(n.) A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.
(n.) One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful.
(n.) A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (A. giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species A. Grayi inhabits Borneo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier studies identified purinergic chemoreceptors in the olfactory organ of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus.
(2) Despite Antarctica's simultaneous warming and cooling phenomena, the second lowest temperatures ever measured on Earth was recorded in July at Dome Argus in the centre of the Antarctic plateau.
(3) The control of the cardiovascular system with particular emphasis on the regulation of blood distribution in the gills and air-breathing organ was studied in the air-breathing teleost Channa argus.
(4) A team of 750 military personnel setting off from Cornwall to help tackle Ebola in Sierra Leone in the Royal Navy hospital ship Argus will be banned from shore leave during its three-month deployment and medical staff will take their temperature twice a day, according to its captain, David Eagles.Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $25m (£16m) to the CDC Foundation to help address the Ebola epidemic.
(5) The olfactory system of the Florida spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, has olfactory receptors that are excited by the purine nucleotides AMP, ADP, and ATP.
(6) The authors arguse against the hypothesis that the activated astrocytes are the result of attacks.
(7) She also said that Trinity's regional newspaper operation was "certainly holding its own", claiming it had outperformed rival Newsquest - which publishes 17 UK daily paid-for titles including the Brighton Argus, the Northern Echo and the Scottish national newspaper the Herald - and reported results two weeks ago .
(8) Its headteacher, Sarah Clayton, told local paper the Argus that children had designed healthy snacks and learned about the effects of sugar.
(9) One major form of cytochrome P450 has been isolated from the hepatopancreas of untreated spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus.
(10) Sheath structure and permeability have been studied in the nerve fibres of lobster (Panulirus argus) walking limbs, in particular the individually ensheathed larger giant fibres, 100-150 microns in diameter, of which there are five or six in a peripheral bundle.
(11) RFA Argus has a fully-equipped hospital including critical care and high-dependency units, and will be sent to Sierra Leone along with three Merlin helicopters.
(12) The olfactory organ of the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, is composed of chemosensory sensilla containing the dendrites of primary chemosensory neurons.
(13) Light produced is measured with a very sensitive photon counting camera system (Argus-100), allowing the visualization and localization of the specifically bound alkaline phosphatase on nitrocellulose sheets.
(14) If they’d be working, we wouldn’t have this problem,” an older man said towards the cameraman for Argus Streaming News .
(15) The Florida spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, can behaviorally discriminate between members of a set of four artificial odorant mixture types: crab, mullet, oyster, and shrimp.
(16) But Newsquest, which publishes 17 UK daily paid-for titles including the Brighton Argus, the Northern Echo and the Scottish national newspaper the Herald, said that June was its strongest month since the ad slump took hold.
(17) The Argus sleeve prompted Jimmy Page to invite Hipgnosis to create artwork for Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy (1973), and they responded with an image of strange naked children crawling over rocks.
(18) Lessing's previous works of science fiction, the Canopus In Argus Archives series (sample titles: The Making Of The Representative For Planet 8 and Documents Relating To The Sentimental Agents In The Volyen Empire) were met with horror by some critics, who regarded her switch from "real" literature to the geek market as a sort of brain fever.
(19) Newsquest , which publishes 17 UK daily paid-for titles including the Brighton Argus, the Northern Echo and Scottish newspaper the Herald, reported a 60.0% year-on-year slump in revenue from property ads, a fall of 51.4% from employment ads, and a slide of 43.2% from car ads.
(20) 1-14C-n-hexadecane, a model compound for the non-volatile aliphatic hydrocarbon components of crude oil, was administered by intrapericardial injection to the spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, and the clawed or American lobster, Homarus americanus.
Observant
Definition:
(a.) Taking notice; viewing or noticing attentively; watchful; attentive; as, an observant spectator; observant habits.
(a.) Submissively attentive; obediently watchful; regardful; mindful; obedient (to); -- with of, as, to be observant of rules.
(n.) One who observes forms and rules.
(n.) A sycophantic servant.
(n.) An Observantine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
(3) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
(4) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(5) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(6) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(7) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
(8) For this reason, these observations should not be disregarded.
(9) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(10) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
(11) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
(12) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(13) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(14) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(15) No reaction product was observed in the lamellar areas.
(16) Cyanoacrylate and PDS coatings were not detectable after 6 weeks while PHBA and PLLA coatings were still observed after 48 weeks.
(17) A total of 13 ascertainments of folate sensitive autosomal fragile sites is observed, of which 10q23 fragility appears to be the most frequent.
(18) This new observation offers good possibilities to study the metabolism of tryptophan at the cellular level.
(19) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
(20) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).