(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.
Victoria
Definition:
(n.) A genus of aquatic plants named in honor of Queen Victoria. The Victoria regia is a native of Guiana and Brazil. Its large, spreading leaves are often over five feet in diameter, and have a rim from three to five inches high; its immense rose-white flowers sometimes attain a diameter of nearly two feet.
(n.) A kind of low four-wheeled pleasure carriage, with a calash top, designed for two persons and the driver who occupies a high seat in front.
(n.) An asteroid discovered by Hind in 1850; -- called also Clio.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(2) It hasn't been so exposed to the brutal learning culture Scotland Yard has been through with cases like Stephen Lawrence and Victoria Climbié.
(3) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
(4) In 1835, before she became Queen, a young Victoria stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse, which has almost 400 rooms.
(5) Quit Victoria's acting executive director, Kylie Lindorff, said the research proved the legislation had worked in terms of reducing the appeal of cigarettes, but longer-term research was being carried out to determine if it led more smokers to quit.
(6) The gymnast Louis Smith took individual silver and team bronze at the Olympics and went on to win the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last month, with the cyclist Victoria Pendleton also competing.
(7) Aequorin is the Ca2+-activated photoprotein which participates in the bioluminescence from the circumoral ring of the hydromedusa Aequorea victoria.
(8) Victoria blue positive cells were found in 11 tumors and 15 paratumorous regions of 23 ducks with hepatocellular carcinoma.
(9) The authors report an epizootic form of toxoplasmosis observed among the crowned pigeons (Goura cristata Pallas and Goura victoria Frazer).
(10) In a retrospective study the case histories of 70 users of Depo-Provera (containing depo medroxyprogesterone acetate) were reviewed during April-June 1987 at the Family Planning Association of Victoria's Richmond Clinic in Australia to ascertain their socioeconomic status, obstetric and contraceptive history, and side effects of Depo-Provera use.
(11) An experiment was undertaken between July and November 1985 in East Gippsland, Victoria, to determine the efficacy of an intra-ruminal controlled-release albendazole capsule against naturally acquired worm burdens and larval challenge in Merino hoggets.
(12) Here’s the judge in full flight : ‘Speak for England!’ cried out Leo Amery, and the Attorney-General for the State of Victoria seems to have decided to speak not just for Victoria, but for all Australia.
(13) The utility of recombinant DNA probes in the detection of natural trypanosome infection of tsetse flies has been assessed in Lambwe Valley, near the shores of Lake Victoria, Kenya.
(14) 7.53pm: Brown has arrived at the Labour HQ on Victoria Street.
(15) The campaign director, Dominic Cummings , who recently survived a reported effort to oust him, the chief executive, Matthew Elliott, and the company secretary, Victoria Woodcock, are also stepping down from the board.
(16) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
(17) The main events in the spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness around the eastern shores of Lake Victoria during the 1930s and 1940s are summarized and the history of the disease in the Lambwe Valley area of western Kenya is described since its appearance there in 1959.
(18) However, these are aspirational targets, whereas Victoria wants a binding system to ensure renewables uptake.
(19) This study ascertained 164 males with non-communicating hydrocephalus in live or stillborn patients in Victoria.
(20) Victoria published its school funding heads of agreement in early August, and a Victorian government spokeswoman said this week it considered that binding.