(superl.) Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scurfy lesions characteristically contain a population of large blastlike cells with round to oval nuclei, a vesicular chromatin pattern, and prominent single nucleoli.
(2) The role of the thymus in the development of fatal lymphoreticular disease in the scurfy mouse was investigated.
(3) The X chromosome-linked scurfy (sf) mutant of the mouse is recognized by the scaliness of the skin from which the name is derived and results in death of affected males at about 3-4 weeks of age.
(4) Bone marrow from scurfy mice can reconstitute lethally irradiated, H-2-compatible animals but does not transmit scurfy disease.
(5) Scurfy differs from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in that scurfy males are consistently hypogonadal.
(6) We conclude, from these data, that scurfy lesions are mediated by T lymphocytes that mature in an abnormal (sf) thymic environment.
(7) Scurfy (sf), is an X-linked recessive lethal mutation that occurs spontaneously in the C3H mouse.
(8) Characteristic lesions in mice hemi- or homozygous for the X-linked mutation scurfy (sf) include lymphohistiocytic proliferation in the skin and lymphoid organs, Coombs' test-positive anemia, hypergammaglobulinemia, and death by 24 days of age.
(9) Thus, while our findings indicate that scurfy disease may be the result of immune dysfunction, it is not a classic immunodeficiency.
(10) Neonatal thymectomy doubles the life span of scurfy mice, moderates the histologic lesions, and prevents anemia, despite the continued presence of high levels of serum IgG.
(11) The centromere of the X (LGXX) has been tentatively assigned to the end nearest to the scurfy (sf) locus.
(12) Our studies indicate that the phenotype of hemizygous scurfy is not, as has been suggested, a model for human X-linked ichthyosis, but appears to be a disease primarily affecting the lymphoreticular, and possibly the hematopoietic, systems.
(13) Scurfy mice are negative for antinuclear antibodies.
(14) Despite their morphologically aberrant lymphoreticular system, scurfy mice can exist in a conventional environment without evidence of opportunistic infection.
(15) Scurfy (sf) is a spontaneous, sex-linked, recessive mutation that maps to the extreme proximal portion of the X chromosome, about 2 centimorgans from sparse fur (spf).
(16) Raising scurfy mice in a specific-pathogen-free environment does not alter disease expression.
Scurry
Definition:
(v. i.) To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, the rabbit scurried away.
(n.) Act of scurring; hurried movement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(2) Managers scurry back and forth across the Atlantic with advance copies handcuffed to their wrists, critics are required to sign contracts promising that they will not so much as hum the contents to their nearest and dearest, and the music press acts as if the world is about to witness the most significant release since Nelson Mandela's.
(3) Pavlov included nonassociative controls, forward pairing of the indifferent stimuli before reinforcing the second one with shock, and he avoided the development of inhibition to the compound by using a moving visual stimulus and a sound like that of scurrying mice, which both had persistent orienting reactions.
(4) It seemed to me that Kafka had trouble imagining a universe where Gregor the Bug scurried about on the street, doing all kinds of wild things.
(5) Through dexterous operation of the Shinkai6500's mechanical arms by pilot Sasaki-san, we quickly began collecting samples of rocks, the hot fluids from the vents, and the creatures thriving around them: speckled anemones with almost-translucent tentacles, and the orange-tinted shrimp scurrying among them.
(6) 3.44pm BST First set: *Djokovic 1-4 Nadal (*denotes server) Djokovic scurries to the net, slicing a backhand volley crosscourt when there was no need - Nadal's groundstroke was going wide.
(7) Continued to fight but was starved of the ball once City scored Ki Sung-yueng 6 Retained possession well in the first half and kept things ticking along for Sunderland although, as the game progressed, became slightly overawed in midfield Sebastian Larsson 6 Scurried around for the hour that he was on the pitch.
(8) The fishmonger is summoned and scurries away apologetically.
(9) But it has dawned on me, scurrying through clouds of teargas and slipping on blood, that the protesters are on to a bigger point.
(10) The story of his life mortified him and sent him scurrying for excuses.
(11) After the break, Pablo Hernández, who has the scurrying style of Real Madrid's Angel di María, started the move from which Swansea equalised.
(12) With hundreds of clinical practice parameters in place and hundreds more being developed, clinicians are scurrying just to keep up.
(13) But the idea that Osborne and Gove will scurry off to paint “Vote Boris” on the side of their formidable political machine is fanciful.
(14) Parking is near the elegiac ruins of Tintern Abbey, and from there one embarks upon a digestible but heart thumping climb up to the Devil's Pulpit, a rocky outcrop, affording fantastic views, where the evil doer himself supposedly used to preach temptation to the industrious monks scurrying below.
(15) The attorney general, George Brandis, who is said by officials in Canberra to be a torturously slow decision maker, is forced to scurry behind the prime minister with the laptop, drafting the particulars.
(16) Luck that he lived in a village where no one gave a shit about him scurrying about like pastoral Rambo until it became absolutely impossible to ignore.
(17) And Disney have got to get it absolutely right, or risk the kind of abuse which eventually sent Lucas scurrying away from his own space saga in horror at the fanboy monster he had created.
(18) The traffic was almost bumper-to-bumper as I scurried in – partly because of the tight security (several guards are posted outside the main buildings and at junctions).
(19) The news sent her scurrying – not to her home but to her workplace, the headquarters of the Children of the 90s project in Bristol.
(20) Refrigeration units with doors mean customers don’t have to scurry uncomfortably along aisles in near-Arctic conditions and, as they require much smaller quantities of refrigerant, they are easier and safer to run on natural refrigerants.