(a.) Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.
Example Sentences:
(1) And then, proving that in the celebrity world of self-abasement there really is no such thing as "bottoming out", Shane started tweeting Ping Pong, otherwise known as Elizabeth Hurley's parrot Why has Australia not staged an intervention?
(2) These studies establish that the exocyclic ring of the 1,N2-propanodeoxyguanosine adduct fits into the cavity generated by the abasic site.
(3) Covalently closed circular DNA containing a synthetic analog of an abasic site at a unique position was used as a substrate to study DNA repair.
(4) In this study, we present structural and dynamic properties of duplex oligodeoxynucleotides containing G, C and T opposite a model abasic site studied by one and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
(5) By this assay, we first identified the formation of C-4'-hydroxy abasic sites in calf thymus DNA by neocarzinostatin.
(6) Abasic lesions in the template had relatively little effect on the polymerase incorporation reaction at sites proximal to the lesion.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A composite handout of CCTV pictures from the Metropolitan police showing British teenagers (L-R) Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase and Shamima Begum passing through security barriers at Gatwick Airport en route to Syria.
(8) Proton and phosphorus NMR studies are reported for two complementary nonanucleotide duplexes containing acyclic abasic sites.
(9) Shamima Begum, 15, Amira Abase, 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left their homes in east London last month to join the extremist group.
(10) However, incorporation opposite an abasic site was undetectable relative to that which occurred opposite a normal template nucleotide.
(11) But with the People's Daily writing that progress had only been possible because of David Cameron's admission that he had mishandled Tibet (where, since 2009, 100 monks and nuns have set fire to themselves in protest against Chinese rule), Britain's abasement was complete.
(12) Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, fled in February from Britain after deceiving their parents and siblings.
(13) The long pilgrimage of pregnancy with its wonders and abasements, the apotheosis of childbirth, the sacking and slow rebuilding of every last corner of my private world that motherhood has entailed – all unmentioned, wilfully or casually forgotten as time has passed.
(14) Before and after training they were low in need for order, endurance, abasement, and deference and high in need for autonomy and aggression.
(15) All the sequenced mutants correspond to single base-pair substitutions targeted at the abasic site.
(16) These results indicate that dTMP, and not dAMP, was mainly incorporated into the sites opposite to the abasic site analogue, and that incorrect deoxynucleotides were incorporated in the position adjacent to the abasic site analogue.
(17) Our results in human cells contrast markedly with those published previously for the mutational specificity of AP sites in Escherichia coli, in which a large majority of the mutants resulted from insertion of an A opposite the abasic site.
(18) The repair-related DNA synthesis was localized within 3 or 4 nucleotides surrounding the abasic site.
(19) The enzyme is able to incorporate nucleotides efficiently opposite the abasic template lesion and to continue DNA synthesis.
(20) The Met statement did appear to show some contrition stating: “With the benefit of hindsight, we acknowledge that the letters could have been delivered direct to the parents.” The disappearance of the 15-year-old girl in December led to a counter-terrorism investigation that saw Begum, Sultana and Abase identified as friends of the missing girl and being spoken to by detectives.
Fess
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Fesse
Example Sentences:
(1) These details were analysed by computer to identify common factors in the small percentage of patients who present with persistent recurring sinusitis after FESS.
(2) This retrospective analysis presents the management and outcome of 16 children (less than 16 years) and 47 adults who had revision FESS.
(3) He claimed 99.9% of the transactions were clean, although he did fess up to $14m of accidental dealings.
(4) Three different vasoconstricting agents were evaluated during functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) in 57 children.
(5) So I think it's time we atheists 'fessed up and admitted that life without God can sometimes be pretty grim.
(6) No one in the party will fess up to it, but it often gives the appearance of following what Australian politicians call a "small target strategy", giving away precious little about what it may or may not have planned, so as to give the Tories as little to attack as possible.
(7) Preoperative radiologic and intraoperative endoscopic findings of maxillary and ethmoid sinuses were compared in 75 adult patients, in whom 135 chronically inflamed maxillary sinuses were operated using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS).
(8) In our institution, 0.05% oxymetazoline is the preferred vasoconstrictor for FESS in children.
(9) As a rule, functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) is recommended for patients with chronic sinus problems that do not respond to medical treatment.
(10) Functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) requires cadaver-based practice to acquire the necessary technical expertise.
(11) Over the past few months Michael Fallon has repeatedly told the Commons that no British servicemen would be deployed in Syria without another vote: under the pressure of a freedom of information request, Mr Airfix had last Friday been forced to fess up that a few Brits had already flown on US strikes on Syria.
(12) To report our experience with the radiographic evaluation of severe complications resulting from the functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) procedure.
(13) The other, a 13-year-old girl, with an antro-choanal polyp underwent FESS only.
(14) Based on the experiences of these two cases, FESS appears to be very helpful in treating children with choanal polyp and paranasal sinusitis.
(15) FESS provides a relatively atraumatic means of removing polyps and creating better sinus drainage.
(16) To enable this to be undertaken as a bench-top activity the Edinburgh FESS Training system has been developed.
(17) Although the ostiomeatal unit is the central feature in sinonasal inflammatory disease, obstruction of the infundibulum alone or of the sphenoethmoidal recess can cause unique inflammatory patterns of disease that require tailored FESS.
(18) Two hundred patients with chronic sinusitis were operated on using functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) techniques.
(19) The government has fessed up that four of the country's troubled lenders would need a further €24bn to withstand a worse-than-expected performance by the economy, and even that colossal sum is likely to prove an underestimate.
(20) For a period of 3 to 36 months, we followed the recovery of 210 children who underwent FESS between 1986 and 1989.