(n.) Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
(2) In the highlands 90 sera were collected, in the lowlands 140.
(3) Emphysema appeared to be more prevalent in lowland than highland dwellers.
(4) Two pilot studies on malaria, leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and intestinal parasites were carried out in 104 children 6-15 years old from villages in the lowland and highland areas of South Yemen in November 1988.
(5) Orthostatic tolerance was measured in 20 lowlander Indian soldiers (sojourners) by recording responses of heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and mean skin temperature (Tsk) to 70 degrees head-up passive tilt, initially at Delhi (260 m altitude) and thereafter at 3500 m at weekly intervals for 3 weeks.
(6) Morphological and structural rearrangement of resistant pulmonary vessels and alveolar capillaries was assessed in lowland animals (rabbits) during high-altitude adaptation, in aboriginal high-altitude species (yaks, mountain goats) and on native highlanders.
(7) An ultrastructural study of lung biopsy specimens from an adult mestizo highlander from La Paz (3800 m) and three lowlanders from London showed no significant difference in the thickness of the alveolar capillary wall, the thickness in the highlander being 0.65 micron and the range in the lowlanders being 0.57-0.69 micron.
(8) Total population density varies among islands approximately linearly with the number of species in the lowlands, supralinearly at higher elevations.
(9) The clinical syndrome earlier designated as paraparesia espástica del Pacífico is an isolated form of tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP) that was reported in 1981 in the southern Pacific lowlands of Columbia in and near Tumaco.
(10) In lowland (760 m above sea level) and highland (3200 m above sea level) of Tien Shan, the measurements of blood pressure and blood flow in the large vessels as well as the mass of heart ventricles of 75 rabbits have been made.
(11) The Mexican leaf frog, Pachymedusa dacnicolor, an inhabitant of the semiarid, subtropical Mexican lowlands, displays a well-defined seasonal testicular cycle.
(12) The highland migrants at sea-level share none of the 'altitude' characteristics of the highland residents and, after size-adjustment, correspond with the lowlanders.
(13) Cross-sectional and evolutive studies on schistosomiasis mansoni were carried out before and after mass treatment in the endemic areas of Capitão Andrade and Padre Paraiso, state of Minas Gerais, Riachuelo, state of Sergipe, Alhandra, state of Paraiba, and Aliança, Alegre and Coroatá, lowland of the state of Maranhão, Brazil, in the last eighteen years.
(14) These are: (1) amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinsonism, and dementia syndromes in a small population of Auyu and Jakai peoples in the Lowlands, and (2) an epidemic of burns from cysticercosis epilepsy from newly introduced Taenia solium in pigs in the Ekari people of the Wissel Lakes in the Highlands.
(15) Our purpose was to utilize current reproductive technologies to treat an infertile female lowland gorilla.
(16) Long-term observations are presented on the behaviour of the siamang ape, Symphalangus syndactylus, in the lowland forest of central Malaya.
(17) The study was carried out on 4 groups: 426 individuals of both sexes and all ages from the rural population of the lowlands, with a warm and humid climate; 226 individuals from the highlands, with a cold and dry climate; 1000 individuals of the urban working group from the lowlands; and 1000 individuals of the urban working group from the highlands.
(18) Synchronization of oestrus was achieved in 24 crossbreds of Slovak Pied x Lowland Black Pied breeds (SS x Nc) using two doses of cloprostenol of Czechoslovak provenience Oestrophan Spofa, 500 micrograms in each, within 11 days.
(19) Thus, increased plasma lactate accumulation in unacclimatized lowlanders exercising at high altitude appears to be due to increased beta-adrenergic stimulation.
(20) This article provides a cultural interpretation of female prostitution in contemporary lowland Buddhist Thai society.
Valley
Definition:
(n.) The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
(n.) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.
(n.) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) We always feel like it's Hobbitshire – a green valley where nothing happens."
(3) In 1971 the Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School established a program at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa.
(4) In primary culture, CSM cells attached to the culture vessels by 48 to 72 h, proliferated by 3 to 7 d, and reached confluency by 14 to 17 d with a "hill-and-valley" pattern.
(5) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(6) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
(7) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(8) 2589 sera from pathology laboratories in towns in the Murray Valley gave additional evidence of community immunity to flaviviruses and suggested some increase in the proportion reactive between January and May 1974.
(9) Wastewater from Mexico city is used to irrigate over 85 000 hectares, mainly of fodder and cereal crops in the Mezquital Valley.
(10) By means of immunoreactivity for spot 35 protein, a novel cerebellar Purkinje cell-specific protein, the regional heterogeneity among non-pigmented ciliary epithelial cells of rats was demonstrated with reference to the antero-posterior and crest-valley directions of individual ciliary epithelial folds in immature and mature eyes.
(11) Compounds 3a and 3c exhibited significant activity against vaccinia virus in vitro, whereas 4a was effective against Rift Valley fever virus in mice.
(12) Two “Belgian journalists” had been in the Panjshir valley of northern Afghanistan for weeks, supposedly waiting to interview Ahmad Shah Massoud, the so-called Lion of the Panjshir, leader of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, an al-Qaida adversary.
(13) At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Netanyahu declared he would not “uproot a single settler” from the Jordan Valley.
(14) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
(15) The data discussed in this article were gathered through use of a retrospective cohort survey five years following a major flood in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
(16) A recent study of foetal alcohol syndrome in the Fitzroy Valley, in remote Western Australia, found that 120 out of 1,000 children born in the largely Aboriginal community were affected by the condition, which impairs brain development and decision making and is connected with high rates of involvement in the justice system.
(17) The 5' non-coding region of the genomes of 11 isolates of Murray Valley encephalitis virus from Australia and Papua New Guinea were examined by primer extension sequencing.
(18) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
(19) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(20) Non-discrimination laws chart Although the decisive manner in which leaders from Silicon Valley and the business community rallied against – and ultimately helped change – the Indiana law marked a major turning point, Talbot conceded that the project itself is unfinished.