(n. pl.) A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have studied plasminogen activators, alpha 2-antiplasmin, X-oligomers fibrin fragments, fibronectin, antithrombin III, fibrinogen, platelets, kaolin-cephalin clotting time and prothrombin time on admission to the intensive care unit and sequentially after 24 and 48 hours in 39 adult patients: ARDS (n = 6), trauma (n = 12), sepsis (n = 8) and a miscellanea (n = 13).
(2) was greater than 0 (higher than 0) in 89 serum samples (out of the 194): 43 SLE, 4 MCTD, 4 PSS, 3 D PM, 1 SS, 7 RA, 10 cases of Miscellanea, the Idiopathic Anticardiolipin Syndrome and 16 healthy controls.
(3) Main causes of symptomatic seizures were: cerebral infarction, alcohol-withdrawal, CNS infections, tumors, vascular malformations, traumatism and miscellanea.
(4) Apart from psychotic episodes, the clinical manifestations of PN comprise dysphoric states, hysterical and hypochondriacal syndromes, affective disorders, and miscellanea.
Miscellany
Definition:
(n.) A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.
(a.) Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other infants, dying of unexplained respiratory illness, may have this disorder and some may be included in the miscellany of disorders that constitute the sudden infant death syndrome.
(2) Beverly died in 2013. Letters: John Berger obituary Read more Last year saw the premiere in Berlin of the film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger , directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin McCabe, Christopher Roth and Bartek Dziadosz, and the publication of Confabulations, a miscellany of essays and drawings.
(3) Mortimer's Miscellany ran for a month at the King's Head, Islington, north London, in 2007.
(4) My approach had always been more of a woozy supermarket sweep, and it meant I'd built up a curious one-track miscellany.
(5) If the owner of this odd miscellany, a Victorian lawyer with an elaborate Ex Libris plate, hadn’t underlined the words “A Brief Description of the Portrait of Prince Charles, afterwards Charles the First, painted at Madrid in 1623 by Velasquez [sic]” on the contents page, I might not have noticed it.
(6) Over the years, two more novels, three miscellanies and the memoirs followed.
(7) Strains of R. japonicum and the cowpea miscellany displayed all three types, while strains of R. leguminosarum, R. phaseoli, and R. trifolii did not reduce nitrate by dissimilatory means.
(8) On the one hand, the proposed system would be a welcome simplification relative to the current complex miscellany of rules, and would give individuals much greater clarity over what state pension income they could expect in retirement.
(9) Immunodiffusion reactions were studied with seven strains of Rhizobium japonicum and three strains of the cowpea miscellany by using antisera against eight of the strains.
(10) It’s some of the best stuff she’s done since the 2008 RNC (before she devolved into speeches composed of a miscellany of punchlines and red-meat-for-the-rubes bumper stickering).
(11) • £4.95 adult, £2.50 child, nationaltrust.org.uk , 028 7084 8728 The House of McDonnell, Ballycastle, County Antrim This is a proper old world classic (the interior was last revamped in 1870) – Bakelite switches and coat hooks beneath the counter, a keyhole clock that gongs above the bar, shelves of bottled miscellany, distillers’ mirrors, daylight filtering in through red Bristol glass.
(12) This miscellany of sketches drawn by a Nurse Reeve in 1883-1887 consists of the following: first, talipes and genu recurvatum.
(13) In addition there are a variety of cystic neoplasms and a miscellany of unusual forms.
(14) Scientific medicine is always encircled by a miscellany of medical fantasies, which come and go, and which offer a short-cut to diagnosis and treatment, and (very occasionally) both together.