(n.) A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mona Deeley, a producer for Cinema Badila: Alternative Cinema on BBC Arabic TV , said: "The secret cinema is an interesting initiative for both subverting the ban on cinema and as a form of civil and cultural resistance."
(2) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(3) "There is a huge media campaign to distort the real image of the Iraqi revolution, by claiming that it is led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS)," Salim tells Mona: ...but the truth is that all the Iraqi resistance factions have taken part in the revolution including Islamic factions.
(4) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
(5) Retreating to your lab and hoping it will all go away is not going to be the best strategy Andrew Rosenberg, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration In March, Bill Nye , the bow-tied embodiment of science for many Americans, and Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician who alerted the world to soaring levels of lead in the blood of children in Flint, Michigan, were named as honorary co-chairs.
(6) These actions targeted two demographics … most associated with ‘polluting’ Cairo’s city centre: street vendors and revolutionary activists.” Whether the wall’s lack of heritage status is a deliberate government strategy, AUC sociologist Mona Abaza, who has written extensively about the graffiti, says it certainly serves their political interests.
(7) It was compared with Duchamp drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
(8) Thursday's first US-style televised presidential debate in the Arab world will be broadcast on Egyptian TV between candidates Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Abou el Fotouh, with the debate moderated by leading talkshow hosts Yosri Fouda, Mona el-Shazly and Reem Magued.
(9) Egyptian-born blogger Mona Eltahawy says that social media has given the most marginalised groups in the region a voice.
(10) The Nazis would have sought the Mona Lisa without rest, demanding it be handed to them upon their entry to Paris, and hunting it down if it were not.
(11) While the band were already fans of Monae, whose album they play in the studio, Kiesza, the Juno award-winning Canadian singer, was brought to Duran Duran by their publisher.
(12) The Savage Beauty show was wildly successful, attracting more than 660,000 visitors in 2011, making it the eighth most visited exhibition in the Met's 142-year history and putting it in a top 10 that includes the time the Mona Lisa came to Manhattan in 1963 and a Treasures of Tutankhamun show in 1978.
(13) He founded the Mukto-Mona (“free mind”) blog which supported and nurtured a community of free-thinkers, secularists, atheists and humanists in Bangladesh.
(14) When he died, the socialite Mona von Bismarck, whose loyalty to the designer was such that she had him run up her gardening clothes, took to her bed for three days in mourning.
(15) "A Sweden free of fossil fuels would give us enormous advantages, not least by reducing the impact from fluctuation in oil prices," argues Mona Sahlin, minister for sustainable development.
(16) His father, Wilfred Paradine Frost, was a Methodist minister of Huguenot descent; David reportedly more resembled his mother Mona.
(17) She tells The Guardian's Mona Mahmood ( @monamood ) about conditions for civilians in the Iraqi capital .
(18) To date, Zarathustra has adorned the Mona Lisa, which Petrova says makes her “look like a modern girl who’s taking a selfie with her cat” and US President Barack Obama’s hope poster, which came to symbolise his 2008 run for the White House.
(19) The elegance of that corporate choice is like the ambiguity of the Mona Lisa 's smile, the ruthlessness of Mike Tyson's punch and the adaptability of the malaria virus combined.
(20) The men were dragged half-naked into police trucks in the late night raid, which was filmed by a private television crew headed by presenter Mona Iraqi.
Zona
Definition:
(n.) A zone or band; a layer.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(2) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
(3) The effects of clozapine on the spontaneous firing rate of noradrenergic (NE, locus coeruleus), dopaminergic (DA, zona compacta, ventral tegmental area) and non-dopaminergic (zona reticulata) neurons was studied in chloral hydrate anesthetized rats.
(4) Zona pellucida solubility, plasminogen activator production, and plasminogen conversion to plasmin increased as embryonic stage advanced; however, plasminogen activator production and plasmin conversion to plasmin were poorly correlated with zona pellucida solubility.
(5) The results indicate that the sperm swelling test and the zona-free hamster ovum penetration assay are evaluating different functional qualities of sperm that are apparently not associated with each other.
(6) It was found by this HPLC that the amino groups of PZP3 hardly reacted with FITC, whereas those of PZP1 and 2 fairly reacted, reflecting the organization of these families in the zona structure.
(7) Quantitative morphological study of the zona glomerulosa of the rat adrenal was carried out.
(8) The fragment showed smooth muscle relaxant activity in the rabbit aorta and chick rectum assays, an inhibitory effect on aldosterone secretion from bovine adrenal zona glomerulosa cells, and had affinity for specific ANF receptors located in zona glomerulosa cell membranes.
(9) The nuclear masses are known as (1) the area lateralis hypothalami (ALH), (2) the nucleus entopeduncularis (nEp), (3) the nucleus semilunaris accessorius (nSA), (4) the nucleus ventromedialis hypothalami (nVmH), and (5) the posterolateral portion of the zona incerta (ZI).
(10) The zonae pellucidae were isolated from ovarian tissue following described mincing techniques.
(11) In the Marmoset monkey, DARPP-32-LI was also observed in the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex.
(12) Mouse sperm bind to zonae pellucidae of cumulus-free eggs in vitro in a Ca2+-dependent reaction; these sperm are intact by the CTC assay.
(13) These findings suggest that AII enhances the growth and the steroidogenic capacity of rat adrenal zona fasciculata.
(14) The capsule which surrounds the pre-attachment equine embryo has been compared with the zona pellucida (zp) that it replaces, as well as with the rabbit blastocyst coverings, by means of physicochemical and immunological methods.
(15) This case illustrates: (1) acid medium, chymotrypsin, or sucrose are not needed for the procedure of zona cutting; (2) the zygotes resulting from zona cutting survive through freezing and thawing; and (3) oocyte retrieval can be done concomitant with conservative surgery for endometriosis.
(16) Also, for determination of the fertilizing capacity of the semen, a zona-free hamster ovum penetration test was done in 49 men, while 14 men were studied by determination of the fertilization of human oocytes in vitro.
(17) Whether these two sera specifically affect sperm-zona pellucida binding or non-specifically affect the normal progression of capacitation remains to be eludicated.
(18) Within the zona interna of the median eminence, vasopressin and neurophysin were present in two populations of axons, one with granules of 1300-1500 A and one with granules of 900-1300 A.
(19) The lectins bound to all charge species of the three major zona pellucida glycoproteins.
(20) Yet serum with positive I-IBT for IgM did not affect sperm-zona binding (HZIs=17.1 vs. 19.4; p.1).