(1) Poorly-differentiated tissue produced a more haphazard out-growth of pleomorphic cells with few processes and flattened pseudopodia.
(2) Ultrastructurally, however, this material is composed of nonbranching, haphazardly arranged fibrils of approximately three times the thickness of typical amyloid fibrils.
(3) For example, it is not known with any certainty whether the oscillations seen in fetal heart rate are highly organised, in reflection of underlying ultradian rhythms, or whether they are entirely random and haphazard.
(4) A review of 15 well-documented cases of proliferative periostitis reported in the literature and a description of six new cases, five fully documented, have shown the following: a variety of irritants both odontogenic and nondontogenic in origin may induce neoperiostosis in the mandible; radiographically, cortical redundancy and preservation of the original cortical outline are the most common findings; and microsocopically, a fibro-osseous pattern evincing one of the three trabecular orientations--parallel, retiform, or haphazard fibrous dysplasia-like--is featured.
(5) For many years directors of Canadian postgraduate specialty programs have selected candidates in an uncontrolled and haphazard way.
(6) Soon, reformers known as “sanitarians” focused their attention on replacing the haphazard and unsanitary plumbing arrangements in homes and workplaces with technologically advanced public sewer systems.
(7) We postulate that an embryonic rest was incorporated into the spinal canal and, when removed from its normal inducer tissue, grew haphazardly throughout the spinal cord.
(8) The single striking morphologic abnormality was the disorganized, haphazard architecture of the media in these areas.
(9) Canvasses from the UNHCR and Unicef, the children's agency, are piled haphazardly on to structures made out of wood with wicker roofs, sacking and animal skin.
(10) It is concluded that the haphazard and incomplete visualization of the uterine contents at present precludes the application of second-trimester fetoscopy for early detection of visible congenital fetal abnormalities.
(11) Some Tory ministers take the view that driving down the total cost of government and getting rid of bodies is enough – why care if the cuts are haphazard and disorganisation results?
(12) By having all second-year residents together, faculty teaching time was efficiently used, and the haphazard results from relying on faculty-resident precepting experiences in the family practice center to provide training in these areas was avoided.
(13) Pigment cell contributions exhibit no consistent pattern among the four macromeres, and are haphazardly distributed throughout the ectoderm.
(14) These data indicate that the occurrence of MLRs in children is not haphazard, and that the MLR in children can be reliably obtained during certain states of arousal.
(15) The inquest was left with an increasing impression of organisational haphazardness – even chaos – with different agencies meeting regularly but failing to share information or establish basic facts.
(16) The car glides through rolling hills; the camera shows the expression on the boy's face turning from delight to terror; the vehicle veers haphazardly to the side of the road and Théophile is seen leaping out, running to the nearest house for help.
(17) Changes of mechanical activity and coronary blood flow induced by haphazard uncorrelated sequence of stimuli, were studied in the dog heart.
(18) Early lesions of KS were characterized by the presence of dilated vascular spaces haphazardly arranged in the biopsy specimen, a sparse inflammatory cell infiltrate composed of lymphocytes (usually without plasma cells), and aggregates of cuboidal cells with the appearance of epithelioid cells.
(19) Johnson said it was time to stop "making do" and haphazardly expanding existing airports, adding: "We must ensure that the final outcome is not one that future generations will regret."
(20) These results suggest that the ECH in celiac disease is not a haphazard process but, instead, a selective proliferation of certain endocrine cell types.
Offhand
Definition:
(a.) Instant; ready; extemporaneous; as, an offhand speech; offhand excuses.
(adv.) In an offhand manner; as, he replied offhand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Victims have told the charity of offhand and dismissive reactions from police, and am impression that crimes are less serious if they are committed against a disabled person.
(2) As a result, there exists a tendency to dismiss almost offhandedly the entire concept of using material incentives to further contraceptive practice before any have been adequately tried.
(3) The list of films from the last couple years is long and includes The International , where the enemy is a bank, to comedies such as The Other Guys and Despicable Me where offhand jokes skewer banks and bankers even in children's films.
(4) He initially aspired to a career in medicine but an offhand comment from his year 8 teacher changed that.
(5) Turkish police used teargas, plastic bullets and water cannon to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who gathered on Friday at the scene of the country's worst industrial accident to protest the country's dismal work safety record, and the prime minister's apparently offhand attitude towards victims of the catastrophe.
(6) In person he's quite offhand, an odd mixture of shy and intensely self-assured, and with his stocky build and salt-and-pepper beard he conveys the impression of a very clever badger, burrowing away in the undergrowth of economic detail, ready to give quite a sharp bite if you get in his way.
(7) I do realize that some of my offhanded attempts at sarcasm and at humor were not as witty as they were intended to be, and were actually insensitive and even offensive.” Despite Wildstein’s guilty plea, Christie has said he is unconcerned.
(8) Unfortunately, offhand and casual comments relating to class prejudice and snobbery are very common.
(9) While attempting to rally support for US bombing of Syrian president Bashar Assad for his chemical-weapons use, Kerry saw his offhand musing about Assad giving up his weapons stockpiles turned into a Russian diplomatic coup that allowed Assad to avoid attack and remain in power.
(10) A guilty person it wouldn’t be as much of an issue to me, but on the offhand chance that somebody wasn’t, I would never take that chance with my life,” he said.
(11) I guess I'd thought about it when I was younger, and I said, in an offhand way, that I would do it somewhere down the road.
(12) These results suggest that the use of S concentration measurements may serve to be an effective tool for a simple, offhand evaluation of keratinization.
(13) The only hope police have is changing allegiances from associates of the gang or ex-girlfriends who may have witnessed and perhaps recorded on a mobile phone someone's confession or offhand remark.
(14) "The president made an offhand remark making fun of his own bowling that was in no way intended to disparage the Special Olympics," he said.
(15) In their offhand way, they celebrate the man who was, by his own account, a stranger in a strange land.
(16) Trump is prone to mentioning NBC executives by name; Paul made offhand references to law school professors, from the conservative iconoclast Randy Barnett to the liberal civil rights activist Michelle Alexander .
(17) At some point she offhandedly told me that she had found out that once a month, on this particular night, the pub we were going to had a “gay night”.
(18) With the current state of our knowledge regarding uses, hazards, and dangers, the cavalier offhanded attitude which in the past has all too frequently characterized oxygen use in the premature is no longer acceptable.
(19) He later told Entertainment Weekly that while his promises initially manifested as an "offhand joke, a spur of the moment 140 characters" and was "more of a means to get the issue out there, that it is rude to text during movies," he was remained determined to stick to his guns.
(20) She made an offhand inquiry to her insurance company and was floored to learn that her policy – which she purchased as an individual – wouldn’t offer her any maternity coverage.