(n.) Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.
(n.) An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interpretation of scans was equivocal in another 18% of patients due to undetectable ascension of the tracer to the uterus.
(2) Particular interest is paid to trisomy 21 in which all recognizable stereotyped morphological skull and brain malformations are depicted with magnetic resonance and some other malformations demonstrated such as the excessive forward bending and ascension of the brainstem which correlated well with a simian cephalic organization.
(3) It was also clear it was going to be a close contest, and heated by the antagonism between the incumbent president, Joyce Banda, and her main rival, Peter Mutharika, who led an earlier effort to block her rightful ascension to power.
(4) Several parameters exhibited characteristic changes during anoxia and reoxygenation: during the first minutes of reoxygenation in the ascension of the first peak the 'time to peak force', the 'relaxation time' and the 'area under the contraction curve', especially the part below the relaxation, were strongly but only transiently increased.
(5) In other items, the MoD spent: • £2.2m on rents and rates to the Ascension Island government whose airport the RAF uses for planes flying to the Falkands.
(6) Abbott has in an interview with Fairfax unleashed a fresh tirade about Julie Bishop , accusing her of peddling falsehoods about the events leading up to Turnbull’s ascension.
(7) Purnell's ascension to the backbenches will add to the many meetings Cruddas has been convening in the last few days to figure out what to do.
(8) The ascension of Justin Welby to archbishop of Canterbury is confirmation of the quiet parallel rise of a controversial evangelical church in central London to become the most influential congregation in the Church of England.
(9) Activity was temperature dependent and no obvious preference of vegetation species for ascension was detected.
(10) Donald Trump’s ascension to the presidency has been marked with tough talk on China and he has surrounded himself with a clique of China-bashing advisers.
(11) It started off with great promise, we got a room with a view, we got an extra staff member – but not much else,” Day said of Turnbull’s ascension to the prime ministership in September last year.
(12) Based upon the drag calculations for young turtles, it is estimated that adult turtles making the round-trip breeding migration between Brazil and Ascension Island (4800 km) would require the equivalent of about 21% of their body mass in fat stores to account for the energetic cost of swimming.
(13) The demonstrated postoperativ ascension of bacteria in the upper urinary tract in spite of successfull surgical treatment cannot be taken as an argument against operation.
(14) Reflux is not the cause of the ascension of microorganisms into the urinary bladder, yet it enables bacteria to reach the kidney and fosters pyelonephritis, persistent infections and nephropathy with all its consequences.
(15) Marked improvement in mictional disorders was obtained also in the 3rd case after excision of a sacral extradural lipoma and section of the filum terminale, allowing objective ascension of the medullary cone by 4 cm.
(16) The best correlations between echo and phonocardiography are the values of aortic valve opening and : --hemi-ascension time (r = 0.67); --left ventricular ejectiontime (r = 0.93) when patients in cardiac failure are excluded.
(17) The sonographically determined ascension of the bladder content into the renal pelvis is called "positive MSU".
(18) This observation suggested that urine taxis of gram-negative bacteria promotes their invasion of the human lower urinary tract and their ascension to the kidney(s).
(19) Estrogens cause softening, opening, and ascension of the cervix, while progesterone causes descent and hardening.
(20) Those of us who are nearly her age can remember the Queen’s ascension to the throne and the cheerful delight with which people talked of the “New Elizabethan age”.
Content
Definition:
(a.) Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.
(n.) That which is contained; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book.
(n.) Power of containing; capacity; extent; size.
(n.) Area or quantity of space or matter contained within certain limits; as, solid contents; superficial contents.
(a.) To satisfy the desires of; to make easy in any situation; to appease or quiet; to gratify; to please.
(a.) To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite.
(n.) Rest or quietness of the mind in one's present condition; freedom from discontent; satisfaction; contentment; moderate happiness.
(n.) Acquiescence without examination.
(n.) That which contents or satisfies; that which if attained would make one happy.
(n.) An expression of assent to a bill or motion; an affirmative vote; also, a member who votes "Content.".
Example Sentences:
(1) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(2) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(3) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(4) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(5) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(6) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(7) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(8) The ATP content of the cholinergic electromotor nerves of Torpedo marmorata has been measured.
(9) In addition to the changes associated with blood group A, we also found a decrease in sugar content, alterations in other antigens, and changes in the levels of several glycosyltransferases in cancerous tissues.
(10) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(11) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(12) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(13) There was however no difference in the cross-sectional studies and no significant deleterious effect detected of tobacco use on forearm bone mineral content.
(14) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
(15) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
(16) Stimulation of atrial H1-receptors is suggested to directly cause an increase in Ca-channel conductance independent of intracellular cAMP content.
(17) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(18) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(19) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(20) The aim of this study was to describe the contents of daily reports in two homes for the aged.