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Scally


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The coalition's commitment to local power is a sham, Scally insists.
  • (2) The scallies watch the car until it is swallowed up in the traffic on Walton Lane.
  • (3) No longer muzzled, Scally – an articulate and passionate defender of the NHS – is set to become a thorn in Lansley's flesh, and a key voice in the debates about public health issues, such as obesity, tobacco control and public health's impending transfer from the NHS to local government.
  • (4) I mean the year the fence was breached in several places and thousands of scumbags, scallies and thieves poured through, all intent on ferreting through tents for valuables, all spoiling for a scrap.
  • (5) Can you tell Mr Wilson his car is still here in Eckersley Avenue?’ The scallies had watched him pick it up, followed him back, stolen it again, driven it back to Liverpool and parked it in exactly the same place.
  • (6) Feel Steve Osmond's pain: "Promising start - not for the moaning scallies, but for me cos I've got an accumulator worth £80,000 involving Maldini as the first scorer," he says, before adding the caveat: "It does however need Kewell to score too."
  • (7) Scally, whose career as an NHS public health director began almost two decades ago, became disillusioned under the coalition.
  • (8) The day of the Vivaldi concert has arrived and the children stroll into the Friary – scrawny, scally, mischievous – and scratch out a square dance with gusto on their violins and what seem to be hugely outsized cellos.
  • (9) A smile breaks out as I wave hopefully and Manc scally mutates into professional scouser: Phil Redmond CBE, writer and creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks, not to mention honorary professor of media at Liverpool John Moores University .
  • (10) Scally, for one, does not intend to let that happen.
  • (11) Scally, who trained as a GP, says GPs are not the right people to commission health services, contradicting established wisdom in the medical and health policy community.
  • (12) Scally completely rejects ministerial claims that abolishing primary care trusts and strategic health authorities (SHAs) and handing control of £60bn of patient treatment budgets from next April to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), will – to coin a favourite Lansleyism – "liberate" the NHS.
  • (13) Dr Gabriel Scally, a senior NHS doctor, was until April employed by the Department of Health , but he resigned as a direct result of his alarm at the coalition government's health policies – and because he wanted the freedom to oppose them.
  • (14) In his first interview since stepping down as regional director of public health for the south-west of England, Scally says: "The time had come for me to step outside the formal system and do things in a different way.
  • (15) Instead she met guitarist and keyboard player Alex Scally (if Mattel made bookishly hot band-geek Ken dolls, he could be the inspiration), and after practising in a basement together, they released their debut album Beach House on Carpark records in 2006.
  • (16) The fee proposed, a £25,000 down payment with another £25,000 to be paid six months later, was rejected by the Gillingham chairman, Paul Scally, only for an independent tribunal to set a deal at an initial £125,000, with £100,000 due for every 10 league appearances made thereafter up to 40 games.
  • (17) "It's sad to say it, but it's symptomatic of the rape of smaller clubs' youth systems by those in the Premier League," said Scally on Saturday night.
  • (18) "Abolishing the cabinet subcommittee after only two years means the coalition is not only breaking their promise to make public health a priority across government but showing how little they really care about improving the health of the population," said Scally.
  • (19) Prof Gabriel Scally, a senior doctor who until April was employed by the health department to lead public health efforts in the south-west of England, said getting rid of the subcommittee showed ministers had broken their pledge to make public health a key priority.
  • (20) Allt's account depicts Liverpool's travelling army as scallies not sadists, supporting themselves through petty theft and blagging, and resorting to violence only when provoked.

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.