(n.) The loose outer garment worn by the ancient Romans, consisting of a single broad piece of woolen cloth of a shape approaching a semicircle. It was of undyed wool, except the border of the toga praetexta.
Example Sentences:
(1) Semliki Forest virus, an enveloped toga virus, was used as a model virus to create optimal treatment conditions.
(2) Yet Frost failed to convince Private Eye (launched in 1961), which routinely portrayed him in cartoons – scenes of toga'd Roman decadence were popular in the Profumo scandal phase of Harold Macmillan's rule – as "Juvenile, the court satyr with faithful audience of Daily Mail columnists," a man whose quiff cost 25 guineas at fashionable Raymonde's salon, the Eye told readers.
(3) EICAR is a candidate antiviral drug for the treatment of pox-, toga-, arena-, reo-, orthomyxo, and paramyxovirus infections.
(4) 3'-Fluoro-3'-deoxyadenosine was active against a broad range of viruses, encompassing both DNA viruses [pox (vaccinia)], single-stranded (+) RNA viruses [picorna (polio, Coxsackie B), toga (sindbis, Semliki Forest)] and double-stranded RNA viruses (reo).
(5) There were no Mediterranean islands, no togas, no Stevie Wonder and no Leonardo DiCaprio.
(6) The music and themes may have changed but his voice is still the androgynous blend of gospel, art-rock and soul that's bewitched collaborators as diverse as Hercules And Love Affair and the London Symphony Orchestra, who played two extraordinary Barbican concerts with him last year at which Antony wore a Roman toga ("It was actually a sandwich wrap") and covered Beyoncé's Crazy In Love, because "she's gorgeous".
(7) Inactivation by UV occurred more rapidly than with herpes, toga and rhabdoviruses.
(8) Based on these results it can be assumed that under natural conditions with very low virus content of some particles the labile viruses such as Toga, Herpes, Rhabdo and pH labile Picorna remain infectious in water for some days.
(9) Enveloped Toga virus particles were demonstrated by means of an electron microscopy in the brain tissues of a 3-year-old girl with acute encephalitis.
(10) There, for two and a half hours, I must wear nothing but flip-flops, and carry only a toga and an instruction card.
(11) Most of the report is devoted to the results of serological survey conducted in a human population, in several domestic birds and mammals from some districts of Romania, as well as in migratory birds from the Danube delta, with regards to the incidence of some Toga-, Bunya- and Reoviruses.
(12) His muscles ripple beneath the diaphanous folds of the toga.
(13) The mutant, designated 3T6-VrB2, displays a high degree of resistance to infection by members of the toga-, rhabdo- and picornavirus classes.
(14) Toga virus-like particles (typically 60-70 nm: enveloped with small surface spikes) were detected in the native hepatectomy specimens in 7 of 18 patients grafted for acute liver failure attributed to sporadic non-A, non-B hepatitis and in 2 patients grafted for fulminant hepatitis attributed to anti-epileptic drug hepatotoxicity.
(15) Knowledge of the mechanism of this effect is derived from studies employing both DNA (especially vaccinia virus and SV40) and RNA-viruses (especially picorna-, toga-, rhabdo-, reo- and retroviruses).
(16) A purified toga-alphavirus, Getah (GET), showed optimal hemolytic activity for one-day-old chick red blood cells when incubated at 37 C for 120 min at pH 6.2.
(17) Arboviruses, from the Toga group, were grown in the AA-MC culture.
(18) In early 1988, a small (60 nm), single-stranded RNA-virus (toga- or flaviviridae), probably causing both sporadic and parentally transmitted NANBH was isolated, partially cloned by a lambda gt 11 expression vector and named hepatitis C virus (HCV) by Choo, Houghton et al.
(19) Gandharan art used motifs borrowed from classical Roman art, with its vine scrolls, cherubs and centaurs, but its principal icon was a handsome, languid, meditating Buddha, dressed in a Greek toga.
(20) Sindbis (SINV) and vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), members of the families Toga- and Rhabdoviridae, respectively, were chosen as indicator agents.
Tonga
Definition:
(n.) A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other officials sanctioned were Ismael Bhamjee of Botswana, who was handed a four-year ban, Amadou Diakite of Mali and Ahongalu Fusimalohi of Tonga who were suspended for three years and Tunisian official Slim Aloulou for two.
(2) The incidence of red cell A, B, and D antigens in 7903 people from the Kingdom of Tonga is reported.
(3) PNG has a gender inequality index of 0.617 and Tonga 0.462, in contrast to the most gender equal nation, Norway, at 0.065 .
(4) Sixteen countries in five WHO Regions participated: Mali, Zambia and Zimbabwe (in Africa); Bolivia, El Salvador and Jamaica (in the Americas); Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan (in the Eastern Mediterranean); India, Sri Lanka and Thailand (in South-East Asia); and China, the Philippines and Tonga (in the Western Pacific).
(5) Liver cancer occurs in Fiji and Tonga, with the occurrence in Fijians being significantly higher than in the Indian population.
(6) "Our first game is against Tonga and they're packed with NRL experience, and even the Italians look a pretty good side to me."
(7) We will fundraise, and there is something rather charming that you can say to somebody: 'If you give us £50,000, I can more or less guarantee that you will have decriminalised homosexuality in Tonga.'
(8) Seven and eight year old primary school children were interviewed to rapidly assess food consumption patterns during a drought in Tonga.
(9) Tonga Djobo, 75, steadied himself with a stick he used to prod cattle and used as a cane.
(10) An outbreak of dengue type 2 infection occurred in the Pacific island Kingdom of Tonga in 1974 and an outbreak of dengue type 1 occurred there in 1975.
(11) They were widely expected to suffer two heavy defeats having been drawn against the imposing Pacific pair of Tonga and Samoa, especially after a couple of hiccups in the build-up.
(12) And Tonga, which has suffered a drought for nearly a year, has been forced to ship water supplies to the country’s outer islands.
(13) Mseleni Joint Disease (MJD), a polyarticular osteoarthritis of uncertain etiology is endemic among the Tonga-Zulu tribe.
(14) A post-cyclone assessment of the health and nutritional status of preschool children at Ha'apai, Tonga Is, showed lower disease incidence and an unchanged pattern of illness.
(15) Tonga eye syndromes, aetiological concepts, and eye drops are presented.
(16) An autogenous species belonging to the Aedes (Stegomyia) scutellaris subgroup was found on the island of Tafahi, Kingdom of Tonga.
(17) Vanuatu was the country most at risk in the world from natural disasters, ahead of Tonga, the Philippines, Japan and Costa Rica, the document said.
(18) Niue, situated east of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean, has appeared on tax haven lists before.
(19) They have been drawn in a tough group with Tonga and Italy, but also play the United States under the complicated tournament structure , and have been boosted by the availability of Brough's Huddersfield team-mates Dale Ferguson and Joe Wardle, as well as Ben Kavanagh from Widnes and Kane Linnett from the North Queensland Cowboys.
(20) Last year, Samoa passed legislation against sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace, while similar draft legislation is being developed in Kiribati , Vanuatu and Tonga.