(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.
Wraith
Definition:
(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
(2) Sales were boosted by strong orders for the Ghost Series II introduced in November and the Wraith, which has had its first full year of sales.
(3) BMW reports: Rolls-Royce continues to see strong customer demand for Wraith, significant orders for the recently announced Ghost Series II and good demand for the Phantom family of cars across the world.
(4) The tread of feet in the roads was dulled, and horses and guns moved like wraiths in the swirling mist.
(5) The new Rolls-Royce Wraith has been a stunning success in the super-luxury segment, setting new modern style and technology leadership benchmarks.
(6) Instead, he’s looking more like a man destined to return to Madison with a wad of Delta Sky Miles to haunt the capitol tunnels, a wraith occasionally seizing hapless passersby at underground crossroads and demanding they tell him if they’ve seen Ronald Reagan, what causes male-pattern baldness and how big Canada is.
(7) They hovered just above 3% today and could drop to 2.5% in coming months, said Wraith.
(8) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "children's blood".
(9) Carroll was reported in today's Daily Star to have sent texts to Steve Wraith, editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, claiming he felt he had being forced out of the club.
(10) A model poses with a Rolls-Royce Wraith limousine during the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition this year.
(11) Rolls-Royce manufacturers the Wraith, Ghost and Phantom, its top-of-the-range model.
(12) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "Children's Blood".
(13) A synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 365-380 of the influenza nucleoprotein (NP365-380) has been previously shown to associate with class I major histocompatibility complex-encoded molecules and to stimulate cytotoxic T lymphocytes [Townsend, A. R. M., Rothbard, J., Gotch, F. M., Bahadur, G., Wraith, D. & McMichael, A. J.
(14) It sells more cars worth over £150,000 than any other manufacturer, and last year launched the Dawn, a convertible based on the Wraith.
(15) Last year was good for carmakers in the UK too – Rolls-Royce, albeit owned by BMW, sold more Wraiths, Ghosts and Phantoms around the world than at any time since it was founded more than a century ago.
(16) The conscious patients watch me warily as if I am some sort of wraith.
(17) Carroll's comments back up the content of texts he sent to friend and editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, Steve Wraith, as the transfer saga unfolded last night.
(18) Demand was high for Phantom and Ghost Rolls-Royce cars, and orders were strong for the new Wraith model, BMW said.
(19) They, of course, have benefitted as the stimulus measures from central banks push up asset prices [ source: the Bank of England ] If you fancy a Wraith, prices begin at around £230,320 .
(20) John Wraith of RBC Capital Markets expects the rally in the gilt market to continue for some time, although it will become a more "gradual rally".