(a.) A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(2) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(3) We conclude that, in Finns, the CETP RFLPs are not useful markers for the risk of coronary heart disease.
(4) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(5) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(6) Cameron will be accused of attempting to pack the Lords with reliable supporters including Kate Fall, his deputy chief of staff, James O’Shaughnessy, a former head of policy at No 10, and Simone Finn, Francis Maude’s former special adviser.
(7) The Finns average intake of tocopherols, tocotrienols, and vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol equivalents) was determined.
(8) Factors associated with recurrent falling during a one-year period were analysed among elderly Finns (65 yrs and more) seeking medical treatment due to a fall.
(9) The Lapps and Skolts did not have the clear age dependence of the diastolic blood pressure as occurs in Finns.
(10) John Londesborough Helsinki, Finland • We Finns are delighted to learn that Michael Booth is fond of us and would like us to rule the world.
(11) Estonia's economy is small, it's not a world powerhouse, but in cyberspace citizens can pay and vote online, working with the FInns to provide an interoperable system, they provide services to other countries – it's a cyber-superpower.
(12) While both groups had identical serum vitamin A levels, the other serum factors differed significantly between the groups, the Finns having higher serum vitamin E and cholesterol and lower serum selenium levels.
(13) The results demonstrated that in normal control animals, there were no significant effects of diet or breed on any of the erythrokinetic, metabolic or nutritional parameters, with the possible exception of red cell survival which was considerably longer in the Finn Dorset lambs.
(14) The aim of this study is, first, to examine gender and social class differences in self-reported illness among young Finns; secondly, to determine whether the relationship between social class and limiting long-standing illness is similar among young men and women.
(15) The pattern of pulsatile secretion of inhibin, oestradiol and androstenedione by the ovary at different stages of the oestrous cycle in sheep was studied in five Finn-Merino ewes in which the left ovary had been auto-transplanted to the neck.
(16) The high ovulatory potential of the Finn ewes resulted from a markedly reduced incidence of selection through atresia.
(17) In contrast, although the infected Scottish Blackface lambs had high levels of blood loss and associated pathophysiological changes, these did not differ between dietary treatments and were similar to the changes in the infected Finn Dorset lambs given the high protein diet.
(18) The populist anti-immigrant Finns party, formerly the True Finns, performed strongly in general elections on Sunday, coming second and are likely to be part of the new government in Helsinki.
(19) "Reasoned criticism of Cook is fair enough, but he has a vastly inexperienced team at his disposal (and no matter what one may think of the absence of the Whistler, Cook can hardly be held responsible for the loss of Trott, Swann, Tremlett and Finn), so why not give him until the end of the Summer?"
(20) For this, anti-casein antibodies were isolated from the blood of 16 adult IgA-deficient donors (4 Finns and 12 North Americans) and an autologous anti-anti-casein from the blood of one of the Finnish donors.
Finnish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.
(n.) A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.
Example Sentences:
(1) This information has been collected in Finland retrospectively from waterworks, and will be correlated with the Finnish Cancer Registry data.
(2) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(3) Genetical characteristics of the groups investigated, other Finnish-Ugorh peoples and those neighbouring Komy peoples of no Finnish-Ugorh origin are compared.
(4) It was hypothesized that increased intestinal motility may disturb the absorption of fats and cause the observed difference at least in the Finnish population.
(5) The drug supply in Finnish hospitals is organized in one of three ways.
(6) African children had significantly fewer prevalences of distal bite, lateral crossbite and crowding than Finnish children did.
(7) The information was obtained from the Finnish Cancer Registry and from the antenatal records of the mothers.
(8) As part of a health examination of a representative sample (n = 8,000) of the adult Finnish population, cardiac state was assessed in the 747 digitalis users and the 6,329 non-users who participated in the survey.
(9) We investigated the prevalence of carotid atherosclerosis and its association with serum lipoprotein cholesterol fractions in 412 Eastern Finnish men ages 42, 48, 54, or 60 years who were examined between February and December 1987 in the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.
(10) The disease is among the rare genetically determined diseases typical of the Finnish population.
(11) The series consisted of 13 same-sexed twin pairs derived from the Finnish Twin Cohort of 15,815 pairs.
(12) The general methodology of the Finnish foundry project is presented.
(13) Newborn Finnish Landrace lambs subsequently affected with mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis (MCGN) were deficient in the third component of complement (C'3), serum levels being approximately 5 per cent.
(14) The predictive value of the Cattell 16-factor personality test on the occurrence of automobile accidents among conscripts during their 11-month military service in a transportation section of Finnish Defense Forces was examined.
(15) Between 1953 and 1970, 2,605 malignant tumors in children under 15 years of age were reported to the Finnish Cancer Registry, a population-based registry that covers the whole country (population, 4.6 million).
(16) Dust was measured by the gravimetric method according to the Finnish standard.
(17) The status of the teeth and periodontium did not seem to differ from that found in the general Finnish population.
(18) A good knowledge of cerebral palsy was independently related to a good basic education, age of more than 24 years, female sex and Finnish as native language.
(19) We report here linkage data of the same region in Finnish CLN1 families.
(20) The present study demonstrates the first successful in vitro creation of amyloid-like fibrils from Asn187 gelsolin peptides and provides evidence that amyloid formation in Finnish amyloidosis is a direct consequence of the Asp187----Asn substitution in gelsolin.