(adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
(n.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
(2) No patient developed metastases without previous clinically-evident invasive loco-regional disease.
(3) It is of mechanical or mixed type, accompanied by local, pseudo-inflammatory signs being either apparent or discrete, very elective and very sharp pain upon palpation of a very limited area of a condyle or a tibial plate, with hyperfixation located through scintigraphy with technetium 99m polyphosphates, and regressing either spontaneously, or more quickly under treatment, of which thyrocalcitone is the essential part, without undergoing a phase of intense loco-regional demineralization.
(4) There was complete loco-regional tumour control in 51% of all patients (with and without distant metastases).
(5) Two of the 37 patients who underwent mastectomy developed loco-regional recurrences; both had invasive foci at their first operation and remain disease free at 8 years.
(6) Among the 25 cases of recurrence, 1 was exclusively local and 6 were loco-regional (T and N), while 18 patients presented metastatic progression, either exclusively, or with local or lymph node failure.
(7) All patients where managed similarly: 3 to 4 courses of chemotherapy (CMF: n = 24; AVCF: n = 42), then loco regional irradiation therapy with cobalt 60, followed by maintenance chemotherapy, only if the first chemotherapy had proved effective (CMF: n = 13; AVCF: n = 27).
(8) Since there seems to be a direct relation between tumor size and the chance of loco-regional recurrence and since salvage operations for local failure are not uniformly successful, electrofulguration for cure must be reserved for the very rare patient with a very small early-stage rectal cancer.
(9) Although the recurrence rates of 37% and 49% by 50 Gy and 40 Gy were not statistically different, there was a strong trend of a better control rate of loco-regional carcinoma by higher radiation doses.
(10) From these results, it is reasonable to conclude that Kupffer cells alone are activated in a condition without a supply of monocytes from peripheral blood; proliferate and cluster in the hepatic sinusoids; transform into peroxidase-negative macrophages, epithelioid cells, and multinuclear giant cells; and participate in granuloma formation in loco together with T lymphocytes.
(11) Patients with T1 squamous cell carcinomas had, in fact, the best prognosis (26.5% recurred) among the subgroups obtained by stratification of T number and cell type together; loco-regional failure as exclusive modality of relapse had a 5-year rate of 19.7% and metastatic failure of 30.0%.
(12) In patients with Dukes' B tumours, an increased risk of loco-regional recurrence was associated with perineural invasion, tumour located less than 10 cm from the anal verge, patient aged above 70 years, and small tumour size.
(13) An effort was made to neutralize the virus in loco either by infiltration of the inoculation site with povidone-iodine or with monoclonal antibodies, or by cauterization and excision.
(14) To establish whether predictive clinical patterns of disease occur in localized Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, survival and relapse patterns for 496 patients with stage I and II non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) treated with loco-regional irradiation (XRT) alone were examined.
(15) Radiotherapy alone may be appropriate treatment for extensive loco-regional tumours or in those that have already metastasized.
(16) Thus, adjuvant systemic treatment alone (chemotherapy or tamoxifen) did not prevent loco-regional recurrences in high-risk patients after mastectomy and axillary lymph node sampling.
(17) Three factors were found to be statistically significant: adjuvant hormonotherapy, loco-regional metastases, adjuvant adriamycin containing regimen (pejorative prognostic factor).
(18) Risk factors for loco-regional relapse (seven cases) included: large tumour bulk, treatment by XRT alone and use of 'limited' radiation fields.
(19) Following initial promising results in terms of loco-regional disease control in this group of high-risk patients, the protocol was extended to include 34 patients defined as having locally extensive disease.
(20) These changes may be related to the endothelial damage present scleroderma patients I the consequent "in loco" activation of blood coagulation may cause the microthrombosis that is very often observed in the earliest phases of the disease.
Loo
Definition:
(n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.
(n.) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.
(v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(2) Analysis of data obtained after oral administration of the drug by the Loo-Riegelman method showed that the pindolol absorption kinetic was non-linear.
(3) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
(4) The normal cytoarchitectonic pattern of barrels in layer IV of mouse SmI face cortex is altered by early damage to the mystacial vibrissae (Van der Loos and Woolsey, '73).
(5) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
(6) Envirolet offers a basic model from ¤1,175 (£1,040) plus €149 shipping, while its FlushSmart system, which looks like a normal loo, costs €2,900, plus shipping, and uses some electricity to process the waste.
(7) "But this year was the first time there was a line for the ladies' loos.
(8) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(9) I would be flabbergasted that if anyone bothered to test the loos of some of our most uptight rightwing papers they didn't find some traces of Class A drugs.
(10) Rebecca Loos would be a fine example of a story; Clifford looked after her for six months following her alleged affair with David Beckham.
(11) "I only had one unpleasant experience, when I was stupid enough to pick up someone in a loo at Piccadilly.
(12) The randomness of the impregnation of layer IV cortical neurons by the Golgi-Cox method (Van der Loos, '56) has been assessed directly in Barrel C-1 of the mouse SmI.
(13) By contrast, the elegant experiments of Woolsey, Van der Loos, and collaborators (Van der Loos, H., and T. A. Woolsey.
(14) "When you needed the loo, it wasn't that great but it was worth it – it's the best thing I've ever seen at Glastonbury."
(15) If you have ever been on "close obs" yourself, you will know that the particular skills and attitude of the people tasked with tailing you 24 hours a day – sitting by your bed while you sleep (or don't), following you when you go to the loo, taking you out for a cigarette – will make the most enormous difference to your experience as a patient.
(16) The absorption profile of the various oral formulations was analysed pharmacokinetically, using the Loo-Riegelman procedure.
(17) followed by protonation of LOO- and dimerization of the DDC.
(18) The absorption kinetics after the buccal treatment were evaluated using the Exact Loo-Riegelman Method (ELRM).
(19) No, flying toilets are the outcome of people forced to go to the loo in a bag before throwing it into the streets because no better option exists.
(20) Clifford – who has made millions looking after clients as varied as Frank Sinatra, Freddie Starr, Jade Goody, Rebecca Loos and Kerry Katona – argued that there needs to be a clear "halfway house" between protecting privacy and freedom of speech, and newspapers should be forced to justify publishing stories about people's personal lives.