(n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
(n.) A partial alienation of reason.
(n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
(n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.
(n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.
(n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.
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.
Alienation
Definition:
(n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
(n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
(n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
(n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(3) One of the few Tories who backed him for Speaker says that his increasingly aggressive put-downs of backbenchers have begun to alienate colleagues.
(4) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(5) A year after hiring, many relationships were found, including professional actual situation with job satisfaction (r = 0.26, P less than 0.05) and alienation with job satisfaction (r = -0.33, P less than 0.01).
(6) Less than 2% of humanitarian funds 'go directly to local NGOs' Read more Suggest to her that she’s too outspoken, that her approach is counterproductive and alienates those who are trying to drive change more gently, and she pauses.
(7) It describes issues related to practice, politics, and understanding of a culture alien to them.
(8) She [McSally] has got a lot more fire in her belly than Ron does.” Latino community Some 100 miles north, on the outskirts of Tucson, Barber’s middle-of-the road positioning is beginning to alienate an arguably even more crucial voting block.
(9) And how did Africans respond to Western medicine and its alien institutional social and technological structures and relations?
(10) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
(11) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(12) He was fearless and driven, creating music quickly, and without ever stopping to wonder whether his push for new sounds would alienate his audience."
(13) Every day, as part of routine targeted enforcement operations, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Fugitive Operations teams arrest criminal aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation’s immigration laws,” Byrd said in a statement.
(14) David Stubbs Wizards vs Aliens 5.30pm, CBBC New series of Russell T Davies’s drama, full of wizardry and big-league special effects.
(15) It was hypothesized that incarcerated adolescents would have significantly higher levels of isolation, normlessness, powerlessness, and total alienation than would nonincarcerated adolescents.
(16) The episode accelerated a renewed alienation between party activists and the leadership.
(17) Don’t get too hung up on identity issues “The idea of gender fluidity is an alien concept to the vast majority of people, even in Britain.” 4.
(18) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(19) In this manner the society succeeded in attracting many thousands of workers to its meetings and worked without openly alienating employers, trade unions, the government, or the medical profession--a remarkable feat of diplomacy.
(20) Utilizing the Gottschalk-Gleser verbal behavior scales of Anxiety, Depression, Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization and Cognitive Impairment a significant correlation was revealed between low platelet MAO activity and high Total Anxiety scale and Shame Anxiety subscale scores.