(n.) A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 9 severe head injuries whose respiration was controlled by a ventilator, continuous measurements of energy expenditure (MEE) were carried out by the ERICA Metabolic Computer.
(2) The RSC’s Erica Whyman stages a story inspired by a local man, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment’s Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, who was known as the cartoonist of the trenches and survived the war to work at the original Shakespeare Memorial theatre.
(3) Ninety-four specimens were studied by ERA and ERICA; in eight patients in whom tissue was insufficient for ERA, ERICA alone was performed.
(4) In a further 6 of 10 (60%) cases the cyto-ERICA result obtained from recurrent samples qualitatively agreed with that determined by DCC on a previous recurrent lesion.
(5) In order to evaluate the validity of the immunohistochemical (ERICA) method in a routine detection of ER, we have tested the method in a multicenter investigation.
(6) A comparison of staining of aspirates was also made against frozen tissue sections stained with the monoclonal antibody (tissue-ERICA).
(7) Colloid carcinomas were most likely to be ERICA positive and PgRICA positive whereas medullary carcinomas were most often negative.
(8) We found an overall agreement of 80% between the two methods characterized by a high sensitivity (95%) and a low specificity of ERICA versus DCC.
(9) Various modifications to IGSS showed that an immunogold streptavidin enhancement method (IG-SAM) produced sensitivity and specificity equal to that of ERICA.
(10) The ERICA-assay may, therefore, be a relevant alternative to the DCC-assay.
(11) "Receptogram Analysis" has been developed as a pattern-oriented approach for predicting endocrine response in breast cancer based upon quantification of the estrogen receptor immunocytochemical assay (ERICA), using a Quantimet Imaging System.
(12) Data from official mortality records are supported by information on incidence, mortality and risk factor distribution derived from population studies like the Seven Countries Study, the Erica and the Monica Project.
(13) This technique has been evaluated by comparison with conventional immunohistochemistry on frozen sections for 100 surgical biopsy specimens of breast carcinoma Erica (C) Prica (C); in 77 of these cases it was compared with enzyme immunoassay analyses (ER-EIA, PR-EIA).
(14) The use of monoclonal antibody ERICA is known as a method of detecting the estrogen receptor in the immuno-histological chemistry method.
(15) Estrogen receptor (ER) status is an accepted prognostic indicator for breast cancer when measured by either the biochemical or immunohistochemical (ERICA) methods.
(16) The semiquantitative degree of ERICA positivity correlated with the concentration of estrogen receptor by DCC.
(17) The authors evaluated the ability of a monoclonal antibody immunoperoxidase procedure (ERICA [Estrogen Receptor Immunocytochemical Assay], information from Regulatory Affairs Department, Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) to detect estrogen receptor in aspiration biopsy cytology (ABC) specimens from breast cancer routinely taken by fine-needle aspiration during office diagnostic evaluation.
(18) Join The Counted community on Facebook and follow @thecounted on Twitter Erica Garner-Snipes, daughter of Eric Garner Giving this kind of data to the public is a big thing.
(19) When Erica Garner-Snipes got the phone call last July telling her that her father had died, she was on a train from Queens to Staten Island.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Erica Sagrans, Ready For Warren’s founder and campaign manager.
Heather
Definition:
(n.) Heath.
Example Sentences:
(1) Heather De Mian, who has live-streamed the months of protests after Brown’s death, was among seven people detained by officers outside the Ferguson police department, according to observers.
(2) Heather Titley said she saw Cameron grab the collar of Noye's shirt and scuffle with him at the Swanley interchange of the M25.
(3) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(4) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.
(6) However, as Heather Wildsmith of the National Autistic Society says: “There’s definitely momentum.
(7) 1.20pm BST My colleague Heather Stewart writes: Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, has delivered an emergency quarter-point cut in interest rates in a bid to kickstart the recession-hit eurozone economy.
(8) The long days here – Scotland has four hours more daylight than London during summer – are driest and sunniest in May and June, although July is the warmest and August is the time to catch the purple of the Highland heather.
(9) Top of the list of concerns will be the FA investigation into the independent board’s Heather Rabbatts , the chair of the IAB, which was launched after a complaint from two FA councillors about her criticism of the FA’s handling of the Carneiro case.
(10) Heather Sohl, WWF-UK's chief species adviser, said of the latest figures: "The scale of poaching we are now seeing is extremely worrying.
(11) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
(12) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
(13) The chair of the FA’s inclusion advisory board, Heather Rabbatts, has expressed her “sadness and anger” at news of Carneiro’s departure.
(14) Heather Abbott, an amputee, said that she did not care about Tsarnaev’s fate.
(15) There are oceans between us and Isis,” former White House official Heather Hurlburt told the Guardian.
(16) More than a decade later when Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies was published in the US a similar outcry followed, and the book was banned from libraries in many states.
(17) Taking a break from perusing storyboards that variously show Fellaini challenging the Saracens No8 Ernst Joubert as he leaps for a lineout and Humphrey avoiding tennis balls fired at him by Heather Watson, Garicoche adds: "Our style is going to be different.
(18) Observer economics editor Heather Stewart explains: When the US Federal Reserve starts to phase out its $85bn-a-month quantitative easing programme it could spark a rapid rise in global interest rates and “fire sales” of assets across the world’s financial markets, according to the International Monetary Fund.
(19) The jury was told that the News of the World had hacked phones to obtain a story about Paul McCartney having a row with his then wife Heather Mills and throwing their engagement ring out of a hotel window: the prosecution failed to take account of evidence in the possession of the police which indicated the paper had bought the story from someone who worked in the hotel.
(20) Heather Sidery Clarke, from Hastings, said: "Apart from being such unnecessary and primitively barbaric behaviour, genital mutilation is, in this day, a violent crime.