(interj.) An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !
Example Sentences:
(1) The livers of 15 rabbits were perfused in situ with prednisone (PO) or prednisolone (POH) over a wide range of steady state concentrations, resulting in multiple experimental measurements per organ.
(2) Water-perfused thermodes were chronically implanted around the preoptic nuclei and hypothalamus (POH) of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys ingens).
(3) Ahypothesis accounting for high POH and low peripheral thermosensitivities in small mammals is presented.
(4) All presented with or developed chorioretinal scars or neovascularization similar to that seen in multifocal choroiditis or pseudo POHS.
(5) Herein we describe a patient with POHS in which laser treatment regressed a parafoveal subretinal neovascular membrane.
(6) POH perfusion yielded no detectable PO in the exiting perfusate.
(7) The available fraction of PO from POH averaged 44 per cent at the low infusion rate decreasing to 16 and 20 per cent at the medium and high infusion rates.
(8) Disruption of normal vasculature was seen at mesenteric and antimesenteric sites; ingrowth of vessels, reformation of vascular plexuses, and development of collateral circulation were observed at POH 96.
(9) The therapy of postoperative hypertension (POH) after head and neck surgery was evaluated in a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial.
(10) Bolus doses of POH and PO were also administered to four of the rabbits.
(11) Deposition of new collagen was not appreciable in any section at POH 48 or 96.
(12) The median eminence (ME) and a tissue block containing the preoptic area and hypothalamus (POH) were dissected separately.
(13) The modification of holoenzyme by Br[14C]AcNEtS-Rif in the presence of p-hydroxymercuribenzene sulfonic acid (pOH-HgBzSO3H) or 4 M LiCl occurred with faster kinetics and led to a higher degree of substitution.
(14) It is suggested that a specific site, designated poh+ (permissive on Hfr), is located in this region, and is essential for these plasmids to replicate in Hfr cells.
(15) The authors' first 15 patients with POHS and 19 patients with ARMD were followed for an average of 4 months postoperatively.
(16) There was approximately 1.6-fold more LHRH-like IR in the ME than in the POH.
(17) Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) is a commonly observed fungal infection.
(18) These have included the multiple evanescent white dot syndrome, acute macular neuroretinopathy, acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome, and multifocal choroiditis or pseudo presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (pseudo POHS).
(19) In patients with multifocal choroiditis, presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) is often diagnosed.
(20) These findings suggest that the presence of peripheral linear streaks cannot be used to differentiate the POHS from MCP.
Pot
Definition:
(n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot.
(n.) An earthen or pewter cup for liquors; a mug.
(n.) The quantity contained in a pot; a potful; as, a pot of ale.
(n.) A metal or earthenware extension of a flue above the top of a chimney; a chimney pot.
(n.) A crucible; as, a graphite pot; a melting pot.
(n.) A wicker vessel for catching fish, eels, etc.
(n.) A perforated cask for draining sugar.
(n.) A size of paper. See Pott.
(v. t.) To place or inclose in pots
(v. t.) To preserve seasoned in pots.
(v. t.) To set out or cover in pots; as, potted plants or bulbs.
(v. t.) To drain; as, to pot sugar, by taking it from the cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off.
(v. t.) To pocket.
(v. i.) To tipple; to drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(2) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(3) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
(4) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(5) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(6) It somewhat condescendingly divides the population into 15 groups – among them, Terraced Melting Pot (“Lower-income workers, mostly young, living in tightly packed inner-urban terraces”), and Suburban Mind-sets (“Maturing families on mid-range incomes living a moderate lifestyle in suburban semis”).
(7) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(8) Others will point out that this is a case of pot calling kettle black as Wolff is himself a famous peddler of tittle-tattle – the aggregator website that he cofounded, Newser, even has a section called "Gossip".
(9) [IAAF officials] are quite happy to sit in Monaco on a huge pot of money but when it comes to investing in the sport it’s not happening.
(10) Even if it were true that the rich are hard working, this wouldn't distinguish them from most people who lack the proverbial pot to micturate in.
(11) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(12) But the crisis has left divisions more deeply entrenched than ever between the rich, Dutch-speaking north and poorer, French-speaking south, with melting pot Brussels marooned in the middle.
(13) If you do find they are all legs and nothing else, when you pot them on, drop them.
(14) Known as the melting pot of the south, Marseille is home to a large proportion – possibly up to a fifth – of France's total Roma population, itself estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000.
(15) If you are on holiday in the local area please come along and have a look, buy a garden bench or a potted plant.
(16) Everything was quiet, and there was the jacket on the stand – finished, perfect.” As the business grew, McQueen moved to Amwell Street where the studio was “like a magic porridge pot of creativity”, said Witton-Wallace.
(17) In screening exercises the Pot IgM failed to bind a wide variety of peptides.
(18) In the song Christmas and Owen argue that if women were a Pot Noodle it would be "farewell to nagging and random tantrums".
(19) Potted profile Born: 19 June 1945 Age: 66 Career: Campaigner for democracy and human rights High point: Release from house arrest in November 2010 and successive subsequent releases of Burmese political prisoners Low point: Separation from and eventual death of her husband from cancer in 1999 What she says: "It is not power that corrupts but fear.
(20) In this report, a new HLA-B locus antigen is described (tentatively called POT).