(a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(3) It has been shown by LM and transmission electron microscopy that cells with blebs are viable and capable of mitotic activity.
(4) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
(5) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(6) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(7) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(8) However, in GF rats and in rats monoassociated with viable P. acnes, parenteral injection of killed P. acnes antigen inhibited the plaque-forming cell response to sheep erythrocytes.
(9) Interaction of viable macrophages with cationic particles at 37 degrees C resulted in their "internalization" within vesicles and coated pits and a closer apposition between many segments of plasmalemma than with neutral or anionic substances.
(10) In addition, a redistribution of cellular controls of the host reaction to parasites may act as a complementary mechanism for establishment of the viable equilibrium between host and parasite.
(11) Prior sublethal challenge with viable HC did not cause prolonged illness or increased mortality in the setting of emphysema.
(12) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(13) Additionally, the data demonstrate that hamster sperm can remain viable for several hours after becoming immotile, and that many of the immotile sperm are capable of being reactivated.
(14) We believe our technique is a potentially viable alternative for selected heart-lung transplant patients.
(15) Intravenous injection of PPD or viable H37Ra organisms into H37Ra mice resulted in MIF production in vitro by splenic lymphocytes without further antigenic stimulation.
(16) Potassium and K analogs (Tl, Rb, Cs) are avidly taken up into viable tumor cells whose Na+, K+-ATPase activity is elevated.
(17) Twenty-three Nectomys squamipes and 9 Akodon arviculoides with a schistosomal infection rate of 56.5% and 22.2% respectively eliminated a great majority of viable eggs.
(18) Bringing the Prince of Wales into service “will involve very considerable additional costs, additional manpower, extra aircraft and the considerable amount of support and protection needed to make it viable”, say the MPs.
(19) Because of potential complications that can develop for chronically ill geriatric patients, a hospital setting for respite can be a viable respite alternative.
(20) The mechanisms that protect female viable yellow mice from hyperglycemia are not known.
Voluptuous
Definition:
(a.) Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual.
(a.) Given to the enjoyments of luxury and pleasure; indulging to excess in sensual gratifications.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Summer had had a hard time singing Love To Love You (only when Moroder cleared the studio and dimmed the lights did she finally capture the voluptuous feel she was after), listening to the thing presented an even stiffer test.
(2) We have diligently done this, with one exception: today's star-in-waiting, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with whom we have been in email contact but were unable to speak to in time for this column.
(3) The Voluptuous Horror ... are purported to be converts to a movement known as "anti-naturalism" and they've got an album bearing that phrase, but they don't sound especially transgressive or perverse, which is fine – just think of their music as a way in, an access point, to an art netherworld so out-there it prompted one onlooker to hail the band's live extravaganza as "an unholy stage show of such immense countercultural gravity that I just want to scream 'Hail Satan' at the top of my lungs".
(4) The interior of the £40m shop, grouped around two voluptuous escalator wells, is the stuff of Vincent Korda's 1936 film Things to Come brought up to date.
(5) A DVD of the first series was spotted next to presidential candidate Barack Obama on his campaign plane, fashion designer Michael Kors has called the drama an inspiration and the catwalks at New York fashion week were filled with the sort of brightly coloured and simply structured dresses that Sterling Cooper's voluptuous office manager Joan Holloway would be eager to wear.
(6) They were not her invention, but they are now identified with her uncompromising, demanding vision and it shapes the way we in our turn see them: seductive, voluptuous, speaking of an uncorseted ease.
(7) In Borgen, Nyborg is shown trying to struggle into a pre-approved black suit, ahead of a debate; she also worries about having been called "voluptuous" in another dress.
(9) Or as ex-Parisian and writer Adam Gopnik puts it in his book Paris to the Moon: "Paris marries both the voluptuous and the restricted.
(10) No one today, least of all myself, can begin to match Tynan’s voluptuous prose.
(11) She begins to sew her shroud from her first chapter, when she copies out the Brontë grave tablet in Haworth church, voluptuously listing those who died of consumption: Charlotte's mother, Maria, her sisters Maria, Elizabeth, Anne and Emily, and her brother Branwell.
(12) Here was architecture as tourist magnet; travel agents offered weekend breaks to Bilbao simply to see Gehry's voluptuous sensation.
(13) I came to know and love them in reverse order: first the incandescent and subtly erotic Gertrud (1964), discovered in my early 20s shortly after it premiered; then the gut-wrenching Ordet (1955), which I initially hated when I first saw it in my teens, misconstruing its climactic miracle as a tool of religious propaganda; and finally the voluptuous and mysterious Day of Wrath (1943), which I didn't appreciate or understand until my 40s, when I finally saw it in a decent 35mm print.
(14) Listening to the voluptuous precision with which he articulated his dream of feasting "on the swelling, unctuous paps of a fat, pregnant sow", it was good to be reminded of the matchless clarity of the Richardson voice which remains one of the great treasures of my theatre-going lifetime.
(15) On Friedrichstrasse: “A bodily dream rising and falling with voluptuous breath then descends upon the street, and everything races, races, races with uncertain step in pursuit of this all-encompassing dream.” 7.
(16) A generation of postwar cinephiles rhapsodised over her earthy voluptuousness, her hourglass figure, her "bedroom eyes", her cascading brunette tresses.
(17) For someone so attracted to the irresistible nature of the horrible – what one commentator labelled "abhorrent sublime" – Kembra's band, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, so-named because one of her favourite movies is the eponymous actor's 1975 film Trilogy of Terror, aren't the uneasy listening experience you might imagine.
(18) She has offered her voluptuous cleavage and fine facial features as a way to glamorise the female labour of feeding family and friends.
(19) He did a production of Cymbeline with Vanessa Redgrave at Stratford that was sort of voluptuous in its lucidity … And his Richard III [with Christopher Plummer and Edith Evans] was very striking.” Vicky Featherstone, the Royal Court’s current artistic director, described Gaskill as a “brilliant, uncompromising theatre director, and a legendary figure as artistic director of the Royal Court in the 1960s.
(20) A voluptuous, young and healthy looking American Eagle model adorned with a bright pink bra and a sparkling smile, several stories high above Times Square in New York City, is asking us to "show your support".