(n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty.
(n.) A species of very large stork (Ciconia argala), a native of India; -- called also the gigantic crane, and by the native name argala. It is noted for its serpent-destroying habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ridgway Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Army Reserve.
(2) Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch).
(3) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) WO Class 1 Andrew George Johnson.
(4) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch) Acting Lt Col Alan Francis O’Flanagan.
(5) Adjutant General’s Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch) Maj Guy John Nathaniel Mason.
(6) In five cases, adjutant endoscopic procedures were performed.
(7) Cpl Michael Clark Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch).
(8) "It ought to be asked at the start and recorded in documents, particularly because of things like PTSD [post traumatic stress disorder]," said the retired adjutant general.
(9) Older priests occasionally found the former adjutant slightly laughable and questioned his assumption that his way to holiness was the only way.
(10) I don’t think that is an immediate plan,” he said, “but I think anywhere in the world … I wouldn’t rule anything out.” In an attempt to defend his national security credentials, Walker also spoke of “risk assessments given to me by the FBI and my adjutant general” in his role as governor of Wisconsin .
(11) He's right that it is a problem for the Labour party that it is led by two former adjutants of Gordon Brown, one of whom was City minister.
(12) Nominally, the intention was for Anthony to perform as a sort of adjutant to the general and as a youthful link between the princes of Astor's court.
(13) Late Adjutant General’s Corps (Army Legal Services Branch) Maj Gen John Crackett, TD.
(14) Adjutant General’s Corps (Royal Military Police) Acting Maj Douglas Charles Muirhead.
(15) Adjutant General’s Corps (Staffand Personnel Support Branch) Lt Col Andrew Martin Hart.
(16) Although LAM-B is a common antigen of both mycobacterium tuberculosis and mycobacterium leprae, the low prevalence of leprosy in China makes little influence of the practicability of using this ELISA in epidemiological study and in clinic as a adjutant tool for tuberculosis diagnosis and differential diagnosis.
Modifier
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, modifies.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
(2) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(3) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(4) Incubation with IFN alpha or IFN gamma for 24 h resulted in only modest cytokinetic alterations, and they did not modify the effects of FUra.
(5) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(6) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(7) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(8) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
(9) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(10) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(11) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
(12) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
(13) Pretreatment of cells with maitotoxin did not modify 125I-omega-conotoxin and [3H]PN 200-110 binding to PC12 membranes.
(14) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(15) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
(16) Lipoprotein electrophoresis on agarose gel has been modified to allow estimation of the absolute quantity of each fraction.
(17) A modified method of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis has been developed for detecting acidic eukaryotic ribosomal proteins.
(18) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
(19) The effect of modifying the periodate-susceptible methionine residues in chicken ovotransferrin was small but significant.
(20) The ability of adenosine to modify the effects of noradrenaline on action potential characteristics was also investigated.