(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.