(n.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.
Example Sentences:
(1) I always think of that child, whenever I hear about the numbers who are dead.” He added that he did not think people should see organisations like MOAS as the answer to the crisis.
(2) Moas was planning to act under the instructions of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Rome, which covers the zone crossed by migrant boats from Libya and can order any vessel to undertake a rescue.
(3) Here’s my story of fleeing Libya – and surviving | Hakim Bello Read more As he attempted to raise funds for Moas, Catrambone found donors sceptical.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Guardian spent five days with the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) meeting its crew and the people it saved.
(5) This experiment did not demonstrate any carcinogenic effect of MOAS in mice at levels up to 1.0% in the drinking-water.
(6) The authors hypothesized that the two groups would have similar Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) scale scores at Times 1 and 3, but would differ substantially at Time 2.
(7) The Moas team quickly found itself involved in the simultaneous rescue of two migrant boats, including a wooden fishing vessel with 350 people – many of them families from Syria – that was slowly sinking.
(8) In an attempt to improve detection of macroscopically invisible tumour spread, intraoperative scintimetry (IOSM) with a hand-held gamma-probe was performed in addition to SPET 24-30 and 41-48 h after injection of the technetium-99m carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA MoA) on 12 patients with colorectal carcinoma and 3 patients with different neoplastic and inflammatory diseases.
(9) That is why I am saying you really have to focus in on saving people’s lives first.” Catrambone says he would close Moas’s Mediterranean operation if Europe had something better to offer, but that does not seem likely to happen soon.
(10) Based on the Yudofsky scale, a Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS) with upgraded psychometric properties was developed to assess the nature and prevalence of aggression in a psychiatric population.
(11) That may seem fantastical - but it is no more so than the idea of MOAS seemed less than a year ago.
(12) We have enzymatically amplified and sequenced approximately 400 base pairs of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene from bones and soft tissue remains of four species of moas as well as eight other species of ratite birds and a tinamou.
(13) Under the influence of Sydnocarb, Mephexamid and Maprotiline the value of MOA, CR, TS, TV remained unchanged.
(14) The reversible inhibitors of monoamine oxidase A (RIMAs) are a group of drugs that, by producing inhibition selectively of monoamine oxidase A (MOA-A), still allow metabolism of tyramine by MAO-B.
(15) #HumanityIsBack #MOAS #HumanityWashedAshore September 3, 2015 “People are saying they don’t want to be bystanders anymore.
(16) Morpholine oleic acid salt (MOAS) was administered to groups of 50 male and 50 female B6C3F1 mice in the drinking-water at levels of 0, 0.25 and 1.0%.
(17) The male mice given 0.25% MOAS had a significantly reduced incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in comparison with the control group and this trend was indicated also in the 1.0% group.
(18) In particular, point mutations recently described in MOA-inhibitor-resistant mutants can no longer be taken to affect necessarily the ubihydroquinone binding site.
(19) This result is interpreted as a support for the inhibitory mechanism based on the model of a 'catalytic switch' proposed recently for the E-beta-methoxyacrylate inhibitors (MOA-inhibitors (Brandt and von Jagow, Eur.
(20) The enzyme lacking iron-sulfur protein showed almost unchanged, tight binding of the E-beta-methoxyacrylate inhibitors oudemansin A and MOA-stilbene, whereas binding of the chromone inhibitor stigmatellin was almost completely abolished.
Moya
Definition:
(n.) Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arteriography, however, was better than intravenous DSA in demonstrating Moya Moya vessels, differentiating complete occlusion from severe stenosis, and demonstrating important transdural collaterals.
(2) Cerebral angiography revealed occlusive disease of major vessels, an arteriovenous malformation, and moya-moya type anastomoses.
(3) It is the most ambitious privatisation since the sale of the railways in the 1990s and is forcefully opposed by the unions, who are meeting Royal Mail chief executive, Moya Greene, in Birmingham on Thursday to discuss threatened strike action.
(4) 6.35pm BST "Lawrence, I resent your statement regarding Farselona ruining a players career," emails Rodrigo Moya.
(5) Rare diseases only very recently described as arterial blocks of cerebral vessels are fibromuscular dysplasia and Moya-Moya-disease, the etiology of which is not yet fully understood.
(6) As MR angiography is not invasive, it promises to become a valuable alternative to conventional angiography in the diagnosis of Moya-Moya.
(7) From the total group, we found 12 saccular aneurysms, 9 arteriovenous malformations, 3 cases of moya-moya and 3 instances of superior sagittal sinus thrombosis.
(8) However, Moya Greene, Royal Mail's chief executive who was paid £1.6m last year, will take up her free allocation.
(9) Those of you who know me, know that there would be a few more adjectives before that.” So far, the movement has not drawn an official Fifa comment but Moya Dodd , a former player for Australia who was voted on to the governing body’s board last year, told the BBC last week that generalisations about the quality of turf surfaces aren’t always accurate.
(10) It has been suggested that Moya Moya is a hereditary disease due to the frequency of siblings with the disease.
(11) Kye Dudd (@KyeDudd) Moya Greene struggles to convince postal workers that privatisation will be good for them.
(12) Cerebral angiography demonstrated aneurysmal dilatation of the terminal portion of the right internal carotid artery, minor irregularity of the lenticulostriate branches of the right middle cerebral artery (suggestive of Moya Moya disease) and occlusion of the right anterior cerebral artery.
(13) Right MCA occlusion, multiple stenosis of both ACAs and Moya-Moya like vessels were discovered.
(14) This morning's announcement of a stock market flotation "in the coming weeks" received an angry response from workers, who refused to be swayed by chief executive Moya Greene today.
(15) Here's a flavour: The sell-off of the 497-year-old postal service is the most contentious privatisation since British Rail two decades ago, and is forcefully opposed by the unions, who are meeting with the Royal Mail chief executive, Moya Greene, on Thursday morning to once again voice their anger at the "great British flog-off".
(16) Like the altogether more modest Skylon – an ethereal, skypiercing mast on the South Bank designed by the architects Powell and Moya as a signpost for the 1951 Festival of Britain – Kapoor's tower, designed in collaboration with the imaginative structural engineer Cecil Balmond, will draw attention to the Olympics Park more persuasively than any of the architecture commissioned for the event.
(17) Fourteen patients suspected of having Moya Moya disease underwent intravenous digital subtraction angiography (DSA), and the findings from nine of these patients were reviewed and analyzed.
(18) Moya-Smith noted as an example that in her Democratic nomination acceptance speech Thursday night, Hillary Clinton did not mention systemic racialized violence or discrimination against Native Americans.
(19) It is supposed that Moya Moya disease may be restricted to the PCoA-s. Further, the types of hypoplastic PCoA-s with reticular fiber deficiency are most probably the source of the so-called unexplained subarachnoid hemorrhage regardless of the presence of infundibular widening.
(20) A British born white man, age 51 years, presented with cerebrovascular insuffciency, and was found radiologically to have moya-moya disease.