(a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
(a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
(a.) Artful; cunning; crafty.
(a.) Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dialysis of dog plasma against an artificial c.s.f.
(2) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(3) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
(4) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(5) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(6) Recently, we have designed a series of simplified artificial signal sequences and have shown that a proline residue in the signal sequence plays an important role in the secretion of human lysozyme in yeast, presumably by altering the conformation of the signal sequence [Yamamoto, Y., Taniyama, Y., & Kikuchi, M. (1989) Biochemistry 28, 2728-2732].
(7) Anaesthesia was maintained with artificial ventilation and alcuronium, or spontaneous ventilation with halothane.
(8) The distribution of conceptions after artificial insemination from a donor was studied in 259 conceptions at an artificial insemination clinic and found to be seasonal.
(9) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
(10) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
(11) Artificially produced mineral waters which are identical to natural ones are also applied.
(12) The results of these investigations suggest that there is a biochemically significant decrease in the bioavailability of zinc when these artificial formulas are used.
(13) Neither was the autumn moult, induced early in intact females by the change to a short photoperiod, advanced in ganglionectomized females, showing that the latter were unresponsive to the artificial modification of the photoperiod.
(14) These artificial rheomelanins in vitro and the apparent in vivo rheomelanins present in plasmas moved together during the two chromatographies.
(15) This paper also examines the effect of pH and ionic strength on the activity and specificity of the enzyme with respect to substrates and natural, as well as artificial, electron acceptors.
(16) The latter animals were raised in an automated feeding device (Autosow) with an artificial diet simulating the nutritional composition of sow milk.
(17) Respiratory failure, developing 7-9 days after inoculation, was associated with a decrease in lung-thorax compliance determined during artificial ventilation, and an increase in the amount of protein including the specific antibody in lung lavage fluid.
(18) One may speculate whether clinical conditions exist--apart from hereditary retinal dystrophies--in which the retina becomes more sensitive to light from strong artificial or natural sources, which are otherwise innoxious.
(19) The results of the present experiments show that capillary blood flow in the cerebral cortex fluctuates, whether the cat's head is supplied by the animal's intact circulation or by an artificial circulation system.
(20) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
Rhinestone
Definition:
(n.) A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stallone, whose career was launched by Rocky, and who has previously sung in films such as Rhinestone , is unlikely to be cast himself.
(2) But I do try to find the good in everybody," Parton says perkily, and later proves it by describing Sylvester Stallone – her co-star in the deservedly little-seen 1984 film Rhinestone – as "just a nut, but so witty!".
(3) Not black, leather-clad Elvis – you can't have everything – but a plastic, white, rhinestone-clad Elvis sent by one of Boyle's legion of fans who heard she was to duet posthumously with the King.
(4) She credits her recovery to God, work and Sylvester Stallone, and not necessarily in that order: "We were making Rhinestone then and, oh, Stallone was so healthy for me to be around ... " Time is up and I can have one last question.
(5) And who can forget a few years back when the bright, gaudy, rhinestoned nail designs popular with minorities made the jump from chavvy to chic as soon as the masses cottoned on?
(6) Watching her at 68, rolling through one hit after another proved she’s a true entertainer – and how can you not love someone who has more rhinestones than the whole of an Argos Elizabeth Duke collection?
(7) Beside her, a manicurist painstakingly attaches rhinestones to a set of long acrylic nails.
(8) She looks like a cookie-cutter breakthrough country artist: tonight she wears a wide-brimmed black fedora with a feather in the band, gold hoop earrings and a leopard-print shirt with a sprinkling of rhinestones on the collar.
(9) The president and Mrs Reagan stood on a special platform on the South Lawn to greet Jackson, who wore a military jacket with sequins, plus floppy gold epaulettes and a gold sash, a single white glove with rhinestones, large dark glasses and full stage make-up.
(10) Altmejd's collectors are probably rhinestone-bejewelled toads from another galaxy who keep humans as pets.
(11) Fans paid homage by dressing up as the star – who took to the stage in a white rhinestone-encrusted waistcoat and matching trousers.
(12) It doesn’t matter that somewhere in the rhinestone-rimmed hamster wheel of his mind is a conscience.
(13) But what nudges Soderbergh's film towards greatness is the way it takes these Day-Glo caricatures – leering Liberace; lunkish Scott – and humanises them, spinning a believable love story out of the rhinestones and facepaint.
(14) His early 60s white R&B band the Fairlanes included guitarist Billy Sherrill, the producer who later pioneered the 1970s "countrypolitan" sound by laying syrupy strings and a whole lot of rhinestones on George'n'Tammy and Charlie Rich, while lead singer Dan Penn , along with fellow FAMEr Spooner Oldham and others, later wrote some of the greatest soul songs of the 60s, including The Dark End Of The Street.