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Dowl


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Dowle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
  • (2) However, it later transpired that she had done a reading for Dowling two years earlier.
  • (3) Previously we demonstrated that transgenic mice expressing a mutant keratin in the basal layer of their stratified squamous epithelia exhibited a phenotype bearing resemblance to a subclass (Dowling Meara) of a heterogeneous group of human skin disorders known as epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS) (Vassar, R., P. A. Coulombe, L. Degenstein, K. Albers, E. Fuchs.
  • (4) However Dowling-Degos' disease is considered to be a nonparaneoplasic genodermatoses, this association should be taken into account.
  • (5) Davina McCall is being replaced by Brian Dowling, the series two winner turned TV presenter and the contestant voted Big Brother's best in a number of polls.
  • (6) It seems likely that Dowling-Degos disease, and Kitamura's reticulate acropigmentation are different clinical expressions of the same entity.
  • (7) Host John Oliver made fun of Tony Abbott, Jaymes Diaz and Stephanie Banister, but my favourite bit was about Peter Dowling’s sexting scandal : You do not pair a penis with red wine.
  • (8) We present 2 cases of Dowling-Degos disease out of a German family with 9 affected members and discuss the autosomally dominant inheritance and clinical features of this disease.
  • (9) On account of distinctive features - such as the consanguinity of the parents, cataracts, leukoplakia, bullas, and verrucous keratoses - we can distinguish between 5 biotypes of congenital poikiloderma, which are named after their first observers: Rothmund's, Thomson's, Zinsser's, Brain's and Dowling's syndrome.
  • (10) Reticular pigmented anomaly of the flexures (Dowling-Degos' anomaly) is a rare, benign, new genodermatosis that has recently evolved from independent observations and studies by several dermatologists.
  • (11) Also, from the early days, Ron Dowling, Brian Rourke and Cliff Poulton, and two no longer with us — Geoff Greenfield and Walter Rixon.
  • (12) Michael Dowling, a Denver-based attorney who acted as Zazi's defence counsel, said the full picture remained unclear as Zazi pleaded guilty before all details of the investigation were made public.
  • (13) The 20 cases in which the cyst was removed unbroken with Dowling's technique are alive and only two have sequelae of the preoperative lesion (blind).
  • (14) We now demonstrate that two patients with spontaneous cases of Dowling-Meara EBS have point mutations in a critical region in one (K14) of two basal keratin genes.
  • (15) He refers me to Tim Dowling's column in this magazine.
  • (16) The distribution and morphology of tonofilament (TF) clumps were examined by light and electron microscopy in skin samples from a total of 17 patients with the Dowling-Meara (DM) form of epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS).
  • (17) And in a unique combo, the Guardian asked columnist Tim Dowling and body language expert Peter Collett to offer their reflections on the photo showing the new cabinet at their first meeting.
  • (18) There’s no obvious indication it’s been in the water a long time and so on.” James Record, a professor of Aviation at Dowling College and former commercial airline pilot, said the long wait to find a part of the plane was not surprising.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Dowling and his beard.
  • (20) Andrew Dowling, partnership director for Gedling Sports Partnership at the Carlton Academy in Nottingham.

Owl


Definition:

  • (n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.
  • (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.
  • (v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.
  • (v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Owls were more hypnotizable than larks in the morning, and larks were also significantly more hypnotizable in the evening than owls.
  • (2) In owl monkeys, elevation of intracranial pressure to 500 mm.
  • (3) Inadequate availability of hematological reference data seriously restricts optimal utilization of the owl monkey (Aotus lemurinus griseimembra) as an experimental model.
  • (4) In 2000 the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm showed an owl in a tree calling "Whom" and a raccoon on the ground replying "Show-off!"
  • (5) The sulfinyl- and sulfonylquinazolines also retained antimalarial effects against chloroquine-, cycloguanil-, and DDS-resistant lines of P. berghei in mice and against chloroquine- and pyrimethamine-resistant strains of P. falciparum in owl monkeys.
  • (6) Matched, binocular displacing prisms were mounted over the eyes of 19 barn owls (Tyto alba) beginning at ages ranging from 10 to 272 d. In nearly all cases, the visual field was shifted 23 degrees to the right.
  • (7) Results described in this report identify a region of the viral genome that is required for oncogenicity in owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus); this region is not required for replication of the virus.
  • (8) A highly organized myoelectric event in the fasting avian small intestine, the ROC is demonstrated in detail in chickens (Gallus); it is also found in other gallinaceous birds but not in owls (Strix) or mammals.
  • (9) WR-158,122 and WR-159,412, against Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax infections in owl monkeys, were seriously impaired when infecting strains were pyrimethamine-resistant; and 2) that primary treatment failure with either agent led frequently to emergence of parasites resistant to these derivatives.
  • (10) The owl processes time and intensity components of the auditory signal in separate pathways, and each pathway has a distinctive pattern of GAD- and GABA-like immunoreactivity.
  • (11) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
  • (12) Connections between the primary motor cortex (MI) and the corpus striatum were studied in the owl monkey.
  • (13) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
  • (14) Thus I wound up on 13 February calling a London taxidermy shop and asking if they had any owls.
  • (15) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
  • (16) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
  • (17) Recordings from conscious owls plus simultaneous radiographic observations revealed characteristic gastrointestinal motility patterns associated with egestion.
  • (18) Look and listen out for Little owls hunting voles and mice and badgers crossing over the summit from a set on the hillside below.
  • (19) The fitting procedure showed that the shape of the owls' binaural temporal window could be described by the same algorithms as the human monaural temporal window.
  • (20) In squirrel and owl monkeys, extensive reciprocal connections were made with cortex throughout the caudal half of the lateral fissure and, to a much lesser extent, cortex around the superior temporal sulcus.

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