(v. t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
(v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
(v. t.) To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
(a.) Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
(a.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
(a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
(a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
(a.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
(n.) A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
(n.) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(2) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(3) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(4) Macrophages internalize aggregated low density lipoprotein (LDL) by LDL receptor-dependent phagocytosis.
(5) Cicaprost is an orally available analogue of PGI2 and has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation in both in vitro and animal studies.
(6) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
(7) When the aggregates occurred on the cell periphery their position coincided with areas free of lamellae.
(8) 2-(4'-Isobutylphenyl)propionic acid, ibuprofen, is an antiinflammatory agent which possesses moderate platelet aggregation inhibitory activity.
(9) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(10) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(11) The mechanisms leading to spontaneous platelet aggregation and thrombocytopenia appear to be similar to those described for other patients with type IIB vWD.
(12) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
(13) Laboratory data were aggregated similarly within each study, using the last active drug as a grouping factor.
(14) No correlation could be found between DS content and state of aggregation.
(15) The synthetic S-nitroso-thiol, S-nitroso-N-acetylcysteine, markedly inhibited platelet aggregation with an IC50 of 6 nM.
(16) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
(17) The ternary complex consisting of a 65-kDa peptide originating from the proteoglycan core protein and a 43-kDa link protein bound to hyaluronic acid was purified from a clostripain digest of the rat chondrosarcoma aggregating proteoglycan and 14C-carbamylated with potassium [14C]cyanate.
(18) The IC50 on arachidonic acid-induced platelet aggregation was: fisetin, 22 microM; kaempferol, 20 microM; quercetin, 13 microM; morin, 150 microM less than IC50 less than 300 microM.
(19) Changes in the determinants of blood viscosity (packed cell volume, plasma viscosity, red cell aggregation, and red cell deformability) were studied on day 1 and day 5.
(20) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
Corral
Definition:
(n.) A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for horses, cattle, etc.
(v. t.) To surround and inclose; to coop up; to put into an inclosed space; -- primarily used with reference to securing horses and cattle in an inclosure of wagons while traversing the plains, but in the Southwestern United States now colloquially applied to the capturing, securing, or penning of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) The packets were removed on the 100th day of gestation, and the females were allowed to give birth in their outdoor corral.
(2) Photograph: Barry J Holmes for the Observer At the other end of Tulare County’s 4,800 square miles, Chris Kemper is the principal of the poorest school in California: Stone Corral Elementary.
(3) 3.04am BST Spurs 42-28 Heat, 4:39 remaining, 2nd quarter Rashard Lewis throws a terrible, terrible Favrian interception that Tim Duncan corrals.
(4) Cathal Yeats, chief inspector of the Royal Gibraltar Police, said the flotilla crossed into Gibraltarian waters before being "corralled" out again.
(5) Speaking ahead of a meeting this evening at which the Lib Dem deputy prime minister will seek to corral colleagues behind the proposals, Lady Williams said Lib Dems "have to vote for this policy", though she conceded it had been a "mistake" for Lib Dem MPs, including Clegg, to have signed a pre-election pledge to oppose any increase in fees.
(6) Gorbachev gave two examples of Putin's incipient totalitarianism: United Russia , the party he created to corral political support for the Kremlin, a creation which Gorbachev described as a bad copy of the Soviet communist party; and Putin's decision in 2004 to eliminate elections for regional governors and mayors of Moscow and St Petersburg.
(7) The conditioned corral preference paradigm was used to assess reinforcing effects of substance P (SP) and its N- and C-terminal fragments injected unilaterally into the region of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) in rats.
(8) The agency released an animated video depicting how a space rock measuring about 9 meters wide would be captured and corralled for study.
(9) Located in San Francisco , the office is the latest effort in the campaign's bid to harness Silicon Valley's talent and to corral the region's billions into its presidential re-election machine.
(10) Naomi Woodley (@naomiwoodley) Journos on the Abbott campaign corralled into an empty office in QLD police headquarters.
(11) It now seems likely that £2bn of money largely already pledged by the government for green projects will be corralled into a watered-down green fund.
(12) But they are not really expanding property rights," says Javier Corrales, a political science professor at Amherst College in the US.
(13) The case is being brought by Lois Austin, one of about 3,000 anti-globalisation demonstrators corralled by police at Oxford Circus in May 2001, the first major protest where the tactic was used.
(14) Factors that may have accounted for this rapid spread included common water troughs, open corrals, and inability of the dairy operator to isolate cows due to lack of space.
(15) If Women Together can be encouraged to break out of the corral of official party and trade union lines then, regardless of the outcome of the referendum, we have a legacy upon which to build a stronger political voice for women in Scotland .
(16) On the streets, campaigners were corralled by police into “ first amendment areas ”, while on the internet, a similar divide grew up in a more organic manner.
(17) A cure for the ailing church “would require a much deeper ecclesial comprehension than the present leadership currently exhibit … There seems to be no sagacity, serious science or spiritual substance to the curatives being offered.” Rather, he says, the church “is being slowly kettled into becoming a suburban sect, corralling its congregations, controlling its clergy and centralising its communication.
(18) He said it was a “surprisingly good” deal but probably the result of a friendly chat rather than “gunfight at the OK Corral”.
(19) Conversely, the prevalence of antibodies to C. burneti was highest (40%) among employees working in the corrals and who were exposed to dust and hides.
(20) Progeny of wild females collected from corrals or human bait were reared in an insectary.