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star

(star),

Any stellate or star-shaped structure.
See also: aster, astrosphere, stella, stellula.

[A.S. steorra]

STAR

Abbreviation for:
Scandinavian Total Ankle Replacement
Short-Term Assessment and Rehabilitation team
signal transduction and activation of RNA
Special Targeted, Abbreviated Review
Specialty Training and Advanced Research
staged abdominal repair
Staphylokinase Recombinant Trial
Start Talking About Recovery
steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene
Systems Test for Alternative Reimbursement

STAR

Oncology A 5-yr clinical study–Study of Tamoxifen And Raloxifene–to determine whether raloxifene helps prevent breast CA in ♀ and whether it has any benefits over tamoxifen–Nolvadex. See MORE, Raloxifene, Tamoxifen.

star

(stahr)

Any stellate structure.
See also: aster, astrosphere, stella, stellula

[A.S. steorra]

STAR,

n an acronym used in osteopathic medicine that represents “sensitivity,” “tissue texture change,” “asymmetry,” and “range of motion reduced.” STAR prompts practitioners to remember the indications of somatic dysfunction, including those associated with myofascial trigger points.

STAR

see cornell STAR accelerated lambing system.

star

a color marking in a horse's coat consisting of a white spot in the center of the forehead; just a few white hairs is sometimes called a flame.

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Listening to the rising and falling notes, it's hard not to think of Burton going through the mesmeric: "It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courter's-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack.

WAY OUT WEST

The ALMA observations detected copious amounts of deuterium, suggesting that the cloud is cold and starless.

Why some stars are bigger than others

After all that starless and bibleblack drama, Friday's nightcap comes from the Peter King Quartet.

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Indigo is a moody blue, a deep rich colour which evokes thoughts of oceans at night and endless starless skies.

Singing the blues' praises

IT'S pitch black as I set off tentatively in my kayak, the starless sky merging seamlessly into the inky river.

ECO-HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA

Then from about July 3rd to 8th, at the beginning of the next moonless period, Pluto drifts across a blank, starless bit of sky of the sort that William Herschel called "a hole in the heavens.

Pluto crosses bright & dark: a rich Milky Way patch and a blank dark nebula form the backdrop for Pluto this year

A year after the humiliation of dropping into the Championship managerless, starless and debt-ridden, they looked in freefall.

Hughton's no Messiah but he deserves to be in the Promised Land; AT THE HEART OF FOOTBALL

The inside of the square is a relatively starless area but it does provide a simple way--if not a particularly scientific one--of judging sky transparency.

M15: autumn's showpiece globular cluster

Wigan's El Clough, Roberto Martinez, is trying to turn a starless gaggle of cloggers at an unfashionable provincial club into a European superpower through shear force of personality.

Take a blank to the bank with Fulham; BEST BETS

The crew of the Canadian navy ship, HMCS Calgary, gazes into the eerie, hushed sand starless night, which is rhythmically interrupted by the thundering sound of the warship crushing through the waters.

The 'Filipino Monkey' returns

his starless nights, hung ghoulish in open meadows,

No Use Crying

I think the two morning-line favorites are correct top choices, Curlin (7-2) looking like the most talented 3-year-old in a starless race and Street Sense (4-1) the solid horse to beat.