(v. t.) To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.
Example Sentences:
(1) This program brings the most up-to-date therapy for the treatment of many cancers to the USAF and DOD and provides the avenues for further advances in cancer therapy in the decades to come.
(2) At no time did Hancock seek federal funding for this work “Prof Hancock did submit a research grant proposal to the DoD’s Minerva program in 2008 to study language use in support of US efforts to engage social scientists on national security issues, but that proposal was not funded,” explained Carberry.
(3) In Tripoli, the DoD had persuaded the Libyans to fly their C-130 to Benghazi.
(4) Therefore, ER personnel should be attentive to the sex, age, and race of their patients in order to gain a degree of predictability as to when the greatest number of patients might present themselves at the ER for treatment of their DOD.
(5) Ashcroft's investments have included backing Kelvin Mackenzie's online TV channel Sports Tonight, the ConservativeHome website, Priory Clinic and Digital Marketing Group, the advertising and marketing services group, and Dods, the political intelligence firm.
(6) Then came the signing of that deal with Qatar with DoD [Department of Defense].
(7) Follow-up of these patients showed four dead of disease (DOD) at one, three, three, and seven years; one alive with disease (AWD) at one year; and two with no evidence of disease (NED) at four and five years.
(8) The parameters of sex, surgical intervention, the malignancy and the histological type of the tumor apparently dod not affect thrombus formation to a statistically significant degree.
(9) One such mandated responsibility in Public Laws 91-121 and 91-441 directs the Department of Health and Human Services or its designee to review the Department of Defense (DOD) plans to dispose of or to transport chemical warfare agents.
(10) It is the policy of the Department of Defense (DOD) that, in both peace and war, the movement of patients of the Armed Forces shall be accomplished by airlift when airlift is available and conditions are suitable for aeromedical evacuation, unless medically contraindicated.
(11) In August 1987, 10 cases had died of disease (DOD) and 27 cases were alive, but 4 cases were alive with disease (AWD).
(12) And I know, I know: it sounds like paranoia – until you discover that Darpa, the research arm of the US department of defence (DoD), has launched a massive research project into compromised hardware.
(13) Most of the folks I have talked to at the three agencies – DoD (Department of Defense), state and White House – claim they have little or no interaction with these teams to date,” Julianne Smith, a former deputy national security adviser to Vice-president Joe Biden, said.
(14) Among its key conclusions, the report said: • The DOD and the VA should do more to assess the efficacy and adequacy of treatment, especially if it is to be offered nationally.
(15) Seven of 17 (41%) unfavorable patients had local recurrences, two are alive with cancer, three patients are dead of disease (DOD), and five had significant complication, but there was no evidence of recurrent cancer.
(16) Awareness of the temporal effects on DOD admissions can thus improve the quality of ER treatment for DOD patients.
(17) On the day of admission (DOA), 69% of VAS were done by the patient and 28% by the nurse as compared to 8% by the patient and 90% by the nurse on DOD.
(18) Other US universities including Washington and Maryland are involved in studies directly funded and commissioned by Minerva and the DoD, while the US military also has its own in-house research institutions conducting further studies and projects.
(19) Since 11 July 2013, IRTF-2 has led a coordinated DoD effort to discover, triage, and assess the impact of non-NSA Defense material from NSA holdings of compromised data,” according to the DIA report.
(20) Veterinarians should counsel clients on the possible or probable consequences of level of feeding on growth rate and clinical expression of DOD.
Sheep
Definition:
(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
(n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow.
(n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(3) The mechanism by which pertussis toxin (PT) breaks the unresponsiveness of delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to sheep red blood cells (SRBC) was examined in B10 mice.
(4) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(5) Base-line HPV was determined by measuring the change in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) while sheep breathed 12% O2 for 7 min.
(6) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
(7) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(8) The plasma, urine, and tissue sulfathiazole concentrations were determined at various times following intravenous administration to 12 sheep.
(9) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
(10) It is suggested that contractile responses to electrical stimulation in isolated sheep urethral smooth muscle are mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, mainly through release of noradrenaline stimulating postjunctional alpha 1-adrenoceptors.
(11) 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.
(12) We measured the steady-state volumes of distribution for radioactive chloride, sucrose, and albumin in the lung of six anesthetized, spen-thorax sheep.
(13) Haematological and blood biochemical changes in the sheep, as well as fecundity of gastrointestinal nematodes, suggested the hosts were immunosuppressed.
(14) Periods of spontaneously occurring hypoxia have been observed in fetal sheep.
(15) The efficacy of other anthelmintics which have been used against paramphistomes in sheep is reviewed.
(16) A minimum of 4 sheeps' heads, obtained weekly over 24 months from the Pretoria Municipal Abattoir, was examined for infestation.
(17) The intravenous administration of ovine placental lactogen to pregnant and non-pregnant sheep produced significant acute decreases in plasma free fatty acid, glucose and amino nitrogen concentrations.
(18) In this ewe, and in 4 of 7 other sheep diagnosed as having abomasal emptying defects, aspartate transaminase and sorbitol dehydrogenase activities were high, and histopathologic evidence of hepatic congestion and ischemia was found.
(19) Also, Gs failed to hemolyze sheep erythrocytes when there was hemolysis by virions or an amino-terminal peptide of the VSV glycoprotein.
(20) It contained approximately 1% HP+cells and approximately 3% of all lymphocytes forming rosettes which sheep erythrocytes (E+ cells) present before fractionation.