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Harlequin


Definition:

  • (n.) A buffoon, dressed in party-colored clothes, who plays tricks, often without speaking, to divert the bystanders or an audience; a merry-andrew; originally, a droll rogue of Italian comedy.
  • (n. i.) To play the droll; to make sport by playing ludicrous tricks.
  • (v. t.) Toremove or conjure away, as by a harlequin's trick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After two complete rounds of DNA synthesis in the presence of BrdU "harlequin" chromosomes were observed.
  • (2) The structure of harlequin-stained chromosomes following substitution with low levels of 5-bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) over two cell cycles and high levels over the last part of one cycle (replication banding) was studied in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells.
  • (3) He talks up the "experience" aspect of Electric Daisy Carnival, from its dazzling barrage of state-of-the-art lighting to its dance troupes whose costumes are pitched midway between harlequin and hooker.
  • (4) The sympathetic nervous system is proposed to be an etiologic factor in the pathophysiology of Moyamoya disease as well as Harlequinism.
  • (5) The Harlequin baby syndrome is a rare but lethal ichtyosis.
  • (6) An eight-month-old infant developed autonomic seizures, manifested by skin reaction (harlequin-like syndrome) and paroxysmal bradycardia.
  • (7) is described from the harlequin quail (Coturnix delegorguei arabica) from Tahama, Saudi Arabia.
  • (8) The results demonstrate that longer toxaphene treatment times were not necessary for obtaining sufficient harlequin-stained cells for SCE analysis, but that higher numbers of SCEs occurred in slower dividing cells, following prolonged incubation of cultures treated with toxaphene.
  • (9) Using BrdU harlequin sister-chromatid differentiation four Revell ratios can be defined and these have been obtained and tested as a block in V79 hamster cells.
  • (10) Both families had a previous history of harlequin ichthyosis.
  • (11) Jaunty tailored jackets, harlequin coats and trousers with zips at the ankle were styled with high-collared printed shirts and ponytails.
  • (12) At birth, the newborn infant bore the appearance of a harlequin fetus.
  • (13) Radiographs of ten liveborn infants with chromosomally confirmed triploidy showed six findings highly suggestive of this diagnosis: harlequin orbits, small anterior fontanelle, gracile ribs, diaphyseal overtubulation of long bones, upswept clavicles and antimongoloid pelvis.
  • (14) An infant with phenotypic harlequin ichthyosis survived for nine months, then died a crib death.
  • (15) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
  • (16) Harlequin samples showed variable degrees of staining ranging from little to heavy apical cytoplasmic staining of granular cells.
  • (17) Details of the progress of another harlequin fetus to 6 months of age are given.
  • (18) We report the prolonged survival of a harlequin fetus who was treated with intensive supportive measures, emollients, and oral etretinate.
  • (19) Finally, a defect in lamellar body organellogenesis may underlie harlequin ichthyosis.
  • (20) The irradiation time and dose to produce distinct harlequin stained chromosomes has been found.

Harlequinade


Definition:

  • (n.) A play or part of play in which the harlequin is conspicuous; the part of a harlequin.

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