(a.) Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved.
(adv.) In a high degree; to a great extent; greatly; very.
(n.) A strange thing or person.
Example Sentences:
(1) In recent years the auditory brainstem evoked response (BSER) has become an established aid in assessing hearing in unco-operative subjects.
(2) The test heat treatment led to neurological complications, ranging from unco-ordinated use of the forelegs to paralysis of both forelegs.
(3) Using it on young children which are unco-operative the Auto-Refractor is not as sufficient as we hoped it to be.
(4) The former editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, is the target of special ire for his allegedly unco-operative attitude, described as "a moral pygmy with a self-justifying streak the size of the San Andreas fault".
(5) The managers' efforts to identify unmet need were often piecemeal and unco-ordinated, and this may have been, in part, because managers were facing difficulties in meeting existing demands for services.
(6) Pregnancy outcome improved markedly in the latter years, possibly owing to non-exposure to warfarin, less immunosuppression, and improvement in neonatal care, and four of the five mothers who suffered deterioration in renal function were notoriously unco-operative in their medical care.
(7) The uncal or the unco-parahippocampal branches of the anterior choroidal artery were divided into rostral and caudal; the former were present in 70.6%, and the latter were present in 94.1%.
(8) The use of Ketalar as a general anesthetic in dental treatments particularly in extractions of unco-operative children of 2-5 years was studied.
(9) The existence of co-operation between species has been cast as a problem to the selfish-gene view of evolution: why does co-operation persist, when it would seem that individual selection should favor the unco-operative individual who exploits the co-operative tendencies of its partner and gives nothing in return?
(10) At the onset of purposeless, unco-ordinated movements of the entire body, blood samples were obtained to determine the CNS excitation-threshold plasma concentration (ETPC) of laudanosine.
(11) The results indicate that changes in blood-flow patterns and loss of marginal definition of basal vessels are unreliable signs of left-sided insufficiency in old patients or in unco-operative patients, in the presence of a high diaphragm and in the supine position.
(12) A method for securing nasoenteric tubes in the unco-operative patient is presented.
(13) A series of 40 patients with degnerative discopathy was effectively treated to means of trans-unco-discal approach, which is a combined anterior and lateral approach to cervical discs.
(14) The author of that report, Graham Badman, called for "authoritative social work practice" whereby social workers actively and robustly challenged unco-operative or violent clients.
(15) The uncal or the unco-parahippocampal branches of the internal carotid artery, which originated 1.4 to 4.2 mm from its bifurcation site, existed in 58.8%.
(16) The electron spin resonance spectrum, g 4.25, and the low molar relaxivity, 473m(-1).s(-1), of water H(+) suggest the presence of high-spin Fe(III) unco-ordinated to water in the enzyme.
(17) Minor neurological symptoms were observed one day after 75 min at 42.3 degrees C. The incidence and severity of the neurological symptoms (ranging from unco-ordinated use of the forelegs to paralysis) increased with increasing temperature and duration of the hyperthermic treatment.
(18) Vigorous grunts of approval came from Joe Rukin (video) , national co-ordinator of Stop HS2 who was wrestling with the elephant's unco-operative generator.
(19) CNIL also criticised the company for being unco-operative in its responses to queries from the commissioners.
(20) Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" (one), "bairn" (child), "blae" (cheerless), "chield" (fellow), "drammach" (raw oatmeal), "fash" (bother), "muckle" (big), "siller" (money), "unco" (extremely) , "wheesht!"
Unio
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera.
Example Sentences:
(1) The known range of the Primates is extended down from the middle Paleocene to the early Paleocene and late Cretaceous by a new genus and two new species from Montana, Purgatorius unio and P. ceratops.
(2) Some experiments including glucose loading, insulin or antiinsulin serum injection and in vitro investigations on bivalve freshwater molluscs Anodonta cygnea and Unio pectorum were carried out.
(3) Fragmentary mandibles of Purgatorius unio Van Valen and Sloan from the Puercan (approximately early Paleocene), Garbani Locality, Montana, preserve associated postcanines.
(4) Etching with the glutaraldehyde-acetic acid solution reveals that the nacreous tablets in Mytilus, Nucula, and Unio are composed of four crystal individuals which occur in two structurally different pairs and which are probably cyclically twinned.
(5) This report uses the classification and nomenclature adopted by UICC (Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum) in 1965.
(6) Isolated, demembranated Unio gill cilia that have been activated and fixed for thin-section electron microscopy in the presence of 2 mM MgSO4 have 87% of their outer dynein arms attached to an adjacent B subfiber.
(7) A combination of hplc in the silver ion mode and gc-ms of picolinyl ester derivatives was used to identify the fatty acids in a fresh-water mussel, Unio tumidus, from the Danube in Bulgaria.
(8) In the less-soluble crystal pair of Nucula and Unio, the lamellar structure is absent.
(9) The osphradial organ has been studied in Lamellibranchia--Unio pectorum--by means of scanning and transmissive electron microscopy.
(10) Transepithelial ion transport was studied in three types of shell-facing mantle epithelia of the freshwater clam, Unio complanatus.
(11) Diethylnitrosamine (DENA) and dimethylnitrosamine (DMNA) dissolved in tank water induced neoplasms in bivalve mollusks Unio pictorum.
(12) Cadmium dosing experiments were carried out with the freshwater clam Unio pictorum in flow-through micro-streams in order to obtain additional information on the kinetics of cadmium accumulation and elimination.
(13) We studied the differentiation of the polarized site of sperm entrance in the egg of a freshwater bivalve, Unio elongatulus.
(14) The concentrations of toxic heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Cr, Cu, Zn and Pb) were measured by atomic absorption spectrophotometry in the gills of mussels (Unio pictorum L.) both living in Lake Balaton as well as transferred to various parts of tributaries of the Lake.
(15) A substance with insulin-like activity was obtained from visceral organs (excluding foot, gills and mantle) of the freshwater bivalve molluscs Unio pictorum and Anodonta cygnea.
(16) Insulin-like immunoreactivity can be localized in the cells of the mid-gut of Unio pictorum Lam.
(17) A study was made of changes in the heat resistance of spermatozoa during their incubation in Ringer's solution, using two species of frogs (Rana temporaria and R. ridibunda) and of bivalve molluscs (Unio crassus and U. tumidus).
(18) Cells of the Unio tumidus gill ciliated epithelium were exposed to a supraoptimal temperature of 40 degrees C for the period from 30 seconds till a complete cessation of ciliar beating.
(19) We studied the organization of the egg of a freshwater bivalve, Unio elongatulus.
(20) However, it has no influence on the vitality of the coelomocytes of Lumbricus terrestris and other lumbricides, nor on the hemocytes of the snail Helix pomatia, the mussels Anodonta cygnea and Unio tumidus, free cells of the turbellarian Euplanaria sp.