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Cf
Cf symbol for the element californium .... Read more |
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scrotum
scrotum XVI. — L. scrōtum; cf. scrautum skin sheath for arrows.... Read more |
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Deoxyribonuclease
Deoxyribonuclease Deoxyribonuclease (pronounced "dee-oxy-rybo-noo-clee-ase"), or recombinant human deoxyribonuclease 1 (rhDNase or DNase), is an experimental drug used to treat cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited lung disease. People with CF experience chronic (constant) and increasingly worse... Read more |
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Cocoa
cocoa 2 †seed of a tropical American tree; powder produced by grinding the seed, and beverage made from this. XVIII. Alteration of CACAO (also †cacoa). Cf. CHOCOLATE.... Read more |
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Plants
319. Plants See also 5. AGRICULTURE ; 54. BOTANY ; 167. FLOWERS ; 188. GRASSES ; 241. LEAVES ; 302. ORGANISMS ; 401. TREES . acidophobia an inability to accommodate to acid soils. Cf. basophobia. Read more |
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Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common genetic diseases and one of the best known to the general public. There are approximately one thousand new cases of CF in the United States every year, and approximately thirty thousand people in the country are currently affected. In... Read more |
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Athach
athach [ScG, giant, champion; monster; cf. OIr. aithech, boor, serf]. A monster or giant of Scottish Gaelic folklore, thought to haunt gorges and lonely lochans or lakes. Comparable to the bòcan, d'reach, fachan, or luideag.... Read more |
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Becher
Becher , in the Bible. 1 Son of Benjamin. In First Chronicles "his first-born" should perhaps be read "Becher" ; cf. Bocheru . See Bichri . 2 Son of Ephraim. His descendants are called Bachrites. He also appears as Bered.... Read more |
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Rutherfordium
Rutherfordium MELTING POINT: Unknown BOILING POINT:Unknown DENSITY:Unknown MOST COMMON IONS:Unknown Rutherfordium is the first transactinide element. It was discovered in 1969 by Albert Ghiorso and his coworkers, who carried out the ... Read more |
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Consolidated Freightways Corp
Consolidated Freightways Corporation 16400 S.E. CF WayVancouver, Washington 98683U.S.A.Telephone: (360) 448-4000Fax: (360) 448-4308Web site: http://www.cf.com Public CompanyFounded: 1929 as Consolidated Freightways, Inc.Employees: 18,100Sales: $2.24 billion (2001)Stock Exchanges:... Read more |
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genetic testing
...recessive disorders are cystic fibrosis (CF), sickle cell anaemia, and thalassaemia...test and discovers that she is a carrier of CF. It is most important that confidentiality...chances are 1 in 4 that the child will have CF. The chances that the child will also be... |
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NOTES AND REFERENCES
...3 m’ (for ‘around three million’).cf. Short for confer ‘compare’: inviting the reader...topic, or work with one or more others, as in ‘cf. Havelock, Preface to Plato’, ‘cf. analogy, metaphor, simile’.e.g. Short... |
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gene therapy
...appropriate metabolism of adenosine to occur.Cystic fibrosis (CF) is also a lethal disease resulting from a single gene mutation...deficiency the transformed T cells persist for only 6 months, while in CF the new genetic material is not incorporated into the genome and... |
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californium
californium (symbol Cf) Radioactive metallic element of the actinide series, first made in 1950 by US nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg (1912–99... |
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Damon
Damon, a shepherd singer in Virgil's eighth Eclogue; a name adopted by poets for a rustic swain. Cf. Epitaphium Damonis, Milton's Latin elegy on his friend Diodati. |
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Folk Play
...were replaced by the Seven Champions of Christendom or other heroes, probably under the influence of the village schoolmaster (cf. Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost). As patron saint of England, St George may have figured among them from the earliest... |
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Lily, William
...revival of Greek studies in England. He was made a high master of St Paul's School, and was partly responsible for Lily's Grammar, which was long familiar to English schoolboys; cf. the Latin lesson in The Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. i. |
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Southcott, Joanna
...the 20th cent., believed she would rise again. She left a box, directed to be opened after 100 years with 24 bishops present (cf. Rev. 4: 4). When opened (1927), with one bishop present, it contained merely a night-cap, book, lottery ticket, dicebox... |
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Ovide Moralisé
...significant in the development of late medieval and Renaissance literature by bringing secular literature into the official canon. Cf. Fulgentius Metaforalis by Ridewall (c.1330) for the practice of allegorizing the stories of classical authors. |
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Paladins, the
...authors; but Roland and Oliver figure in all the enumerations. Among the best known are Otuel, Fierabras or Ferumbras, and Ogier the Dane. Since the 16th cent. the word is applied to any great knightly champion (cf. word ‘Peer’). |
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cf.
cf. Bookbinding calfskin• compare (Latin confer) |
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CF
CF n. see cystic fibrosis. |
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CF theory
CF theory Chem. crystal-field theory |
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Cf
Cf • symb. the chemical element californium. |
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-le
-le1 suffix of sbs., repr. OE. -el (cf. BRIDLE, LADLE), -la, -le (cf. HANDLE), -ol (cf. CRADLE, SADDLE), and -l (cf. NEEDLE, SETTLE), and corr. to OS., OHG., -il... |
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‘baptism in the Holy Spirit’
...witness through a unique action of Christ (cf. Mk. 1: 8), distinct from conversion or sacramental...those summoned to be likewise ‘filled’ (cf. Acts 2: 4) are ‘baptized with the Holy Spirit’ (cf. Acts 11: 15 f.), and that the normal outward... |
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clamp
clamp 1 brace or band of metal. XIV. prob. of LG. orig.; cf. Du., LG. klamp, †klampe, f. *klamp-, by-form of *klamb- (cf. CLIMB), *klam- (cf. CLAM). Hence clamp vb. XVII. |
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drone
...prob. f. *dran- *dren *drun- boom (cf. MDu. drōnen, Du. dreunen, LG. drönen...been connected. The Eng. form drone (XV; cf. ME., mod. dial. drane) is perh. — (M)LG. drōne. Cf. drone hum, buzz (sb. and vb.). XVI... |
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pap
pap1 teat, nipple. XII. ME. pappe, prob. immed. from Scand. (cf. Sw. and Norw. dial. pappe), ult. f. an imit. base *pap- expressing the noise of sucking; cf. L. papilla, late L. papula nipple, Lith. pāpas teat. Cf. next. |
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among
...onġemang, -mong, i.e. ON, ġemang (cf. (ġe)mengan MINGLE), prop. a phr...onmang, -mong, whence amang, among (cf. A-1). Extended with adv. -S to amonges...whence amongest, amongst (XVI); cf. AMIDST, AGAINST. |
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CF Industries Certifies Substantial Compliance with Second Request in...
CF Industries Extends Exchange Offer for Terra to August 7, 2009 DEERFIELD, Ill. -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) announced today that on Monday, July 6, 2009, it filed a certification... |
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CF Industries to Re-File Hart-Scott-Rodino Notification in Connection with...
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) announced today that it has voluntarily withdrawn its...Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended. CF Industries intends to re-file its premerger notification... |
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CF Industries Comments on Agrium's Latest Revised Proposal.
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) confirmed today that it has received another revised proposal...TSX: AGU) (NYSE: AGU) regarding an acquisition of CF Industries. CF Industries noted that Agrium's offer represents... |
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CF Industries Announces Expiration of HSR Waiting Period with Regard to...
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF) announced the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger waiting period applicable to CF Industries' proposed business combination with Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE:TRA) expired at 11:59 P.M. on August... |
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CF Industries to Nominate Three Independent Directors at Terra Industries'...
CF Industries to Commence Exchange Offer for Terra Industries at 0.4235 Shares of CF Industries for Each Terra Industries Share DEERFIELD, Ill. -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) today announced... |
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CF Industries Sends Letter to Terra Industries Stockholders.
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) today sent the following letter to the stockholders of...Supplemental Information On November 1, 2009, CF Industries delivered a letter to the Terra Board of Directors... |
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CF Industries Extends Exchange Offer for Terra Industries to July 10, 2009.
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) announced today that it has extended the expiration date...Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP is acting as legal counsel to CF Industries. Additional information for Investors, Employees... |
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CF Foundation Invests Millions In Boston Research Institutions and Care...
...potential treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF). These funds were awarded to research and care institutions in Boston, the CF Foundation's Therapeutics Development Center at Children's Hospital Boston, the CF care program at Massachusetts General Hospital... |
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CF NOT DEATH SENTENCE IT ONCE WAS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
...one of a growing population of adults with CF, many of whom were told they would never...than one-third of the estimated 21,000 CF cases in the United States. That's a...rise from 1969 when only 8 percent of the CF population was older than 18. The most... |
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CF Industries Receives Request for Additional Information from FTC Regarding...
CF Industries Remains Confident That Transaction Will Be Approved DEERFIELD, Ill. -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) today announced that it has received a Request for Additional... |
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