(n.) Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
(n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life events were collected (using the Bedford College method) in 78 women patients aged 15-40 yr, of whom 39 were admitted for the removal of an appendix which proved to be normal at operation and in whom no organic cause for their pain was found, and a matched group of 39 parasuicide patients.
(2) The age distribution for Caulobacter cells in an exponential population has been calculated (Appendix by Robert Tax) and used to analyze some of the results.
(3) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(4) Pathologic examination revealed no endometriosis, but examination of the distal appendix showed structural disorganization of its entire wall, with lack of proper differentiation of its normal coats and irregular overgrowth of fibroadipose, fibromuscular, and neural elements.
(5) The appendix or appendix stump was visualised on 53% of the barium examinations.
(6) This study reports eight patients who underwent appendicectomy between 1978 and 1986 for apparently isolated, previously undiagnosed Crohn's disease of the appendix.
(7) The appendix of the laryngeal ventricle courses superiorly between the laryngeal vestibule and the thyroid cartilage which differentiates this normal structure from ulcerations and fistulous tracts of laryngeal tumors.
(8) We report on a 47-year-old man with a granular cell tumour of the appendix, discovered incidentally during surgery for a rectal adenocarcinoma that had been irradiated preoperatively.
(9) A mathematical model for Mab binding and inactivation of nuclease, taking into account multiple binding events for one or two Mabs interacting with nuclease, was used to derive affinities and maximum reductions of the enzymatic rate (details on the derivation of the equations and on the hypotheses of the model are given in an appendix).
(10) All patients with partial filling of the appendix had appendicitis.
(11) In another patient, the diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa was established after a retrospective identification of one additional site of arteritis in the appendix removed 5 years prior to cholecystectomy.
(12) The relationships between thermodynamic quantities in a quaternary system of electrolytes are discussed in Appendix 2.
(13) All T1's were determined within 30-60 min of removal of the appendix at operation.
(14) It corresponds well with the working of the normal human appendix as regards tissue type and characteristics.
(15) Two of the six cases showed pseudoinvasion of the appendix and in a further case the appendix had perforated with extrusion of a misplaced neoplasm.
(16) The arterial blood supply, position, and length of the appendix were studied 103 Zambian cadavers.
(17) Pertinent data regarding the fate and transport of PCNB in air could not be located in the available literature as cited in the Appendix.
(18) The final pathologic report was a cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix.
(19) Thus it is important to distinguish between cystic neoplasms (cystadenomas) and non-neoplastic retention cysts of the appendix.
(20) A subpopulation of appendix sIg-negative, RTLA-negative cells has a relatively high concentration of RT2.
Tailpiece
Definition:
(n.) A piece at the end; an appendage.
(n.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.
(n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
(n.) A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1H-NMR spectroscopy has been used to study the conformation and dynamics of the isolated tailpiece from human serum immunoglobulin M, a 22-residue peptide containing a single asparagine glycosylation site.
(2) A Ser-rich tailpiece (residues 1918-1938) is apparently nonhelical.
(3) The tailpiece sequence thus has profound effects on assembly, yet it is apparently unstructured and can be bisected without affecting its function.
(4) The other wing, and the plane's tailpiece, hang limp and useless.
(5) The anti-NF-L tailpiece antibody recognized only a limited number of sites along native NFs, but labeled reconstituted NF-L homopolymers uniformly and heavily.
(6) A centrally located highly alpha-helical domain of about 310 residues well-conserved in sequence principles and length is flanked by the highly variable sequences of the non-alpha-helical headpiece and tailpiece.
(7) The cell line is X63.653 transfected with the mu gene, whose tailpiece sequence was replaced with the transmembrane sequence of human EGF receptor to hold mu on the cell surface and whose CH1 sequence was removed to prevent mu from being retained in the endoplasmic reticulum.
(8) Our findings indicate that whereas anti-IFA recognizes the highly conserved rod domain, all the NF-specific antibodies, as well as Bodian's silver, react with the carboxy-terminal tailpiece of NF subunits.
(9) The sequence consolidates the structural principle in which an amino-terminal tailpiece of variable length is followed by a core built from four internally homologous segments for those proteins in the 35-40 kd range.
(10) Things have come on: the tailpiece and fins are now in place and the other wing has been unfurled.
(11) This suggests that the NF-L tailpiece extension is relatively inaccessible in native filaments, but is accessible in reconstituted homopolymers.
(12) We have also generated polyclonal antibodies against this peptide and attempted to localize this portion of the tailpiece along desmin IFs by immunological procedures.
(13) The actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity of myosin II from Acanthamoeba castellanii is regulated by phosphorylation of 3 serines in its 29-residue, nonhelical, COOH-terminal tailpiece, i.e., serines-1489, -1494, and -1499 or, in reverse order, residues 11, 16, and 21 from the COOH terminus.
(14) These results suggest that at least 18 of the 29 residues in the nonhelical tailpiece of the heavy chain are not required for either actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity or filament formation and that phosphorylation of Ser-1489 is sufficient to regulate the actin-activated Mg2(+)-ATPase activity of myosin II.
(15) The protease-sensitive tailpiece of protein II is very short and lacks the phosphorylatable tyrosine present in the larger tail domains of p36 and p35.
(16) Antibodies directed against the tailpiece extensions of NF-H and NF-M labeled the sidearms of native NFs and reconstituted filaments containing those two polypeptides, but not the backbone of the filaments.
(17) Thus, a +1 change in the C-terminal region of the albumin molecule produces a variant with the same electrophoretic mobility as an alloalbumin with a +2 substitution in the central domain, suggesting a higher degree of exposure to the solvent of the C-terminal tailpiece.
(18) A unique non-helical tailpiece composed of 72 amino acid residues marks the C-terminus of this neuronal myosin isoform.
(19) They were truncated at various restriction sites and expressed in Escherichia coli, yielding a series of mutant myosin rods with or without the COOH-terminal tailpiece and with serial deletions from their NH2-termini.
(20) Antibodies against a synthetic peptide corresponding to the 21 adjacent amino acids at the beginning of the non-helical tailpiece, which include the three regulatory phosphorylatable serines, had no effect on either activity.