) A dandy roller. See below.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 3-year-old child, a rare combination of a Dandy-Walker syndrome, a primitive trigeminal artery and a facial haemangioma was found.
(2) That's just dandy when you're gazing at a lamb chop with mint sauce, but the downside to this technology is that each time you glance at the image of Jamie on the front cover you'll absorb some of him, too.
(3) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
(4) A child who had the Dandy-Walker syndrome along with her healthy twin sibling were followed regularly for a period of 2 years.
(5) Three cases of Dandy-Walker syndrome are described.
(6) The presenting diagnoses were Cogan's syndrome, Meniere's syndrome, Dandy's syndrome without hearing loss, or progressive sensorineural hearing loss without dizziness.
(7) After rhizotomia (Dandys method) 3 patients died, one of them because of a meningitis, one of them because of damage of the superior petrosal vein and one after ligature of an irregular auditive artery.
(8) A review of serial computed tomography (CT) scans of 25 patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation revealed six patients with chronic downward transincisural herniation of the cerebrum after shunt decompression of the posterior fossa cyst or malfunction of a lateral ventricular drainage catheter, or both.
(9) In this series, one patient had aqueductal stenosis, four had agenesis of the corpus callosum, two had hydrocephalus, one had cerebral abiotrophy, and one (a 72-year-old man) had no additional defects and no symptoms from his Dandy-Walker syndrome.
(10) Two patients with the Dandy-Walker malformation first developed neurologic symptoms in adult life.
(11) Autopsy findings included intraphepatic biliary atresia, coarctation of the aorta of the infantile type, and the Dandy-Walker syndrome.
(12) Fielding, surrealist comic, painter and dandy, is recreating the glam rock 1970s.
(13) The differential diagnosis of a posterior fossa fluid collection in the fetus includes an enlarged cisterna magna, Dandy-Walker syndrome, or a posterior fossa cyst, each of which has differing implications for perinatal management.
(14) In the present report we describe a girl with mental retardation, Dandy-Walker malformation, craniofacial anomalies, cardiac defect, and ovarian dysgenesis associated with an interstitial deletion of chromosome 2.
(15) The Dandy-Walker malformation was found at autopsy in our patient.
(16) All 3 children had associated hindbrain deformities; two with Dandy-Walker malformation, the third with a Chiari II malformation.
(17) Clinical and complementary investigation revealed a malformation syndrome with many anomalies like those of trisomy 9p as well as Dandy-Walker cyst and Hirschsprung disease not previously described in tetrasomy 9p.
(18) A rare case is reported of Dandy-Walker cyst of the posterior fossa with intracystic chronic hemorrhage.
(19) Three cases were associated with other congenital anomalies: intracranial angioma, Dandy Walker Syndrome and Klippel-Trenauncy Syndrome.
(20) An infant had a giant congenital nevus, neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM), and a Dandy-Walker malformation of the brain.
Macaroni
Definition:
(n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.
(n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.
(n.) A sort of droll or fool.
(n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.
(n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
Example Sentences:
(1) The macaroni became slightly dark in color with increasing additions of FPC.
(2) Barbara Mikulski said Clinton would fight for “macaroni and cheese” issues, boasting again of her taste for down-to-earth food.
(3) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(4) Studied were the possibilities of inducing iron deficiency anemia in young rats through feeding with cow milk and macaroni having no eggs.
(5) Interconnection between the number of pathogenic staphylococci and the presence of enterotoxin in cooked macaroni products was studied.
(6) Rice and peas, macaroni cheese, homemade coleslaw and curried goat, so legendary have the dinners become that TV producers have even approached the family about making a reality show.
(7) Use of dimethyl sulfoxide to solubilize starch, or elevated temperature to extract S components, had no effect on the distribution of DF between S and I fractions of peas and macaroni.
(8) When Kraft went public, in 2001, it gave investors big baskets of Kraft foods like Oreos and macaroni and cheese.
(9) Eight healthy male volunteers ate four test meals on consecutive mornings and in random order; the meals were 50 g carbohydrate taken as a 20% glucose solution or as boiled macaroni with and without supplementation with 6 g salt.
(10) The authors determined (in vitro) the amino-acid composition and the enzymatic cleavage of protein and starch as well as (in vivo) the biological value of synthetic macaroni produced on the basis of casein, soybean protein and cotton-seed protein.
(11) Foods were distributed into: Group A (the least perishable goods: sugar, beans, rice, oil, salt), Group B (moderately perishable goods: biscuits, chocolate, manioc flour, corn, meal, dried skim milk, macaroni, sugar-cane syrup, canned sardines, ground corn) and Group C (the most perishable goods: dried and salted fish and meat).
(12) Macaroni penguins do not breed until 6-8 years of age whereas gentoo penguins first breed at 2 years of age.
(13) In macaroni penguins plasma levels of all hormones, except LH in males, were significantly elevated at the time of arrival at the breeding colony.
(14) Technical modifications that have helped to reduce the morbidity after IT in rats include 1) minimizing mechanical and ischemic injuries to grafts during the donor procedure, 2) marking the portal vein and aortic conduit with sutures to ensure correct orientation of the graft, 3) using a macaroni noodle to stent the intestinal anastomosis, and 4) administering large volumes of crystalloid to maintain a normal blood pressure during the donor and recipient surgeries.
(15) Each of 15 nonobese healthy women received no wafers and four different amounts (39, 104, 169, and 234 kcal) of the fiber wafer with water, in a ratio of 13 kcal (and 0.565 g psyllium) wafer per 41.67 g water, 30 minutes prior to a test meal of macaroni and beef, on nonconsecutive days.
(16) Weanling Wistar rats were used in the biological assay to measure the macaroni protein quality at the different supplementation levels.
(17) Some individual 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old macaroni penguins had circulating testosterone levels within the range of peak values in adults, suggesting that in males, gonads were physiologically mature several years in advance of the age of first breeding.
(18) The biological value of synthetic macaroni is mainly determined by the composition of the initial mixture.
(19) Following copulation, plasma levels of LH, testosterone, and estradiol decreased to basal levels in both sexes and species and, except for a transient increase in testosterone in male macaroni penguins, remained low through to the end of molt.
(20) At the end of the fourth week of the experiment some rats showed a slight difference in the growth curve, specially the animals fed macaroni without lysine.