(n.) A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their intellect is normal and they have no gargoyle-like features.
(2) Bill Nighy plays the king of the demons; Miranda Otto the gargoyle queen.
(3) beta-Mannosidase deficiency was demonstrated in fibroblasts of a girl who showed severe psychomotor retardation, bone deformities and gargoylism and recurrent skin and respiratory infections and who died at 20 years of age from bronchopneumonia.
(4) In various tissues from patients with gargoylism, deficiency of beta-galactosidase A could be demonstrated.
(5) The high level of mannose in the liver from gargoylism patients seems to indicate storage of glycopeptide, adding a new group of substances to those known to be stored in gargoylism.
(6) An autopsy case of a 19-year-old boy who had shown typical gargoyle features, strictly consistent with mucopolysaccharidosis type II (Hunter's syndrome) was reported.
(7) The reversed conditions could be caused by the difference of increased aMPS; i.e., dermatan sulfate B or heparitin sulfate in gargoylism, on the contrary, dermatan sulfate A and C or hyaluronic acid in Marfan syndrome.
(8) An adult patient with macular cherry-red spots, a gargoyle-like physical appearance, cerebellar ataxia, myoclonus, convulsive seizures, and pyramidal tract signs showed a profound deficiency of beta-galactosidase in liver and brain.
(9) The patient had a gargoyle-like face, bone change with cherry-red spot and absence of mucopolysacchariduria, and moreover accompanied by hereditary thrombocytopathy and color blindness.
(10) The nature of the basic defect in gargoylism is discussed.
(11) It must however be mentioned that the most frequent mucopolysaccharidosis, Sanfilippo's disease, and other forms of mucopolysaccharidoses (MPSoses) are not showing gargoylism.
(12) As grim as a gargoyle, craggy as a crag, jaw set in steel – even the famous smirk was well hidden behind the scowl.
(13) The present paper describes 3 out of a total of 9 siblings, aged 9, 17, and 18, with the following symptoms: gargoyle-like facial features, clouding of the cornea in both eyes, dysostosis multiplex, slightly impaired intelligence, hepatosplenomegaly, umbilical hernia, and increased secretion of mucopolysaccharides in the urine, in particular dermatan and heparan sulfate.
(14) Cellulose acetate electrophoresis differentiated clearly between the two major forms of gargoylism, the Hurler and Sanfilippo syndromes, but differentiation between the Hurler, Hunter, and Scheie syndromes was more difficult on electrophoretic data alone.
(15) The samples analyzed were obtained from control subjects, patients with gargoylism, and patients with a few other kinds of storage disorders.
(16) Studies in the morphology, histochemistry, and ultrastructure of the cerebellum, with special reference to the Purkinje cell dendrites, have been undertaken in eight cases of gargoylism.
(17) Still though, the obsession with personality, the grand gargoyles of the dugout over, say, tactics and development remains.
(18) In newspapers, cartoons squat like gargoyles on top of the columns, and while you nibble your way through the columnists' prose for several minutes, you swallow the cartoon whole in seconds.
(19) An autopsy case of a 9 years and 5 months old gargoyle girl diagnosed as Sanfilippo B syndrome by the biochemical demonstration of a large amount of heparan sulfate in urine and some organs and of deficiency of alpha-N-acetyl-D-glucosaminidase in the liver and brain was reported.
(20) A 17-year-old patient clinically manifesting gargoyle face, dwarfism, skeletal bone deformity, mild mental retardation and benign course was presented.
Waterspout
Definition:
(n.) A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Lucian's A True Story , from the 2nd century AD, the author and his fellow travellers are blown through space to the Moon by a giant Atlantic waterspout.