Rous is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like diagnostician or pathologist. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Rous in a sentence
Related words
Rous meaning
A locality in the Ballina council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Synonyms of Rous
Using Rous
- The main meaning on this page is: A locality in the Ballina council area, north-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
- Useful related words include: peyton rous, francis peyton rous, diagnostician, pathologist.
- In the example corpus, rous often appears in combinations such as: rous sarcoma, rous county, of rous.
Context around Rous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rous
- In this selection, "rous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ordinary, 420, sarcoma, county and meeting stand out and add context to how "rous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include by the rous sarcoma virus and chair of rous county council. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rous" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Protein tyrosine kinases that are encoded by the Rous sarcoma virus cause cellular transformation, and are termed oncoproteins. (18 words)
Rous sarcoma virus-encoded oncoproteins are protein tyrosine kinases that are the cause of, and are required for, this cellular transformation. (21 words)
Kendall, Richard the Third p. 420 Rous also attributes the murder of Henry VI to Richard, and claims that he poisoned his own wife. (24 words)
Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus showed that the oncogene of Rous sarcoma virus is in fact not specific to the virus but is contained in the genome of healthy animals of many species. (33 words)
With numbers locked yesterday, the Chair of Rous County Council, Keith Williams, voted to prevent the contentious Dunoon Dam project proceeding, at a not-so ordinary Rous meeting in Lismore. (30 words)
Kendall, Richard the Third p. 420 Rous also attributes the murder of Henry VI to Richard, and claims that he poisoned his own wife. (24 words)
Example sentences (5)
With numbers locked yesterday, the Chair of Rous County Council, Keith Williams, voted to prevent the contentious Dunoon Dam project proceeding, at a not-so ordinary Rous meeting in Lismore.
Kendall, Richard the Third p. 420 Rous also attributes the murder of Henry VI to Richard, and claims that he poisoned his own wife.
Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus showed that the oncogene of Rous sarcoma virus is in fact not specific to the virus but is contained in the genome of healthy animals of many species.
Protein tyrosine kinases that are encoded by the Rous sarcoma virus cause cellular transformation, and are termed oncoproteins.
Rous sarcoma virus-encoded oncoproteins are protein tyrosine kinases that are the cause of, and are required for, this cellular transformation.
Common combinations with rous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rous sarcoma 3×
- rous county 2×
- of rous 2×