(a.) Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The architecture of the aortic wall is highly organized, for adaptation to changes of blood pressure.
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(4) In order to identify these anchorage structures, the non-DNA materials that remain firmly bound to chromosomal DNA under conditions that disintegrate the high salt-stable architecture of nuclei were investigated.
(5) The B-cell origin of this tumor was determined by its histological architecture, by immunophenotypic analysis, and by Southern analysis of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements.
(6) Review of the traditional medical hierarchy and its legal implications, architecture of health institutions, medical records systems, and the selection of medical students are other areas for specific attention.
(7) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(8) Our results indicated that sleep architecture differed from controls in that wakefulness, slow-wave sleep [SWS-stage 3 and 4 nonrapid eye movement (NREM) sleep] and stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep were more evenly dispersed throughout the night.
(9) Rowan Moore is architecture critic of the Observer Conran retrospective, New Review page 36
(10) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(11) An age and prevalence study of the categorized disc showed that, with age, the disc undergoes an architectural transformation from WD through IM to ID.
(12) The architecture of this study was designed to be simple, effective, and repeatable with minimal complications.
(13) The architecture of the tumour margin is an essential feature for the histological diagnosis of certain neoplasms.
(14) We have developed the DUNE (Diagnostic Understanding of Natural Events) system architecture that organizes the knowledge around processing structures.
(15) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(16) But while the duchess was surrounded by obstetricians and midwives, Natalie was at home with just her husband, Peter, an architectural technician, and a doula by her side.
(17) We first present a model of the functional architecture of the cognitive calculation system based on previous research.
(18) In the former group the changes observed were mucosal oedema with acute inflammation of varying severity but with preservation of the crypt architecture.
(19) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
(20) True to her interest in art and architecture, Prada has set up a foundation to promote art exhibitions and off-the-wall projects like the Prada Transformer – a building by architect Rem Koolhaas in Seoul which changes shape depending on its function.
Lotus
Definition:
(n.) A name of several kinds of water lilies; as Nelumbium speciosum, used in religious ceremonies, anciently in Egypt, and to this day in Asia; Nelumbium luteum, the American lotus; and Nymphaea Lotus and N. caerulea, the respectively white-flowered and blue-flowered lotus of modern Egypt, which, with Nelumbium speciosum, are figured on its ancient monuments.
(n.) The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.
(n.) The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.
(n.) A genus (Lotus) of leguminous plants much resembling clover.
(n.) An ornament much used in Egyptian architecture, generally asserted to have been suggested by the Egyptian water lily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paraffin sections were stained both chemically and with the following horseradish-peroxidase conjugated lectins: Canavalia ensiformis (Con-A), Limulus polyphemus (LPA), Lotus tetragonolobus (LTA), Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Ricinus communis (RCA1), Glycine max (SBA) and Triticum vulgaris (WGA).
(2) There was another accident on the first lap when Pastor Maldonado’s Lotus got squeezed into the barriers following a minor collision between the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen.
(3) The lectins were derived from Lotus tetragonolobus, Glycine max, Dolichos biflorus, and Arachis hypogaea.
(4) He was given the Soviet Union's Lotus prize in 1969, and the Lenin peace prize in 1983.
(5) These experiments therefore conclusively show that high concentrations of condensed tannin induced by growing Lotus pedunculatus under low soil fertility conditions prevent maximum expression of LWG and wool growth in grazing sheep.
(6) · In the early 1990s, television news programmes featured clips of advanced TM practitioners, known as yogic flyers, apparently hovering off the ground while sitting in the lotus position.
(7) Apical membrane fraction could be also evidenced by autofluorescence or by labeling with Lotus tetragonolobus lectin.
(8) The translation of mainframe-stored information in ASCII into spreadsheet format for use in Lotus 1-2-3 is explained.
(9) The lectins Laburnum alpinum and Lotus tetragonolobus were not inhibited by either the aqueous or butanol phase extracts.
(10) Rhizobium loti NZP2037 and NZP2213, each cured of its single large indigenous plasmid, formed effective nodules on Lotus spp., suggesting that the symbiotic genes are carried on the chromosome of these strains.
(11) Another glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 175 kD was recognized by Lotus in the normal membrane preparation but not in the dystrophic RPE membrane preparation.
(12) But I'm sure I could get someone to cover them up with the psychiatric equivalent of even bigger tattoos, perhaps in the shape of lotus flowers or a mosaic of beatific smiles.
(13) Furthermore, increases in lotus-extractable API in the pretreated sera are also associated with a poor response to chemotherapy.
(14) When he added his Lotus to the policy he used the same provider.
(15) Histochemical techniques utilizing Tetragonolobus lotus (proximal tubules), Arachis hypogaea (distal nephron, i.e., distal convoluted tubules and collecting ducts), and antibodies against Tamm-Horsfall protein (thick ascending limbs of Henle) were used to determine the site of origin of renal cysts in five children with autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease (ARPKD) and three patients with glomerulocystic disease (GCD) presenting in the 1st year of life.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lotus root stir-fry Arugam Bay on the east coast is known for its world-class waves – but I love it for the lotus stir-fry, which I first tried many years ago at family-run Samanthi’s Restaurant (077 175 9620) a stone’s throw from the beach in Main Point Road.
(17) Lotus fed to two of the groups was sprayed with low and high rates of polyethylene glycol (PEG; molecular weight 3350), which specifically binds the condensed tannins (CT).
(18) Thus they may be classified with the Cytisus sessilifolius, Lotus tetragonolobus and Laburnum alpinum lectins which are inhibited by lactose but not by H blood group substances in secretions.
(19) Expression of binding sites for fucose binding proteins (FBP) of Lotus tetragonolobus were immunohistochemically analyzed in surgically extirpated specimens from patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder.
(20) Click here to view In the film, Bond drives his Lotus off a pier into the ocean as he tries to evade a pursuing helicopter.