(p. p. & a.) Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
(p. p. & a.) Assumed artificially; not natural.
(p. p. & a.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
(2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
(5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
(10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
(11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
(15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
(18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
(19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.
Macaroni
Definition:
(n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.
(n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.
(n.) A sort of droll or fool.
(n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.
(n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
Example Sentences:
(1) The macaroni became slightly dark in color with increasing additions of FPC.
(2) Barbara Mikulski said Clinton would fight for “macaroni and cheese” issues, boasting again of her taste for down-to-earth food.
(3) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(4) Studied were the possibilities of inducing iron deficiency anemia in young rats through feeding with cow milk and macaroni having no eggs.
(5) Interconnection between the number of pathogenic staphylococci and the presence of enterotoxin in cooked macaroni products was studied.
(6) Rice and peas, macaroni cheese, homemade coleslaw and curried goat, so legendary have the dinners become that TV producers have even approached the family about making a reality show.
(7) Use of dimethyl sulfoxide to solubilize starch, or elevated temperature to extract S components, had no effect on the distribution of DF between S and I fractions of peas and macaroni.
(8) When Kraft went public, in 2001, it gave investors big baskets of Kraft foods like Oreos and macaroni and cheese.
(9) Eight healthy male volunteers ate four test meals on consecutive mornings and in random order; the meals were 50 g carbohydrate taken as a 20% glucose solution or as boiled macaroni with and without supplementation with 6 g salt.
(10) The authors determined (in vitro) the amino-acid composition and the enzymatic cleavage of protein and starch as well as (in vivo) the biological value of synthetic macaroni produced on the basis of casein, soybean protein and cotton-seed protein.
(11) Foods were distributed into: Group A (the least perishable goods: sugar, beans, rice, oil, salt), Group B (moderately perishable goods: biscuits, chocolate, manioc flour, corn, meal, dried skim milk, macaroni, sugar-cane syrup, canned sardines, ground corn) and Group C (the most perishable goods: dried and salted fish and meat).
(12) Macaroni penguins do not breed until 6-8 years of age whereas gentoo penguins first breed at 2 years of age.
(13) In macaroni penguins plasma levels of all hormones, except LH in males, were significantly elevated at the time of arrival at the breeding colony.
(14) Technical modifications that have helped to reduce the morbidity after IT in rats include 1) minimizing mechanical and ischemic injuries to grafts during the donor procedure, 2) marking the portal vein and aortic conduit with sutures to ensure correct orientation of the graft, 3) using a macaroni noodle to stent the intestinal anastomosis, and 4) administering large volumes of crystalloid to maintain a normal blood pressure during the donor and recipient surgeries.
(15) Each of 15 nonobese healthy women received no wafers and four different amounts (39, 104, 169, and 234 kcal) of the fiber wafer with water, in a ratio of 13 kcal (and 0.565 g psyllium) wafer per 41.67 g water, 30 minutes prior to a test meal of macaroni and beef, on nonconsecutive days.
(16) Weanling Wistar rats were used in the biological assay to measure the macaroni protein quality at the different supplementation levels.
(17) Some individual 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old macaroni penguins had circulating testosterone levels within the range of peak values in adults, suggesting that in males, gonads were physiologically mature several years in advance of the age of first breeding.
(18) The biological value of synthetic macaroni is mainly determined by the composition of the initial mixture.
(19) Following copulation, plasma levels of LH, testosterone, and estradiol decreased to basal levels in both sexes and species and, except for a transient increase in testosterone in male macaroni penguins, remained low through to the end of molt.
(20) At the end of the fourth week of the experiment some rats showed a slight difference in the growth curve, specially the animals fed macaroni without lysine.