(n.) A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.
Example Sentences:
(1) This characterisation is based on interviews carried out with Woodroof shortly before his death by one of the film's screenwriters, Craig Borten.
(2) Biobrane (Woodroof, Santa Ana, CA), a biosynthetic wound dressing which is maintenance free, shortens wound healing, and results in less erythema and milia formation, appears to be the wound dressing best suited for dermabrasion.
(3) The Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Entertainment grade: B History grade: D– Ron Woodroof was diagnosed as HIV positive in the 1980s.
(4) Metaphors Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) rides rodeo, drinks beer, parties in his trailer, and has sex with as many women as possible.
(5) During the past 2 years a multicenter study was performed comparing Biobrane (Woodroof) and frozen cadaver allograft as temporary dressings on freshly excised full-thickness burns before the application of autograft.
(6) In a major surprise Chiwetel Ejiofor, hot favourite for the best actor (drama) award for his portrayal of kidnap victim Northup, was defeated by Matthew McConaughey, star of Dallas Buyers Club, which tells the real-life story of Ron Woodroof's attempts to treat Aids with illegally smuggled medications.
(7) Doctors Woodroof tests positive for HIV, and is given 30 days to live.
(8) Medicine Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club Photograph: Toronto film festival Woodroof gets his hands on under-the-counter AZT, and embarks on a course of self-treatment.
(9) However, since the film has come out, some of Woodroof's close friends and associates have said he was never homophobic, and perhaps even had relationships with men as well as women himself .
(10) Dallas Buyers Club, which tells the real-life story of Ron Woodroof's attempts to treat Aids with illegally smuggled medications, managed two awards, both in acting.
(11) Patrick Mulcahey, a TV writer who was active in the buyers club movement, wrote that "The movie distorts the facts about AZT … to make Woodroof seem heroic for his murderous advice to others not to take it."
(12) Dr Saks is fictional: Woodroof's physician in his later years was a man, Steven Pounders.
(13) The film gives Woodroof a fictional trans woman sidekick, Rayon (Jared Leto), though it doesn't seem entirely sure what to do with her.
(14) Matthew McConaughey has the best actor (drama) prize in the real-life story of Ron Woodroof, the straight man with AIDS in the 1980s who pioneered the search for alternative therapies and treatments when a bureaucratic and often openly homophobic political establishment dragged its heels.
Woodruff
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Woodroof
Example Sentences:
(1) In a recent murine study of 13 lymphoma lines, we found that lymphomas that bind well to high endothelial venules, in the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro assay (an assay of lymphocyte binding to venules in frozen sections of peripheral lymph nodes or Peyer's patches), spread hematogenously to all high endothelial venule bearing lymphoid organs, whereas non-binding lymphomas did not.
(2) Furthermore, time-resolved IR experiments have shown that photodissociated CO binds to CuB+ prior to recombining with Fea3(2+) (Dyer, R. B., O. Einarsdóttir, P. M. Killough, J. J. López-Garriga, and W. H. Woodruff.
(3) In her autobiography she writes, “Oh, the moment of complete triumph on the day that I kept my balance and came right into shore standing upright on my board!” Just as Fowles claimed to have found his inspiration for Sarah Woodruff in a dream of a strange, sallow-faced woman staring out to sea, so, too, I imagined a woman riding proudly on to Devon’s shores, standing upright on a board.
(4) According to FBI special agent Barbara Woodruff, Shakur's ranking on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list was simply a way to get more public attention.
(5) Mononuclear cells isolated from paired blood and synovial fluid of seven patients with rheumatoid arthritis showed cytoadherence to porcine Peyer's patch high endothelial venules using the Stamper-Woodruff method.
(6) Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) Lou Holtz on immigrants: "I don't want to celebrate your holidays, I sure as hell don't want to cheer for your soccer team" July 19, 2016 “I don’t want to speak your language, I don’t want to celebrate your holidays,” he said to an approving crowd.
(7) This exceeds the range of intensities over which illumination causes decreases in the cyclic GMP content and permeability of isolated outer segments (Woodruff and Bownds.
(8) They are now employed in four hospitals of the Emory University Woodruff Medical Center.
(9) Playing the stricken Ron Woodruff, in Dallas Buyers Club , McConaughey is reptilian, feverish and emaciated, containing just the element of trompe l’oeil the Academy has learned to consider “acting”.
(10) Complications related to screw fixation with Woodruff screws occurred early in the series in three patients (15%), but did not result in instability.
(11) Uptake of the test compound is monitored by feeding behavior, amount of excretion, or abdomen size (Woodruff et al: Environ Mutat 7:677-702, 1985).
(12) There is prompt appearance of the high-spin state after photolysis, as found previously in mammalian cytochrome oxidase [Goldbeck, R. A., Dawes, T. D., Einarsdóttir, O., Woodruff, W. H., & Kliger, D. S. (1991) Biophys.
(13) Quantitative neutrophil to lung adhesive interactions were examined using an adaptation of the Woodruff-Stamper frozen section binding assay.
(14) A modification of the in vitro "homing assay" described by Stamper and Woodruff (J Exp Med 144: 823) was used.
(15) Employing the Stamper-Woodruff in vitro adhesion assay, which measures lymphocyte attachment to HEV in cryostat-cut sections of lymphoid organs, we have previously shown that treatment of PN sections with two different sialidases inactivates HEV-adhesive ligands, whereas treatment of PP tissue sections has no effect on HEV-adhesive function.
(16) The show benefits the Bob Woodruff Foundation , which helps injured service members and their families as they return to civilian life.
(17) It seems appropriate to end this review with a quotation from one of Woodruff's original publications on this subject: "If the phenomenon [adaptation] applies to homotransplants of normal tissues to sites other than the eye, I think it almost certain that the clinical homograft problem will be solved; if it does not, the problem may prove insoluble" [9].
(18) 111, 6439-6440; Varotsis, C., Woodruff, W. H., and Babcock, G. T. (1990) J.
(19) According to Betsy Woodruff from The Daily Beast , Holtz – while speaking at a luncheon hosted by the Republican National Coalition for Life – condemned the number of immigrants coming to US as an “invasion”.
(20) In an attempt to identify attitudinal orientations that might be used as indicators of attrition, demographic, academic performance, and attitudinal data on 261 students enrolled in the Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, Atlanta, between 1968 and 1972, were studied.