(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.
Mop
Definition:
(n.) A made-up face; a grimace.
(v. i.) To make a wry mouth.
(n.) An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
(n.) A fair where servants are hired.
(n.) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
(v. t.) To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morphometry of photographed semithin sections was realized after whole body glutaraldehyde perfusion with semiautomatic MOP AM 02 and MOP Videoplan.
(2) The workload for two different methods of floor mopping in 11 healthy female cleaners was evaluated by rating the perceived exertion, by recording the ECG and EMG and by video analysis of postures and movements.
(3) These lesions appear to be more easily repaired than the cross-links induced by 8-MOP.
(4) The comparison of the efficiency of mutagenic effects of 8-MOP+light with mutagenic effects of other kinds of irradiations was carried out.
(5) When permeant anions in the bath (Cl-) were replaced with relatively impermeant anions (gluconate, MOPS, propionate, or Hepes), the Po vs. voltage relationship was shifted by approximately -35 mV.
(6) They want disinfectant and mops, they say, and they have only two delivery kits left.
(7) The combined action of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and light with lambda greater than 310 nm on bacteriophages and bacteria results in the formation of the following two types of photo-products in the DNA: monoadducts, in which 8-MOP is covalently bound to a pyrimidine base, and diadducts or cross links, in which the 8-MOP is covalently bound to two pyrimidines from complementary strands.
(8) Consistent with this, 8-MOP has been shown to act as an inhibitor of a component of repair of 254-nm ultraviolet light damage in WP2 but not in AB1157.
(9) Microcoulometric titrations of NADH:nitrate reductase at 25 degrees C in Mops buffer, pH 7.0, showed that the native enzyme, containing functional FAD, haem and Mo, required addition of five electrons for complete reduction.
(10) Two hours after oral administration of therapeutic doses of the drug enough 8-MOP was taken up in vivo by the circulating peripheral lymphocytes to cause significant inhibition of phytohaemagglutinin induced lymphocyte proliferation when the cells were exposed in vitro to UVA irradiation.
(11) Monoclonal antibodies specific for DNA damaged by 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) plus ultraviolet A (UVA) light were used to study adduct formation in human keratinocytes and mouse and rat skin in vivo.
(12) The use of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and UV-A irradiation to inactivate contaminating donor leukocytes in platelet concentrates and to prevent primary alloimmunization against donor class I major histocompatibility (MHC) antigens in mice was investigated.
(13) The sequence of markers in the corresponding segment (mel to purA; 91.5 to 93.5 min) of the E. coli linkage map was shown to be mel--aspA--mop(groE)--ampA--frdA--pur A.
(14) 8-Methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) (currently in vogue for the treatment of psoriasis) is a well-known photosensitizing agent.
(15) The psoralen analogs 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP), in combination with ultraviolet light (UVA, 320-400 nm), are potent modulators of epidermal cell growth and differentiation and are commonly used in photochemotherapy of psoriasis and vitiligo.
(16) This methodology was applied to 7 substances: 5 known photosensitizers (8-MOP, chlorpromazine, 5-fluorouracil, Vitamin A acid and benzoyl peroxide) and 2 products without any photoactive properties (aspirin and erythromycin).
(17) The pharmacokinetics of 8-MOP were studied in six dogs following intravenous administration of 2 mg kg-1.
(18) A new psoralen plus UVA therapy has been developed in which the 8-MOP-containing blood of cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) patients is irradiated with UVA light extracorporeally (i.e., extracorporeal photopheresis).
(19) By using APAAP method with MoP in cytologic studies it was possible to diagnose T-lymphoblastic lymphoma in six children before the results of histopathologic examination of the lymph nodes.
(20) Mean residence time of theophylline increased from 10.7, 17.2, and 12.2 hr in the control period, to 20.3, 19.0, and 18.4 hr after 8-MOP.