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Gosling


Definition:

  • (n.) A young or unfledged goose.
  • (n.) A catkin on nut trees and pines.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Stanislas could have celebrated that reprieve by treating himself to another goal when United’s defence was bisected by a wonderful pass from Gosling.
  • (2) The eight-seventh passage was non-pathogenic for susceptible day-old goslings and produced active and adequate immunity in these young birds.
  • (3) In addition, vascular resistance of these vessels was found to be abnormally low, as reflected by the Gosling pulsatility index.
  • (4) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
  • (5) On examining the blood and the organs, the virus was detected in a very low amount and for a very short time in blood and spleen of goslings and only in blood of ducklings.
  • (6) Neonates were correctly classified according to diagnosis by the Doppler measures as follows: Pourcelot's pulsatility index (100%), Gosling's pulsatility index (97%), diastolic amplitude (94%), mean amplitude (76%), area under the curve (70%), and systolic amplitude (58%).
  • (7) For a 10-day spell they interviewed everyone from Ryan Gosling to Martin Scorsese, Nicole Kidman to Roman Polanski.
  • (8) Police today interviewed at least one of Gosling's friends who knew him at the time of the killing.
  • (9) The drug caused a significant decrease in the plasma free fatty acid (FFA) levels only in the goslings kept at thermoneutrality.
  • (10) Please note that Gosling does not actually appear in How to Catch a Monster.
  • (11) Tom Gosling, reward partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: "There is a wider question of differences in regulatory approach at the global level creating an uneven playing field, and a risk of geographic arbitrage in favour of jurisdictions that are perceived to be more lenient."
  • (12) Goslings were more affected than chicks by the ingestion of a raw soya-bean diet (RSD) in the following ways: reduction in food intake and growth rate; increase in relative weight of the digestive organs; reduction in specific activities of lipase (EC3.1.1.3), amylase (EC3,2.1.1) and chymotrypsin (EC3.4.4.5) in the pancreas (not affected in chicks); greater inhibition of trypsin (EC 3.4.4.5) in the pancreas (not affectd in chicks); greater inhibition of trypsin (EC3.4.4.4.
  • (13) Simon Brew of Den of Geek wrote : "He might not be Ryan Gosling, but Affleck has quietly been impressing as an actor, and maturing as one too.
  • (14) Detectives have already examined the unedited footage of Gosling's feature for BBC East Midlands TV on Monday to establish if there was any collusion with members of the crew who may have been told details of the crime.
  • (15) Among those in the Hollywood-heavy lineup for Cannes this year will be Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, who star in Foxcatcher, the dark drama from Moneyball director Bennett Miller also competing for the Palme d'Or, while Ryan Gosling's directorial debut, Lost River, will be part of the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
  • (16) Investigations were extended over several years and were, more specifically, applied to 1,148 samples obtained from 525 goslings and 429 samples which had been collected from 139 Muscovy duck chickens.
  • (17) Gosling was arrested at his sheltered accommodation shortly after dawn and interviewed for more than nine hours by Nottinghamshire police after he admitted to the killing on TV on Monday night.
  • (18) Addition of methionine to the RSD improved food intake and growth rate more in goslings than in chiks.
  • (19) But the break could not have come at a worse time – after almost two hours of goal-less tension, fans watching from home were treated to scenes of delirious Evertonians celebrating the goal of 19-year-old Dan Gosling.
  • (20) The pulsatility index (as defined by Gosling) was lower at all vessel sites up to 72 h in the SGA group.

Skein


Definition:

  • (n.) A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel, -- usually tied in a sort of knot.
  • (n.) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
  • (n.) A flight of wild fowl (wild geese or the like).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stromal underlayer has the typical morphological structure: its cells are compactly packed in the form of a skein with stromal mechanocytes among them.
  • (2) Until now it is well known that throughout life the endochondral layer of human labyrinthine bone consists of a "woven, alamellar, fine-fibred type of bone" which is called "embryonic skein bone" (embryonaler Strähnenknochen) (MEYER 1927).
  • (3) Patterns of immunoreactivity (linear, flame-shaped, or skein-like within perikarya) greatly resembled the appearance of silver-stained NFT.
  • (4) These axonal swellings are filled with maloriented skeins of neurofilaments.
  • (5) Convolution of microvessels, formation of loops, skeins, torsions along the longitudinal axis, deformation of walls (folds and angularity of the contours, multiple unilateral and bilateral protrusions and invaginations, sacciform and cylindrical microaneurisms, multiplication of venules) are observed.
  • (6) Ultrastructurally, the inclusions consisted of straight or interwoven skeins of 10 nm filaments.
  • (7) The first signs of regression appear before the climax stages, when aggregates of cytokeratin material are found among the filaments of the skeins.
  • (8) Swellings filled with skeins of maloriented neurofilaments were observed in the initial (non-myelinated) segment of intraparenchymal spinal axons in addition to the swellings consistently located in the first internodes.
  • (9) The present report describes nine cases of small intestinal stromal tumors with eosinophilic stromal globules composed of tangles of curved fibers with crossbands simulating an appearance of skeins, designated as skeinoid fibers.
  • (10) Studies with the electron microscope reveal that as the proliferation proceeds during metamorphosis, the skein cells, at stage 20, differentiate to form the apical border of the skin.
  • (11) Reticulin staining of the fibrous trabeculae in the posterior (scleral) part of the lamina revealed a structure composed of interweaving skeins of collagen fibres frequently arranged tangentially around the canals, 40-220 microns in diameter, through which optic nerve axons pass.
  • (12) Their three dimensional structure is interpreted as a skein of contorted tubules of endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (13) In the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of the rat proximal tubule nephron epithelial cells three morphologically different components can be distinguished: 1) tubes and cisternae distributed relatively diffusely in the cytoplasm; 2) cisternae of paramembranous ER located along the lateral boundaries of the cell (components 1 and 2 might be either smooth or granular); 3) constantly smooth ER consisting of narrow tubules accumulated in the shape of skeins or islets.
  • (14) Fifty percent of body cells and more than 95% of tail cells were skein cells.
  • (15) In tadpoles of Rana temporaria, Bufo bufo and Xenopus laevis the development of the massive skeins of tonofilaments (cytokeratin intermediate filaments) that form the figures of Eberth follows a similar sequence in all species studied.
  • (16) Skein-like inclusions (SLIs) in the anterior horn cells of patients with motor neuron diseases, including familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with posterior column degeneration, sporadic lower motor neuron disease and classical amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, were investigated morphologically with hematoxylin and eosin preparations, immunostaining for ubiquitin and immunoelectron microscopy.
  • (17) Another piece is made of twisted skeins of steel, reinforcing rods that failed to support schools in the 2008 earthquake in China, displayed beside the names of more than 5,000 school children who died.
  • (18) Skein bone which is typical in enchondral layer of human bony otic capsule also is found in pig, rabbit, guinea pig, rat, mouse and golden hamster.
  • (19) The overall ultrastructural appearance simulated skeins of yarn, hence they are designated skeinoid fibers.
  • (20) Additional temporal bone reports of three cases of osteogenesis imperfecta congenita show lack of deposition of the skein-like bone in the endochondral layer, sparse bony septae in marrow spaces and deficiency of the perosteal layer.

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