(n.) A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include the Francoist slogan "Arriba España" and the yoke-and-arrows symbol of the far right Falange, whose members killed the women.
(2) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(3) In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow.
(4) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.
(5) An arrow poison prepared by traditional methods from Acokanthera schimperi in the Maasai plains of Kenya was shown to contain acolongifloroside K as its major active principle, as well as smaller amounts of ouabain and acovenoside A.
(6) Added meaning was given to the design copy task through the use of stimulus figures that were representational of familiar objects--an arrow, a house, and a face.
(7) In Experiment 1, arrow cues were located centrally, near the fixation point.
(8) It’s a bit of a trek to get there: a few kilometres drive along a dirt road and then a short walk, with arrows painted on stones.
(9) Six edentulous patients were each provided with two complete dentures and the relation of the jaws to each other was determined by means of both the conventional checkbite and a combined Gerber arrow-angle registration.
(10) Conservationists and politicians have called on the EU to ban the import of lion heads, paws and skins as hunters’ trophies from African countries that cannot prove their lion populations are sustainable, following the killing of Zimbabwe’s most famous lion by a European hunter with a bow and arrow.
(11) After Branislav Ivanovic and Markovic had squandered decent chances, Kolarov doubled Serbia's lead with a 25-yard shot that arrowed into the top corner.
(12) Here, then, is Draghinomics' second arrow: to reduce the drag on growth from fiscal consolidation while maintaining lower deficits and greater debt sustainability.
(13) To help distinguish between these competing interpretations, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded to lateralized flashes delivered to visual field locations precued by a central arrow (valid stimuli) or not precued (invalid stimuli).
(14) Of these devices, the most widely used external central venous catheters include: the Davol (Hickman, Broviac, Leonard catheters, Arrow-Howes multi-lumen catheters, and the Groshong that requires no heparinization.
(15) This study examined the relationships between postural sway, aiming time, the cardiac cycle time and the placement of the first finger movement within the electrocardiac cycle, with the quality of the arrow shot.
(16) These villains have limited aspirations, and the man in the white hat has a limited arsenal of era-appropriate weaponry: a gun, a bow and arrow, a few grenades, maybe even a tank.
(17) With an exquisite “no look” pass, Fuchs delivered the ball Vardy arrowed beyond David de Gea to score for the 11th successive Premier League match .
(18) Two commercially available immunofluorescence monoclonal antibody (MAB) reagents (Bartels, Baxter Healthcare, Issaquah, WA; and Symex, Broken Arrow, OK) were evaluated as a means for detecting parainfluenza virus (PIV) both in shell-vial cultures and directly in clinical specimens.
(19) In the color condition the respective stimuli were a pair of solid red circles, four white paired-arrows, and a pair of white plus and minus signs.
(20) The design of the tube was the only factor found to be a significant determinant of the extrusion of the tube, although the experience of the surgeon affected the extrusion rate of the Arrow tube.
Inee
Definition:
(n.) An arrow poison, made from an apocynaceous plant (Strophanthus hispidus) of the Gaboon country; -- called also onaye.
Example Sentences:
(1) [35S]Cyst(e)ine activity was detected in the faeces, but not in plasma or wool.
(2) Analysis of urine and various organs for free amino acids also failed to detect homocyst(e)ine or the thiolactone.
(3) In the present studies, the metabolic flux through each of these pathways was quantitated in vivo by monitoring the formation of respiratory 14CO2 in mice administered L-[1-14C]- or L-[3-14C]cyst(e)ine.
(4) Taurine was long considered an end product of the metabolism of the sulfur-containing amino acids, methionine and cyst(e)ine.
(5) Six thiols were assessed for their ability to increase the uptake of L-cyst(e)ine and its utilization for glutathione synthesis.
(6) Brain cortex, hippocampus, and stem samples were dissected, processed, and analyzed specifically for reduced and oxidized glutathione (GSH, GSSG) and cyst(e)ine using high performance liquid chromatography with dual electrochemical detection.
(7) In cell culture, the RPMI renal cell tumor contained unusually high uninduced levels of sperm(id)ine N1-acetyltransferase, a potential source of N1AS.
(8) Cyst(e)ine appeared to be as sensitive as lysine to reactions with lipid oxidation products.
(9) Tissue culture cell ines which have been established from human and mouse rectal and colon tumours are described.
(10) Its action does not appear to be by interference with the repressive control exerted over these enzymes by cyst(e)ine.
(11) Synthesis of the latter enzyme is repressed by growth on l-cyst(e)ine and other sulphur compounds.
(12) We suggest that one can use the urinary excretion of pseudouridine, N2,N2-dimethylguan(os)ine and 7-methylguanine to assess the whole-body turnover rates in man of rRNA, tRNA and mRNA, respectively.
(13) In addition to being oxidized to sulfate, some of the sulfite formed by enterocytes reacted with cyst(e)ine in the incubation medium to form sulfocysteine.
(14) We have studied the uptake of photopolymerized multilamellar vesicles composed of bis(1,2(methacryloyloxy)dodecanoyl)-L-alpha-phosphatidylchol ine (DPL) by mouse peritoneal macrophages in vitro.
(15) In this work we have applied a kinetic scheme derived from fluorescence kinetics of pyrene-labeled phosphatidylcholine in phosphatidylcholine membrane to explain the fluorescence quenching of 1-palmitoyl-2-(10-[pyrenl-yl]-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylchol ine (PPDPC) liposomes by tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ).
(16) Such mutants have no detectable intracellular cyst(e)ine when starved of sulphur.
(17) At Hospital A, postoperative ventilation was routinely planned in 36 patients who received two intravenous lines, an arterial ine, and a Foley catheter.
(18) In conclusion, 2-mercaptoethanol-dependent INS-1 cells, as well as RINm5F cells and islets of Langerhans, display a low capacity in maintaining intracellular levels of GSH in tissue culture without extracellular thiol supplementation; 2-mercaptoethanol possibly acts by promoting cyst(e)ine transport; changes in GSH levels caused a moderate effect on the differentiated function of insulin-secreting cells.
(19) Cyst(e)ine residues were also characterized in the different components [PLP (principal proteolipid protein), DM20 and LMW (low-Mr proteins)] of the proteolipid preparation.
(20) Patients with elevated plasma homocyst(e)ine were more likely to demonstrate clinical progression of lower extremity disease and of coronary artery disease, but not of cerebral vascular disease than were patients with normal plasma homocyst(e)ine, and the rate of progression was more rapid (p = 0.002).