(n.) A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kind of colours that you want to paint your house after a holiday in Goa or Brazil.
(2) I have stressed the influence of genetic factors, best exemplified as a single gene aberration in the occurrence of Heberden's nodes, while a polygenetic interplay may be involved in other forms of hand GOA.
(3) During the period 1982-86, a total of 657 Salmonella strains were isolated from various clinical samples processed in the Microbiology laboratory of Goa Medical College, Bambolim, Goa.
(4) The commission's reports on mining in Goa accused both the state and the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) of allowing illegal mining in the state and putting the region's environment and ecology at risk.
(5) What they’d really like is a lottery win so they can forget yuletide altogether and get on a plane to Goa or Istanbul.
(6) A marked difference in malaria incidence amongst labour imported for construction and local residents was observed in a study following the outbreak of malaria in Panaji (Goa) in 1986.
(7) Testosterone was slightly higher in GOA women aged under 53.
(8) Amid her grief and despair, MacKeown still feels anger at the Goa police for the first, botched autopsy.
(9) A destructive arthropathy is much more common when generalized osteoarthritis (GOA) and articular chondrocalcinosis (ACC) coexist than in GOA alone.
(10) The cDNAs encoding two forms of mammalian G(o) alpha were also isolated and designated GoA alpha and GoB alpha.
(11) Two local men, Placido Carvalho and Samson D'Souza, have been charged in connection with the murder, which was seen as a watershed for Goa's tourism industry.
(12) When age, weight and height were considered, no significant differences were observed between patients with GOA and normal controls.
(13) Patients with pseudoachondroplasia exhibited a grosser type of joint laxity than other subjects while those with GOA represented a relatively stiff group.
(14) This, after all, was meant to be the culmination of her efforts over the past two years to get justice for her daughter, whose bruised, semi-naked body was found on Anjuna beach in north Goa while on a family holiday in February 2008.
(15) While the parcel cleared customs (expected to take three days) the men insisted Bowles stay in their swanky apartment in Goa and she was accompanied at all times.
(16) I can only say that if international tourists come to Goa and are murdered, they have no hope that justice [will be done] in this system.
(17) They are either protecting the police officers or protecting the drug trade or the image of Goa."
(18) The producers did not obtain official permission to film in Goa, believing it would not be granted.
(19) How could she drag them all off to Goa, cries Middle England as her past is raked over and an attempted manslaughter conviction is added to the growing charge list.
(20) The model is subjected to sensitivity analysis with reference to data for Salcette Taluka, Goa, India.
Trance
Definition:
(n.) A tedious journey.
(n.) A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy.
(n.) A condition, often simulating death, in which there is a total suspension of the power of voluntary movement, with abolition of all evidences of mental activity and the reduction to a minimum of all the vital functions so that the patient lies still and apparently unconscious of surrounding objects, while the pulsation of the heart and the breathing, although still present, are almost or altogether imperceptible.
(v. t.) To entrance.
(v. t.) To pass over or across; to traverse.
(v. i.) To pass; to travel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Turing to hypnosis, it is made clear that a trance is the execution of a momentarily proposed programme; it is not the result of a generalised mechanical action, but is preordained and geared to various situations.
(2) Trance logic results from the "metasuggestion," experienced through participation in a formal induction procedure, that hypnosis entails new rules of experience and behavior.
(3) Radio remained hostile to electronic dance music unless it had a conventional pop song structure and vocals (as with the Prodigy's punk-rave or Madonna's coopting of trance on Ray of Light ).
(4) GHB can induce NREM and REM sleep, anaesthesia, hypothermia, and a trance-like state which has been considered a model for petit mal epilepsy.
(5) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
(6) Whereas Erickson claimed that 97% of his "deep trance" subjects and 90% of his "medium trance" subjects exhibited literal responses, we found that 87.5% of hypnotized, high-hypnotizable subjects' responses were nonliteral.
(7) "), or Mrs Wilfer, after placing Bella in the magnificent coach of the Boffins, continuing to "air herself … in a kind of splendidly serene trance on the top step" for the benefit of the neighbours.
(8) 4 types of delusional and hallucinatory experience with certain ensuing therapeutic reactions are distinguished: Type 1: pseudonormality and denial of delusions, type 2: overlapping of reality and delusion and frantic attempts to separate the two realms, type 3: hallucinatory absorption and trance-like states, type 4: dramatic delusional play and "happy" hallucinations in regressive psychoses.
(9) On this basis, it is hypothesized that while both the SSC and possession trances involve hippocampal-septal stimulation, the difference between the SSC and the possession states includes the amygdala involvement associated with the latter.
(10) The global rise of CBF in H may be an activation effect caused by resistance against the hypnotizer: the deeper the trance, the smaller the CBF increase in the motor cortical area needed for maintaining catalepsy of the right arm and in temporal cortical fields processing acoustic inputs.
(11) The state of trance-coma and the value of 15 scores and less should be taken into consideration as a contraindication for the solution of the question of operation in patients with cranio-cerebral traumas.
(12) It is also noted that the efficacy of the treatment would appear to depend on achieving a satisfactory depth of hypnotic trance.
(13) The author argues that the similarity of the Bushman trance state, kia and that of drug-induced altered states of consciousness has been paid too little attention in the research, and that an enigma currently exists with regard to the degree to which plant drugs may have influenced the !Kung trance phenomenon and healing beliefs.
(14) These results recall the theory that stress predisposes to hypnotic trance.
(15) Statistical evaluation of the six variables (age, sex, result, trance depth, psychological factors and severity of the asthma) confirmed the clinical impression that the ability to go into a deep trance (closely associated with the youthfulness of the subject) gives the best possibility of improvement, especially if there are significant aetiological psychological factors present and the asthma is not severe.
(16) After fantasy work in a trance state a patient with post-traumatic headaches experienced some relief as other symptoms appeared, and then total relief along with the disappearance of the other symptoms.
(17) Once, a businessman sitting next to me on a plane to Tangiers told me his wife's mother had the ability, after going into a music-induced trance, to drink boiling water, and to spit it out again a few seconds later ice cold.
(18) Has he ever actually put someone in a trance by doing this dance?
(19) Korine is currently putting the finishing touches to a little project that involves him performing a Haitian "voodoo tap-dance" that sends people into a trance.
(20) The manifestations of the trance, and its course and outcome are outlined.