(n.) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.
Example Sentences:
(1) In porgy, the relationship between the P and QRS axes could not be identified due to the smaller amplitude of the P wave.
(2) Since then, he has starred in stage versions of Porgy and Bess and The Witches of Eastwick, and was virtually the only black face in Richard Curtis's Notting Hill.
(3) Good motility of spermatozoa could be maintained for up to 10 days in vials hanging in a water bath at 4 degrees C. For cryopreservation, an extender containing 5% glucose mixed with glycerol, serving as the cryoprotective agent (CPA), at a 4:1 ratio was used and the black porgy milt was diluted with the extender at a 1:1 ratio.
(4) My dog, Porgy, although he might object to being seen as a possession.
(5) ECGs were recorded using five bipolar leads from the body surface of porgy Pagrus major and tilapia Oreochromis niloticus in fresh or sea-water, or held on a dry towel.
(6) 3013-N with 5-microns particles of porous polystyrene-divinylbenzene, and applied to estimate the freshness of porgy.
(7) Hepatic metabolites and enzymes in the marine fish, scup or porgy (Stenotomus chrysops), were determined in freeze-clamped tissue taken either within a day of removing fish from their natural habitat or after scup were held in captivity for 6-8 months.
(8) This paper describes the general biology of the testes, milt and spermatozoa of the black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegeli and reports some preliminary results in which the techniques for cryopreservation of spermatozoa were investigated.
(9) Clear ECG waves could not be obtained from porgy in sea-water because of the porgy's small cardiac potential and leakage of the potential.
(10) Total amounts of ATP, ADP and AMP in an isolated muscle just after death gradually decreased to 60% of the original amount after 5 h, and the ATP content rapidly decreased to 20% after 1 h. A good correlation was found between the levels of total adenine compounds and the energy charge values obtained from nineteen porgies frozen at a prerigour state.
(11) Our sports desk claims to recognise this and to have paid special attention to women's events since the Olympics, but as Sportin' Life sings in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess : "It ain't necessarily so."
(12) Then I was working with director Trevor Nunn on a production of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess at Glyndebourne in 1987, and he suggested it.
(13) "The Muses Are Heard" , published in the New Yorker in 1956, chronicled a trip to the Soviet Union by the Everyman Opera, which was touring with Gershwin's Porgy and Bess , and showcased razor-sharp observation and a tone of voice that ranged from the playful to the acidic.
(14) Audra McDonald was named best lead actress in a musical for Porgy and Bess, which – in another upset – was named best musical revival over Follies.
Pory
Definition:
(a.) Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cumulative mortality and birth rates showed a significant accumulation of MS cases to the western county of Vaasa and the southwestern county of Turku and Pori.
(2) the combined clerical districts, revealed a firm accumulation to the western districts in the county of Vaasa and to the southwestern districts in the county of Turku and Pori.
(3) The E. coli oriC Pori-L promoter described in in vitro transcription studies by Lother and Messer (1981) was not detected in this study in either wildtype cells or isogenic dnaA mutants at the nonpermissive temperature.
(4) A new promoter activity, Pori-R1, was identified within the E. coli origin in the clockwise direction.
(5) The distribution of optic neuritis by counties showed the highest mean annual incidence in the southwestern county of Turku and Pori (1.69) and in the western county of Vaasa (1.68).
(6) Elderly persons among the population aged 65 years or over in the town of Pori, Finland, falls leading to medical treatment experiencing during one year, are described by age, sex, month, time of day, place, mechanism, estimated cause, previous falls, symptoms before falling, and activity when falling.
(7) The highest prevalence by present domicile was recorded in the southwestern county of Turku and Pori (52.3 cases per 100,000 inhabitants).
(8) Another high-risk focus was revealed in an area of the neighbouring districts of Turku and Pori.
(9) To determine the factors associated with deaths from asthma we surveyed retrospectively all the death certificates issued in two regions of Finland (the province of Oulu and the province of Turku and Pori) over a ten-year period in which asthma had been given as the main cause of death.
(10) The TCu 380Ag (Outokumpu Oy, Pori, Finland) and the Multiload Cu375 (Multilan, Organon, Oss, The Netherlands) were evaluated in 1477 women in a multicenter clinical trial.
(11) Five clones of pori were examined in transfected V79 hamster cells.
(12) We have cloned a number of plasmids pori, containing DNA fragments derived from rat liver alpha-polymerase complex.
(13) Outward transcription from within oriC (promoters Pori-r and Pori-l) was found to start in vivo at position 178 for Pori-l and at positions 294 and 304 for Pori-r, respectively.
(14) Two separate clusters were found at the level of combined and single clerical districts: one in the western county of Vaasa, and another in the southwestern county of Turku and Pori.