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Olf


Definition:

  • (n.) The European bullfinch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The case is described of a 26-year olf woman, gravida 2, para 1, who presented with failure to conceive 18 months after revomal of a Lippes Loop IUD worn for 12 months.
  • (2) Many are accused of supporting the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF).
  • (3) Furthermore, with the exception of the OLF the direction of change was not similar to that caused by i.v.
  • (4) The immunodiagnostic pattern of OLF NB includes the following: (a) NSE present in irregular clusters of tumor cells, (b) S-100 present in peripheral cells which form a marginal network, (c) and GFAP rarely present.
  • (5) Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) combined with ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) in the thoracic spine can result in serious myelopathy, leading to circumferential compression of the spinal cord in advanced stages of the disease.
  • (6) One young girl said hot coals had been dropped on her stomach because her father was suspected of supporting the OLF, while a teacher described how he was stabbed in the eye with a bayonet after he refused to teach “propaganda about the ruling party” to students.
  • (7) In the Tarup district of Odense, an investigation was carried out concerning certificates in connection with maintenance allowances during a period olf two months.
  • (8) Results of laminectomy for OLF were poor because of the high occurrence of complications early on or later deterioration.
  • (9) During the past 10 years, we have followed 113 cases olf CML throughout their course and results of observations on the clinical, hematological and other apsects of the disease are presented in this communication.
  • (10) Our results show that OLFs isolated from the urine of salt-loaded healthy subjects strongly enhance basal and vasopressin-stimulated release of calcium in vascular smooth muscle cells and platelets similar to the effects we had observed with endothelin.
  • (11) Since then, numerous studies confirmed the presence of OLFs in serum, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, and various organs including the heart and hypothalamus.
  • (12) Therefore, laminoplasty is recommended as a successful procedure for OLF-related thoracic myelopathy, avoiding further local mechanical stress due to tensile force.
  • (13) Histologic study revealed that the developmental mode of OLF was mainly endochondral ossification.
  • (14) In six cases, high intensity areas in the spinal cord caused by compressing OLF were demonstrated on T2-weighted images.
  • (15) Specificity of tissue location defines that the rod and cone transducins (TD1 and TD2, respectively) act as the coupling proteins between rhodopsin and cone opsins and their cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase effectors and that G(olf) is the G-protein which tranduces signals from odorant receptors to adenylate cyclase in olfactory sensory neurones.
  • (16) To examine the role of an ouabain-like factor (OLF) in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease in hypertension, we examined plasma levels of OLF in a malignant form of one-kidney, one wrap (1K,1W) hypertension.
  • (17) Transcript analysis of the region that rescues the olfE phenotype has shown one major transcript at 5.4 kb and a minor one at 1.7 kb.
  • (18) This operation consists of two steps: posterior and lateral decompression of the spinal cord by removal of the OLF (first step) and anterior removal of the OPLL for anterior decompression (second step), followed by interbody fusion.
  • (19) At the level of the thickest OLF in each patient, there were three types of OLF from computed tomography and operative findings: a lateral type in 3 patients, diffuse in 8, and thickened nodular in 3.
  • (20) Areas of high or intermediate signal intensity within the OLF on T1-weighted images were observed in three cases and were interpreted to be due to fat infiltration.

Wolf


Definition:

  • (a.) Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.
  • (a.) One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.
  • (a.) Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.
  • (a.) A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.
  • (a.) An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.
  • (a.) The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.
  • (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale.
  • (a.) A willying machine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (2) A total of 38 patients underwent attempted percutaneous extraction of upper tract calculi with the Wolf nephroscope.
  • (3) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
  • (4) Two second generation lithotripters suitable for treatments without invasive forms of the anesthesia, the modified Dornier HM 3- and the Wolf Piezolith 2,200 were compared in terms of efficacy for ureteric calculi.
  • (5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
  • (6) A young literature student accused him of manipulating the language, and then – at the end – another woman noted that he spoke very nicely before declaring him “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”.
  • (7) One female wolf had a single sinoatrial block within 1 min of receiving tolazoline HCl.
  • (8) McVeigh may have thought of himself as a lone wolf, but he was not one.
  • (9) A multicenter trial is presented involving the Siemens Lithostar, Dornier HM4, Wolf Piezolith 2300, Direx Tripter X-1 and Breakstone lithotriptor to compare the therapeutic efficacy of second generation machines.
  • (10) The 4(p14-pter) region was found to be the most likely crucial segment for the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
  • (11) In resurfacing the nose the author has used Wolfe grafts when the cartilages are not involved or a tubed flap from the arm if this is not so.
  • (12) One wolf had been killed and another attacked by wolves.
  • (13) · Daniel Wolf directed Inside the Orange Revolution, to be shown on BBC4 on Sunday at 10pm.
  • (14) Important experimental considerations in setting up a spot photobleaching instrument are discussed in detail in Chapter 10 by Wolf (this volume) and elsewhere (Petersen et al., 1986a).
  • (15) T he image of the lone wolf who splits from the pack has been a staple of popular culture since the 19th century, cropping up in stories about empire and exploration from British India to the wild west.
  • (16) They paid a reward for killing a wolf worth a month’s salary.
  • (17) "They are essentially abandoning wolf recovery before the job is done," said Noah Greenwald, the endangered species director at the Centre for Biological Diversity.
  • (18) In 2013 , a 16-year-old boy was lounging outside his tent at a Minnesota campsite when a wolf clamped its jaws around his head.
  • (19) The sequence analysis indicates that bovine lung PGF synthase shows 62% identical plus conservative substitutions compared with human liver aldehyde reductase [Wermuth, B., Omar, A., Forster, A., Francesco, C., Wolf, M., Wartburg, J.P., Bullock, B.
  • (20) "There is a saying in our language that goes 'the wolf can change its fur but doesn't change its character' so that can apply to the newly elected president," Vukcevic said.

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