(n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
(v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.
Example Sentences:
(1) Demonstration of low levels of Pit-1 expression in Ames dwarf (df) mice implies that both Pit-1 and df expression may be required for pituitary differentiation.
(2) ELISA, cDNA dot blot hybridization and transmission by vector aphids were used to investigate the occurrence and degree of cross-protection produced in oat plants by virus isolates representing five strains or serotypes of barley yellow dwarf virus, namely PAV, MAV, SGV, RPV and RMV.
(3) Mortality was less in the N-XL as compared to DB, but NB hens showed 11.7% more mortality than dwarfs.
(4) Examination of pituitary structure indicated that dwarfs had very small pituitaries, with an immature pattern of somatotrope distribution, and giants had very large pituitaries, with some hypertrophy of somatotropes.
(5) The defect in thyroid function in the dwarf bird apparently was not at the level of synthesis but at the level of uptake of iodine.
(6) This unique physiological situation was created by crossing IGF-I Tg mice to GH-deficient, dwarf mice in whom somatotrophs were genetically ablated by the expression of a diphtheria toxin transgene in the somatotrophs.
(7) The above results suggest that hormone deficiency in Snell dwarf mice is a result of a defect in the hormone-producing cells in the gland.
(8) Mutant mice are dysmorphic, dwarfed, and have a shortened life span.
(9) Experiments for uptaking and distribution of the culm stabiliser "camposan" with the agens ethephon are very important to tell something about the dwarf behaviour of the treated plants of rye.
(10) The transplacental activity of N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) was tested in rats, rabbits, Syrian golden hamsters, Dzungarian dwarf hamsters, guinea pigs, dogs, and rhesus monkeys.
(11) The primary structure of rice dwarf phytoreovirus (RDV) genome segment S3 was determined.
(12) West African Dwarf sheep were challenged with a low mouse brain-passaged Rift Valley fever virus (Ib-AR 55172) isolated from Nigeria.
(13) The osteochondrodysplasia rat, inherited by a single autosomal recessive lethal gene ocd, shows a typical dwarfing syndrome with systemic subcutaneous edema.
(14) A proportion of 73% CL and CLA in the overall ovarian changes after treatment with 750 IE PMSG (2 days before removal of the sponge) and 125 micrograms PGF2 alpha (at the time of the sponge removal) proved an acceptable method of treating African dwarf goats as regards the requirement of labour and material as well as the superovulation effect.
(15) But that would be dwarfed by the costs of actually leaving the EU.
(16) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(17) The presence of growth lines in the distal radius was evaluated prior to treatment in 23 psychosocial dwarfs and 25 patients with idiopathic hypopituitarism.
(18) Hymenolepis nana (von Siebold, 1852), the dwarf tapeworm causing hymenolepiasis, has been reported to be the common intestinal cestode of rodents and man throughout the world.
(19) Ectopic pituitary transplants produced the expected increase in plasma prolactin levels in male and female dwarf mice as compared to sham-operated dwarf or untreated normal mice.
(20) A marked increase in the number of lymphoid cells in dwarf mice was observed by treatment with thyroxin, even if treatment was started either at 7 days or 3 months of age.
Goblin
Definition:
(n.) An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.
Example Sentences:
(1) With armed gunmen surrounding the regional parliament, Crimea, heretofore a part of Ukraine with slightly more independence than other regions, voted in a new government of pro-Russian figures (including a man nicknamed 'Goblin') and decided to hold a referendum on Crimea's future.
(2) Filled with wood nymphs, spirits, goblins and sprites, long before Christian missionaries waded ashore, our forests reigned supreme.
(3) Rogue: Beyond The Shadows (Free) And some more dungeon-crawling in this polished action-RPG, with more goblins and golems than you can shake a (magical) stick at.
(4) Aksyonov, reputedly known as "Goblin" in Ukrainian crime circles, was officially named acting governor of Crimea.
(5) Seizure of Crimea's parliament and the referendum • Out with the old, in with the new: After gunmen seized the Crimean parliament on 27 February, it quickly began ousting government chiefs and installing new ones including a new regional prime minister, Sergei Aksyonov, whose alleged ties to Ukraine's criminal underworld have bestowed him the moniker " the Goblin ".
(6) Observations were made on 12 Columbian families who were haunted by 'el duende' (a special kind of imp, goblin, or poltergeist) and other spirits.
(7) With this method, it has been demonstrated that goblin is located in the plasma membrane.
(8) While OA markedly increased overall phosphorylation of many erythrocyte membrane proteins, including goblin, it did not affect goblin phosphorylation at specific cAMP-dependent sites.
(9) Useful” is Roberts’ favourite adjective to describe the site, and in the course of our conversation at the company’s bright north London office (where the most obvious decoration is a giant poster of fairytale goblin Rumpelstiltskin spinning flax into gold), she uses it several times.
(10) While Foxx was front and centre in that leaked Comic Con trailer from July , there has been a sense ever since that the villain in the piece might really be Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin of the Marvel comics.
(11) He also wrote five songs for Jim Henson’s fantasy film Labyrinth, as well as taking the role of Jareth the Goblin King.
(12) The data are compatible with a possible role for goblin in the hormonal control of ion movements across the plasma membrane.
(13) Goblin Valley boasts a campground with hot showers, a rarity in this dry desert state.
(14) He also unveiled a number of other castings, including Australian comic Barry Humphries as the goblin king and Evangeline Lilly from TV series Lost as an Elf named Tauriel.
(15) But should he throw in a couple of gratuitous love-interest types to distract from the incessant dwarf-goblin-elf-human-warg ultraviolence?
(16) Adult chicken skeletal muscle cells express polypeptides that are antigenically related to alpha-spectrin (Mr 240,000) and beta-spectrin (Mr 220,000-225,000), the major components of the erythrocyte membrane-skeleton, and to ankyrin (Mr 237,000; also termed goblin in chicken erythrocytes), which binds spectrin to the transmembrane anion transporter in erythrocytes.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest David O Russell on Joy: ‘If you’re going to live a fairytale you’ve got to go through the goblins’ – video interview Joy review: Jennifer Lawrence cleans up in amiably messy mop biopic Read more It was a strong weekend for the film industry all round in North America.
(18) The offending video clearly states that Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn, a character who in the comics and previous big screen versions has doubled as villain The Green Goblin, has died as the film's events unfold.
(19) Goblin phosphorylation at these sites was increased by norepinephrine and cpt-cAMP and rapidly reversed by K-252a and H-9, confirming that both inhibitors do block cAMP-PK activity.
(20) Crimea map Many express irritation with Aksyonov, who is rumoured to have past links to criminal groups – which he has denied – and who apparently went by the nickname “the goblin” in the 1990s.