(v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
(v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship.
(n.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
Example Sentences:
(1) These preliminary results suggest that finger stick blood samples, collected on filter paper, could be used for FTA-ABS testing of remote rural populations--such as in areas where yaws is endemic.
(2) Primary care services had been hampered in controlling yaws by difficulties with transport, isolation, community resistance and the lack of skilled personel to diagnose yaws and arrange prophylactic treatment.
(3) Active and latent evidence of yaws was found only in the black race.
(4) Renewed programs for yaws control are under consideration.
(5) VOR was fairly well predicted by a current model, but our experiments revealed perceived change in attitude (roll, pitch, yaw tilt position in space) and perceived angular velocity in space that was not reflected by parallel changes in the plane or magnitude of the VOR.
(6) A full field (360 degrees) flight simulator projection system was used to investigate the sensations resulting from pitch, roll, and yaw stimuli at various head orientations.
(7) Since 1980, the annual reported incidence of yaws has declined.
(8) Positive treponemal serology, from yaws infection in childhood, was found in the serum in 92%, and in 19% also in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
(9) From 1950 to 1957, major programs for the eradication of yaws were implemented throughout the region, and yaws rapidly ceased to be a threat.
(10) Analysis of blood groups of the 81 patients reactive to the Treponema pallidum immobilisation (TPI) test, who were considered to have latent or inactive yaws, compared with a control group of 552 healthy Balinese, showed that the ratio of MM to MN and NN phenotypes was 2.25 times higher in the patients than in the controls (chi 2(1) = 10.2, p less than 0.005).
(11) Yaw eye in head (Eh) and head on body velocities (Hb) were measured in two monkeys that ran around the perimeter of a circular platform in darkness.
(12) The campaign staff compiled detailed information on the epidemiology of yaws in Ghana.
(13) Single units that responded to yaw rotation were recorded extracellularly in the caudal inferior olive (IO) of barbiturate-anesthetized cats.
(14) It was performed concurrently with a survey and selective mass treatment campaign for yaws which has reappeared in the area for the first time in 20 years.
(15) However, the curtailment of yaws control activity allowed the reservoir of untreated yaws to grow unchecked, and the number of reported cases of active yaws has increased in certain parts of Africa, especially in West Africa.
(16) The conflict sickness symptom score in the pitch plane was significantly higher than that in the yaw plane for the initial exposure session (p less than 0.01).
(17) Yaws and pinta are continuing to decline to very low levels in the Americas.
(18) This proportion indicates that clinical screening alone is not sufficient to evaluate the endemic yaws level in a population.
(19) The thesis of this paper is that yaws programs have been deficient in failing to aggressively seek and contain yaws cases and contacts after mass treatment campaigns reduced yaws prevalence to low levels.
(20) Yaws was a significant health problem in Papua New Guinea until the nationwide total mass treatment campaign, which took place from 1953 to 1958.
Yew
Definition:
(v. i.) See Yaw.
(n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
(n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
(n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
(a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew with Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in 2009.
(2) The investigational antineoplastic agent, taxol, a natural product from the yew, Taxus sp.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lee Kuan Yew, right, and his wife, Kwa Geok Choo, second left, posing with the Japanese Emperor Hirohito and his wife Empress Nagako, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in 1968.
(4) A 40-year-old patient attempted suicide by drinking an extract made from 120 g of yew needles.
(5) One feels alone but not lonely amid the tall centuries-old ash, beech, birch, oak and yew, and the woodland is well preserved and conserved.
(6) Christine Cole Northampton • I think Philip Bowring almost completely misses the point in his obituary of Lee Kuan Yew.
(7) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Ethnic prejudice lurked just under Lee’s image of technocratic rationalism.
(8) Presently, taxol is derived from the bark of the Pacific yew, Taxus brevifolia, a small, slow-growing evergreen tree native to the northwestern United States.
(9) Standing in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's church in Harmondsworth, Ken Hughes says he knows how locals will react if the latest extension plans at Heathrow come to fruition.
(10) The whole “father of Singapore” image has often been taken far too literally, but Lee Kuan Yew’s governing style was nothing if not paternalistic.
(11) Four prisoners drank a decoction of yew (Taxus baccata) needles containing the toxic alkaloid taxine++ B.
(12) Taxol is a chemotherapeutic drug which acts by stabilizing microtubules, preventing normal mitosis and resulting in a block of the cell cycle at G2 and M. The drug is isolated from the yew, Taxus sp.
(13) Data from the literature concerning the toxicity of yew and some (traditional) uses of yew are reported.
(14) In Singapore, however, where a hodgepodge mix of ethnic Chinese, Malay and Indian residents actively aim to maintain what the nation's "founder", Lee Kuan Yew, has termed "racial harmony", supporters are hard to come by.
(15) Lee Kuan Yew’s grip on Singapore | Letters Read more Voting in Singapore is compulsory.
(16) To many Singaporeans, and indeed others too, Lee Kuan Yew was Singapore ,” he said.
(17) Songbirds chatter in the intertwining branches of a yew walk planted over 500 years ago.
(18) Singapore’s founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, who led the city-state for more than three decades, has died aged 91.
(19) Few have demonstrated such complete commitment to a cause greater than themselves.” This article was amended on Monday 23 March 2015 to correct a misspelling of Lee Kuan Yew’s name and to correct the time of the announcement of his death.
(20) The passing of a giant like Lee Kuan Yew is the end of an era,” Bishop told Sky News.