(n.) A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.
(n.) A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on a preliminary trial that suggested that CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone), and PVB (cisplatinum, vinblastine, bleomycin), are at least partially non-cross-resistant, the Southwest Oncology Group treated patients with unfavorable histology, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with CHOP and PVB.
(2) As it is generally observed in Mediterranean regions, Southwest France population is characterized by a certain heterogeneity in biochemical and genetic mutations.
(3) The Southwest Oncology Group conducted a pilot study in patients who had had total clinical resection of cancer of the colon and had a high risk of recurrence (Duke's C); the purpose of the study was to determine the toxic effects of intra-arterial chemotherapy combined with hepatic radiotherapy, in anticipation of their potential use in an adjuvant groupwide protocol.
(4) The dynamic impact tests at Southwest Research Institute for the first time exposed human volunteers to production-like driver air cushion system depolyments at impact levels equivalent to a 30 mph barrier crash (48 kph).
(5) The Pacific Southwest Regional Medical Library Service (PSRMLS) studied how health professionals use documents obtained through the regional medical library (RML) network and how various factors, such as delivery time, affected that use.
(6) This paper summarizes research findings from members of the Southwest Medical Sociology Ad Hoc Committee concerning sociocultural barriers to medical care among Mexican Americans in Texas.
(7) Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) protocol 8228 is a prospective trial designed to investigate the prognostic significance of progesterone receptor (PgR) levels in estrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer patients who were treated with tamoxifen.
(8) DTIC was one of the first of several new agents evaluated by the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) and the M.D.
(9) Kangerlussuaq, the "gateway to Greenland" in the southwest, reached 24.6C on 10 July, just as the record melt reported by Nasa was under way.
(10) In the United States the rates are higher in whites than blacks, and clusters of high-risk counties have been found in the north central region, the southwest, and Appalachia.
(11) Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) was first discovered and reported in Japan, where it has a high incidence in the southwest region.
(12) Observations at the urban site were compared with similar measurements at nearby non-urban sites and with the results of studies at two larger cities in the desert southwest, Phoenix and Tucson, AZ.
(13) Orosomucoid (ORM) phenotyping has been performed in 141 families with 407 children from southwest Germany.
(14) The spider is particularly prevalent in the Southwest, Southeast and California, and symptoms from its bite are painful and may be confusing to clinicians.
(15) Ticks were found almost exclusively on deer from southwest coastal sites in the state.
(16) We concentrated on literature pertaining to the pathogenesis and management of leishmaniasis indigenous to Southwest Asia.
(17) Illness was significantly associated with drinking water at the campsite (P less than 0.0001), drinking larger quantities of campsite water (P less than 0.001), and camping on the southwest side of the campground (P less than 0.001).
(18) The unsettled weather looks set to continue throughout this week and into the weekend when strong to gale force southwesterly winds will bring spells of heavy rain across the UK at times, according to the Met Office.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In a joint statement two of China’s most powerful political bodies, the central committee and state council, described the new city, which will straddle three counties about 100km southwest of Beijing, as “a strategy crucial for a millennium to come”.
(20) The use of this combination in conjunction with vincristine and prednisone for relapsing patients is under investigation by the Southwest Oncology Group.
Southwestern
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course.
Example Sentences:
(1) Changes in haemolymph juvenile hormone (JH) concentrations of larvae of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella, were used to estimate the activity of the corpora allata.
(2) Our subjects were young adults born between November 1960 and December 1962 to persons living in 10 villages in southwestern Alaska.
(3) A dietary intake study for 250 low-income households in Claiborne County in southwestern Mississippi was conducted from June through August 1974.
(4) It was not immediately clear in which of the two countries Shateri was killed but a Syrian rebel commander said an Iranian official was killed in an attack carried out by Syrian rebels in Zabadani in southwestern Syria , close to the Lebanese border.
(5) In order to assess the extent of environmental pollution by Pb, Cd and Zn in the industrial area of Portoscuso (Southwestern Sardinia-Italy), anatomohistopathological, histochemical and chemical tests were carried out on the heart, liver, kidneys and bones of sheep slaughtered in the local abattoir.
(6) The study population was made up of 53 catheterized patients, 29 from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) and 24 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC), and eight UTSMC patients with a less than 5% pre-test likelihood of coronary artery disease.
(7) Seasonal changes in the mean size of tsetse, Glossina pallidipes Austen, as indicated by wing vein length, were monitored during 1983-86 at Nguruman, southwestern Kenya.
(8) The frequency of asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia was investigated in rural and urban school-children aged six to 12 years in southwestern Nigeria between January 1987 and October 1988.
(9) In an attempt to discern the relationship between drug use and life satisfaction among college students, a slightly modified version of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Monitoring the Future Survey was administered to 683 students attending a major research university located in the southwestern United States.
(10) Replacing radioactively labeled probes by nonradioactive ones and detection by chemiluminescence instead of colorimetry allows a nonhazardous handling and offers the possibility of easily reprobing filters in Southwestern analysis.
(11) Low prevalences of CRS were observed in northeastern Japan, and high prevalences in southwestern Japan, with the highest in Okinawa.
(12) On the basis of Southwestern analysis, a sperm head protein(s) of 30-35 KD is identified as potential substrate for exogenous DNA binding.
(13) Gel shift analysis of intergenic spacer fragments and native Southwestern blots confirmed that cis-elements were localized in the rDNA intergenic spacer.
(14) Their significance is discussed in relation to Merino sheep flocks in southwestern Queensland.
(15) In June 1987 a major Southwestern Medical Center hired a complement of Certified Nurse Midwives to help relieve an increased Labor and Delivery workload.
(16) The ECTIM study, which is based on WHO MONICA centers in Belfast (Northern Ireland), Strasbourg (eastern France), Toulouse (southwestern France), and Lille (northern France), has been established to investigate this striking difference.
(17) Interviews were conducted with 150 Hispanic women, 47 to 93 years of age, in a southwestern city.
(18) Pneumococci from the southwestern United States (region 4) were more likely to be relatively resistant to penicillin.
(19) Hair samples from newborn heifer calves on Holstein dairy farms in southwestern Ontario were analyzed for selenium content by means of instrumental neutron activation analysis.
(20) The subjects were 57 adolescents, 63 parents, and 49 school personnel from three public high schools in a southwestern United States community.