(n.) One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite their absence, photoreceptors maintained a normal rate of OS assembly.
(2) All three organotins inhibited cardiac Na+,K(+)-ATPase, [3H]ouabain binding, K(+)-activated p-nitrophenyl phosphatase (K(+)-PNPPase) and oligomycin-sensitive (OS) and oligomycin-insensitive (OI) Mg(2+)-ATPase in a concentration-dependent manner.
(3) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
(4) Monosodium glutamate (MSG) taken per os has been found to stimulate gastric secretion provoked by pentagastrin.
(5) The time and investment required to migrate the entire services to a new and unproven OS would make the task almost impossible.
(6) A 5-year-old boy had accessory calcaneus (os trochleare) with pain, shoe pressure, and a varus position of the foot not reported previously.
(7) However, the forward transmission of Nd-YAG energy through the sapphires varied (SMTR, 85%; MTR, 83%; MTRL, 75%; OS, 54%; LT, 69%).
(8) In our opinion in case of typical anamnesis the cerclage-operation is to be performed earlier than in the practice up till now, before opening the cervical os, and the infection of the amnion.
(9) The launch of a new version of Mac OS X is normally an exciting time for members of the development community.
(10) OSC activity was restored in the mutants as determined by [14C]acetate incorporation in vivo as well as incorporation in vitro in cell-free extracts using either [14C]isopentenyl pyrophosphate or [3H]OS as substrate.
(11) Most such infections appear to originate in the fetal membranes near the cervical os.
(12) "I'm interested to see what RIM's new OS has in store, and hope I'll be able to sample some of its features on the 9900.
(13) In RA patients, OS autoantibodies correlated with NOS autoantibodies (P less than 0.04) and with HLA-DR3 antigen (P less than 0.01).
(14) This procedure maintained the catheter within the uterine cavity and facilitated the insertion of a MacDonald cerclage in the region of the internal cervical os.
(15) A comparison of treatment routes indicated the relative efficacies as intraperitoneal greater than per os greater than intramuscular greater than or equal to subcutaneous.
(16) The localization of the organisms in animals infected per os proved similar to that found with the venous route of inoculation, however, showing weaker intensity.
(17) In order to study the hypothesized impairment of the serotoninergic system in human obesity, an insulin tolerance test (ITT) was carried out on 12 obese normoprolactinemic women and on 6 normal-weight women before (A) and after (B) the administration of a serotoninergic drug, fenfluramine (60 mg twice a day per os for 7 days).
(18) OS Map: Explorer 171 Chiltern Hills West and Explorer 172 Chiltern Hills East Arthur's Seat Edinburgh Salisbury Crags and Edinburgh's skyline from Arthur's Seat.
(19) The most frequently registered defects were: os tympanicum (smaller): 23%, os tympanicum (missing): 23%; missing tail: 7%; protruding tongue (15%); none of these defects were seen in the control fetuses.
(20) Twelve of the 16 patients, all with abnormal flow-volume loops, had high R(os)-volume slopes, demonstrating excessive expiratory narrowing even during tidal breathing.
Sinister
Definition:
(a.) On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
(a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
(a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
(a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The committee's findings include that the attacks were not extensively planned by the perpetrators; the intelligence community did a good job of warning about the risk of an attack but a bad job of summarizing the attack when it happened; the state department screwed up by not beefing up security at the mission; nobody blocked any military response; and that the Obama administration was slow to produce a paper trail but was generally not a sinister actor in the episode.
(2) He should not try to play political games with the darkest and most sinister chapter of Europe’s history.
(3) The American actor played sinister rookie methylamine chemist Todd Alquist in the final season of Breaking Bad.
(4) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
(5) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
(6) The Chinese government is depicted as benevolent, while the US government manages to be both sinister and useless – typified by the black-clad CIA operatives, one of whom gets beaten up by a Chinese character.
(7) The results showed a very good distribution of 100% or 90% in the bronchi principals dexter and sinister.
(8) The Velvet Underground’s sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York’s gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
(9) The latest film sees Bond travel from Mexico to the Sahara desert, Italy and the Austrian Alps in pursuit of SPECTRE – an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – the sinister organisation intent on world domination.
(10) Sinister individuals in lab coats "advising" from behind the scenes?
(11) "But this can be taken out of my hands in a number of sinister ways."
(12) The police had handed control of the investigation to Paul Britton, a grandstanding and, in my view, faintly sinister, psychologist.
(13) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
(14) Other more sinister forces have tried to tap into the widespread hostility towards the banking system.
(15) Rumours abound that Trump has had some link to Putin’s sinister finances.
(16) This is especially so where its occasional presentation as polypoid lesions of the lower respiratory tract may mimic other more sinister lesions and lead to unwarranted invasive procedures by the unsuspecting clinician.
(17) It would be possible to write off the Swartz prosecution (as some have done) as the action of a politically ambitious attorney general, but actually it fits a much more sinister pattern.
(18) In retrospect, the movement was not just horrific but often ludicrous in its paranoia: the most "sinister" aspect of one supposed conspiracy, notes the book Mao's Last Revolution , was that even some of its core members appeared unaware of its existence.
(19) I don’t know how well thought-through they have been with it.” “You have a medical issue at your home, you call police, you don’t expect it to to be recorded on video forever, and for somebody to come and request [it] and be used against you in some sinister way,” said Gibbons, about the recordings potentially being public record.
(20) EL: The first psychiatrist I saw subscribed very much to the same view as my friend and the GP – that my voice (and bear in mind, it's still only a single voice at this time) was a sinister harbinger of something much more serious.