(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.
Spectre
Definition:
(n.) Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.
(n.) The tarsius.
(n.) A stick insect.
(n.) See Specter.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what President Carter did when he raised the spectre of terminating US military assistance if Israel did not immediately evacuate Lebanon in September 1977.
(2) Ketoconazole does not affect the quality of fatty acids spectre, it changes only the size of the relative distribution of individual fatty acids.
(3) RPC wrote back the next day saying Ashley was in the US and complained that the official had mentioned the prospect of a formal summons for Ashley: “Raising the spectre of a summons, in circumstances where our client has already volunteered the chairman as a witness to assist the committee and we are now liaising over availability, is, in our client’s view, inappropriate.” In the email, RPC said Hellawell was no longer available on 4 March but was now free on 25 March.
(4) So it’s comforting to note that Spectre seems to be offering a significant upgrade: the trailer shows Q introducing Bond to his new ultra-speedy Aston Martin DB10, and promising it boasts a “few tricks”.
(5) On the back of euro exit fears, the spectre of bank runs and capital flight has resurfaced.
(6) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(7) Imran Khan, the cricketer turned politician, hosted the event, where Ridley, who also now does human rights work, said: "I call her the 'grey lady' because she is almost a ghost, a spectre whose cries and screams continue to haunt those who heard her."
(8) Though with the help of the modern radiological investigation methods the proof of a tumour is frequently successful, so in special cases a coordination to organs may make great difficulties also when the total diagnostic spectre is used.
(9) So the question with Spectre is, can they repeat that trick?
(10) The laboratory diagnostic spectre in diseases of the kidneys and the urinary bladder is demonstrated in form of a 3-step-programme.
(11) Photograph: Mondadori via Getty Images Because that decade was scarred by multiple evils, the phrase can be used to conjure up serial spectres.
(12) Philip Newman, research director in precious metals at Thomson Reuters GFMS, said that with the spectre of 1920s hyperinflation haunting Germans, the last two years have seen strong growth in the number of smaller investors buying gold bars and coins.
(13) On Friday, at the end of a week which saw the spectre of bankruptcy loom large over the ancient capital, the Italian government said it had approved a last-minute decree that would give an urgently-needed injection of funds to the city, thus staving off imminent disaster.
(14) Apart from the increasing investigation frequency, a constant dilatation of the diagnostic spectre and improved quality control of structural conditions must be taken into consideration.
(15) They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand – with the spectre of Syria and Iran before us."
(16) Professor Laura Piddock, of the University of Birmingham's School of Immunity and Infection, called for action to counter the "spectre of untreatable infections".
(17) Cameron also knows that the Commons standards committee met yesterday to decide how severely to admonish a Tory former shadow minister, Patrick Mercer, for breaking parliamentary rules, raising the spectre of more sleaze to come.
(18) Immunoserology and immunohistology are nowadays to be regarded as the most important enrichments in the diagnostic spectre for the differentiation of chronic inflammatory liver diseases.
(19) The latest film sees Bond travel from Mexico to the Sahara desert, Italy and the Austrian Alps in pursuit of SPECTRE – an acronym for Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion – the sinister organisation intent on world domination.
(20) If commissioners cannot design care pathways free from the spectre of lawsuits from private providers, they will hand over to commercial commissioners prepared to take the rap.