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Dorn


Definition:

  • (n.) A British ray; the thornback.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a 2013 Politifact interview , the author of the Urban Institute study, Stan Dorn, said: “It makes sense that as time goes by … health insurance coverage has greater impact on health outcomes.” The specific numbers might be hard to agree upon, and even harder to forecast if the Republican bill is passed.
  • (2) Dorn, G. (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, N.Y.), and W. Rivera.
  • (3) It is now perhaps more widely known as a backdrop for the kingdoms of Dorne and Meereen in Game of Thrones.
  • (4) Dorne, a part of the Seven Kingdoms, sends the second son of its ruling family to attend the upcoming Royal Wedding, as a calculated insult.
  • (5) The sedimentation potential or the Dorn effect occurs when heavy particles fall in a liquid.
  • (6) Previous studies in this laboratory have led to the identification of the 47-kDa cell binding protein of the AF, using the monoclonal antibody (mab) 5D2-D11 [Gramzow M, Bachmann M, Zahn RK, Uhlenbruck G, Dorn A, Müller WEG, J Cell Biol, 102: 1344-1349, 1986].
  • (7) A questionnaire was sent to diplomates of the American Board of Endodontics to determine changing trends in the treatment of endodontic emergencies since Dorn's survey 10 yr ago.
  • (8) In this paper the theory is used to interpret H. B. Dorn's data on the incidence of 21 kinds of cancer in both male and female Americans.
  • (9) This article describes a system of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting implemented at WJB Dorn Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina, which involves reviewing all inpatient charts by medical record technicians for possible ADRs and notifying the chief pharmacist for investigation.
  • (10) The oblique parasagittal diameter of the lumbar spinal canal at the L5-S1 level was measured in 49 employees of the Wm Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital using real time ultrasound in a case-control study.
  • (11) "Certainly the most destructive part of the Bush environmental legacy is not only his failure to act on global climate change, but his administration's covert attempt to silence the science alerting us to the urgency of the problem," said Jonathan Dorn of the Earth Policy Institute (EPA) in Washington.
  • (12) All spinach r-proteins that cross-reacted with antisera to chloroplast-synthesized r-proteins of C. reinhardtii are known to be made in the chloroplast (Dorne et al.
  • (13) In this article, we estimate accelerated time-to-failure and proportional-hazard functions with about 100,000 members of the Dorn sample, finding greater hazards associated with smoking and some dependence on occupational variables that measure risk and physical activity.
  • (14) A cohort of nearly 300,000 insured veterans (Dorn Cohort), experienced a much greater percent decline in CHD death rate over the period, 1954-1979, than the population of the U.S., while for stroke, the percent decline in death rate was virtually the same as the U.S. For CHD, greater percent declines were noted over the study period for non-smokers compared to cigarette smokers, for professionals compared to non-professionals and for persons with high socioeconomic scores (SES) compared to those with low scores.
  • (15) Use of the needle-catheter feeding jejunostomy at Richland Memorial Hospital and the Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital, both clinical teaching institutions of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, has been evaluated in 114 patients ranging from 20 to 90 years old.
  • (16) In a much-cited 2013 study , for example, economists David Autor of MIT and David Dorn of Spain’s CEMFI institute found that because computers could now be substituted for low-skill workers performing routine tasks (book-keeping, clerical work and repetitive production and monitoring activities) we were going to see a “hollowing-out” of middle-skilled, middle-wage jobs and “a corresponding rise in employment at both the high and low ends of the skills spectrum”.
  • (17) We analyzed the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey, a sample of 18,733 U.S. death certificates, and the 1954-1962 Dorn study, a follow-up study of approximately 250,000 holders of U.S. Veterans Life Insurance.
  • (18) Two german physicians, Andreas Röschlaub and Anton Dorn, were against this project; they realised the possible results to man's health.
  • (19) Hypotheses about the extent, persistence, and constancy for different causes of the healthy worker effect are evaluated using the data of the Dorn Study of Mortality Among US Veterans.
  • (20) As the Dorne prince menacingly says to Tyrion: "Tell your father I'm here!

Horn


Definition:

  • (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
  • (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
  • (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
  • (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
  • (n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
  • (n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
  • (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
  • (n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
  • (n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
  • (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
  • (n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
  • (n.) The Ionic volute.
  • (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
  • (n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
  • (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
  • (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
  • (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
  • (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
  • (n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
  • (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
  • (v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After calving, probably the position of new follicles is temporally influenced by direct signals from the uterine horns affected differently by pregnancy.
  • (2) Severity of leukoaraiosis around the frontal horns of the lateral ventricles correlated significantly with severity of leukoaraiosis of the centrum semiovale adjacent to the bodies of the lateral ventricles.
  • (3) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
  • (4) This study presents data supporting a selective antinociceptive role for DA at the spinal level, where it has a widespread antinociceptive influence, on cells in both the superficial and deeper dorsal horn.
  • (5) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
  • (6) In 25 rabbits, endometrium from the right uterine horn was transplanted onto the peritoneum (Experimental group = Group E).
  • (7) Differential pulse voltammetry used in combination with an electrochemically treated carbon fiber electrode allowed the detection of 5-hydroxyindoles (5-HI) in the dorsal horn of the urethane-anesthetized rat.
  • (8) Uterine blood flow to both uterine horns was measured by microsphere and by tritiated water steady-state diffusion methodology.
  • (9) But Hey Diddly Dee, in Sky Arts' latest Playhouse Presents season, could only manage 71,000 viewers, despite the combined star power of Kylie Minogue, David Harewood, Peter Serafinowicz and Mathew Horne.
  • (10) A few with low endometrial receptor levels had normal livers but at least one sterile uterine horn.
  • (11) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
  • (12) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
  • (13) Subpopulations of DRG neurones that subserve distinct sensory modalities project to discrete regions in the dorsal horn.
  • (14) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
  • (15) In ventral horn motoneurons and neurons of nucleus dorso-medialis (C1) pronounced staining was found after a total dosage of 1200 micrograms HgCl2.
  • (16) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
  • (17) Postmortem examination showed axonal pathology of the anterior horns and roots of the spinal cord, and white matter hypoplasia of the brain.
  • (18) Histochemically the lowered activity of enzymes was localized mainly in the neuropil of: striatum, the Broc's nuclei and rhinencephalon: in the nervous cells of: Ammon's horn, nuclei of thalamus and in neocortex.
  • (19) Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) has been identified recently in fibers and cell bodies in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, but its function in the dorsal horn is not known.
  • (20) With immunocytochemical techniques, SP immunoreactivity (SP-I) and CGRP-I were localized in myometrial nerves throughout the uterine horns, with nerves immunoreactive for CGRP being the more numerous.

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