(n.) An old weight used in weighing wool, being usually twenty-eight pounds.
(n.) A fox; -- probably so named from its bushy tail.
(v. t. & i.) To weigh; to yield in tods.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative amounts of stable bonds formed by TOD and human serum albumin and TOD and gamma-globulin varied inversely with the concentration of the proteins.
(2) A field trial of oral therapy for acute diarrhea in children is called for tod etermine the extent of effects on nutrition and mortality, as well as to indicate some of the cultural and logistical problems which remain to be solved.
(3) TOD measurements corresponding to MR lesions were higher than noncancerous tissue measurements in all cases (P less than .005).
(4) In this retrospective study we aimed to identify from 50 outpatient (OP) mild hypertensives without clinical evidence of target organ damage (TOD), a group with unsustained hypertension in order to see whether they had less echocardiographic TOD than patients with sustained hypertension.
(5) "Wir und der Tod", a pre-stage of the second part of Freud's paper "Zeitgemässes über Krieg und Tod" (1915), is the only preserved text of his lectures held in the "Wien" lodge of B'nai B'rith.
(6) TOD was used as an indicator of the degree of tissue compactness or openness.
(7) The greatest amount of lipids in the cellular elements of the granulation tissue was revealed on the 3d day of the experiment, total optic density (TOD) of lipids in leucocytes was 0.83, TOD in histiocytes--0.6.
(8) It is concluded that the differences in energy metabolism, which have been implicated as explanation for the different susceptibility to develop stress lesions by Menguy and Masters, cannot be attributed tod different degrees of ischemia.
(9) In conclusion, stress BP does not increase the strength of relationship with TOD compared to resting BP.
(10) In the pH region from 5.5 to 7.5, the CD spectra of Tod protein with intact interchain disulfide bond (L(SS)) and and CL did not change with pH, while the spectra of Tod protein in which the interchain disulfide bond had been reduced and alkylated (L(RA)) and VL did not change with pH.
(11) variabilities) for systolic, mean and diastolic BP obtained by computer analysis of the BP tracing were related to the rate and severity of target-organ damage (TOD) assessed by clinical examination and quantified according to a predetermined score.
(12) On average, the "drum location" fell 1 mm medial to the TOD.
(13) "Perhaps Irene puts it best – she certainly puts it most often – when she tells Tod that he has no soul."
(14) Tod determine whether changes in unsaturation of fatty acids in rat liver plasma membranes might alter activities of membrane-associated enzymes, liver plasma membranes were prepared from rats fed purified diets lacking or supplemented with essential fatty acids.
(15) In subsequent days phospholipid contents continued decreasing and by the 30th day their TOD was 0.2.
(16) Tod likes to go to church, perhaps, the narrator guesses, because he needs "the forgiving look you get from everybody on the way in".
(17) On average, for frequencies below 6 kHz, the measuring probe tube had to be placed within 8 mm of the vertical plane containing the top of the eardrum (TOD), determined optically, in order to obtain sound pressure magnitudes within 6 dB of "eardrum pressure."
(18) The lifeless lunar surface (“tod” is German for “dead”) is bare but for heaps of building material and the wooden deck of a ski bar which lies marooned amid the scree.
(19) The circular dichroic (CD) spectra of a type lambda Bence Jones protein (Tod), its variable (VL) fragment, and the constant (CL) fragment of a type lambda protein (Nag) were measured under various conditions.
(20) Cardiovascular reactivity differs according to the laboratory stimulus employed and an exaggerated BP rise during stress testing is not associated with an increased rate of TOD.
Toed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Toe
(a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.
(a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.
(2) The repair tissue then grows along and over the "toed-in" catilage.
(3) Although the retinal organization differs from that of the closely related three-toed sloth, the presumed function of retinal specializations in both species is to guide limb movements by permitting visualization of the branch along which the animal is climbing.
(4) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
(5) Streatfeild has said he now feels "ashamed" at the way he had previously toed the line for the MoD, defending kit that he knew was inadequate for the task at hand.
(6) It was with the Emilia-Romagna outfit that Berardi first broke through as a twinkle-toed teenager and it is with them that he remains, in spite of a goalscoring record that even the greats would envy.
(7) The cellular composition and relative frequency of the occurrence of pancreatic endocrine cells were studied immunohistochemically in a primitive eutherian and arboreal folivore, the three-toed sloth, since previous histochemical and ultrastructural studies on the endocrine pancreas of the sloth have detected only a single islet cell type, the A cell.
(8) The intestinal of the 3-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, was studied macroscopically, with light microscope and with histochemical methods for mucosubstances.
(9) Media meddling Since Sisi’s overthrow of Morsi, most of Egypt’s media has largely toed the government line.
(10) Congenital metatarsus adductus, a deformity at the tarsometatarsal joints in which the metatarsals are deviated internally in relation to transverse plane, predisposes to "pigeon-toed" gait.
(11) The United team was strong on paper, with Rooney and Van Persie supported by the twinkle-toed Juan Mata and Adnan Januzaj.
(12) "She strapped up, toed the line and broke the junior record.
(13) It has recently been the source of three new kinds of plant, a trapdoor spider , another snail and new kind of Bent-toed Gecko .
(14) Physical measures to prevent tick bites include avoiding tick-infested areas, wearing light-colored clothing for easy identification of crawling ticks, regularly checking the body and pets for ticks, wearing protective garments and closed-toed shoes, and removing attached ticks promptly by using tweezers or forceps to apply a steady upward pull.
(15) Antibodies were detected in eight species of birds (Aves, Passeriformes) and in 22 mammalian species: one species of marsupiales (Marsupialia), 3 species of carnivores (Carnivora), seven species of rodents (Rodentia), two species of rabbits and hares (Lagomorpha), in 8 species of even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) and one species of odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla).
(16) The known Amazonian mammalian species with natural histoplasmosis now total five, the previously reported species being the spiny rat Proechimys guyannensis, the two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus and the nine-banded armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus.
(17) The ladies did not mind, even though their shoes were all open-toed.
(18) Cold bites my double-socked feet within steel-toed wellies.
(19) Dirofilaria panamensis, parasite of the two-toed sloth, Cholopeus hoffmanni, in Panama, was previously described as Dirofilaria incrassata by Caballero (1947), but can be distinguished from both D. macrodemos and D. incrassata on the basis of body size (female 66 mm long by 360 micron wide, male 34 mm long by 250 micron wide), tail length (female 80 micron, male 80 micron), and number (6 pairs) of caudal papillae in the male.
(20) Four artiodactyl (even-toed hoofed mammal) papillomaviruses, the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, and avian (chaffinch) papillomavirus type 1 formed a third major branch.