(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.
Sen
Definition:
(n.) A Japanese coin, worth about one half of a cent.
(adv., prep., & conj.) Since.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(2) Mean VCF (sens 83 percent, spec 80 percent), %S (sens 50 percent, spec 96 percent), EFC (senc 58 percent, spec 96 percent), and EFQ (sens 58 percent, spec 92 percent) were less satisfactory.
(3) These results suggest that double-stranded RNA-induced signal 2 is distinct from the interferon-alpha-induced signal 2 (R. K. Tiwari, J. Kusari, and G. C. Sen, EMBO J.
(4) Densitometry of immunoblots indicated that there was two- to threefold more PrP-res than PrP-sen in one infected clone.
(5) 9.11pm GMT Sen Barbara Mikulski of Maryland asks Brennan if she can count on him to "speak truth to power."
(6) 8.48pm GMT Now Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon is up, the strongest advocate for transparency and civil rights on the committee.
(7) Here's Reid: Sen. Murray [Patty Murray, D-Washington, budget committee chairwoman] has asked to go to conference 18 times.
(8) The revised English system for special educational needs (SEN) was introduced via the Children and Families Act of 2014, and local authorities have been rolling it out, in theory, since last September.
(9) Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's party won the July polls with 68 seats to the CNRP's 55, a vastly reduced majority but one that the opposition alleges was still biased in the CPP's favour.
(10) LF Let's now hear from Gita Sen , professor at the Centre for Public Policy at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore .
(11) Sen did not give up that idea until later than some others.
(12) It's hard to quantify the worth to a school of staff with this level of knowledge, but it can save its SEN department thousands of pounds and numerous headaches.
(13) These data indicated a correlation between the ability of the SEN antibodies to bind fibronectin from a particular species and the ability of cells from that species to exhibit a stable senescent phenotype in vitro.
(14) Further analyzed was the postoperative course of patients after closure of a patent ductus arteriosus (19), correction of aortic coarctation (39), secundum atrial septal defect (26), ventricular septal defect (46), and complete atrio-ventricular canal (15), construction of a Blalock-Taussig-anastomosis (19) or a central aortopulmonary shunt (9), correction of Fallot's tetralogy or pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect (25), correction of simple complete transposition of the great arteries by the arterial switch-operation (25) or a Senning-procedure (27), and finally, after a Fontan-Operation (9).
(15) But in severe spinal cord trauma with reduction of central blood flow the adjacent spinothalamic and corticospinal tracts survive in couple on the basis of the same anastomotic vascular area: from this results the prognostical unity that belongs to pain sens and motricity.
(16) [EPO] was unchanged up to five hours after maximal (MEN) and submaximal (SEN) exercise under normoxia.
(17) Among academics Sen's reputation is almost unrivalled.
(18) We'll also hear from Lakshmi Puri , deputy executive director of UN Women, and Professor Gita Sen , from the Institute of Management in Bangalore, who writes extensively on women's issues.
(19) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, who has ruled his country for 30 years, will visit Australia in December.
(20) The data includes 1,210 suspensions and 20 permanent exclusions of children under five, where timely SEN intervention is seen as crucial and usually effective.