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Look up: Barr-

  1. Barr
    Type: Term Pronunciation: bar Definitions: 1. Murray L., Canadian microanatomist, 1908-1995. See: Barr chromatin body
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  2. Barr
    Barr is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `gateway` Barr,Barre The name Barr doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Barr seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Barr

  3. Barr
    (placename element) `Barr-` is a pre-Indo-European linguistic root meaning `wooded hill`, `natural barrier`. In addition to the common noun bar, it explains many place names as: but not Le Bar-sur-Loup, a former Albarn > Aubarn. In Alps, the word applies to rocky escarpments: This root...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr

  4. Barr Beacon
    `Barr Beacon` is a hill on the edge of Walsall, West Midlands, England, very near the border with Birmingham. It gives its name to nearby Great Barr (the Beacon borders the Pheasey area of Great Barr) and to the local school Barr Beacon Language College. It is historically the site of a beacon where...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Beacon

  5. Barr Beacon Language College
    `Barr Beacon Language College` is a mixed secondary school in Pheasey, Walsall, England. It takes its name from the adjacent hill, Barr Beacon. The school has been a specialist Language College since September 2003 and has a sixth form of approximately 180 pupils.<ref name="ofsted report&quo...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Beacon

  6. Barr body
    Barr body: A microscopic feature of female cells due to the presence of two X chromosomes in the female. One of these X chromosomes is inactive and is crumpled up to form the Barr body.
    Found on http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.

  7. Barr body
    Small dark-staining inactivated X chromosome seen in female (XX) cells. According to the Lyon hypothesis, random inactivation occurs.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  8. Barr body
    Small dark staining inactivated X chromosome seen in female (XX) cells. According to the Lyon hypothesis, random inactivation occurs. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. Barr body
    a chromatin mass in the nucleus of somatic cells of females of most mammalian species, including humans. It represents a single, inactive, condensed X chromosome. Called also sex chromatin. See also Lyon hypothesis.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  10. Barr body
    (from the article `sex chromosome`) ...for this is that, in each somatic cell of a normal female, one of the X chromosomes is randomly deactivated. This deactivated X chromosome can be ... ...the paternal X, although the rationale for this preference is unclear. The inactivated X chromosome typically replicates later than other ... [...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/24

  11. Barr body
    . Shown is a single optical section made with a confocal microscope. Bottom: Same nucleus stained with DAPI and recorded with a CCD camera. The Barr body is indicated by the arrow, it identifies the inactive X (Xi). A `Barr body` (named after discoverer Murray Barr) is the inactive X chromosome in a...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_body

  12. Barr Castle
    `Barr Castle` is a late medieval tower house. It can be seen today as a ruin on a low ridge to the south of the village of Lochwinnoch. History: Barr Castle was constructed in the early 16th century. It passed into the hands of the Hamiltons of Ferguslie at the end of the 16th century who retained t...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Castle

  13. Barr chromatin body
    Synonym for sex chromatin ... Condensed chromatin of the inactivated X chromosome in female mammals (Barr body). ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  14. Barr chromatin body
    Type: Term Pronunciation: bar Synonyms: sex chromatin
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  15. Barr Cola
    `Barr Cola`, (previously branded as "Strike Cola") is a cola in Scotland, made from kola nuts. It is manufactured by the A.G. Barr plc company, makers of Irn-Bru. Barr Cola, like Irn-Bru, is most popular in Scotland. One of its distinctive features is that it is sold in reusable 750ml-size...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Cola

  16. Barr Construction Ltd
    `Barr Construction` is a major contracting organisation operating throughout the United Kingdom. History : The Company began life at the end of the nineteenth century as a joinery firm known as W & J Barr & Sons and gradually expanded into civil engineering projects. The firm was inco...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Constr

  17. Barr McClellan
    `Oliver Barr McClellan`, entrepreneur and author, was born in 1939 in Cuero (aka Rawhide), Texas, and in 1944-1951 lived in Maracaibo, where he learned Spanish, spent time in the oilfield swamps and learned soccer. He also survived an airline crash in Mexico City in 1946. He graduated from Jefferson...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_McClel

  18. Barr Pharmaceuticals
    (from the article `Croatia`) Economically, the year was marked by a war between Iceland-based Actavis and American Barr Pharmaceuticals over acquisition of stock in the Croatian ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/24

  19. Barr Pharmaceuticals
    `Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc.`, was a global specialty pharmaceutical company that operated in more than 30 countries worldwide. Barr were engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of generic and proprietary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients. History...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Pharma

  20. Barr River, Morvern
    `Barr River` is a short watercourse in Morvern in the Scottish Highlands. Its principal tributaries are the Allt Ghleann Sleibhtecoire and the Allt na Lice Beithe which rise on open moorland to the south and flow north amongst coniferous plantations. The river enters the tidal Loch Teacus at Poll Achadh Luachrach. References :
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_River,

  21. Barr Smith Library
    The `Barr Smith Library` is the main library of the University of Adelaide, situated in the centre of the North Terrace campus. The library was named in honour of Robert Barr Smith who donated £9000 to buy books. In 1920 his family gave an extra £11,000 in the form of an endowment and in 1928 ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Smith_

  22. Barr Subdivision
    The `Barr Subdivision` is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. states of Indiana and Illinois. The line runs from Willow Creek (a neighborhood in Portage, Indiana), west to Blue Island, Illinois, along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) line. At its east e...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Subdiv

  23. Barr Tribunal
    The `Barr Tribunal` was a Public Inquiry in the Republic of Ireland established by Resolutions passed by the Dáil Éireann and the Seanad Éireann on the 17 and 18 April 2002, and by Instrument entitled Tribunals of Inquiry Evidence Acts 1921 (Establishment of Tribunal) Instrument (No. 2) 2...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Tribun

  24. Barr Water
    `Barr Water` is a westerly flowing river of the Kintyre peninsula in the southwest Scottish Highlands. Rising at the diminutive Loch Losgainn near the hill of Cruach Mhic-an t-Saoir, it initially flows south-southwestwards amongst conifer plantations before turning west-southwestwards to flow down B...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr_Water

  25. Barr`s Hill School
    --> Admissions: Barr`s Hill is situated on a spacious green field site just north of Coventry city centre on the B4098 (former A51), south of the Coventry-Nuneaton Line. The site of the former Jaguar factory is a few hundred metres to the north. The Bablake School is directly to the west, separated ...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barr`s_Hill



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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