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Falk


Definition:

  • (n.) The razorbill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The application of the transformation technique of Stork and Falk [J. Opt.
  • (2) Adopting the voice of ageing jazz player Sid Griffiths, Edugyan narrates the terrible tale of Hiero Falk, the Afro-German trumpeter arrested by the Gestapo in occupied Paris.
  • (3) The hippocampal formation (the hippocampus and the dentate fascia) of the rabbit was studied by histochemical fluorescent method of Falk to determine localization of monoaminergic terminals containing biogenic amines: noradrenalin, dophamine and serotonin.
  • (4) 195, 423-434 and Huber, R., Schneider, M., Mayr, I., Müller, R., Deutzmann, R., Suter, F., Zuber, H., Falk, H. & Kayser, H. (1987) J. Mol.
  • (5) Enterochromaffine cells (ECC) of the rat duodenal mucosa were revealed by Falk-Hillarp's fluorescent-histochemical method, by Masson-Hamperl's method and by diazoreaction with fast red.
  • (6) Later UDCA (Ursofalk, Falk Pharma) was given at a dose of 250 mg three times daily.
  • (7) This operation offers some measure of hope for the not insignificant number of patients who have been left with poor speech after pharyngeal flap surgery and supports the recent work of Cosman and Falk (2).
  • (8) At a news conference in Indianapolis Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, said: "This is not about an abortion case.
  • (9) When analyzed on the basis of complementation for a wing abnormality the mutations can be divided into three groups, each of which is believed to affect the activity of one of the first three enzymes of pyrimidine synthesis (Norby, 1973; Jarry and Falk, 1974; Rawls and Fristrom, 1975).
  • (10) Such variability suggests that Falk's (Nature 313:45-47, 1985) orientation of the Hadar specimen is incorrect; she places asterion superior to the position of the squamosal suture if projected endocranially.
  • (11) Among those attending the event will be Alex Falk, who as a 16-year-old in 1953 acted as a photographer's runner for Reuters, dashing from the abbey to Fleet Street after the service to deliver slides to be processed.
  • (12) Prof Jim Falk, of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne, told the symposium there were more than 40 distinct methods that could be described as geoengineering, including planting large numbers of trees and painting roofs white.
  • (13) The number and fluorescence intensity of small intensely fluorescent (SIF) cells in the nerve ganglia of the rat atria were determined after the treatment, using modified Falk's method.
  • (14) Adrenergic nerve fibers of the capillaries devoid of the smooth muscle coat were revealed by Falk's method in the mesentery and the kidney fibrous capsule of dogs after 6 daily noradrenaline infusions and with cardiogenic shock developing against this background.
  • (15) Falk's histochemical fluorescent method was used to study monoamine (MA)-containing structures in isolated hypothalamus nuclei and in the neurohemal region of the medial eminence (ME) in 40 male rats under the conditions of a long-term stress (6 months) which was caused by a repeated weak electrodermal stimulation.
  • (16) This sequence coincides with the eight residue, allele-specific peptide binding motif previously predicted from direct sequencing of naturally occurring Kb-associated peptides (Falk, K., Rotzscke, O., Stevanovic, S., Jung, G., and Rammensee, H.-G., Nature 351:290, 1990).
  • (17) John Falk, a US lobbyist whose company, Firecreek, represents the Kestral Group, one of Pakistan's largest defence firms, joined its board of directors.
  • (18) (1976) and Simpson & Falk (1982), a link between HLA and the locus for MEN 2 can be excluded.
  • (19) We reconsider the method of Ott and Falk (1982) for the analysis of genetic linkage and of epistasis in the presence of phenotypic association.
  • (20) Seven Holtzman rats were kept on a polydipsia-induced schedule of alcohol consumption for 3 months in a replication of a 1972 study by Falk and colleagues.

Falx


Definition:

  • (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The right occipital lobe is retracted laterally from the falx cerebri.
  • (2) A complex form of pluridistrectual dysmorphic disorder (hypertelorism, prognathism, frontal bossing, multiple cysts of the mandible, calcification in falx cerebri, etc) was also present, suggesting a limited form of Gorlin's syndrome (nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome).
  • (3) These findings led to an initial diagnosis of falx meningioma.
  • (4) Frequently, the wall of the posterior vein adheres to the falx cerebri, presenting ascendant trajet to the inferior wall of the sinus.
  • (5) Evaluation of falx images on CT scan was done in 964 normal or abnormal cases in relation to different CT slice level, age, sex, pineal body and habenula and choroid plexus.
  • (6) The autopsy confirmed the diagnosis of melorheostosis and revealed a meningioma of falx cerebri in close proximity to predominantly intraventricular calcified tissue.
  • (7) Calcification of the falx cerebri of the dura mater, as well as other areas of the brain, have been reported.
  • (8) It is suggested that other characteristics of the syndrome, such as jaw cysts, palmar and plantar pitting and calcification of the falx cerebri will develop as the patient grows older.
  • (9) The article analyses the late results of surgical treatment of 123 patients with parasagittal meningiomas of various localization along the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) and falx cerebri (FC).
  • (10) The tumour originated from the falx in the left fronto-parietal region near the paracentral lobule.
  • (11) The incidence of calcification in the choroid plexus and the falx cerebri was also considerably less than previously reported.
  • (12) The bright midline echo observed in fetal cranial sonography has been termed by many authors the "falx cerebri."
  • (13) The falx meningioma recurred locally and repeatedly, despite radiation therapy and chemoimmunotherapy.
  • (14) Computed tomography scan in a 43-year-old woman revealed a fusiform mass involving the falx.
  • (15) A case of a recurrent hemangiopericytoma of the falx which responded well to radiotherapy is reported.
  • (16) A report of an interhemispheric ependymoma with classical angiographic characteristics of falx meningioma illustrates that a neoplasm of intracerebral origin may present in a predomimantly extracerebral location.
  • (17) After the second operation, repeated recurrence of multiple tumors was seen, which were in the frontal, parietal and occipital convexities, parasagittal regions and falx.
  • (18) A postmortem specimen of densely "calcified" falx cerebri was examined that revealed cortical bone and a medullary cavity complete with bony trabeculae and marrow.
  • (19) The configuration of Model III is the same as Model II but more detailed anatomical features of the head interior were added, such as, cerebral spinal fluid (CSF); falx cerebri, dura, and tentorium.
  • (20) Thin wall was enhanced smoothly and the nodule attached to the falx was enhanced heterogeneously.

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