(n.) An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.
(n.) A Newfoundland dog.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reported prevalence and severity of primary spheroidal degeneration in Labrador and nothern Newfoundland is based on a survey of 929 patients.
(2) This study reveals that gastric cancer mortality is high, by international comparisons, in Newfoundland, but is less than in the highest risk countries (Japan, Chile, Iceland).
(3) Tonsil size and serum immunoglobulin (G, A, M and D) measurements were studied in 1049 individuals during a health survey on the West Coast of Newfoundland.
(4) These cases occurred predominantly in Quebec (43%) followed by Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
(5) The charts of 310 consecutive patients with snowmobile injuries admitted to Charles S. Curtis Memorial Hospital, St. Anthony, Newfoundland, during the years 1969 through 1986 were reviewed in order to determine the causes and possible ways of prevention of these injuries.
(6) Using the population of St John's, Newfoundland, we did a constructive replication of previous studies testing the association between health practices and health status.
(7) Some indication is given of the frequency of the condition in Northern Newfoundland and Labrador.
(8) Nine specimens of the corneas of patients from Labrador and Northern Newfoundland affected by spheroidal degeneration (climatic droplet keratopathy) have been examined microscopically.
(9) Elevated prevalences of recessive disease, due primarily to matings between persons unaware of their distant consanguinity, therefore require consideration in health care planning in Newfoundland.
(10) The potential of Sarcocystis in caribou as a food-borne disease organism in man cannot be overlooked in view of its prevalence in meat and its widespread consumption, when lightly cooked, in rural Newfoundland.
(11) The distribution of arterial blood pressure (BP) values of 1499 adult inhabitants of four Newfoundland communities was surveyed.
(12) Coliform colony-forming units in sewage-contaminated seawater were observed to decrease rapidly with time in water that was collected from St. John's Harbour, Newfoundland, and isolated in dialysis bags; this confirms observations made in warmer climates.
(13) Cartographic plotting and correlation analyses of 23 individual or combined regions of Newfoundland with respect to M, F or M + F mortality rates showed a close similarity between high risk areas and large seabird aggregations which were in the southeast region of the island.
(14) The survey data were derived from all 1985 and 1986 deaths in the province of Newfoundland.
(15) The medical records of a Newfoundland general hospital for 1975 showed 2797 births, with women under 20 accounting for 13% of them.
(16) This study investigated suicides by people aged ten to 19 in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1977 to 1988.
(17) Speaking to the crowd, Syed Pirzada of the Muslim Association of Newfoundland and Labrador said the Muslim community had been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support they had received in recent days.
(18) Myocardial fiber disorganization and asymmetric septal hypertrophy, two other findings observed in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, were absent in each of the eight Newfoundland dogs with discrete subaortic stenosis.
(19) Ninety-eight members of a large Newfoundland family, seven of whose members over three generations suffered from Graves' disease, were studied with respect to the mode of transmission of the disease and its association with HLA.
(20) All its research notwithstanding, UNPERU expressed as much shock as the rest of the world when, over a year after the Ocean Ranger's visit, up from the still-recovering Newfoundland ground into which it had pushed its drill, the first clutch of newly-hatched oil rigs had unburied themselves.
Shaggy
Definition:
(n.) Rough with long hair or wool.
(n.) Rough; rugged; jaggy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is clear the teenagers – including Pickles – love Matthew Burton, one of the school's assistant heads, who, with his skinny-fitting suit, brown brogues, shaggy hair and loose floral tie, looks more like the singer in an indie group than an English teacher.
(2) The most characteristic feature, seen in 93% of the cases, was shaggy deposition of fibrinogen along the basement membrane.
(3) Pony trekking in Glenshiel Think soft velvety noses, shaggy mains, the heady smell of saddle soap and the reassuring squeak of leather as you saddle up for a trek into the mountains on a sturdy, sure-footed Highland pony.
(4) Fold thickening evolved into fold effacement with a shaggy contour in two patients with viral infection.
(5) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
(6) "Shaggy" echoes recorded from the aortic leaflets in diastole as well as irregular diastolic densities in the left ventricular outflow tract suggested flail aortic leaflets secondary to bacterial endocarditis.
(7) Now father to a one-year-old boy, with singer Mariqueen Maandig, Reznor wears jeans, a hoodie and a shaggy, stay-at-home beard, although he still dyes his hair raven-black.
(8) Jon Stewart is back as host of The Daily Show, and the shaggy beard he grew over the summer is gone.
(9) The development of supernumerary bristle precursors induced by the mutation shaggy (sgg; also known as zeste-white 3) was examined in the developing wing blade of imaginal and pupal Drosophila.
(10) When we meet he is sporting a shaggy beard and offers a forthright view.
(11) "They compliment your earrings," cooed the reporter, who also noticed a "thin, shaggy-haired employee … skipping as he worked".
(12) The thrombus surface had a shaggy appearance, and were dark (charring), or mixed dark and white in color.
(13) At the time he was posing as New Age healer Dr Dragan Dabic , and was disguised by a thick beard and shaggy hair.
(14) Paralysis does not occur in immunosuppressed mice, which develop a shaggy hair and eventually lose weight and die.
(15) [LAUGH] Your shaggy limbs and the bristling hair on your forearms Suggest a fierce male virtue [CHUCKLE]; but the surgeon called in to lance your swollen piles [BIG LAUGH] dissolves in laughter [GURGLE] at the sight of that well-smoothed passage [ROAR].
(16) Barium contrast studies of the colon demonstrated irregular shaggy mucosa, ulcerations, cobblestone appearance, and thumb printing.
(17) CT scan demonstrated a distended gallbladder with thick shaggy walls which contained a 2 cm gallstone in the neck and also revealed dextrocardia and situs inversus.
(18) Here, we report that the segment polarity gene zeste-white 3 (zw3; also known as shaggy) acts as a repressor of en autoregulation.
(19) Coles’s brother, a former member of the Communards who later became a priest , wrote in his 2014 autobiography that his older sibling’s double life involved infiltrating “some sinister organisation while his wife and baby daughter made do with unpredictable visits … He looked like he had just walked out of the woods, his hair long and shaggy, with a straggly beard, his ears rattling with piercings.” Coles disappeared from the animal rights movement in 1995, telling activists that he was moving to eastern Europe to teach English.
(20) The clinical and light microscopic findings in this case are similar to those previously described of a shaggy, parakeratin-covered, pebbly, or verrucous surface and elongated rete pegs which extend a uniform depth into the underlying conncetive tissue.