(n.) The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.
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Asterisk
Definition:
(n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps the Guardian could help by publishing the shortlist again, but this time placing asterisks by the names of any non-doms and known tax avoiders?
(2) Items suggested for initial purchase (157 books and 27 journals) are indicated by asterisks.
(3) The cost of only the asterisked items totals $10,850.
(4) The cost of only the asterisked items totals $6,700.
(5) A commissurotomized subject, L.B., was shown asterisks flashed at random locations, up to four in each field, and attempted either to compare the numbers in the two fields or to report the total number.
(6) Of these 43 traits, 26 are annotated with an asterisk, indicating that their modes of inheritance are well documented, while 17 traits are not so annotated, suggesting uncertain mechanisms of inheritance.
(7) If the T. brucei mini-exon has exactly four transcribed nucleotides upstream from its originally designated 5' end, it would begin with the sequence: m7GpppA*A*C*U*AA*CG (asterisks denote modification) and medRNA would be 140 nucleotides long, excluding the m7G residue.
(8) The large-print claim of "106 arrests last week in your area" was followed by an asterisk referring viewers to a footnote in print too small to be read when the trailer was moving, indicating the week and boroughs involved.
(9) The cost of only the asterisked items totals approximately $16,100.
(10) At the foot of the page, the asterisk clarified: "While you were reading this, Germany scored another goal."
(11) The sequence was -Tyr-Gly-Arg-Pro-Leu-Leu-Gly-Cys(Cm)-Thr-Ile-Lys-Lys*-Pro-Lys-, with both reagents exhibiting specificity for the same lysine residue as indicated by the asterisk.
(12) A direct measure was obtained in a final test block in which Ss predicted the next asterisk position.
(13) Residues denoted by an asterisk are different from the corresponding sequence of human neuropeptide Y.
(14) The reactions of pyrene-labeled actin with myosin subfragment 1 (S1) and S1-ligand complexes at low ionic strength are described by the schemes [formula: see text] where M refers to a myosin head; A is actin; L is ligand; the asterisk refers to a high fluorescence state of actin; and K1 and K3 are association constants.
(15) The cost of only the asterisked items totals $24,000.
(16) An asterisk has been placed before twelve books that are particularly recommended for the hospital emergency room as well as the medical library.
(17) Some dubious records (in the opinion of Verbeke and Knutson, 1967) are signed with two asterisks in tab 1.
(18) Table I is a compilation of the data and shows by means of an asterisk those pathologies possible with an additional primary deformity.
(19) The cost of only the asterisked items recommended for first purchase totals approximately $4,500.
(20) The following positions in the 23S RNA were identified as encompassing the individual cross-link sites (numbered from the 5'-end, with asterisks denoting sites previously reported): L1, 1864-67, 1876-78, 2119-33, 2163-72*, L2, 1819-20*; L3, 2832-34; L4, 320-25*; 613-17*; L5, 2307; L6, 2473-81*; L9, 1484-91; L11, 1060-62; L13, 547-50; L14, 1993-2002; L17, 1260-95; L18, 2307-20; L19, 1741-58; L21, 544-48*; 1198-1248; L23, 63-65, 137-41*; L24, 99-107*; L27, 2272-83, 2320-23*; 2332-37*; L28, 195-242, 368-424; L29, 101-02*; L30, 931-38; L32, 2878-90; L33, 2422-24.