(n.) The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequencies of the three common Caucasoid haplotypes, Gm3,5,13,14, Gm1,17,21, and Gm1,2,17,21 in these two populations were found to be similar to those in neighboring Slavic states and Hungary.
(2) The group have also courted political controversy with their pro-Slavic message and Donatan's support for the Red Army.
(3) Putin uses the Orthodox church to boost patriotism, and strengthen Russian influence in the Slavic world.
(4) Slon.ru, an online business edition, tweeted the news in overtly archaic Russian, avoiding possibly criminal words such as shtraf ( vira is the Old Slavic term, in case you wondered – although it is also a Scandinavian loan word dating back to the 11th century), but wasn't able to follow through when trying to ask its readers to "retweet".
(5) Following expansion of the original data on 21 families in Croatia to a total of 49 Croatian and Serbian families, we establish that this enzymatic disorder is increased in this Slavic population and provide an updated estimate for the gene frequency of 0.092 (0.035-0.149).
(6) In 1904, the first private surgical sanatorium in the Slavic South was founded in Split by Jaksa Racić, M.D., surgeon, urologist and radiologist.
(7) A breakdown of the voting competition organisers revealed that Poland's song, We Are Slavic, featuring a group of scantily clad young women dressed as milk maids , was the runaway favourite of the British public.
(8) "Maybe he also realised that the Serbs saw him as their main enemy," Habsburg-Lothringen said, "because he wanted to balance out, but essentially minimise, the dominating influence of the Serbs among the Slavic people."
(9) This paper is the first of a series of publications on Slavic ethnomedicine in the Soviet Far East.
(10) But many analysts have suggested Russia will stop short of invading east Ukraine and will instead seek to compromise presidential polls on May 25 in a bid to retain influence in the neighbouring Slavic country.
(11) A study was undertaken to find the frequency of the delta F508 deletion and those of the G551D, R553X and G524X mutations among the mainly Slavic population of Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Montenegro and compare the frequencies determined with those in other European populations.
(12) The three scientist authors – Alexey V Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V Nesterenko – provide in its pages a translated synthesis and compilation of hundreds of scientific articles on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster that have appeared in Slavic language publications over the past 20 years.
(13) Born in Moscow out of an anti-Soviet rock culture in the 1980s, the Night Wolf biking gang, whose logo is a flaming wolf's head, today have branches across the Slavic world including Bulgaria, Bosnia, Serbia and Ukraine.
(14) "Saturday's Slavic Gay pride is about more than gay human rights.
(15) Charles I "clearly saw that a basic problem was the situation of the Slavic people within the Habsburg empire".
(16) The Soviet army played a major role in saving this part of Europe from the realisation of Hitler’s master plan in the east, which proposed the colonisation, enslavement and eventual extermination of the Slavic population.
(17) Eagle-eyed etymologists, however, noted that none of the words in the Liberalnaya Demokraticheskaya Partiya are of Slavic origin, so publishing the name of the party proposing the law could be enough to receive a fine.
(18) The men were about 5ft 9in tall, and one spoke German with a Slavic accent, police said.
(19) Tatchell says he is coming back to Moscow for Saturday's gay rights rally, called "Slavic Pride".
(20) Instead, he offered a quick history lesson, stretching back a thousand years, to when Slavic tribes banded together to form Kievan Rus – the dynasty that eventually flourished into modern-day Ukraine and its big neighbour Russia.
Virile
Definition:
(a.) Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early prenatal suppression of the fetal adrenal cortex with fluorinated corticosteroids can prevent virilization of female fetuses with 21-hydroxylase deficiency.
(2) The patient showed no virilization, but did show elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels.
(3) In histologically proven hyperthecosis, signs of virilism were absent in 6 cases.
(4) Lacl of masculinization in female infants whose virilized mothers have h. luteinalis is in contrast to the common finding of fetal masculinization when maternal virilization occurs with luteoma of pregnancy.
(5) Cognitive studies of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) patients have revealed (1) the presence of an IQ advantage in patients, siblings and parents due to socioeconomic status, genetic, hormonal, or other factors; (2) an IQ disadvantage in salt wasters compared with simple virilizers, probably due to early brain damage secondary to salt-wasting crisis; (3) a possibly increased incidence of learning disabilities, particularly in female patients and particularly for calculation abilities, due to disease-related early androgen exposure; and (4) a possible post-pubertal spatial advantage in CAH women, also due to early androgen exposure.
(6) The genetic, biochemical, clinical and endocrinological features of four distinct syndromes are described in which defective virilization in genetic and gondal men appears to result from resistance to androgen action.
(7) Testosterone, 5alpha-androstane-3alpha, 17beta-diol (3alpha-diol), and dihydrotestosterone (DHT) virilize the anlagen of the mammary gland by suppressing nipple formation but 5alpha-androstane-3beta, 17beta-diol, androsterone, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate do not affect female mammary differentiation.
(8) Beside the hypertension, an extreme virilization appeared.
(9) We describe a case of adrenal myelolipoma that simulated clinically and biochemically a virilizing adrenal tumor.
(10) After removal of the luteoma in week 32 of pregnancy, the virilizing symptoms of the mother completely regressed.
(11) Two enzymatic defects in the zona fasciculata, 11 beta- and 17 alpha-hydroxylase deficiency, can be first readily identified by the virilization in the former, hypogonadal features in the latter.
(12) An adrenal carcinosarcoma is reported in a 29-year-old female presenting with clinical signs of virilization.
(13) Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors of the ovary are rare neoplasms of young women and are best known for their frequent virilizing effects.
(14) The reconstruction of the virilized genitalia in females with adrenogenital syndrome (AGS) is carried out sparing the dorsal neurovascular bundle either through clitoral recession or reduction with simultaneous vaginoplasty and clitoroplasty.
(15) The most active virilizing steroid in this group was stanozolol followed by oxymetholone, methyl-testosterone and dimethysterone.
(16) The absence of a virilizing action is duly pointed out.
(17) A Leydig (Hilus)-cell tumor of the ovary was diagnosed in a 54-year-old woman with severe hirsutism and virilization.
(18) Its breeding programme is probably doomed by a combination of regulation (Californian authorities last year refused redevelopment plans for its San Diego site unless it stopped breeding orcas) and the fact that its virile male, Tilikum, appears to be dying .
(19) However, the basal s HY Ag value is sometimes increased in the absence of any testicular tissue, as in virilized females (21-hydroxylase deficiency, idiopathic or ovarian hirsutism).
(20) The combination of a myelolipoma and a true adenoma has only been described once before (in a case of virilization) and never in connection with Cushing's syndrome.