(interj.) An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy.
Example Sentences:
(1) She fied of recurrent tumor and related complications 9 months after discovery of the lesion.
(2) To evaluate this observation further, we retrospectively reviewed reports of EEGs for evidence of focal interictal epileptiform discharges (FIED) of temporal lobe origin and correlated this finding with seizure type.
(3) Of 79 patients, 61 had secondary generalized seizures, 45 with left temporal FIED, 16 with right FIED.
(4) The final preparations of esterases I and II, which were puri fied 70-and 140-fold, respectively, gave single protein bands on polyacrylamide gel and sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoreses.
(5) The occasional failures appear to be related either to faulty technique or to a deep-seated localisation beyond the fied of action of the ultraviolet rays.
(6) Of 79 patients, 18 had partial seizures, 13 with right temporal FIED, 5 with left FIED (p less than 0.001).
(7) As a whole, the systemic administration of the calcium antagonist verapamil depressed FIED and exerted an inverse effect on synchronized non-epileptic neuronal activity.
(8) True Romance, in which he Scott-i-fied Tarantino's script, remains a delight, and Crimson Tide looks far more current than the movie that won the Best Film Oscar that year: come on down, Braveheart.
Fike
Definition:
(n.) See Fyke.
Example Sentences:
(1) We circumvented this difficulty by using a mutant which produces a precursor maltose-binding protein that is translocated across the cytoplasmic membrane but is not cleaved by the signal peptidase (J. D. Fikes and P. J. Bassford, Jr., J. Bacteriol.
(2) USA 79:3438-3441, 1982; J. W. Puziss, J. D. Fikes, and P. J. Bassford, Jr., J. Bacteriol.
(3) This report, more so than any, shows that science is certain that this is a long-term problem,” said Ryan Fikes, a scientist with NWF.