(n.) An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(2) The gossylic nitriles all retain activity, with activity increasing with the length of the peri-acyl group.
(3) This interpretation is discussed in relation to the peri-infarct low-flow area seen in the 6 cases with large infarcts.
(4) The peri-operative cardiac morbidity and mortality rate were low (CHD group: 16.88%; HH group: 2.22%).
(5) Heterozygosity for H-2nod was permissive for the development of pancreatic interstitial inflammation and peri-islet insulitis, whereas homozygosity for H-2nod was highly associated with insulitis.
(6) In severe post-partum hemorrhage coming from the peri-uterine regions supplied by the internal iliac arteries, only BLILA may be useful when local surgical hemostasis is ineffective or impossible.
(7) The patient's age at the primary diagnosis of breast cancer was 48 years (median), the others were in pre- or peri-menopausal status.
(8) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.
(9) It is inferred, therefore, that the right perimyocardium and left ventricular wall are more susceptible to CB3 infection than right ventricular wall or left peri- and endocardium.
(10) A prospective study is described of peri-operative dreaming in 144 paediatric patients aged 5-14 years who received suxamethonium for day case surgery.
(11) Gray-scale ultrasonography performed in all patients 48 h after the biopsy detected peri- and intrarenal hematomas in 2 cases.
(12) In 97 patients undergoing elective biliary (44) or colorectal (53) surgery, cases were randomly allocated to receive peri-operative prophylaxis with either cefoxitin (Mefoxin; MSD) or metronidazole, penicillin and tobramycin (MPT).
(13) Similarities were increased number of lipid droplets in the cumulus cells, widened peri-vitelline space, peripheral displacement or breakdown of the oocyte nucleus and disconnection of the junctions between cumulus cell projections and the oolemma.
(14) The peri-arteriolar lymphoid sheets of the spleen were poorly developed and were mainly composed of T-8+ lymphocytes.
(15) It would also be helpful to begin a four-decade urban sanitation planning effort along with an "Urban Watch" to promote significant developments in peri-urban settlements.
(16) Since 5,12-dimethylchrysene had previously been shown to be only a weak tumor initiator, these results support the generalization that the structural requirements favoring carcinogenicity among the methylated chrysenes and other polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are a bay region methyl group and a free peri position, both adjacent to an unsubstituted angular ring.
(17) A review of a series of 287 operations for peri-anal fistulous abscess in patients admitted for the first time, to the 1st Surgical Division of the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan, is reported.
(18) However, the uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation in the infarcted area and in the peri-infarcted area did not show any significant improvement.
(19) Although single photon emission tomography (SPECT) is being increasingly used in the localisation of epileptic foci, the evolution and time courses of the peri-ictal perfusion changes have yet to be clarified.
(20) Copulations with other adults males also occurred during all cycle phases, but were most frequent peri-ovulatory.
Perp
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The PERP values for these 41 substances differ by more than 100,000-fold from each other.
(2) Set in a future world ravaged by nuclear war, where judges in vast cities have the power to summarily execute criminals (or "perps"), and where Dredd is the greatest judge of them all, Beeby's story will also feature the comic strip's first ever portrayal of a Muslim Mega-City One judge in PSI Judge Hamida, a woman who uncovers a possible suicide cult.
(3) Production of transforming virus was found in QERC-31N, PERP and PERY.
(4) Both PERP and PERY showed macrophage-like morphology with phagocytic capacity.
(5) There was a TV movie in 1981, followed by a TV series, which ran from 1982 to 1988; the characters would race around New York City , running up stairs, down stairs, arresting perps, rolling their eyes at flashers, wielding guns when absolutely necessary.
(6) Ranked by PERP, these chemicals are: ethylene dibromide, ethylene dichloride, 1,3-butadiene, tetrachloroethylene, propylene oxide, chloroform, formaldehyde, methylene chloride, dioxane, and benzene.
(7) Fans will tell you a perpetrator or criminal is a "perp", a child is a "juve".
(8) But the result looked like a perp walk , the footage carrying the same visual grammar as yet another 70s celebrity helping police with their inquiries.
(9) The pair looked on glumly as Sharpton lectured that “the best way to make police stop using illegal chokeholds is to perp-walk one of them that did”.
(10) Four continuous lines of RSV-transformed quail cells were established; QERC-31F and QERC-31N cells derived from quail embryo cells and PERP and PERY cells from adult quail peritoneal macrophages.
(11) "You need to send out a slew of indictments, all at once, and at 3pm on a sunny day, have federal marshals perp walk 300 Wall Street executives out of their offices in handcuffs and out on the street with lots of cameras rolling," he said.
(12) The PERP does not take into account the actual level of exposure or the number of exposed workers.