(n.) The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
(2) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.34pm BST 58th over: England 124-6 (Ali 33, Prior 0) "From the middle of the bat to the edge is not a great distance", says Holding, who can make the Yellow Pages sound the Kama Sutra, only with one-liners.
(3) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.
(4) 504 nests of 11 species of birds were examined in the Volga-Kama state reserve.
(5) Gamasid mites from voles and their nests were studied in the Volga-Kama state reserve.
(6) Information analysis was used to assess the influence of certain anthropogenic factors on the situation in water reservoirs of the Daugava, Dnieper, Don, Volga, Kama, Ob, Yenisei, Amu Darya and Zeya river basins with respect to diphyllobothriasis.
(7) He evidently knows little of Indian culture; hasn't he read the Kama Sutra or seen the sculptures at the Ellora and Ajanta caves?
(8) Both the ascitic preparations of the antibodies and the fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated reagents such as MAK-FITC, KAMA-FITC and OKA-FITC were characterized by high specificity and activity.
(9) Because of the wide range of interspecies reactions, KAMA-51 monoclonal antibody may be used for group detection of the tick-borne encephalitis complex viruses.
(10) The level of cat and fish invasion in the upper Kama was higher than on the Vyatka River, which might be accounted for by ethnic peculiarities of the population on the Kama River.
(11) Quite possibly this may be connected with the climatic-geographical and bio-geochemical traits of the Zarafshanskaya valley, which differs to a great extent from these indices of the territory between the Vyatka and Kama rivers where syringomyelia is frequently encountered.
(12) 524 nests of 12 species of birds were examined in the Volga-Kama state reserve.
(13) The material analysed is referred to 5 goiter endemic microfoci of one of the landscape-geographical zone of the Kama region with a relative iodine deficiency in the environment, caused by disbalance between iodine and other trace elements.
(14) KAMA-51 monoclonal antibodies to tick-borne encephalitis virus are produced by hybridoma obtained by fusion of splenocytes of mice immunized with this virus with myeloma X-653 cells.
(15) In 1951 to 1973 there were recorded cases of myiasis in four species of Amphibia (Pelobates fuscus, Bufo bufo, B. viridis, Rana arvalis) from the Volga-Kama state reserve (the Tatar ASSR).
(16) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(17) Natasha Rattu, Kama Nirvana’s head of learning who trains police forces across England and Wales on how to spot the signs of forced marriage, said not all forces were well-equipped to tackle the problem.
(18) On top of that, if the user's home is wired up correctly, the app can control other the lights and music, as well as present a virtual Kama Sutra to anyone who needs inspiration.
(19) As Donna returned to sing Love To Love You, the couples assumed a variety of Kama Sutra positions.
(20) Literary data show that the situation with opisthorchiasis on the Kama River is mainly studied in Komi-Permiak Autonomous Okrug and is unclear in the upper Kama, in Kirovsk Province.
Sickle
Definition:
(n.) A reaping instrument consisting of a steel blade curved into the form of a hook, and having a handle fitted on a tang. The sickle has one side of the blade notched, so as always to sharpen with a serrated edge. Cf. Reaping hook, under Reap.
(n.) A group of stars in the constellation Leo. See Illust. of Leo.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(2) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(3) Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to examine the effect of oxysterol insertion into normal and sickle RBC membranes and the total lipid extracts of the membranes.
(4) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
(5) The sources were two adolescent patients with sickle cell disease and aplastic crisis who had unsuspected parvovirus infection.
(6) Thus, an abnormality of neutrophil oxidative metabolism cannot explain the propensity to bacterial infections in sickle cell disease.
(7) In order to examine sickle cell blood flow during MR imaging in vivo, laser-Doppler velocimetry was performed in normal control subjects and in sickle cell subjects before, during, and after MR imaging at 0.35 and 1.5 T. Mean blood flow and patterns of blood-flow variability were compared by two hematologists.
(8) Calcium-dependent ATPase, adenylate cyclase and phosphorylation of erythrocyte membrane proteins have been found abnormal in various conditions: hereditary spherocytosis, sickle-cell anemia, progressive muscular dystrophies, all of these disorders being associated with a decreased deformability of the erythrocyte.
(9) Sickle cell anemia and other hemoglobinopathies represent a major health problem in the United States.
(10) This suggests that there is little survival advantage or disadvantage in the combination of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and sickle cell anaemia.
(11) We present a boy with sickle cell glomerulopathy and FSGS who is younger than patients with similar findings reported previously.
(12) Disruption of normal blood flow patterns in the medulla with impairment of function of the loop of Henle (functional papillectomy), presumably because of sickling in the hyperosmolar and anoxic environment of the renal medulla, may mediate these abnormalities.
(13) A study was conducted in a sample of 140 children with sickle cell anemia to evaluate the relationship between hematological variables (%HbF, %HbA2, %Hb, and mean cell volume) and disease severity.
(14) These include diseases diagnosed by restriction-site variation, such as Duchenne's muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia, those due to a collection of known mutations, such as beta-thalassemia, and those due to gene deletion, such as alpha-thalassemia.
(15) You’d think Michael Foot himself was running, attending debates in a hammer and sickle-print donkey jacket, from the amount we’ve been talking about him.
(16) Although these diseases are routinely screened for at birth, there is no general strategy among district health authorities for sickle cell screening.
(17) When red cells were loaded with Ca2+ using Ionophore A23187, both normal and sickle red cells enhanced their phosphorylation and sickle red cells to a greater extent than normal red cells.
(18) Nearly all sickle cell anemia patients carried the beta S mutation on a chromosome with haplotype 19 (or Benin) and all had severe anemia with sickling complications.
(19) The agent 12C79 which increases the oxygen affinity of sickle cells in vivo and prevent HbS polymerization is in clinical development.
(20) The results indicated that sickle cell patients have significant psychosocial distress in the areas of employment and finances, sleeping and eating, and performance of normal daily activities.