(n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
(n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
() imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
(n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
(n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
(v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
(v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mucosal sloughing with hemorrhage and infarction were observed at 3 hours.
(2) More suppliers have told the Guardian of extensive negotiations with Amazon staff in Slough, adding to the impression that the company carries out important trading activities in the UK and so could be liable for tax.
(3) In mammalian small intestine absorptive cells are known to migrate from the villus base to the villus tip from which they slough.
(4) The most marked effect of the ZnSO4 took the form of necrosis and sloughing of surface cells in both strains one-half day after ZnSO4 irrigation.
(5) Cameron’s call for the Malaysian political class to fight corruption came as he pitched the country’s financiers the chance to invest in £17bn worth of UK infrastructure projects ranging from a Leeds orbital road route, Slough town centre and prime residential properties along the Thames.
(6) The histopathologic features include peritubular sclerosis, small vessel sclerosis, premature germ cell sloughing, and variable degrees of hypospermatogenesis.
(7) Changes in sperm head morphology are caused by (1) a dramatic reshaping and consolidation of the acrosome in which excess plasma membrane overlying it is sloughed as a cluster of vesicles, (2) a reorientation of the nucleus almost parallel to the axis of the tail and (3) distal movement of the droplet from its initial envelopment of the nucleus to an eccentric position on the anterior segment of the midpiece.
(8) Acute hypothermia induced a sloughing of cells from the villi into the lumen of the gut, as indicated by an increased DNA in luminal washings.
(9) Toxic epidermal necrolysis results in skin sloughing that resembles a partial-thickness thermal injury.
(10) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that in diabetic BB rats there was consistent evidence of swollen cells, raised nuclei, and sloughing of nuclei in endothelial cells of the aorta.
(11) However, after sloughing of labelled cells in the intestinal lumen, Pu was reabsorbed by the distal epithelial cells.
(12) It places the implant deep to prevent skin slough and irregularities in skin surface contour.
(13) Newer communities have settled in towns and cities such as Milton Keynes, Slough, Northampton, Southampton, and in London, notably Ealing, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
(14) Sloughing vesiculobullous oral lesions are a frequent component.
(15) Within 1 day of injury, columnar epithelium sloughed intact from the trachea with a concomitant reduction of nearly 35% in the basal cell population.
(16) Early changes (0-2 hours) included focal tumor and endothelial cell vacuolation and swelling as well as sloughing of tumor cells into papillary spaces.
(17) Histologically, the 4.0 ppm animals demonstrated bronchiolar epithelial necrosis and sloughing, bronchiolar edema with macrophages, and focal pulmonary edema.
(18) Ciliated cells had a slightly vesiculated cytoplasm, and many were in the process of being sloughed from the epithelial surface.
(19) Preliminary histochemical studies show that terminin is also found in the superficial epithelial layer of the esophagus, where terminal differentiation is followed by apoptosis and sloughing off into the lumen.
(20) In both the mouse and the rat, some of the superficial cells sloughed between fetal day 18 or 19 and the day of birth.
Town
Definition:
(adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
(adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
(adv. & prep.) Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
(adv. & prep.) The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
(adv. & prep.) A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
(adv. & prep.) The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
(adv. & prep.) The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
(adv. & prep.) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
Example Sentences:
(1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(3) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
(4) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.
(5) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(6) The case was tried in a town called St Francisville, the closest courthouse to Angola.
(7) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.
(8) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
(9) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(10) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(11) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
(12) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(13) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
(14) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
(15) He wound up repossessing the cars of workers who fled town after the bust.
(16) It was shown that: although the oral hygiene level was very low and no dental treatments were performed, caries level was very low--although gingivitis rate was high, advanced periodontitis rate was low--the frequency of interincisive diastema (one subject out of 4 in the 15-19 age group), the progressive decline of tooth cutting, a traditional practice, in town people but the large extent of cola use (one adult out of two).
(17) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(18) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(19) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
(20) In 2013, the town’s municipal court generated $221,164 (or $387 for each of its residents), with much of the fees coming from ticketing non-residents.