(n.) An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.
Example Sentences:
(1) Autogenous Aedes (Ochlerotatus) caspius Pallas from Aswan deposits 1 to 2 egg batches without a blood meal.
(2) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
(3) Host preferences of mosquitoes, mainly Culex pipiens L. and Aedes caspius (Pallas), were studied in Israel using live baits, chemical attractants, light, and suction traps.
(4) Aedes caspius Pallas populations from the Mediterranean regions are genetically highly polymorphic, and may diverge into 2 genetically isolated forms.
(5) At the infection with the typical strain of the altai subspecies rare transmissions of the agent to Pallas' pika can take place as well as its long preservation in fleas.
(6) Electron microscopically using morphometric analysis, the median eminence and hypophysis posterior lobe have been studied in newborn lemmings (Dicrostonyx torquatus Pallas) at the stage of decreasing population.
(7) The species used were Halocynthia aurantium Pallas and H. roretzi Drashe.2.
(8) Bloodmeals of twenty-nine wild-caught G. palpalis were identified as mostly from man (fifteen) and bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas] or other wild ruminants (eleven), plus three from reptiles.
(9) A toxic component (AgTx) from the venom of Agkistrodon halys (Pallas) was isolated using DEAE-cellulose DE11 and CM-Sephadex C50 column chromatography and finally purified to homogeneity by FPLC on a MonoQ column.
(10) The fleas of this species are capable to transmit not only the plague agent of the strains typical of this nidus but also non-typical ones which differ in some biological properties and are avirulent for most carriers but Pallas's pika.
(11) Pallas also criticised the state-funded Swedish Film Institute – the biggest financier of Swedish film – for vocally supporting the project, saying a state institution should not "send out signals about what one should or shouldn't include in a movie".
(12) Adult specimens of Astrangia danae (Agassiz) and settled planulae of Porites porites (Pallas) contain crystals averaging 0.7 mu by 0.1 mu by 0.3 mu within Golgi-derived vesicles.
(13) Toxoplasma gondii was found in tissues of a six-year-old female Pallas cat (Felis manul) from the Milwaukee County Zoo.
(14) Parasites collected from free-ranging black bears, Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780, from northeastern Minnesota or northern Michigan include the dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Say, 1821), the winter tick, D. ALBIPICTUS (Packard, 1869), a louse, Trichodectes pinguis euarctidoes Hopkins, 1954, an ascarid worm, Baylisascaris transfuga (rudolphi, 1819), a filarial worm, Dirofilaria ursi Yamaguti, 1941, taeniid tapeworms, and unidentified fleas.
(15) In the treatment of the pallas pit viper bite, it was considered that should insisting the excluding poison and detoxifying methods, so as to cut off the absorption of the poison into the body and promote the discharge of the poison from the body, protect and improve the hepatic and renal functions, keep the balance of inter-circumstance.
(16) In Gobius fluviatilis (Pallas), Gobius (Proterorhinus) marmoratus (Pallas), glossa Platichthys flesus (L) the cornea is double and there is an iridescent layer.
(17) During a pilot survey of the parasites of some artiodactylids in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park a new species of Trichostrongylus Looss, 1905 was recovered from the small intestine of a steenbok, Raphicerus campestris (Thunberg, 1811), a gemsbok, Oryx gazella (Linnaeus, 1758), and a red hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus (Pallas, 1766).
(18) The 85-kDa subunit is the same protein previously shown to associate with polyoma virus middle T antigen and the platelet-derived growth factor receptor (Kaplan, D. R., Whitman, M., Schaffhausen, B., Pallas, D. C., White, M., Cantley, L., and Roberts, T. M. (1987) Cell 50, 1021-1029).
(19) As a result of histological investigations of seasonal dynamics in the anatomical-tissue organization of the litoral sponge Halichondria panicea (Pallas), morphogenetical processes during different periods of its life cycle are described in detail.
(20) Materials from the liver of a wild-living hare (Lepus europeus pallas) which had died from "European Brown Hare Syndrome" (EBHS) and of two hares kept in captivity which had been experimentally infected with the same material and died after two days with the classical signs of EBHS (Eskens and Volmer, 1989) were investigated for the presence of virus particles by electron microscopy using the negative contrast technique.
Tuscan
Definition:
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Tuscany.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic of the order. The original of this order was not used by the Greeks, but by the Romans under the Empire. See Order, and Illust. of Capital.
Example Sentences:
(1) A comparison with genetic data from literature reveals the peculiarity of the population of Zeri with respect to its sub-region (Lunigiana) and shows a high degree of genetic variation compared to other Tuscan populations (Garfagnana and Versilia).
(2) The nuptials drew crowds of fans eager to witness the glitzy event, but they were kept far away from the heavily walled 16th-century fortress, which offers stunning views of Florence and surrounding Tuscan hills.
(3) Women seemed to be heavily outnumbered by men in terrible suits, with thick-rimmed glasses and pale grey complexions unkissed by Tuscan sun.
(4) Every Local Sanitary Unit (USL) of the Tuscan Region was contacted to define screening variables, such as adequacy of the staff involved in prevention, smear technique, data collection and evaluation, laboratory quality control, and modalities of invitations to screening.
(5) Outside, the empty, narrow cobbled streets are quite silent in the beautiful hill-top Tuscan town of Volterra – a stillness through which footsteps echo loudly off the ancient stone.
(6) Nearly 400 years later, the principle established by the Tuscan ruler – that account holders and investors are protected by the state – lies at the heart of a crisis at Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) that is worrying financial markets around the world.
(7) So we go for a beer, the murderer and I, in a cafe on a pretty square on the edge of town with a view across the rolling Tuscan hills vanishing into the night.
(8) Kasrils and old comrades who fear that the ANC's elite are losing their working-class credentials will have found little consolation last week when Ramaphosa addressed the media in an Edwardian-era mansion framed by Tuscan colonnades and Palladian windows, built to entertain the mining Randlords of Johannesburg.
(9) "Thanks to the undoubted economic advantages obtained by the false budget claims … the two Tuscan companies were able to enter the market with prices that effectively prevented 'honest' businesses from putting up any form of competition, thus guaranteeing themselves the awarding of significant public and private contracts," investigators alleged in the statement.
(10) Blair has long been fascinated by the "uncanny" parallels between New Labour and the Liberal Party of Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith (his summer reading in 1996, during a holiday at Geoffrey Robinson's Tuscan villa, was George Dangerfield's classic The Strange Death of Liberal England).
(11) At the end of the 1970s she ran into Tuscan leather goods producer Patrizio Bertelli at a trade fair, where she discovered he was selling replicas of her creations.
(12) Begun at 9am on Monday with a delay due to a fierce overnight storm over the Tuscan island, the parbuckling rotated the 114,000-tonne ship by 65 degrees to bring it fully vertical.
(13) Rome has pumped €4bn (£3.44bn) into the Tuscan bank Monti Paschi di Siena in recent months after the latter revealed undisclosed losses.
(14) That distinction, on stage at least, belonged to the indifferently received The Old Masters (2004), set in the Tuscan home of the art critic Bernard Berenson in 1937 and focusing on a clash between Berenson and the dealer, Joseph Duveen.
(15) In a statement, Florence's Guardia di Finanza said the arrests were the conclusion of a two-year investigation into an alleged criminal association between two Tuscan construction firms – GGF and PDP Construction – and several shell companies with links to a "well-known" clan within the Camorra, the mafia with a powerbase in the southern city of Naples.
(16) The week one tan shade is somewhere between Tuscan Sunset and Burnt Umber on my Dulux paint chart.
(17) Rossano Ercolini, Italy An elementary school teacher, Ercolini began a public education campaign about the dangers of incinerators in his small Tuscan town that grew into a national Zero Waste movement.
(18) I order Tuscan bean soup, brown bread with olive oil, and more black coffee.
(19) A sub-population of an estimated 130 pairs is breeding in the Tuscan Archipelago, an area heavily polluted by mercury and chlorinated hydrocarbons.
(20) Having previously shown that Clostridium difficile was responsible for an intense and protracted endemic of nosocomial diarrhoeas in the surgical division of a Tuscan hospital, we started a retrospective analysis on all records from the affected division, to cover a period of 15 months.