(n.) A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rivers assayed were the Peel, Arctic Red, Mountain, Carcajou, and Liard rivers.
(2) The Liard River sample had significantly elevated mean DNA content relative to the other four samples; all other samples were statistically indistinguishable.
(3) Mosaicism was found in blood preparations from the Peel, Arctic Red, Mountain, and Liard rivers, but was not observed in kidney tissue preparations from the Mountain or Carcajou rivers.
Sou
Definition:
(n.) An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (/ of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lower urinary tracts with obstructive uropathy had a significantly higher total egg burden (TEB) than did lower urinary tracts with any other type of gross lesion (i.e., benign prostatic hypertrophy, other urethral outlet obstruction, or SOU precursor lesions).
(2) Sustainable cosmetics company Natura has introduced a new line of products, Natura Sou , which come in squeezable pouches rather than in traditional hard plastic bottles.
(3) But I was surprised, and troubled, by the high number of women in Ghana who reported using a sou-sou – another informal savings arrangement, where someone comes to her home to collect her savings and charges her a day’s contribution when the money is returned at the end of the month — and also reported saving in a bank.
(4) To test the feasibility of intrathecal perfusion of ACNU (3-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitro sou rea hydrochloride) in the treatment of subarachnoid dissemination of malignant glioma, the neurotoxicity and pharmacokinetics of ACNU were studied in dogs.
(5) The authors collated the drug-induced side effects reported by subscribers to the malpractice insurance company, Sou Medical.
(6) In a series of 32 unselected consecutive autopsies of Egyptian male adults, we found a significant prevalence of schistosomal obstructive uropathy (SOU) and of precursor lesions of stenosis, fibrosis and induration of the ureters (62.5%).