(interj.) Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
(interj.) Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fertilization of golden hamster eggs was blocked both in vitro and in vivo by antibodies produced in rabbits against specific hamster ovarian antigens (HOA).
(2) Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) was first described in 1868 as "hyperostosis of the entire skeleton".
(3) Paula Higgins, chief executive of the HOA, said: "Although designed to protect homeowners, the new rules could be a disaster in the making.
(4) In 1890 HOA was named "osteoarthropatie hypertrophiante pneumique".
(5) Four of them (4.9%) presented the classical hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) described by Bamberger and Pierre Marie, i.e., finger clubbing, ossifying periostitis of the long bones, joint pains and swelling.
(6) A survey by the Homeowners Alliance (HOA), a lobby group for homeowners, indicates that more than 400,000 homeowners believe they will no longer be able to afford their mortgage payments when their current interest-only deals come to an end.
(7) Secondary HOA was initially called "hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy" because it is frequently associated with various malignancies or chronic infections of the lung and pleura.
(8) Discriminant analysis of eleven behavioral variables associated with feeding permitted the assignment of hyperosmotically-acclimating (HOA) toads (Bufo boreas) to six different behavioral states.
(9) The HLA-A, -B and -C antigens expressed by WI-L2-729-HF2 and its mutants HOA-1 and HOA-20 were identical.
(10) Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) may be defined as a syndrome of chronic proliferative periostitis of the long bones, clubbing of the fingers and toes, arthralgia and or arthritis, oligo- or polysynovitis.
(11) Cytochrome c oxidase forms tight binding complexes with the cytochrome c analog, porphyrin cytochrome c. The behaviour of the reduced and pulsed forms of the oxidase with porphyrin cytochrome c have been followed as functions of ionic strength; this behaviour has been compared with that of the resting oxidase [Kornblatt, Hui Bon Hoa and English (1984) Biochemistry 23, 5906-5911].
(12) This may range from the well known syndrome of HOA, heralding lung cancer, to a lesser known association of pyogenic arthritis due to an unusual enteric pathogen, signaling colon cancer.
(13) Bone scintigraphy has emerged as the most sensitive test for HOA; in fact, a bone scan may show evidence of periostitis in patients with no other signs, symptoms, or radiographic abnormalities of the disorder.
(14) (Debey, P., Hui Bon Hoa, G., Douzou, P., Godefroy-Colburn, T., Graffe, M., AND Grunberg-Manago, M. (1975) Biochemistry 14, 1553).
(15) This was the place to see Hoa Hakanini'a , one of the famous stone statues from Easter Island; or a Cree Indian tent.
(16) We agree with the theory which proposes that clubbing is the initial, and most conspicuous sing of a full syndrome, (HOA).
(17) Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy (HOA) in association with primary bowel disease is rare, but is usually seen in patients with chronic diarrheal states, such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
(18) Most importantly, clubbing or HOA may provide the first clinical indication of a chronic infection or an intrathoracic neoplasm.
(19) Our results support the notion that platelet endothelial cell interaction may play a key role in the development of HOA.
(20) Dr. Duong Quynh Hoa's pediatric research institute, children's hospital, and new medical school are principally concerned with the development of socioeconomic conditions where the doctor is only 1 among many collaborating to improve the quality of life.
Hod
Definition:
(n.) A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.
(n.) A utensil for holding coal; a coal scuttle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also investigated was the difference between the MMPI and the HOD when compared to independently made clinical diagnoses.
(2) After direct intratumor injection of D2O saline solution, the tracer (HOD) residue from the tumor was detected by deuterium NMR and the deuterium residue washout time course was then analyzed employing multicompartment flow models (S-G. Kim and J.J.H.
(3) In contrast, the reduced products of hydroperoxides, 15-HETE and 13-HOD, failed to stimulate these cyclooxygenations, 13-HPOD appeared more potent than 15-HPETE and the cyclooxygenation of 22:4(n-6) seemed to require higher amounts of hydroperoxides to be efficiently metabolized than 20:5(n-3).
(4) The deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance (2H NMR) spectrum in H2O shows a broad resonance (500--1000 Hz) due to the histidine deuteron and a sharp signal from residual HOD.
(5) Possible preference for the HOD under certain circumstances was discussed.
(6) In addition to the previously reported heat-stable polypeptide [Ciechanover, A., Hod, Y.
(7) The TBF at the two sites, measured independently by fitting the integrated HOD intensity from each site to a monoexponential decay function, was significantly different in only one of the six tumors examined.
(8) Thus, AA treatment of dogs with HOD is contraindicated, as it can only aggravate the osseous lesions of HOD.
(9) The other lipoxygenase, with (n-6)-specificity, converts arachidonic acid into 15-HETE and linoleic acid into 13-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid (13-HOD).
(10) It was hypothesized that the correlation between HOD scores and the Schizophrenia and Paranoia t-scores on the MMPI would be significant.
(11) A noninvasive method to measure relative regional tumor blood flow (rTBF) throughout murine tumors which uses deuterium NMR imaging to observe regional uptake of HOD after bolus iv injection of D2O is introduced.
(12) A deuterium NMR spectroscopic method to determine relative tumor blood flow (TBF) by measuring the increase in tumor HOD concentration after intravenous injection of 100 microliters D2O (0.9% NaCl) is presented.
(13) To this end, simultaneous radiolabeled microsphere and HOD washout blood flow measurements were made in rat gastrocnemius muscle.
(14) Four multiple-channel cochlear implant patients were tested with synthesized versions of the words "hid, head, had, hud, hod, hood" containing 1, 2, or 3 formants, and with a natural 2-formant version of the same words.
(15) One of the tests used was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the other, a less familiar test, was the Hoffer-Osmond Diagnostic Test (HOD).
(16) In these control tumors, HOD was cleared from that volume without an appreciable increase in tracer distribution.
(17) HOD uptake images are formed by subtraction of a background (preinjection) image from 94-s gradient-refocused deuterium NMR images acquired starting 30 s and 10 min after D2O injection.
(18) These data strongly suggest that the HOD washout technique provides accurate blood flow measurements in skeletal muscle.
(19) 1H NMR was used to quantify soybean lectin binding to monosaccharides, using presaturation of HOD plus a spin-echo sequence to observe sugar -NHCOCH3 and -OCH3 to below 0.01 mM.
(20) In three patients with non-Hodgkin lymphomas and in one cell line (HPL-Hod) derived from pleural effusion cells of a patient with Hodgkin's disease, rearrangements of the long arm of chromosome No.