volvulus

How To Use volvulus In A Sentence

• Midsummer came, and by that time the desert was a desert no longer: it was a neat, trim-looking piece of ground with smooth walks, some small but promising crops, and a flower-border gay with geraniums, nasturtiums, sweet-peas, nemophila, and convolvulus. Holiday Tales
• Like guinea worms, O. volvulus has no vaccine, but it does have a partial cure. Parasite Rex
• To one side the River Seven meandered, thick with willow, purple with balsam and white with convolvulus.
• River blindness: A disease caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic nematode. Parasite Rex
• Two of the most beautiful of these are the white convolvulus, San Graal of the hedges, and the dwale – that lurid amphora where the death's-head moth, with its weird form and wings of enchanted purples, drinks under the white light of the moon and, if it is touched, cries out like a witch in a weak, strident voice. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
• When her petrified brain did make the connection, she realized that they would be hanging on a rusty nail in the shed located at the bottom of the overgrown garden, its door probably jammed shut by inches of high grass and an invasion of convolvulus, its musty interior inhabited by various large and unchecked spiders. The Home for Broken Hearts
• •The five breeds with the highest relative proportion of death from gastrointestinal causes including parvovirus and gastric dilation and volvulus syndrome — known as bloat were Great Dane, Gordon setter, Akita, Shar-pei and Weimeraner. Diseases that kill dogs tend to affect specific breeds
• VascuStatin Formula is a water extraction of the leaves of the herb Convolvulus arvensis, commonly known as bindweed, and is rich in proteoglycan mixture (PGM). MyLinkVault Newest Links
• One is Onchocerca volvulus, the worm that travels in black flies and causes river blindness. Parasite Rex
• In the cemetery of Pere – Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. Les Miserables