(n.) One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
Example Sentences:
(1) This replication based activation is, however, cell type dependent and was seen in FOP cells but not in 3T6 cells.
(2) Patients with FOP may present problems to the anaesthetist, including difficulties with tracheal intubation, restrictive pulmonary disease and abnormalities of cardiac conduction.
(3) A 14-yr-old boy with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) presented for surgery for bilateral division of his ossified masseter muscles.
(4) Surgery to remove joint-bridging ossifications in FOP is not recommended.
(5) The case report of a patient with clinically and histologically confirmed FOP is described to emphasize the advantages of administering Bleomycin intra-arterially (external carotid artery) by means of a Holter catheter.
(6) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
(7) However, it is not possible to definitely establish the malignant or benign nature of FOP in this manner.
(8) The acute process of FOP was thereby distinguished from that of osteomyelitis by use of CT scan.
(9) In a sporadic case of FOP treated for 6 years with a diphosphonate (EHDP) we have analyzed the findings from CT.
(10) Considering the complexity and difficulty of the mentioned method for its practical usage, a simplified method is proposed; a registration of FOP of a stable state with the incidence of stimulations of 33 Hz, that allows to detect cases of pathology with visual acuity not less than 0.2.
(11) Texas pool party incident raises questions about wealth and race Read more McKinney Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #107, the union that represents city police officers, insisted in a statement that the pool party incident was not an example of racism: “The McKinney FOP assures that this was not a racially motivated incident and can say without a shadow of doubt that all members of the McKinney FOP and McKinney PD do not conduct racially biased policing.” The union also clarified that it does not condone officers cursing at juveniles or adult citizens.
(12) This report concerns an 11-year-old boy suffering from FOP, who presented significant modification of the musculoskeletal structure of the thorax and problems with articular movements.
(13) The developmental similarities between decapentaplegic in the fly and FOP in man suggest a useful model for the study of FOP.
(14) Informativeness of different methods used for registration of optic generated potentials in response to light flash (FOP) has been studied in 27 healthy persons and 21 patients (32 eyes) with partial atrophy of the optic nerve.
(15) Ruskin, played by Joshua McGuire, is a simpering Blackadderish caricature of an art intellectual: a lisping, red-headed, salon fop.
(16) The successful treatment of FOP points out the possibility of employing a Holter catheter for administering cytostatic agents in the treatment of malignant neoplasms in the facial area.
(17) An 8-year-old boy presenting with fever, neck pain, and torticollis was eventually diagnosed as having fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP).
(18) The present study demonstrated that in macaque monkeys, tactile sensation of the oral cavity is represented on areas 3, 1-2 and G in the Fop as well as on the surrounding areas (e.g., area 6 and the insula), and taste sensation on areas G and 1-2 and the insula.
(19) We reevaluated the published data on the natural history of FOP and discovered an array of developmental gradients (characteristic patterns of disease expression) similar to developmental anomalies induced by pleiotropic mutations of the decapentaplegic (dpp) locus in Drosophila melanogaster.
(20) The cytoplasm of tumor cells from a subdermal nodule in a patient with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) exhibited intense enzymatic activity in cryostat sections processed for demonstration of alkaline phosphatase.
Foppish
Definition:
(a.) Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Who embody that classic British pop cult paradox: foppish violence.
(2) A quick graze of the internet will provide fan theories to feed any hunches you’ve long felt about the happy-go-lucky companionship of Timon and Pumbaa, and their effective adoption of baby Simba, in The Lion King – or indeed the foppish villainy of the same film’s Scar, an alpha lion who has never found a mate in the pride.
(3) But the one that really jumped out was of a chav-themed school disco: all these rosy-cheeked, foppish-looking public schoolkids dressed in baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits.
(4) Meanwhile, his trademark foppish hair and retro indie kid glasses have that perfect British nerdishness thing going on: one part Geography teacher, one part Dalston muso.
(5) His Vietnam war heroism was recast as cowardice by George W Bush’s allies in 2004, and Bush successfully portrayed Kerry as a foppish buffoon.
(6) Will you be checking in on Depp's bumbling, foppish clot?
(7) Beneath the foppish exterior, however – he always wore a waistcoat and a watch-chain – the spirit of a true radical was often trying to escape.
(8) No longer the foppish stereotype Brit, more high-minded Gary Cooper in Mr Deeds Goes to Town.
(9) Elsewhere, he captures a foppish Mick Jagger with Marianne Faithfull attending a banquet in Co Kildare as guests of Desmond Guinness.
(10) But while the Downton Effect benefits Cumberbatch and co, ex-Hollyoaks stars don't exactly fit the foppish British stereotype beloved of US casting directors.