(n.) In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother.
(conj.) But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, "Vivace, ma non troppo presto" (i. e., lively, but not too quick).
Example Sentences:
(1) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(2) In order to increase the efficiency of androgen blockade, we have used 4-MA, an inhibitor of 5 alpha-reductase, the enzyme which converts testosterone into DHT, to reduce intracellular DHT concentrations and thus facilitate the action of the antiandrogen Flutamide.
(3) Neither was the intra-VMH infusion of MA effective if: (i) the rats were not primed with estrogen; (ii) the tips of the cannulae were outside the VMH; or (iii) it was preceded by an intra-VMH infusion of the alpha 1b-antagonist, chloroethylclonidine (CEC).
(4) This paper reports a study of lipid and carbohydrate metabolism in 42 women who took megestrol acetate (MA) .5 mg daily for 6 months.
(5) Verbal activity was measured by counting the number of times each patient was MA during the course of the group.
(6) Twenty-one rats were divided into two groups: the control group which received no galvanic stimulation, and the galvanically stimulated group which received anodal galvanic stimulation (unipolar monoauricular, 5 mA in intensity, 500 msec of duration, 1 Hz in frequency) for 30 minutes.
(7) sec.-1); b) an enhancement of fast (15-25 Hz) oscillations in the cortical spontaneous electrical activity and weakening and modification of the effects of the blockader of synthesis of MA-alpha-methyl-dioxiphenylalanine.
(8) The MA and BNST in general are involved in regulation of several sexually dimorphic functions, including aggression, sexual behavior, gonadotropin secretion and integration of olfactory information.
(9) The correction of MA improved nitrogen balance and elevated plasma branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), keto acids (BCKA), glutamine and alanine concentrations.
(10) The 125I-MA has a high binding affinity for surface-displayed IgG (2.22 X 10(9) M-1), reacts equally well with all four subclasses of IgG and not at all with IgM or IgA.
(11) These results suggest that a selective increased susceptibility to MA compared with a retained normal resistance to MI in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients as they progress from AIDS-related complex to AIDS accounts for the higher prevalence of MA than MI infection in AIDS patients.
(12) Methodology for counting microaneurysms (Ma) was developed at a central laboratory and applied in suitable photographs obtained at 0 (baseline), 4, and 8 mo in 68 patients.
(13) K12G0S32 is a 57-kDa recombinant single-chain chimeric plasminogen activator consisting of scFv-K12Go, a single-chain variable-region antigen-binding fragment (Fv) of the monoclonal antibody MA-15C5, which is specific for fragment D-dimer of human cross-linked fibrin, and a low-molecular-mass (33 kDa) urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA-33k) containing amino acids Ala132-Leu411 (Holvoet, P., Laroche, Y., Lijnen, H. R., Van Cauwenberghe, R., Demarsin, E., Brouwers, E., Matthyssens, G. & Collen D. (1991) J. Biol.
(14) Subdividing the A and A+C responsive neurones according to their mono- (M) or polysynaptic (P) connexions yielded the following sub-samples: MC, 39%; PC, 15%; MA, 13%; PA, 33%.
(15) The range of effective stimulation was 1-10 ma, 4-100 Hz and 0.3-0.6 msec.
(16) Moreover, MA-10 inhibits autophosphorylation and protein-tyrosine kinase activity of reduced and purified insulin receptor beta-subunits.
(17) Plaques of 3 to 4 mm in diameter were produced in MA-104 cells after 5 days of incubation at 37 degrees C. Plaque size was even larger (5 to 6 mm) in monolayers of African green monkey kidney cells.
(18) Paired measurements of intrarenal blood flow distribution by MA and Tl uptake methodologies showed that local blood flow assessed with MA in the inner cortical zone was significantly lower than that obtained with 201Tl and that a higher blood flow rate was obtained in the outer cortical zone with MA compared with 201Tl.
(19) Electrical transmural stimulation (ETS; 300 pulses at 0.5, 3 or 10 Hz, 0.5-msec pulse width, 2.8 mA cm-2) of the mucosa-submucosa produced a frequency-dependent increase in Isc and an increase in net anion secretion.
(20) In GN, correlations were seen between T cells and MHC-class II+ cells (r = 0.63; p less than 0.001), and Mo-Ma (r = 0.38; p less than 0.02), infiltrating the interstitium.
Momma
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) That is the shit.” “Not sure what my momma is thinking.
(2) My mother is happy to have me stay near home forever, I'm sort of a momma's boy.
(3) It is my belief that they planted that sweater on my momma,” Theresa Johnson told the Guardian.
(4) She was a drug dealer who always treated us right, buying us presents even when momma slept on the couch and wasn’t good to Sweet Pea.
(5) Welcome to the momma-cussing, rap-battling, “are you disrespecting my family” phase of the Brexit talks.
(6) Her mother, my big momma, said, 'No way, you ain't gon' go, they gon' bomb it.'
(7) Thank you.” When we crossed into Oklahoma, her words quickened, each new sign or landmark prompting a memory, regret or fear: “My momma had a girlfriend named Sweet Pea who lived here in Tulsa.
(8) She just lives three doors down from her momma, and she thinks she making it on her own.” We pulled into the parking lot and our headlights lit a courtyard empty except for a basketball lying on a dirt patch.
(9) In video of the Friday incident that was uploaded to YouTube , Casebolt shouts and gestures at 15-year-old Dajerria Becton, and grabs her head and pushes her face down into the ground while she cries: “Call my momma.” He also briefly draws his gun at two young people who approach him and acts aggressively towards others who are standing quietly.
(10) Elba, who has previously starred in one of Perry's romantic comedies ( Daddy's Little Girls ), lamented the trend for cross-dressing caricatures of black characters – a phenomenon many would recognise from films such as the The Klumps and Big Momma's House series – describing it as "buffoonish".
(11) "We are Mummy Helen and Mummy Sarah, or Mum and Momma.
(12) Momma ( speaking in Serbian ) – thank you very much.
(13) "Now we go home and they say, 'Momma, give me sweets', and you can't explain to a child that there's no money."