(1) The ratio of ELV values for BSP and dBSP appeared to be related to overall hepatic function, with ratios greater than 1 in the normal dogs and less than 1 in the patients.
(2) In the present study, we have determined whether or not left adrenal products are important to the changes induced by ELV and whether or not reflux of left renal vein content occurs in the ELV rat.
(3) Additionally, when 85Sr-labelled microspheres were infused into the left renal vein, they did not appear in either left or right testes of ELV animals.
(4) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(5) Maximally (ED100) and half-maximally (ED50) stimulating doses of LH and LHRH were selected from these studies and administered to sham-operated and ELV rats 30 days after the operation to induce ELV.
(6) The amino acid sequences of the VPs of ELV and four other tymoviruses align unequivocally and their relationships, as assessed from the percentage of identical residues, correlate well with previously reported serological tests which have shown ELV to be distant from other tymoviruses.
(7) On the other hand the equivalent liver volume (ELV) and storage capacity were lower with dBSP.
(8) The Scandinavian obsession with elves and fairy folk at Christmas has become entrenched, with elf training schools and forest grottoes springing up in every patch of woodland.
(9) The examinations consisted of clinical and laboratory assessment, resting ECG, 24-hour ECG monitoring, X-ray evaluation of cardiac volume (CV), and evaluation of echocardiographic left ventricular shortening (ELVS) and of isotopic ejection fraction (EF).
(10) The Lapland New Forest attraction drew criticism back in 2008, with its brawling elves, sad-looking animals and muddy grotto.
(11) We love our elves.” We’d said we’d quite like to try cross-country skiing so Björn simply pulls up by the side of the road, straps us into our skis and we set off.
(12) It is possible that the previously determined ELV-associated decrease in intratesticular testosterone concentrations is subsequent to a wash-out phenomenon that follows the increased testicular blood flow that also is known to be associated with ELV.
(13) These values were similar for right control testicles and left and right testicles of ELV animals.
(14) The nucleotide sequence of the genome of erysimum latent tymovirus (ELV) has been determined.
(15) ELV was transmissible by Aphis frangulae gossypii, Brevicoryne brassicae, and Myzus persicae neither in short nor in long feeding times.
(16) Although its pressure dependence has been recognized, its temporal relationship to ventricular elastance (Elv(t)) has not been established.
(17) Elv(t) was derived using an elastance-resistance model of the left ventricle assuming an ejection fraction of 0.50 and a dead volume (Vd) of 3.0 mL.
(18) In the first study, testicular blood flow and temperature were studied in control animals and those with ELV, left adrenalectomy (LAX), or ELV + LAX.
(19) The results demonstrate that ELV does not alter the blood-testis barrier (BTB) to 3H-inulin (MW 5000), it being largely excluded from entry into the tubule lumen in both control and ELV animals.
(20) Back in the 90s, a group of conservative lawyers called “the elves” secretly worked to keep the Paula Jones case alive.
Gnome
Definition:
(n.) A brief reflection or maxim.
(n.) An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.
(n.) A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
(n.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(2) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(3) But six letters – as immortalised in David Bowie’s best-forgotten 1960s hit The Laughing Gnome – was also common, with those really, really amused expressing ‘hahaha’ and ‘hehehe’.
(4) For this tale of a young waitress with an insouciant approach to haircuts, garden gnomes, and life, Craig Lucas supplies the book, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tyse the music and lyrics.
(5) It was preceded by the novelty single The Laughing Gnome , a flop at the time but a top 10 hit when reissued in 1973.
(6) But a spokeswoman for the RHS said the gnomes were safe and well-guarded in their offices.
(7) Poundland sold more than 6m boxes of Maltesers, 2m umbrellas, more than 2.5m CDs and 500,000 garden gnomes during the past year.
(8) A semisterile F1 male mouse from an X-ray experiment produced about 25 percent lethal gnome young in outcrosses.
(9) Wilf, possibly the first garden gnome in 100 years to legitimately show his face at Chelsea, looked as if he wanted to hide in a massive display of delphiniums, but Robinson was having none of it, thrusting him into the bright light and sweet smells of the main marquee.
(10) The gnomes of the ratings agencies have had a dire crisis.
(11) By scanning EM (SEM), gnome's hat-shaped organisms with beaded borders correspond to the crescent-shaped cysts noted by TEM.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie during the Laughing Gnome period in 1968.
(13) Elton John has reportedly garnished his with glitter and given him sunglasses, but those of Dolly Parton, Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, Rob Brydon and others will not be seen until the royal family and the garden grandees who have so long opposed the gnomes' introduction have had a look on Monday.
(14) Meanwhile financial speculators, back then called the Gnomes of Zurich, were making large profits at Britain’s expense.
(15) With almost no bylines in the magazine besides the likes of Lord Gnome, Glenda Slagg, Dr B Ching, Remote Controller and Lunchtime O'Boulez, Hislop seems content to be its public face, as was shown when he led the charge in fighting Andrew Marr's injunction in April – a point of principle which cost Private Eye six-figure legal bills and produced only a few paragraphs of copy.
(16) The typical stigmata are a "gnome" facies with a saddle nose, broad mouth, large and low-set ears, hirsutism, cutis laxa with atrophy of adipose tissue, dwarfism, extreme wasting, and dysphagia requiring parenteral feeding.
(17) Next week, the RHS will unveil over 100 gnomes, painted for charity by celebrities.
(18) And rude-sounding phrases abounded: "There'll be finger bogling and massed goat pandering at the Royal Nobblers Institute all next week"; "An exhibition of gnome clenching in the corset department of Sparkslaw and Towser".
(19) If it is red, white and blue it is flying off the shelves, according to several retailers, with sales of 30,000 official jubilee tea towels, 3,000 B&Q royal garden gnomes and 1,500 miles of Tesco bunting.
(20) On Friday, neither the Garden Gnome Liberation Front , nor the supposedly less militant Garden Gnome Emancipation Movement – which take gnomes from gardens to "free them" from "enslavement" in flower beds, lawns, gardens and centres – could be contacted.