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Pell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pelt; to knock about.
  • (n.) A skin or hide; a pelt.
  • (n.) A roll of parchment; a parchment record.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
  • (2) "I apologise once again to the victims and their families for the terrible suffering that has been brought to bear by these crimes," Pell told a mass of thanksgiving on Thursday night.
  • (3) Next week, when Pell is giving evidence at the royal commission, I look forward to your comments about Catholicism and what our church needs to do to drag itself into the modern world.
  • (4) Commission chair Justice Peter McClellan says Pell will be required to answer the allegations in a statement.
  • (5) The president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, also congratulated Pell, saying he was well suited to such an important appointment.
  • (6) He went on to point to the opportunities that lie ahead for the likes of James Ward-Prowse, Sam Gallagher, Jack Stephens, Jordan Turnbull, Matt Targett and Sam McQueen next term, with Koean having only recruited Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pelle from Dutch football to date.
  • (7) I would never have condoned or participated in a decision to transfer Ridsdale in the knowledge that he had abused children, and I did not do so.” Pell said he continued to regret the misunderstanding between himself and David Ridsdale and he stood by his previous sworn denial of Ridsdale’s allegations.
  • (8) Cardinal Pell has shown exceptional and high-profile leadership in the Australian Church and will have an important contribution to make to the universal Church in this area of finance.” News Corporation executive chairman Rupert Murdoch lauded the announcement on Twitter.
  • (9) Pope Francis has tended to stand by officials if they are publicly under attack and there are no signs that he is backing off from his support of Pell.
  • (10) Father Pell said ‘don’t be ridiculous’ and walked out,” said Green.
  • (11) Pell, who is Archbishop of Sydney is meanwhile described by The Australian as a 20-1 favourite to take over Benedict's job.
  • (12) Claims that Pell ignored or sought to silence allegations of abuse are more than a decade old.
  • (13) There was an internal backlash that had to do with the impression that Pell has accumulated too much power around himself and that he was setting himself up as a tinhorn dictator,” said Allen.
  • (14) Pell has previously apologised to victims of clergy sex abuse for the pain they endured.
  • (15) Pope Francis on Monday revealed Pell would become one of the most powerful men in the Catholic church with his new body having authority over all economic and administrative activities within the Holy See and Vatican.
  • (16) Observers say Pell is not the only man who has been caught in a difficult position.
  • (17) This week Saunders claimed in an interview in Australia that Pell’s allegedly “callous” past treatment of sex abuse victims was “almost sociopathic”.
  • (18) Tony Abbott has declined to say whether Cardinal George Pell should return to Australia from the Vatican to address claims made against him this week at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
  • (19) Vatican official George Pell 'corrects record' after abuse victim's bribery claim Read more “I am committed to complete cooperation with the royal commission,” the statement from Pell said.
  • (20) In a previous publication, Pell et al described the cancer epidemiologic surveillance program that was begun in the Du Pont Company in 1956 and presented standardized cancer incidence and mortality data through 1974 for Du Pont employees compared with such data for the US general population.

Pellagra


Definition:

  • (n.) An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the basis of that work Joseph Goldberger developed a diet which produced a condition analogous to pellagra in dogs.
  • (2) Pellagra diagnosis was made on the basis of the typical clinical skin picture, and low urinary excretion of N'methylnicotinamide and N'methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide (reduced by 70 and 80%, respectively, compared with controls).
  • (3) These results suggest that Zn interacts with niacin metabolism in alcoholic patients with pellagra through a probable mediation by vitamin B-6.
  • (4) D-xylose absorption tests and jejunal morphology have been shown to be unaltered in 12 African patients with pellagra when compared with normal values for Zambian Africa adults; that result is contrary to two previous investigations in India and Egypt respectively.
  • (5) 231 cases of pellagra among 8,000 consulting patients has been observed from May 1977 to June 1978 in the Dermatological Dispensary of the Hospital G.E.C.A.-Mines of Lumbumbashi (Zaire).
  • (6) Two types of pathologic state are unquestionably the concern of vitaminotherapy: More or less specific and intense vitamin deficiencies: Rickets, scurvy, beri beri, pellagra, vitamin deficiency related to alcohol consumption, polyneuritis, encephalopathy, malabsorption, mucoviscidosis, etc.
  • (7) Pellagra is a classical disease rarely seen in this country.
  • (8) Pellagra in the human is characterized by the clinical "three D's," namely, dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia.
  • (9) Dermatoses with photosensitivity are divided into three groups: photo-aggravated dermatoses (solar herpes, lupus erythematosus), photosensitivity caused by protective system defect (xeroderma pigmentosum), and photosensitivity caused by metabolic defects (porphyrias, pellagra).
  • (10) His CNS lesions were composed of disseminated necrotic foci in the cerebral cortices with many Alzheimer type II astrocytes, pachymeningitis hemorrhagica interna, and lesions similar to pellagra and Wernicke encephalopathy.
  • (11) The nicotinamide nucleotide concentrations in the erythrocytes of subjects suffering from pellagra (pellagrins) were not lower than those in normal subjects, but the ability of erythrocytes to synthesize these nucleotides in vitro was significantly lower in pellagrins.
  • (12) In pellagra, symmetric keratotic areas on the face are always accompanied by lesions elsewhere on the body.
  • (13) It is concluded that pellagra per se does not alter intestinal structure or monosaccharide absorption.
  • (14) It is noted that some of the manifestations of prolonged sleep deprivation are similar to changes seen in pellagra.
  • (15) We evaluated the effects of SMS 201-995 in 14 such patients, 12 with diarrhea, 8 with flushing, 3 with wheezing, one with tricuspid valve incompetence, 6 with facial telangiectasia, 3 with a pellagra type dermatosis and one with myopathy.
  • (16) Tryp deficiency caused classical manifestations of pellagra although niacin intake was in excess of normal requirements.
  • (17) The first symptom of the disease was a serious and prolonged pellagra-like photodermatitis.
  • (18) Photosensitivity has also been associated with pellagra.
  • (19) The condition manifests as a pellagra-like skin rash within 8 weeks after birth, with signs of cerebellar ataxia and developmental retardation.
  • (20) A patient who was treated with isoniazid and who developed pellagra is presented.

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