(n.) The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.
Example Sentences:
(1) A toy squeaker held by the patient in the contralateral hand is used to monitor cerebral circulation during carotid endarterectomy.
(2) Hudler wasn't wrong: in the two nights leading up to the matinee squeaker, KC exploded for 22 runs, annihilating two pitchers you may be familiar with – Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer.
(3) Hopkins said he been looking for the cave squeaker for eight years.
(4) The Arthroleptis troglodytes , also known as the “cave squeaker” because of its preferred habitat, was discovered in 1962, but there were no reported sightings since then.
(5) She said a park management plan will be devised to protect the cave squeaker.
(6) I say yes, the Heat will win a squeaker, like 100-98.
(7) Rare 'cave squeaker' frog seen in Zimbabwe for first time in 55 years Read more In normal light the frog appears to have a dull, mottled browny-green skin with red dots, but under UV light it glows a bright fluorescent green.
(8) Laughing in front of a packed town hall in the New Hampshire small town of Peterborough, Romney said he was "fresh from his landslide victory" in Iowa before calling the result a "squeaker".
Uncoil
Definition:
(v. t.) To unwind or open, as a coil of rope.
Example Sentences:
(1) The molecule uncoils above pH 11.5 in a time-dependent fashion.
(2) The two strands of the amino acid helix exhibit large differential temperature factors, suggesting partial uncoiling or melting of the helix.
(3) In 14 scoliotic children, aged 5.9-18.4 years, a close agreement was found for predictions of VC from arm span, uncoiled stature and hand and foot length.
(4) It is suggested that loss of native secondary structure, especially uncoiling of helical regions, is crucial to permit attack by these enzymes.
(5) When microtubules became uncoiled, no changes in the major components (alpha- and beta-tubulin, IEF-51K, or actin) were found.
(6) Watching her on stage, as she coiled and uncoiled her impossible limbs, I had become transfixed by the question of what was going on in her head while she danced.
(7) What the west faces here is the uncoiling of two giant springs.
(8) Two geometric models of stretch, called unfolding and uncoiling, were considered.
(9) It is in the uncoiled tail sequence that the greatest number of differences in amino acids sequence between MHC-A and B were found, which allowed generation of isoform-specific antibodies.
(10) After the salt concentration was lowered to 0.15 M NaCl, the nucleoids uncoiled in beaded fibers in which RNA-mediated structural domains could be distinguished.
(11) The competition for Ca(2+) can influence the state of the network filaments which uncoil on binding Ca(2+) and affect differently the conformational state of synapses and membrane depending on the S100 protein content.
(12) However, the reverse was observed for DNA single-strand breaks (SSBs, measured by alkaline filter elution or hydroxylapatite uncoiling).
(13) In children with scoliosis, arm span or an "uncoiled" stature derived from the observed stature and the degree of spinal angulation have been used to predict expected values.
(14) This approach may be an alternative to the use of arm span or uncoiled stature to predict VC in children with scoliosis.
(15) Immunoblotting and cDNA cloning studies reveal that the autoantigens of the multisystem autoimmune diseases are important proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism, including tRNA charging, intron splicing, DNA uncoiling, and RNA polymerase co-factors.
(16) Similar to other nonsarcomeric MHC IIs, there is a short uncoiled tail sequence at the carboxyl terminus of the molecule.
(17) Most importantly, we must enact systemic changes that will uncoil the serpent of corruption that is suffocating our development.
(18) It is also possible that the altered banding pattern in these two cases is due to the influence of local sequences on the staining or uncoiling properties of the chromatin.
(19) When inhibitors of cellular DNA, RNA or protein synthesis are added to the growth medium of human lymphoid cells in G2 phase, these agents produce, within narrow ranges of concentrations, G banded or uncoiled chromosomes in the treated metaphase cells.
(20) The variation in the biological activity was attributed to the morphological differences between these alginic acid components and it is suggested that the degree of uncoiling of the polyguluronate chain in water is greater than that of the polymannuronate chain, thus making the carboxylate ions more accessible to strontium.