(n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) A study revealed that the percentage of active sperm in semen 30 seconds after ejaculation was 10.3% when a nonoxynol 9 latex condom was used as opposed to 55.9% in a nonspermicidal condom.
(3) The most actively proliferating region of the excurrent duct system is zone 3 of the epididymis, whereas the least active region is the ductuli efferentes.
(4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(5) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(6) The antiarrhythmic activity similar to that of quinidine (with ca.
(7) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(8) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
(12) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(13) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
(14) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(15) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(16) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(17) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(18) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(19) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(20) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
Seethe
Definition:
(n.) To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.
(v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(2) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
(3) "Park Chu-Young of South Korea has scored from a free-kick, against Nigeria," he quietly seethes.
(4) In 1961 there had been riots in Warmbaths, and all this time the Transkei had been a seething mass of unrest.
(5) Baltimore’s under-fire criminal justice system risked antagonising its already seething local community on Wednesday by suspending legal procedures and imposing bail bonds of up to half a million dollars on the city’s most impoverished residents.
(6) As central Manama once again seethed, troops and riot police were nowhere to be seen.
(7) We wouldn’t notice much difference between them and the current lot, and it would save all that boasting and seething reported in the same issue ( Bong!
(8) We have said you can’t waste a game now and that’s what we’ve done,” said a clearly seething Newcastle manager.
(9) Writing in the Observer under the headline "Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry" , Hunt seethes, "the government is using what should be a moment for national reflection and respectful debate to rewrite the historical record and sow political division."
(10) ITV news executives are privately seething about the BBC’s response to its revamped 10pm bulletin and have accused their rival of “arrogance”.
(11) Are there 250 people in there seething and about to jump the fence?” asked Downey.
(12) The city had been in a state of seething unrest since 29 December 2012, when Jyoti Singh, a medical student in her 20s, died of terrible injuries inflicted on her by a group of men who raped and tortured her on a bus.
(13) When soldiers eventually broke their siege and killed the ringleaders, Bin Laden was seething.
(14) "Those frames long haven't existed here," Volkova replied, seething.
(15) Three months later, on 21 September 1991, they fought again at a seething White Hart Lane and in front of an ITV audience of 12m viewers.
(16) Of the Moir storm, writer Tim Brown has decried in Spiked Online "a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence".
(17) Addressing the seething anti-establishment and anti-Jewish sentiment that is increasing among young Muslims is one of the many key challenges for the future.
(18) The kitchen window looked down over Trinity Place, now seething with people.
(19) Clegg shows he is still seething with David Cameron for failing to secure Tory support for House of Lords reform, as he explains why the prime minister's hopes of pressing ahead with a reform of parliamentary boundary sizes is now for the birds.
(20) Called simply September, the painting shows a generic image of the towers, sun-struck in the autumn morning and seething with smoke.