(n.) The recrement of metals in fusion, or the slag rejected after the reduction of metallic ores; dross.
(n.) Cellular slaggy lava; volcanic cinders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scoria (volcanic cinder) was most effective in excluding roots of crested wheatgrass and streambank wheatgrass.
Scotia
Definition:
(n.) Scotland
(n.) A concave molding used especially in classical architecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) Questionnaires were mailed to 200 randomly selected hospital nurses and to all 177 community health nurses working in the Nova Scotia metropolitan centre; 74 completed questionnaires were returned.
(2) The Micmac Indian women of Nova Scotia appear to be at a much higher risk for the development of cholesterol gallstones and gallbladder disease than Caucasian women in Framingham, Massachusetts.
(3) and other species in stool specimens from stray dogs and cats in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(4) From September 1990 to March 1991, 47 of 52 patients with genital C. trachomatis infections in a rural health unit in Nova Scotia were interviewed about preventive education by physicians partner notification, past history, and treatment.
(5) All-female hybrids of the killifishes Fundulus heteroclitus and Fundulus diaphanus, known from two sites in Nova Scotia, Canada, are shown to reproduce clonally.
(6) In Experiment 1, speeding feedback signs were effective even when 10 were used in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and reductions in speeding were associated with reductions in accidents.
(7) The prevalence rates of cytomegalovirus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Trichomonas vaginalis, and herpes simplex virus infection were determined for 247 women attending a sexually transmitted disease clinic in Halifax, Nova Scotia between July 1983 and December 1985.
(8) Thirty-six harbor porpoises, Phocaena phocaena, were caught off the coast of Southern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as part of a study of the biology and ecology of these animals.
(9) The proportion of definite and possible AMI was similar in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan in 1977, but not thereafter.
(10) He stayed there for some years before he again left for USA, and spent the last years of his life in Nova Scotia.
(11) But for most folk, Scotland still doesn’t pass the hold-your-partner’s-hand test, certainly compared with London.” Similarly, campaigner Jordan Daly says: “It’s not enough to say to LGBT kids, ‘Hey, you can get married, so don’t worry about being bullied at school.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Participants in the annual Pride Scotia parade, on Edinburgh High Street, 2015.
(12) Affected males from two Nova Scotia families who cannot be associated with the kindred by history were also found to have the rarer NcoI allele, which suggests they are, in fact, part of the kindred.
(13) "If there was any doubt that the eurozone was headed for recession, these data should confirm it," said Alan Clarke, eurozone economist at Scotia Capital.
(14) Thus, to analyse Fabry disease in Nova Scotia, especially within a large kindred known to contain 30 affected males and 50 possible carrier females, we isolated an independent cDNA for alpha-gal.
(15) In March 1941 Freud signed on as an ordinary seaman on the armed merchant cruiser SS Baltrover, bound for Nova Scotia.
(16) The infection control department of the Victoria General Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia conducted prospective hospital-wide surveillance for one month to evaluate the incidence of UTIs.
(17) All commercial fishermen in the Canadian Maritime provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island) are registered with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).
(18) First National Bank in Scotia, NY is in its 90th year with 10 branches and $400m in assets.
(19) The New York state Level-of-Care Survey (LOCS) was used in 1987-88 to assess the community care and social support needs of 936 mentally disabled community residents in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
(20) Over a four-year period, eight patients with documented gastrointestinal bleeding had angiography as a part of their investigation and treatment at the Department of Radiology, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia.