(v. t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.
(v. t.) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime.
(v. t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
(v. t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
(v. i.) To tarry; to rest.
(v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development.
(v. t.) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant.
(v. t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral.
(v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(2) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(4) The differences might be due to an arrest of "specialization" in the regional expression of the different MHC isoforms.
(5) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(6) The results indicated that the role of contact inhibition phenomena in arresting cellular proliferation was diminished in perfusion system environments.
(7) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
(8) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
(9) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(10) The calcium entry blocker nimodipine was administered to cats following resuscitation from 18 min of cardiac arrest to evaluate its effect on neurologic and neuropathologic outcome in a clinically relevant model of complete cerebral ischemia.
(11) We measured 1,2-DG content and PKC activity in TSH-deprived growth-arrested cells when TSH was readded.
(12) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(13) Of the 88 evening-shift cardiac arrests during this time, one specific nurse (Nurse 14) was the care giver for 57 (65%).
(14) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
(15) The arrest of the Washington Post’s Tehran correspondent Jason Rezaian and his journalist wife, Yeganeh Salehi, as well as a photographer and her partner, is a brutal reminder of the distance between President Hassan Rouhani’s reforming promises and his willingness to act.
(16) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(17) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
(18) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(19) Moreover, complete absence of rhythm disturbances right up to the beginning of cardiac arrest was as frequent in the patient groups as in the control series (around 20%).
(20) Thus, the decreased hyperemic response after arrest suggests a reduced energetic debt with CSC compared with ARC and may indicate superior myocardial protection with CSC.
Nab
Definition:
(n.) The summit of an eminence.
(n.) The cock of a gunlock.
(n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
(v. t.) To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
(2) The frequency of antigen-reactive NAbs was about half the frequency of antigen-reactive antibodies found among the BlAbs.
(3) To answer this, we measured the effect of the differentiation inducer sodium butyrate (NaB, 1 mM) on proliferation, insulin content, secretion and biosynthesis, and the expression of A2B5 and 3G5 gangliosides by the sublines.
(4) Spindle pole bodies, arising by duplication of the NAB at the beginning of mitosis, are unstructured foci for spindle microtubules in mitotic cells.
(5) Forty-six of 63 aspirates from malignant tumors were correctly diagnosed by NAB, establishing a sensitivity at 73%.
(6) 38% of the administered radioactivity represent unchanged NAB 365 in the urine, whereas there are 45% in the plasma.
(7) Fifty-nine neonates with herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection were evaluated with use of assays for neutralizing antibody (NAb), lymphocyte transformation (LT), alpha interferon production, and virus-specific antibody (immunoblots).
(8) By day 2, AlGh, m5F, A12, A13 and AhGh cells exposed to NaB contained 1.5-, 1.4-, 1.4-, 1.2- and 1.0-fold higher amounts of insulin, respectively, and by day 6, 3.6-, 2.3- and 1.0-fold higher, and 1.2- and 2.4-fold lower, amounts of insulin, respectively, than control cells.
(9) Although their frequency was higher, tumors initiated during the period of LPS-induced NR abrogation exhibited greater reductions in NAb binding and sensitivity to NR than tumors from control mice.
(10) NaB, in contrast, produced considerable biochemical and morphologic differentiation along the enterocyte maturation pathway.
(11) Seven days after lesioning the NAB, sham operated controls and NAB-X lesioned animals were divided into 4 groups and submitted to 4 different stressors, i.e.
(12) These data suggest that treatment of some malignancies with combinations of RA with HMBA or NaB may maintain differentiation-inducing effects and decrease the problems associated with the achievement and maintenance of effective plasma concentrations as single agents.
(13) The effectiveness of alpha-mercapto-beta-(2-furyl)acrylic acid (MFA) and N-benzyl-N-dithiocarboxy-D-glucamine (NaB), used in combination, in the mobilization and excretion of lead was investigated in rats.
(14) The effect of sodium butyrate (NaB) alone and in combination with a glucocorticoid was studied on Y-79 retinoblastoma cells both in vitro and in vivo.
(15) In the presence of daunorubicin or N-substituted daunorubicin analogues, 3H-NAB-daunorubicin photolabeling of the 18.3-kDa polypeptide was inhibited.
(16) NAB II cells showed morphological alterations characteristic of herpes infection.
(17) The capital raising will see NAB issue 194 million new shares, which is around 8% of its issued capital, at $28.50 each.
(18) During the 24-month observation period 2 of 80 (3%) HIV-1(+) NAb(+) individuals progressed to AIDS and died, as compared to 5 of 21 (24%) of HIV-1(+) NAb(-) subjects who progressed to AIDS.
(19) Sodium butyrate (NaB), a 4-carbon fatty acid, has been reported to activate the metallothionein (MT) gene in certain carcinoma cell lines.
(20) Flat revertants of v-ras-transformed (KNRK) rat kidney cells, which express elevated levels of p21ras protein, were generated to high efficiencies with sodium butyrate (NaB).