(v. i.) One who owls; esp., one who conveys contraband goods. See Owling, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) And the AMA’s president, Brian Owler, said the performance of hospitals would only get worse after the federal government “retreated from its responsibilities” on hospital funding, cutting $1.8bn in immediate funding over the next four years in the 2014 budget and reneging on a deal to help meet increased hospital costs in the long term, saving $57bn over the next 10 years.
(2) The group’s president, Brian Owler, reaffirmed concerns that disadvantaged groups would be deterred from accessing preventative health care, and called on the government to scrap the co-payment model and seek expert advice.
(3) It’s about removing services for patients,” Owler said.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Prof Brian Owler says poor health policy has plagued the Coalition since the 2014 budget.
(5) The only way to defeat the GP tax is to defeat the Abbott government.” The national president of the Doctors Reform Society, Dr Con Costa, told the ABC: “It is definitely a significant victory, but by no means the end of the battle to maintain Medicare.” The AMA president, Brian Owler, said local GPs and patients had “inundated” MPs with complaints about the initial changes to short consultation rebates, and he believed the level of concern had taken the government by surprise.
(6) Owler said the AMA also did not support allowing state and territory governments to charge co-payments for emergency department visits.
(7) I think the message that was clear today was a commitment on behalf of the prime minister and the minister to look at alternative models, something that we haven't heard before, or since the budget was announced, and I think that's a very positive move,” Owler said at a press conference after the meeting.
(8) Asked to confirm the government had indicated it was willing to adjust the GP co-payment, Owler said: “The prime minister and the minister made it fairly clear in the meeting that they were willing to look at alternative models and consider those on their merits.
(9) Patients’ out-of-pocket expenses could rise as a result of recommendations that 23 medical procedures should no longer be funded by Medicare, the president of the Australian Medical Association, Brian Owler, has warned.
(10) These programs are often built up by people who often put in extraordinary amounts of work and have an enormous amount of experience,” the head of the Australian medical association, Brian Owler, said.
(11) Read more Owler said the health minister was “pre-empting” the outcome of the review by highlighting procedures she thought were unnecessary, effectively “politicising” the process.
(12) Dr Young has first-hand experience and is obviously very experienced working with asylum seekers, and like him, our concerns are also about people in detention, particularly long-term detention, and especially the impact on children.” Prof Brian Owler, president of the Australian Medical Association, said he had “respect for what Dr Young is doing by speaking out,” adding he had “no reason to doubt what he’s saying”.
(13) The first task is to lift the freeze on Medicare patient rebates.” Other priorities outlined by Owler include: a genuine, transparent consultative approach to the Medicare benefits schedule reviews; the restoration of public hospital funding; a review of the private health insurance system; significant new investment in general practice; coordinated medical workforce planning.
(14) The opposition leader, Bill Shorten, said: “Treasurer, if you are a pensioner worried about having your pension cut, if you are a mum worrying about how you’ll be able to afford to take your kids to the doctor and pay the GP tax, if you’re working-class parents – perhaps you work at Alcoa and you’ve just lost your job and you’re worrying about how on earth you’re going to pay for your kids to go to university – the one thing you don’t need is an arrogant, out-of-touch treasurer telling people just to take a chill pill.” Dutton met with the AMA president, Brian Owler, in Brisbane on Thursday night to discuss the government policy of introducing a $7 contribution for standard GP consultations and out-of-hospital pathology and diagnostic imaging services from July next year.
(15) As we’ve been saying, this is an enormous humanitarian crisis that’s facing the people of west Africa and apart from the humanitarian crisis, there are economic and security issues and there are other implications for Australia,” Owler said.
(16) Owler said the review announced on Sunday aimed to take a scalpel to services provided under Medicare.
(17) Sussan Ley denies Medicare consultation will be over in two weeks Read more The AMA had signed up for review of the remuneration paid to doctors for MBS services, Owler said.
(18) The AMA president, Brian Owler, said Abbott and Dutton had indicated they were “willing to look at alternative models and consider those on their merits” – which potentially represented a significant shift on a budget measure that was likely to face Senate defeat.
(19) Both Dutton and Owler described the meeting as productive, although more talks were needed.
(20) Owler, a neurosurgeon at Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney, said the co-payment would not be a problem for many people.
Wool
Definition:
(n.) The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.
(n.) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
(n.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(2) Populations of lymphocytes were separated using glass and nylon wool.
(3) Removal of accessory cells adherent to nylon wool column abolished MAS reactivity, whereas it has little effect on lymphoproliferation induced by phytohaemagglutinin (PHA).
(4) Somatic changes included reduced wool growth, delayed osseous development in the limbs (X-ray assessment) a reduced heart weight (39.1%) and an increased pituitary weight (48.1%).
(5) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
(6) Immunoreactivity was restricted to the periderm and intermediate layers of fetal epidermis at 55 d of gestation, when the first wave of wool follicles are initiated.
(7) Data obtained with cells separated by adherence, nylon wool columns, and positive and negative sorting with monoclonal antibodies that define B, monocyte, T helper and T cytotoxic cells show that several different cell types have the ability to produce GH mRNA.
(8) A case is presented of a patient who was arrested along several developmental lines and had suffered from a wool fetish.
(9) Removal of nylon wool adherent cells or cells with histamine receptors by column chromatography similarly caused reduced production of type II interferon.
(10) The activity of uremic spleen cells can be enhanced (restored) by removal of the sub-population of cells adherent to glass wool.
(11) All skirted lots of wool evaluated in this study had improved processing characteristics for all processing traits evaluated.
(12) The in vitro generation of allospecific CTL by human PBMC was enhanced 4- to 16-fold by sequential plastic and nylon wool adherence, which depleted the PBMC of macrophages and B cells.
(13) In parallel experiments, macrophages infected with the mycobacteria were co-cultured with syngeneic in vivo M. kansasii sensitized non-adherent, nylon-wool purified lymph node cells, and lymphoproliferation was measured by [3H]thymidine incorporation.
(14) "The Lib Dems are either cosmically ill-informed or seeking to pull the wool over the eyes of many thousands whose jobs depend on a thriving shipyard," he said.
(15) In general, IEL of satisfactory yield and of good viability were obtained with EDTA treatment of the gut tissues, followed by rapid passages of the resultant cells through nylon-wool columns and centrifugation on two-step Percoll density gradients (45% and 80%).
(16) There was a definite glove and stocking type of hypesthesia to pinprick and cotton wool.
(17) Since young nude mice could be rendered as unpermissive as older nude mice by pretreatment with either PNA-agglutinable thymus cells or nylon-wool passed spleen cells, it is suggested that an increased number of precursor T cells in older nude mice might induce this effect.
(18) Differences in wool production between ewes weaning one or two lambs were small.
(19) The effects of flumethasone on some aspects of wool growth revealed interactions between the routes of administration, the period of dosage and the rate of wool growth in the recipients.
(20) Streptococcus pyogenes survives poorly on plain cotton-wool swabs, whereas serum-dipped swabs permit its survival but also allow overgrouth by other bacteria and are likely to contain virus inhibitors.