(n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lipase from Geotrichum asteroides appears more resistant to high temperatures and pH changes than the enzyme from Penicillium sp.
(2) This strain of the organism fits a pattern of susceptibility that is rare among N asteroides isolates in general and has been called the type 5 pattern, described as a resistance to broad spectrum cephalosporins, ciprofloxacin, and all aminoglycosides except amikacin.
(3) Within 18-24 h asteroid bodies consisting of an amorphous centre with fine radiating needle crystals were seen.
(4) The study deals with the phagocytosis of Nocardia asteroides (strain Weipheld) and the subsequent intracellular proliferation in peritoneal macrophage cells.
(5) Chalky white colonies, 0.5 to 1.0 mm in diameter, that were subsequently identified as N. asteroides grew well on the BCYE media.
(6) This must be regarded as an antigen-antibody precipitate corresponding to the "asteroid body" of previous authors.
(7) All six N. brasiliensis and six N. otitidis-caviarum were susceptible to gentamicin and minocycline, while all 15 N. asteroides were not.
(8) Microtubules and centrioles were not found in asteroid bodies, although a centriolar field was present in 1 giant cell close to the plasma membrane, completely unrelated to the asteroid body.
(9) Complications are unusual, but of the ones that do occur, infection, particularly with Nocardia asteroides, and fibrosis are the most common.
(10) The somewhat fortuitous isolation of Nocardia asteroides and its significance are discussed.
(11) The pathogenicity of Nocardia asteroides and other strains of different Nocardia species against chicken embryos was investigated.
(12) An acute suppurative abscess characterizes the lesions of N. asteroides.
(13) The inner solar system is filled with dust between the planets, called the zodiacal cloud, which starts out at the asteroid belt and slowly drifts towards the sun.
(14) Ominously, researchers have already discovered that there must be ten times as many potentially dangerous asteroids out there with sizes of the order of tens of metres as previously thought.
(15) With N. asteroides, the direct plating method gave equivocal results.
(16) The organism identified as Nocardia asteroides resisted to sulfonamide and cotrimoxazole but sensitive to chloramphenicaol and streptomycin in vitro.
(17) These findings and clinical observations suggest that inhibition of N. asteroides by neutrophils may be important in vivo.
(18) Evidence for the possible developmental pathway of the Schaumann body is provided by morphological changes within myelinoid figures intimately related to the asteroid body.
(19) Two and one half years later N. asteroides pneumonia recurred and resulted in death from respiratory failure.
(20) The official citation for the asteroid reads: "Iain M. Banks (1954-2013) was a Scottish writer best known for the Culture series of science fiction novels; he also wrote fiction as Iain Banks.
Maia
Definition:
(n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).
(n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequently, single and multiple MAIA doses were tested in vivo for their effects on tumour growth.
(2) Earlier this year, the company refused journalist Maia Weinstock’s submission to its “Lego Ideas” platform of a custom set which celebrated the female justices of the US supreme court.
(3) Excitatory junctional currents (e.j.c.s) and miniature excitatory junctional currents (mine.e.j.c.s) have been followed by recording the focal extracellular potential at excitatory neuromuscular junctions of Maia squinado, the Spider Crab.
(4) The drought is unlike any we’ve ever experienced,” said Maia Bellon, director of the state department of ecology.
(5) x 10(-5) sec(-1) for Maia (seven fibres) at 20-25 degrees C.3.
(6) When L-glutamate and L-aspartate are simultaneously applied to the excitatory neuromuscular junctions of Maia squinado, they produce an increase in the conductance of the post-synaptic membrane much larger than the sum of conductance effects produced by the individual amino acids alone.
(7) Of the four assays (platelet suspension immunofluorescence, PSIFT; 51Cr release; microlymphocytotoxicity; and a monoclonal anti-IgG assay, MAIA), the MAIA was most predictive of platelet transfusion outcome (predictability, 74% for one-hour posttransfusion platelet recovery and 76% for 24-hour recovery).
(8) More drug treatment will | Maia Szalavitz Read more State lawmakers, on the other hand, are still learning.
(9) We asked whether we could stay at the Maia Beach accommodation.
(10) Small changes won't solve the problem | Maia Szalavitz Read more Prison helped Masih realise the scale of the epidemic.
(11) The efflux of calcium, as the isotope (45)Ca, has been investigated from single muscle fibres from the barnacle Balanus nubilus and from the crab Maia squinado.2.
(12) To establish whether this fast hyperpolarization is correlated with physiological polyspermy or conversely mediates an electrical block to polyspermy, we examined the morphological and electrophysiological characteristics of eggs from the crab Maia squinado.
(13) Kits with anti-hCG antibodies (Serono MAIA-clone and others) had minimal recognition of nicked hCG (12%), a component of all serum hCG samples, and consistently gave the lowest values with all serum samples.
(14) Comparison of hCG values found in the IRMA-MAIA test with values assessed with kits from Kosice revealed the following: 33% of the values in MAIA were higher, 57% were in agreement.
(15) Internal microinjection of the Ca-sensitive photoprotein aequorin or the isotope (45)Ca have been used to assess Ca movements in single muscle fibres from the barnacle Balanus nubilus and the crab Maia squinado.2.
(16) In this IRMA-MAIA system 240 sera of patients with choriocarcinoma were processed.
(17) The loss of [(28)Mg]MgCl(2) from both Maia and Balanus muscle fibres following axial micro-injection approximated to first-order kinetics.
(18) Their previously undescribed condition could be classified as an ED of 1-3 (trichoonychial) subgroup of group A according to Freire-Maia's classification and is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait.
(19) It was stimulated, some 10-15 times in Maia and to a lesser extent in Balanus, by salines containing 600 mM potassium or 2-5 mM caffeine.
(20) Maia Mitchell plays Mack, a teen surfer magically transplanted – with her boyfriend – into a 1960s surf movie.