(n.) The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
(n.) The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
(n.) An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom.
(n.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Richard arose as himself again, a dreadful apparition cavorting.
(2) It seems to be very likely that the apparition of these secondary tumors is due to the failure of the shole defence systems of the body, favoured by the relative long survical of these patients and the surgical opening of the brain envelops.
(3) (ii) The male liver, offering, an ideal experimental control of "zero" background, we followed-in the liver of male trout--the kinetics of induction of Vg mRNA by hybridization with Vg cDNA, after E2 stimulation, and (iii) the apparition of Vg in the serum by using an original rocket immuno-electrophoretic technique.
(4) The apparition of cyclosporine, immunodepressive drug, has largely improved the organ transplantations.
(5) The BLEL could be considered as the pseudotumoral form of an isolated GS which could be completed after many years with the apparition of auto anti-bodies.
(6) All these factors influence the apparition of adjustment difficulties or disorders.
(7) The diminution of NK activity during the preleukemic period could favour preleukemic cells apparition.
(8) When H antigen is absent on the O red blood cells, there is no apparition of new I and i antigenic sites.
(9) Furthermore, several points deserve attention such as apparition of teeth (21 weeks), calcaneum (24 weeks).
(10) We report a case in which the late apparition of arterial hypertension expressed as an acute aortic coarctation syndrome pointed out the diagnosis.
(11) The phantom kidney is a "kidney-like" apparition which may be seen in dynamic renal scintigraphy typically in post-nephrectomy patients or in patients with unilateral renal agenesis.
(12) A correlation between the ovary stages and apparition, number and ultrastructural aspects (paracrystalline arrangement) of the inclusions is established.
(13) The time of apparition of the first outline, as a derivative of the roof of the third ventricle, was fixed at 3 days.
(14) Signs suggestive of thrombosis were inconsistant and the diagnosis was made on the association of severl of the following features: -- systemic embolism (44%); -- radiographic signs of left ventricular failure (51%); -- absence of opening click, variable A2 -- opening click intervals, apparition or aggravation of a systolic regurgitant murmur or a distolic murmur suggestive of obstruction on the phonocardiogramme; -- delayed opening of the mobile component or the presence of abnormal echos between the ball and anterior cage echo on the echocardiogramme; -- a gradient of over 12 mmHg across the prosthesis.
(15) Among these factors, straw bedding quantity seems to be the more important one: a low quantity of straw, even in herds where prophylaxis against mastitis is largely used (teat dipping, dry cow therapy, disinfection), is a favouring factor for apparition of mastitis just after calving.
(16) The absence of ER in normal skin appendages suggests that its apparition is a feature of specialized differentiation of breast epithelium.
(17) After the apparition of bulbar signs ans cachexia she died at 45.
(18) With early detection, new therapies for the prevention of the disease could be experimented on the higher risk women before the apparition of clinical symptoms or signs.
(19) The hyoid bone plays a role in speech articulation and may have been a factor in its apparition.
(20) Nevertheless, the prolongation of hemodialysis treatment duration over 7 years has led to the apparition of destructive arthropathies which are very painful and handicapping.
Specter
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Spectre
Example Sentences:
(1) The "graying" of America has riveted the attention of policy makers in the United States on the potential specter of an excess population of sick, poor, disabled, aged Americans.
(2) State officials there have said a pharmacy supplying execution drugs received an email in January that raised the specter of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed more than 160 people.
(3) 'The things about him that I wish ...' Specter goes on, a little awkwardly.
(4) Perhaps more significantly, after the slight summer wobble that had raised the specter of last year’s collapse on the run-in, the Sounders have secured a playoff spot, and could achieve a further boost to their long-term ambitions when they play Philadelphia in the US Open Cup final this week – giving them a possible early route back to the Champions League.
(5) In-hospital resuscitation focuses on an aggressive team approach, raising the specter that some patients who have little chance of survival may receive protracted, but futile, resuscitation efforts.
(6) Unilateral hearing loss raises the specter of acoustic neuroma.
(7) With just over four months left before Americans heads to the polls, the specter of the general election hung heavily over the summit.
(8) That raised the specter of the intelligence committee, which is charged with overseeing the NSA, withholding information from members elected in the 2010 election, when many libertarian and Tea Party Republicans uncomfortable with government power – like Amash – won office.
(9) Clinically, these cases demonstrated signs or symptoms of autoimmune dysfunction, raising the specter of primary cerebral vasculopathy as a cause of cerebral infarction, in contrast to recurrent cerebral emboli.
(10) I tell Specter how proudly Remnick told me of his triumph in the Hackathlon, and that I wondered afterwards what he meant by extolling such bare-faced bad writing.
(11) On a conscious level, these patients may have pessimistic views of the future, including the specter of imminent death, which, for some, is a real possibility.
(12) The combined changes (specters of isoenzymes of intracellular and extracellular pectatelyase, protein composition of periplasm and outer membrane) in the cells of E. chrysanthemi ENA49 from the periodical culture growing on the inducer containing medium have been studied.
(13) (Specter and Gladwell are both old friends of Remnick's from the Washington Post, and both now colleagues at the New Yorker.)
(14) How far have the courts in these cases extended the Tarasoff duty to protect and is the specter of strict liability real or imagined?
(15) That line becomes the unstated mantra of season two, in which Penny Dreadful streamlines into a surprisingly heartfelt meditation on remorse, solitude, personal demons and the remote, hazy specter of deliverance.
(16) Not a single Republican in either chamber voted for it – and neither did the Republican defector Specter.
(17) To quote Grantland's Charles Pierce's "A Commissioner's Legacy," a necessary corrective to some of the warmer and fuzzier reactions to Stern's departure: The specter of the days when the NBA was thought to be “too black” never has been far from his decision to knuckle Allen Iverson about rap music and to create and enforce a silly dress code that was applauded by great swaths of the nation’s boring people, and to make a buck off the softer side of hip-hop culture while remaining terrified of its tougher precincts.
(18) Boehner and his staff gamely tried to fend off both the specter of a shutdown and a leadership challenge from his caucus’ more belligerent culture warriors – as late as yesterday, a Boehner spokesman was assuring the press that the battle-tested speaker “wasn’t going anywhere.” No doubt, however, that a cursory look at the long train of sober spiritual leaders in his caucus lining up to deliver pointless CSPAN tantrums over the outrages of science prompted the longtime Ohio Congressman to mutter some variant of Good Lord, not this again together with a few well-chosen profanities for good measure.
(19) Trump also warned of the specter of voter fraud without evidence, revisiting accusations he first made in August that there would be voter fraud in “certain areas” of Pennsylvania, a statement that was a clear dog-whistle about African American areas of Philadelphia.
(20) The picks ultimately raise the specter that Trump’s administration could be more conventional than many had anticipated, following Trump’s repeated pledges to “drain the swamp.” In fact, Puzder has even been attacked by a number of Trump allies, including Breitbart, for his past support of immigration reform.