(a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
(a.) Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other "waves" have swept the noughties: the brilliantly scabrous and extreme Asian wave, and the passionate Latin American wave.
(2) Genes such as Notch and scabrous, known to be involved in bristle development, also participate in this process, suggesting that the specification of ommatidial founder cells and the formation of sensory organs in the adult epidermis may involve a similar mechanism, that of lateral inhibition.
(3) The scabrous locus was cloned, and it appears to encode a secreted protein partly related to the beta and gamma chains of fibrinogen.
(4) Mutations and duplications of vestigial and scabrous alter the severity of phenotypes associated with Notch mutations and duplications in a manner that is essentially tissue- and allele-specific.
(5) Interactions are described between the Notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster, and two other loci, scabrous and vestigial, which respectively affect the eyes and wings.
(6) I knew it when I read Amadeus for the first time, I knew it when I read the screenplay of Four Weddings and a Funeral (I had a premonition that I was going to be the funeral), and I knew it some years before either of those illustrious projects when in 1976 – I'd only been acting for three years – an actor friend, Richard Quick, handed me an untitled, unbound manuscript which proved to be the scabrous Sixteen Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis adapted into a one-man show.
(7) American comic writing is at its most rewarding when at its most scabrous.
(8) These interactions indicate that the products of vestigial and scabrous act in conjunction with Notch to stimulate the differentiation of specific cell types.
(9) Who could have imagined our most senior judge quoting the scabrous 18th-century radical John Wilkes in aid of his argument?
(10) ), but it was the best, most scabrous fun to be had here.
(11) It was produced by the scabrous MP and journalist, John Wilkes , in 1763 – a reaction to a weekly newspaper called the Briton, funded by public money to promote the government's cause.
(12) His scabrous commentary on his own times was perceived as startlingly pertinent and laugh-out-loud funny: filthy and deeply, gloriously, politically incorrect, even for 1976, when the concept had yet to be articulated.
(13) It encompasses parts of the last intron and exon of the scabrous (sca) gene, which encodes a secreted protein involved in cellular communication during neurogenesis.
(14) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," he says, adding that there ought to be a vehicle to show off his "scabrous, dark, smart working-class Scottish humour".
(15) (I can only assume they were referring to the brilliantly scabrous interview by Camilla Long , in which Hefner was described as "the Norma Desmond of sex", who "leaps on any innuendo with demonic hunger", and lives in a kind of "porno Disney" at his Playboy mansion in Los Angeles.)
(16) Experiments with sheep and cattle being fed scabrous and nonscabrous diets similar in chemical composition show that sheep are more resistant than cattle to the increase in intrarumen pressure, decline in rumen contraction amplitude, and decrease in rumen contraction frequency caused by nonscabrous diets.
(17) I don't mind the noise they make - scabrous electronics meets vaguely indie-sounding rock.
(18) 'Scabrous' carry-on ... Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Strange as it may seem, they were once taken very seriously indeed.
(19) These parasites may cause inflammation, thickening, scabrous and severe itching.
(20) "I was re-reading Down and Out in Paris and London recently," says Steadman who is responsible for a marvellously scabrous illustrated edition of Animal Farm .
Scaly
Definition:
(a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
(a.) Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
(a.) Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
(a.) Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
(2) Intraepidermal epithelioma of Jadassohn is a rare cutaneous neoplasm characterized by a solitary scaly verrucous plaque.
(3) A four and a half-year old Nigerian girl, living at home, who presented with protracted fever, multifocal lymph node enlargement, extensive scaly rash, injected conjunctivae, fissuring of the lip and other features consistent with a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease is reported.
(4) Neu-Laxova syndrome is a rare form of congenital malformation characterized by intrauterine growth retardation, microcephaly with bizarre facial features, short neck, apparent edema, scaly skin, and perinatal death.
(5) In warmer water (18 degrees C), the parasites reproduced intensively only on the scaly form of fish, whereas no parasites were found on the scaleless form some days after infection.
(6) Alopecia and dry scaly skin were prominent in the diabetic mice but less extensive in the diabetic mice supplemented with EFA.
(7) After receiving either an 18.5% egg white diet for 25 weeks, or a 32% egg white diet for 12 weeks, they exhibited dermal lesions characterized by alopecia, scaly dermatitis and achromotrichia, which increased in severity with the deficiency.
(8) Macular, papulonodular and scaly, annular, or arciform lesions are represented, histopathologically by lymphocytic, predominantly neutrophilic, and mixed infiltrates with a prominent histiocytic component.
(9) Madrid artist Deno is oblivious to the grimacing, concentrating on needling a giant scaly fish into his chest.
(10) Subsequently, scaly erythema of the nose and of the auricles appeared.
(11) SPP was clinically characterized by scaly oval plaques on the trunk and proximal aspect of extremities.
(12) The surface of the spine is covered by a scaly keratin of possibly sloughing cells, and the cornified layer on the spine is very thick (more than 100 mu), reaching 3 to 7 times the depth of the corresponding layer in other parts.
(13) Among patients with scaly scalp lessons of varying severity the isolation rate was 64%, but dermatophytic fungi were also isolated from 16% of 50 asymptomatic children.
(14) Topical application of the major lipoxygenase product to paws of essential fatty acid-deficient rats resulted in nearly as complete resolution of the scaly dermatitis as did the application of columbinic acid itself; the cyclooxygenase product was not at all effective.
(15) Affected males are of small stature and exhibit scaliness and crusting of the eyelids, ears, tail, and feet, marked splenomegaly, moderate hepatomegaly, enlarged lymph nodes, and atrophy of the thymus.
(16) On the trunk, the abdomen was more severely involved than the back in 63% of the cases with the XLI, whereas the back was more scaly than the abdomen in 44% of those with IV.
(17) A scaly rash suggestive of ichthyosis and eye irritation were present in some heavy kava drinkers.
(18) We investigated lipoprotein metabolism in 14 patients with recessive X-linked ichthyosis (RXLI), a metabolic disease characterized by scaly skin, corneal opacity and steroid sulfatase deficiency.
(19) Microtrauma from small particles can aggravate the dry scaly dermatosis.
(20) These alterations in the process of keratinocyte differentiation may explain the clinically observed scaliness associated with hypothyroidism in humans.