(n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.
(n.) A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.
(n.) Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.
(n.) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
(v. i.) To live in, or as in, a den.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
(2) Significantly higher levels of c-myc gene expression were observed in tissues of HCC of the DEN group and in neoplastic nodules of the DEN-DES groups than in the DES and DEN-C group.
(3) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
(4) ENU, in contrast with DEN, also resulted in a significant staining of nonparenchymal cells.
(5) A systematic study including morphologic, histologic, pathologic aspects of dens evaginatus was carried out and data were compared with those given in previous reports pertaining to dens evaginatus in other Asian countries.
(6) The data reflect differences in the behaviour of GR and AR in the atrophic BCLA and suggest a relative increase in sensitivity to glucocorticoids compared to androgens in the DEN muscle.
(7) We have now characterized in vivo Th-cell priming activity of one of these peptides (MVE 17, amino acids 356 to 376) and an analogous peptide derived from the E-glycoprotein sequence of the dengue (DEN) 2, Jamaica strain (DEN 17, amino acids 352 to 368).
(8) Particularly so, as Lord Denning put it "...without morality there can be no law."
(9) Rheumatoid arthritis, which produces anterior displacement of the atlas over the dens to more than 10 mm, neurologic symptoms, or untreatable pain must be stabilized by means of C1-C2 fusion.
(10) Most DEN virus strains, representing all 4 serotypes isolated from various parts of the tropics, were identical either visually of spectrophotometrically when infected cell culture fluids were used as sources of antigen.
(11) In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, a group of about 33 chimpanzees were observed to surround a leopard den containing a mother and at least one cub and to drag out and kill the cub.
(12) A series of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of dengue virus type 2 (DEN-2, TH-36 isolate) were induced by treatment with 5-azacytidine.
(13) produces more potential foci of tumour growth than in the normal liver and (2) that the repeated doses of CCl4 leading to repeated phases of regeneration, after the dose of DEN, provide a promoting stimulus.
(14) The shelf life of the solid phase presensitized with monoclonal antibodies was 4 mth at -15 degrees C. DEN prototype viruses were still identified after storage at -15 degrees C for 1 yr or at room temperature for 1 mth.
(15) O6EG levels in DNA of Clara cell-enriched populations were found to be higher than O6EG levels in DNA of alveolar type II cell-enriched populations and macrophages following acute DEN treatment.
(16) The fiber orientation is dependent on the height of dens axis, mostly in the cranial caudal direction.
(17) At earlier stages of the neoplastic process (11 or 16 weeks after the second DEN dose), most adenomas were well-differentiated lesions with no atypia or focal grade 1 or 2 atypia.
(18) This technique is best applied in nontraumatic cases in which the dens is not seen clearly on the "open mouth view".
(19) This treatment raised the number of adenosine-5'-triphosphatase (ATPase)-deficient foci up to 5-fold, that of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGTase) and glycogen-positive foci 13- and 10-fold, respectively, after 12 weeks; 25 mg caused no effect compared to DEN-treated controls.
(20) The system consists of a) single carcinogenic dose of diethylnitrosamine (DEN), b) short-term dietary exposure to 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) sufficient to suppress growth of virtually all normal hepatocytes, and c) partial hepatectomy (PH) to actuate rapid growth of DEN-altered hepatocytes not suppressed by 2-AAF.
Ensconce
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have a personal interest in the revelations about Pakistan, which highlight what many of us have long feared: that contrary to assurances from Pakistan's leaders, the US is fully ensconced, with bases and special forces, that there have been unreported civilian deaths and that the unwinnable war in Afghanistan is spilling over the border into its weak, corrupt and nuclear neighbour.
(2) Most of the cast themselves became cosily ensconced in the establishment with unseemly haste.
(3) Set six years after the conclusion of Pride and Prejudice , the novel finds Elizabeth and Darcy happily ensconced at Pemberley: tending to the estate and its tenants, delighting in their two young sons, deeply in love.
(4) From Obama's perspective, it gave the president and his newly ensconced secretary of state, John Kerry, a rare chance to point to real achievement .
(5) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
(6) As leader of the main opposition in the country on the frontline of Europe's debt drama, Tsipras is now ensconced in an elegant office on the ground floor of the Greek parliament, a former royal palace that looks on to Syntagma Square, the theatre for the robust rallies that have rocked Athens over the past three years.
(7) Safely ensconced inside Television Centre, surrounded by scripts, film posters and other cultural curiosities, Hadlow's office resembles a modern-day boudoir for the intellectually enlightened.
(8) Like his 16 family members, and almost every other Afghan ensconced under the mulberry trees of Athens’ Victoria Square, his motto is “move, move, move”.
(9) But he insists that even in this post-election postmortem period, it’s not too soon to start laying the foundations of a new Labour economic policy, which he says must focus on rebuilding British productivity, which has stagnated since the crisis: “This isn’t for me just a period to tread water.” And while the opinion polls may have allowed him and his colleagues to cherish the hope that they would be ensconced in the corridors of the Treasury by now, he concedes that as the election campaign got under way, “in our hearts we knew there were things that hadn’t been properly gripped and addressed”.
(10) And at the same time, she ensconced herself within a small network of other Twitter users who supported her, agreed with her, and perhaps gave her a sense of identity and importance as a figurehead campaigning for what she believed was justice for Madeleine.
(11) Once ensconced in private, the politicians and corporate lobbyists are asked to decide which legislation they want to prioritize.
(12) Tony Abbott hints at taking fight to Isis in Syria amid pressure to help country's refugees Read more “Many of these people have been very safely ensconced, working and housed in places like Turkey for many years,” Bernardi told the Senate on Monday.
(13) However, as members of the group, such as Yorke , Jonny Greenwood and Selway - who is touring his new album Weatherhouse throughout February - have been ensconced in various solo ventures, it was uncertain whether the band would have time to reconvene for a Radiohead album.
(14) Disgraced clergy often live comfortably ensconced in respectable or even prestigious church posts, basking in the glory and grandeur that accompany their exalted positions in places like Rome.
(15) By the shallow standards of most political discourse in the media, the interview between Vice-President Joe Biden and newly ensconced talkshow host Stephen Colbert on Thursday night was an extraordinary moment of television that could yet prove a defining moment of the 2016 election race.
(16) Pubertal pathology in which the fantasies about physical bisexuality remain ensconced can make working through psychical bisexuality a more arduous task.
(17) Second, there was a long span from Truman's stewardship to that of Carter, characterized by ensconcement of, and accretions to, FDR's model and by an acceptance of the vastly augmented role of the federal government in American society.
(18) Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and White Cube owner Jay Jopling are apparently ensconced in an undisclosed VVIP section.
(19) "Take it from me – the cherry fizz is fantastic," says S, ensconced in an armchair with her seven-year-old when I arrive on this freezing Saturday night.
(20) Abrams, 46, ensconced in palatial splendour in the penthouse suite of a fancy central London hotel, turns out to be a likably fresh-faced individual, and professes himself only slightly baffled as to how well things have gone.