(n.) A division of a poem corresponding to a canto; a poem or song.
Example Sentences:
(1) Duane's retraction syndrome is a congenital eye movement disorder characterized by a deficiency of abduction, mild limitation of adduction, with retraction and narrowing of the palpebral fissure on attempted adduction.
(2) It is customary to describe abnormal interactions between accommodation and convergence according to the Duane-White classification of convergence excess and insufficiency or divergence excess and insufficiency.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘These guys are just normal everyday people,’ says supporter Duane Ehmer who rides his horse Hellboy.
(4) 3 October (US) Bypass A still from Duane Hopkins's second film, Bypass.
(5) Incomitance patterns were studied in 13 cases of Duane's syndrome.
(6) Detailed data are presented concerning the relative amounts of Hb A and two alpha chain variants (Hb Duan with alpha 75 Asp----Ala, and Hb Westmead with alpha 122 His----Gln), and the occurrence of an alpha-thalassemia-2 heterozygosity in five members of a small Chinese family.
(7) It must be distinguished from Duane's retraction syndrome, Moebius syndrome, nystagmus blockage syndrome, and early onset accommodative esotropia, as well as other causes of esotropia in infancy.
(8) The patients were classified based on the Duane classification as having either convergence excess (n = 11) or equal esodeviations (n = 43).
(9) Horizontal ocular saccadic velocities were measured by electro-oculography in 33 patients with Duane's syndrome.
(10) Photograph: Courtesy of AFL-CIO Among the protesters is Duane Calloway, 53, a forklift driver at a Huhtamaki plant in Commerce, California.
(11) The insulin syringe method proved less accurate and more complex than Duane's protocol, but was better than not using a standardized protocol at all.
(12) Local guide Duane runs tours of the Lecale peninsula , where St John’s Point is, and thanks to his knowledge, I find out how rich the area is in historical sites.
(13) This vertical retraction syndrome mimics Duane's syndrome and benefits from recession of the taut vertical recti.
(14) Because Duane's syndrome and oculocutaneous albinism are both examples of ocular miswiring, a common mechanism is suggested.
(15) A 33-year-old man had Duane's retraction syndrome, microphthalmos, mixed hearing loss, short fingers and toes, and horseshoe kidneys on both sides and a right epibulbar lipodermoid.
(16) The clinical findings for 29 patients with Duane's retraction syndrome (DRS) are reported.
(17) To determine the incidence and relative frequencies of orientations of compensatory head postures (CHP) and success in surgically treating the CHP seen in patients with pure lateral rectus paresis (group I), superior oblique paresis (group II), Duane syndrome (group III), Brown syndrome (group IV), and congenital motor nystagmus (group V).
(18) Another street seller, Duane Jackson, said he too had been suspicious of the car.
(19) We present a discussion of Duane syndrome and its association with other congenital anomalies.
(20) Innervational deficiencies include lateral rectus weakness or paralysis, myasthenia gravis, progressive external ophthalmoplegia nd Duane's syndrome with aberrant innervation to the lateral rectus muscle.
Dun
Definition:
(n.) A mound or small hill.
(v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
(v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
(n.) One who duns; a dunner.
(n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
(a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate that the muscarinic receptor in Dunning H tumors is of M3 type.
(2) In order to assess prostatic tissue as a target for receptor-mediated estrogen action, we have examined the regulation of estrogen (ER) and progestin receptors (PgR) by estrogen, antiestrogen, and progesterone in cytosolic and nuclear fractions of the R3327H (Dunning) prostatic adenocarcinoma of the rat.
(3) Transferrin-mRNA, expressed in the male urogenital tract and also in the liver and other tissues, was detected in the mammary gland and Dunning tumor, but not in the dorsolateral prostate.
(4) The Dunning R3327 prostate adenocarcinoma of the Copenhagen rat was developed as a suitable model of human prostate cancer.
(5) A number of chemotherapeutic agents, including L-asparaginase, actinomycin D, chloroethylcyclohexy-nitrosourea, 5-flourouracil, cyclophosphamide, hydroxyurea, cis-platinum, adriamycin and methotrexate, alone and in combination and at variable dose levels, were applied against the Dunning R3327 rat prostatic adenocarcinoma-subline G. We found a continuing parallel between responses of the human and rat tumors and conclude that the usefulness of this animal model as a screening system for agents against the human tumor is further supported.
(6) The R3327H-G8-A1 cell line derived from the Dunning rat prostate adenocarcinoma contains both androgen and glucocorticoid receptors.
(7) Rats bearing Dunning mammary tumors (DMBA 5A) of more than 2 g absorbed 70-100% more of an intragastric copper dose than controls, and a much larger percentage was found in the plasma, with less in liver and kidney.
(8) The Dunning R-3327-H is a well-differentiated transplantable rat prostatic adenocarcinoma that contains both hormone-sensitive and -insensitive cells.
(9) The complete DNA sequence of human papovavirus BKV(Dun), consisting of 5153 nucleotide pairs, is presented.
(10) The proliferation of primary and serially-cultured epithelial cells from androgen-responsive Dunning R3327 rat prostate tumors was also androgen-independent, but exhibited dramatic alterations in response to hormones that stimulated normal cell proliferation.
(11) In our experimental systems, in vivo, pentosan inhibits the growth of the highly metastatic MAT-LyLu (MLL) Dunning R3327 prostate cancer cell line only at toxic doses and has no apparent effect on growth in vitro.
(12) These results indicate that most actin exists in a depolymerized form as a cytosol protein of 41,000 daltons in the Dunning tumor and is composed of at least four isomers.
(13) Dunning hepatoma ribosomes were resistant to 4 mM EDTA.
(14) The growth of a transplantable rat prostatic carcinoma (Dunning R3327H) was studied after castration, testosterone substitution or testosterone substitution in combination with oestradiol treatment.
(15) Table: Countrywide Nick Dunning, group commercial director at Countrywide, said: "2013 saw the focus of demand shift sharply northwards after several years of more stable levels of supply and demand.
(16) The effects of two inhibitors of ornithine decarboxylase activity, alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DMFO) and (2R,5R) 6-heptyne-2,5 diamine (HDA), and an inhibitor of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase, methylglyoxal bis-guanylhydrazone (MGBG), were tested on casein kinase activity and endogenous phosphorylation in the cytosol fractions of mouse thyroid and a rat prostate tumor model, Dunning R 3327 MAT LyLu subline.
(17) Using the Dunning R-3327 rat prostate animal tumor model we have previously shown that an increase in cell surface charge, as measured by individual cell electrophoresis, is associated with an increase in metastatic ability.
(18) She had learned by then not to back off from unpleasant facts - such as that, in her view, she was fat and ugly, something that her not very clever family had dunned into her.
(19) Cytogenetic analysis of the two least progressionally advanced Dunning cancers (i.e., histologically well-differentiated, slow-growing, nonmetastatic variants) demonstrated no structural or numerical chromosomal aberration, suggesting that the initial development of prostatic cancer may not require detectable cytogenetic changes.
(20) In a preliminary study, the effect of transfer factor (TF), one form of passive immunotherapy, on tumor-associated immunity (TAI) and tumour growth and histology of the G subline (a poorly differentiated, fast-growing, androgen sensitive, and poorly metastatic tumour of the Dunning R-3327 rat PCa) has been evaluated.