(n.) A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships, offers a fantasy for overcoming these aporias, and functions as a self-help sexual manual.
(2) In practice, attempts by the "users" of such texts to find solutions inexorably lead to aporias.
(3) In James's case, the storyline of Fifty Shades "stages many of the aporias of the sexual relationships between men and women", she believes, with the sadomasochistic relationship at its heart "both a symbolic solution for and a practical technique to overcome these aporias".
(4) Changes in protein metabolism in the hemolymph, fat body, intestine, and gonads of Aporia crataegi L. caterpilars under the influence of nuclear polyhedrosis virus were studied.
Insoluble
Definition:
(a.) Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.
(a.) Not to be solved or explained; insolvable; as, an insoluble doubt, question, or difficulty.
(a.) Strong.
Example Sentences:
(1) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
(2) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
(3) One cellulase is buffer-soluble, the other buffer-insoluble but extractable with high salt concentrations.
(4) Evidence is presented which suggests that these plasmid-mediated, temperature-inducible surface fibrillae are responsible for autoagglutination and are related to production of one prominent, Sarkosyl-insoluble polypeptide of ca.
(5) During the growth of Azotobacter vinelandii in batch culture in Burk's 2% glucose medium supplemented with 50 mg EDTA per litre, water-insoluble capsular polysaccaride material accumulated in cultures prior to the appearance of water-soluble polysaccharide in the culture medium.
(6) A Nonidet P 40 insoluble fraction was isolated from Trypanosoma brucei and was used to raise a monoclonal antibody (5E9).
(7) Insoluble collagen was found to bind electrostatically to chondromucoprotein.
(8) After 6 weeks irradiation, the insoluble collagen and elastin were both substantially elevated, as were the activities of glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and superoxide dismutase (SOD).
(9) However, since the Krafft point of lincomycin palmitate is approximately 43 degrees, it does not form micelles below that temperature and appears to be quite insoluble until heated above 43 degrees.
(10) Average remnant diameters were 400-600 A and remnants were enriched in cholesteryl esters and in protein insoluble in tetramethylurea.
(11) Ultrastructural studies of detergent-insoluble cytoskeletons from infected cells and immunofluorescence microscopy of phalloidin-labeled cells showed alterations in the structure of the cytoskeleton during the internalization process including the accumulation of polymerized actin around entering bacteria.
(12) Cells obtained from 12-day tissue remained monolayers for 4 to 8 days, after which time portions of the culture contracted into matrix containing chemically definable insoluble elastin and forming desmosine cross-links.
(13) Micrococcal nuclease-digested testis and erythrocyte chromatin was separated into soluble and insoluble fractions.
(14) Five other patients with water-insoluble paraproteins were tested; two were clot-inhibitory.
(15) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
(16) The protein component was relatively insoluble and contained an excess of acidic over basic amino acids and little cystine.
(17) Biochemical analysis of the kinetics of assembly of two cytoplasmic plaque proteins of the desmosome, desmoplakins I (250,000 Mr) and II (215,000 Mr), in Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells, demonstrated that these proteins exist in a soluble and insoluble pool, as defined by their extract ability in a Triton X-100 high salt buffer (CSK buffer).
(18) The ratio of soluble to insoluble beta-galactosidase decreased during the course of cell growth.
(19) GP Ib was sedimented with the Triton-insoluble actin filaments in trace amounts only, and only after high speed centrifugation (100,000 x g, 3 h).
(20) Elastic fibers have been shown to contain two proteins, insoluble elastin and the elastic fiber microfibril, a glycoprotein.