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Otto


Definition:

  • (n.) See Attar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But now they have a bullish and vociferous spokesperson in Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina.
  • (2) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Macabre allegory’: Otto Dix’s The Triumph of Death (1934).
  • (4) Bill Nighy plays the king of the demons; Miranda Otto the gargoyle queen.
  • (5) The Central American nation was praised for its crackdown on corruption in September after former president Otto Pérez Molina was ordered to stand trial for corruption, illicit association and bribery linked to a multimillion-dollar customs scam.
  • (6) To justify their large advance they invented a story that Otto Skorzeny, the man who organised the ex-Nazi escape network Odessa, had financed the robbery, a hoax that Read only learned of when he went to Brazil to interview Biggs.
  • (7) Otto Rank, one of Sigmund Freud's original followers, posited the existence of an "urge to immortality" as man's deepest drive.
  • (8) Otto postulated that disturbances of atmospheric pressure systems, caused by warming, was responsible for much of the increased risk.
  • (9) Writing last week in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the historian Andreas Wirsching likened Berlin's current dilemmas over Europe to those of Otto von Bismarck in the 19th century, suggesting the tug of war over the euro reflected a similar political dynamic that in the past had resulted in real wars.
  • (10) Enders, who promised there would be no relocation of EADS's German businesses, appears to have won the support of Germany's deputy economy minister Hans-Joachim Otto, who said the proposed company should be subject to less political influence than EADS has been.
  • (11) The achievement of an integrated survey by Otto Fenichel in 1945 marked the transition from a fragmentary to a synthesizing approach to identification and its inherent aspects of incorporation and ejection, introjection and projection, internalization and externalization.
  • (12) They, in turn, are joined by the likes of Guatemala's president, Otto Pérez Molina, the entrepreneur Richard Branson, 500 top leading US business figures, the Economist magazine and the Observer in calling for an alternative, including an end to outright prohibition.
  • (13) The Ukip leader insisted he would return to Scotland to continue campaigning for the party's candidate, Otto Inglis, in the Aberdeen Donside byelection for the Scottish parliament on 20 June.
  • (14) David Rapaport's collection of Otto Fenichel's Rundbriefe (1934-1945) is described as a recently rediscovered, 2,500-page primary source for studying the intellectual and organizational history of European-American psychoanalysis.
  • (15) Non-axial feet developed recently, such as the SAFE II and Seattle Light feet achieved higher scores in the older age group, while single-axis feet, such as the LAPOC and Otto Bock feet achieved higher scores in the younger age group (p < 0.05).
  • (16) This protein differs markedly from the Drosophila MT (Mtn gene) previously reported [Lastowski-Perry, D., Otto, E. & Maroni, G. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (17) The association between idiopathic chondrolysis of the hip and primary protrusio acetabuli (Otto's pelvis) is discussed.
  • (18) But Otto stuck to the German position that the proposed terms giving BAE shareholders 40% and EADS shareholders 60% of the combined company undervalued EADS.
  • (19) These microorganisms were identified following the Otto Bier and Bailey & Scott's techniques (3, 1).
  • (20) A half-century ago Otto Ullrich became the first clinical geneticist to assume the Chairmanship of a clinical department in a medical school.

Potto


Definition:

  • (n.) A nocturnal mammal (Perodictius potto) of the Lemur family, found in West Africa. It has rudimentary forefingers. Called also aposoro, and bush dog.
  • (n.) The kinkajou.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A female Perodicticus potto developed a subcutaneous spherical mass on the medial aspect of the inguinal area.
  • (2) However the metabolic rate of Aotus is not reduced to the extent found in two hypometabolic prosimians Perodicticus potto and Nycticebus coucang.
  • (3) The karyotypes of two Lorisidae (Prosimians) Nycticebus coucang and Perodicticus potto have been studied, using many banding techniques.
  • (4) As these few cones seem to activate the bipolar cells nearly as effectively as the numerous rods, it is suggested that these cones may be responsible for day vision in the potto.
  • (5) In tree shrews and galagos muscle is heavier (35%) than in pottos and slow lorises (below 28%), but bone and skin are lighter.
  • (6) Convergences in segment pattern (sloths with pottos and lorises, marmosets with tree shrews, owl monkeys with galagos, cebus with macaques) as well as divergences are documented.
  • (7) In a cold environment the daily urinary excretion of catecholamines of the tropical but cold hardy potto is only moderately increased.
  • (8) Nevertheless in potto the critical fusion frequency is higher for red light than for blue light.
  • (9) A spherical mass on the medial aspect of the thigh and caudal abdomen of a 15-year-old female Perodicticus potto was surgically removed and shown to be a myeloliposarcoma.
  • (10) There is histological evidence for the presence of cones in potto's retina: about 1 cone for 300 rods.
  • (11) The dopamine, dopac and tyrosinehydroxylase contents of the caudate nucleus in the prosimian Perodicticus potto and in the simii Macaca mulatta and M. fascicularis have been estimated.
  • (12) The following species were represented: Potto, Senegalgalago, wooly monkey, black spider monkey, common marmoset, cottonhead tamarin, pigtailed macaque and lesser whitenosed guenon.
  • (13) The concentrating ability of the kidney in Perodicticus potto was investigated.
  • (14) The same carcinogen applied to the skin of pottos (Perodicticus potto) caused death in 6 of the 7 animals within 9 weeks.
  • (15) In the potto's retina some red sensitive elements respond to wavelenghts beyond those which affect visual purple.
  • (16) Bromine is unexpectedly high in the potto tumor, in other tumor analyses reported in the literature, as well as in the only available embryonic tissue from the female potto, a placenta.
  • (17) On comparison of the West African potto with two other prosimian myoglobins known so far, there were 12 differences between the potto and the galago (East African) and 18 differences between the potto and the sportive lemur (Madagascar).
  • (18) The results do not support the hypothesis according to which the sluggishness of the potto is somehow related to a low dopamine content of part of the extrapyramidal system as found in the Parkinson-syndrome.
  • (19) Based on our observation that the potto may excrete uric acid in fairly high concentrations, the partition of nitrogen in the urine was also explored.
  • (20) The primary structure of the myoglobin of the prosimian Lorisidae Perodictius potto edwarsi (potto) was studied.

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