(a.) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(2) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(3) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(4) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
(5) Aberrant forms (elongated and twisted) in the vacuole and double virions in the plasma membrane were observed as early as 65 h after infection.
(6) Detailed studies of the between-cell aberration distributions give evidence that positive selection against cells with high aberration frequencies has also occurred in these experiments.
(7) Chromosome aberrations were scored in BHK21 C13 Syrian hamster fibroblasts, exposed to 60Co gamma-rays, 250 kV X-rays, 15 MeV neutrons or neutrons of mean energy 2.1 MeV produced from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction.
(8) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
(9) ECGs taken routinely over a period of years help differntiate ventricular from supraventricular tachycardias with aberrant conduction.
(10) In three patients treated with photrine cells with aberrative karyotypes ranged within 14-37.5%.
(11) 50 cells at metaphase per animal were scored for chromosomal aberrations.
(12) Thus, in human lymphocytes the frequencies of chromatid aberrations induced by most clastogenic agents were strongly enhanced when caffeine was given during the G2 phase, but little affected by post-treatments with caffeine during the S phase.
(13) Systematic treatment of aberrant subclavian arteries should perhaps be considered when it can be performed during thoracic surgery.
(14) At that time the factor IX users also had milder immune aberrations than the hemophilia A group.
(15) The predominant specific aberrations in gliomas were an over-representation of chromosome 7 (13 cases) and an under-representation of chromosome 10 (16 cases).
(16) It was shown that six pesticides induced a statistically significant increase in the number of chromosomal aberrations: Bi 58 EC, Metasystox (I) forte, Sadofos 30, Nogos 50 EC, Foschlor 25 and Thiodan 35.
(17) Cystic dystrophy of aberrant pancreatic tissue without chronic pancreatitis is a rare disease described by Potet and Duclert in 1970.
(18) Methyl sinapate also increased the frequency of cells with chromosome aberrations in the CHO K-1 cells treated with MMC, 4NQO or UV.
(19) In the exposed group structural chromosome aberrations were found in 2%, while in the control group in 0.9% of analysed metaphases.
(20) These findings indicate structural abnormalities in the secretory apparatus of neuroendocrine cells in dysplastic bronchi and correlate with experimental observations of aberrant hormonal production associated with bronchial dysplasia.
Peculiar
Definition:
(a.) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation.
(a.) Unusual; singular; rare; strange; as, the sky had a peculiarappearance.
(n.) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
(n.) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
Example Sentences:
(1) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(2) Structural peculiarities in tubulin polymorphism are considered.
(3) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(5) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(6) A new theory for the peculiar site selection of cholesteatomas of the external auditory canal is postulated.
(7) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(8) The peculiar aspects of uncommon causes of IVH are discussed on the basis of a review of the literature.
(9) The qualification for carrying on the isonicotinic acid hydrazide monotherapy in the tuberculosis cutis luposa and verrucosa is proved on the basis of bacteriological, pathologo-anatomical and clinical peculiarities of these forms of tuberculosis of the skin.
(10) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
(11) In 20.2% of the cases with carcinoma the tumor cells showed peculiar intracytoplasmic inclusions, whereas in only 0.43% of the biopsies of the mamma without carcinoma such inclusions were to be found.
(12) A peculiar emphasis is given to the microarchitecture and functional significance of longitudinal muscle columns as a prevalent structural component of branch pads.
(13) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
(14) So far, the UK election has thrown up a carnival of peculiar results | Lewis Baston Read more Scotland, of course, is a different story: but David Cameron’s antagonistic response to the 2014 referendum clearly swung a lot of anti-Tory voters towards the SNP.
(15) The peculiarities of the growth and extracellular accumulation of free keto and amino cids by a barotolerant culture (strain 0798) in culturing on Ran's glucose-mineral medium conditions of 1, 200, 300, and 500 atm were investigated.
(16) Diffuse widening of the subarchnoidal space, diffuse cerebral changes, interhemispheric assymetry of the venous and arterial phases of cerebral circulation: the most peculiar symptoms of the CNS affection in SLE according to CT and EEG and radionuclide studies of cerebral hemodynamics.
(17) One peculiar case of giant ameloblastoma of the mandible is reported in this paper.
(18) Considering the tumour's late occurrence the histological peculiarities of the place of origin as one of the factors of possible histogenesis is stressed.
(19) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(20) They also include difficulties peculiar to the condition of mild mental retardation, including the choice of method of classification whether by IQ testing or administratively; the heterogeneous nature of the individuals so characterised; and the confounding effects of social and biological factors and the changes in the implications for the affected individual of the condition, depending on age, sex and environment.