(a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.
(a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(2) The authors report a resurgence of this disease during the last years, with a 5 human cases per 100,000 annual prevalence and a 6 per cent of rate death, the most active part of mediterranean area appears to be the region of Grand-Kabylie.
(3) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(4) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(5) The functional and phyletic significance of this material reveals a complex pattern of behavioral and phyletic diversity among large-bodied catarrhines in Europe and suggests that this diversity evolved in situ from circum-Mediterranean middle Miocene ancestors.
(6) Mediterranean countries, parts of southern Africa and South America would experience 20% to 30% less water availability.
(7) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
(8) A variety of sources can account for marine pollution by genotoxic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic compounds, but there is a relative paucity of analytical data concerning the Mediterranean.
(9) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(10) Novel structural changes in members of the serum amyloid A (SAA) gene family have been found in four patients of varied ethnic backgrounds with familial Mediterranean fever.
(11) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(12) This was equivalent to nearly nearly half the number rescued last May, a month which saw an unprecedented level of migration in the Mediterranean.
(13) Cases of cystic echinococcosis (E. granulosus) diagnosed in Central Europe are often imported from mediterranean countries.
(14) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
(15) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(16) About one-third of our postmastectomy patients are corpulent, middle-aged women with "Mediterranean" body structures.
(17) The northern Mediterranean has been Europe's soft underbelly during the crisis.
(18) They belonged to two ethnic groups--Mediterranean and Asian--and 53% were under the age of 6 years, the oldest being 20 years.
(19) Mediterranean patients (N = 16) had features intermediary between the two other groups.
(20) A C----T mutation at nucleotide 563 of G6PD Mediterranean has been identified by Vulliamy et al., and the same mutation has been found by De Vita et al.
Padrone
Definition:
(n.) A patron; a protector.
(n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
(n.) A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) European Journal of Histochemistry 47:385-388 · Vazquez Padron, R.I., Gonzalez Cabrera, J., Garcia Tovar, C., Neri Bazan, L., Lopez Revilla, R., Hernandez, M., Morena Fierros, L., De la Riva, G.A.
(2) There are some seared peppers padron with salted almonds and only a few flakes of salt cod.
(3) Penrose’s staff turnover is close to zero, as is the number of sick days, says co-founder Robert Stephenson-Padron.
(4) · Vazquez Padron, R.I., Moreno Fierros, L., Neri Bazan, L., De la Riva, G.A., Lopez Revilla, R., (1999).
(5) An evaluation was made of Padron-Dock-Stader sulfide (PDS) agar for the rapid detection of Salmonella and Arizona microorganisms in foods.
(6) Signatories also included Jeremy Bennett, chief executive officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Nomura Holdings; Alistair Phillips-Davies, chief executive of the energy company SSE, Chris Britton, founder and partner at B&B Investment and former chief executive of the Findus Group; Sir Ian Cheshire, chief executive of Kingfisher; Iain Ferguson, chairman of the Stobart Group; Steve Marshall, executive chair of Balfour Beatty; Kevin Mcgrath, chair of M&M Property Asset Management; Robert Stephenson-Padron, managing director of Penrose Care; and Craig Wilson, managing director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, UK.