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Ax


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Axe
  • (v. t. & i.) To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With an additional procedure of adrenalectomy (BN + Ax), the enzyme activity failed to show any increase in ARF rats produced by BN.
  • (2) 3H-Ax was found in the liver of all trout indicating that 3H-Cx and 3H-Zx were Ax precursors, and that salmonids probably possess carotenoid oxidative pathways unknown until now.
  • (3) MBC increased significantly in Ax animals treated with dexamethasone (Ax + D) and in Tx + Ax + D compared with the Tx and control groups.
  • (4) All samples are well detected by anti-B from AW, Aend, Ax, Am but none is detected by anti-B from ABx, Cis AB, or by an auto-anti-B.
  • (5) Subunit X, which is also a component of the anthranilate synthase complex, has no PABA synthase activity itself but complexes with subunit A to give an AX aggregate that can use glutamine as a substrate.
  • (6) The AX actin was incorporated into the cytoskeletal fraction with the same efficiency as beta- and gamma-actin.
  • (7) Three patients are reported on who suffered anaphylactic reactions after amoxycillin (AX) treatment and challenge but tolerated benzylpenicillin (BP) parenterally and orally.
  • (8) Reagent prepared from BIRMA-1 detected most examples of Ax and all other A subgroups and A variants tested.
  • (9) The mixture of oligosaccharides was converted to the reduced p-aminobenzoic ethyl ester (ABEE) derivative and the components separated by HPLC on an ion-exchange (AX-10) column.
  • (10) Temporal differentiation by man was studied for intervals from 50 to 700 msec my means of the traditional method of constant stimulus differences (AX) and combinations of AX with methods of multiplication by two and three (AB-2 and AB-3).
  • (11) In cell homogenates of Dictyostelium discoideum, strain AX-2, four major soluble protein kinases (ATP:protein phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.37) and one membrane-associated protein kinase activity were identified.
  • (12) The AX labeling reponses showed large contrast effects (both proactive and retroactive) that were greatly reduced when auditory memory was interfered with.
  • (13) We have isolated cDNA clones-coding for rat intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (RICAM-1) from a cDNA library constructed from rat Ax cells stimulated with IL-1 beta using the mouse ICAM-1 cDNA as a hybridization probe.
  • (14) Patients were treated with either tangential fields alone (n = 508) or tangents with a third field to the supraclavicular (SC) or SC-axillary (AX) region (n = 1116).
  • (15) From the above results, CXM-AX is considered to be a useful drug like CCL in the treatment of acute dental infections.
  • (16) The ionic species of cytosol estrogen receptors from mature rat uteri have been compared by HPIEC on a SynChrom AX-1000 column when complexed with either [125I]iodoestradiol, [3H]estradiol or [3H]4-hydroxy tamoxifen.
  • (17) Acetylcholine (ACh) almost completely abolished the Iso-induced increase in m,,ax observed from postgestation day 18 to neonatal day 20; this developmental time course for the ACh effect is consistent with the finding that the number of muscarinic cholinoceptors started to increase on post-gestation day 16 and reached a peak on the day of birth.
  • (18) First, we developed a method to purify swine (Po), rabbit (Rb), mouse (Mo), cobra (Co), Xenopus (Xe), axolotl (Ax), and trout (Tr) C3 from plasma.
  • (19) Isolated total viral RNA is end-labeled in vitro, and tRNA subgroups are fractionated using commercial Nucleobond AX-20 mini columns.
  • (20) Two-hundred and fifty micrograms of aldosterone, mixed with sesame oil, was given subcutaneously in the NX-AX-A rats.

Edge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
  • (v. t.) Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.
  • (v. t.) Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • (v. t.) The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  • (v. t.) To shape or dress the edge of, as with a tool.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box.
  • (v. t.) To make sharp or keen, figuratively; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  • (v. t.) To move by little and little or cautiously, as by pressing forward edgewise; as, edging their chairs forwards.
  • (v. i.) To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way.
  • (v. i.) To sail close to the wind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (2) Everyone is expecting them to win and I think that’s a double-edged sword.
  • (3) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (4) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (5) Flexion of the knee beyond 40 degrees progressively diminished viability of the edges of the wound, particularly the lateral edge.
  • (6) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
  • (7) After 1 day in vitro the explants were partly encircled by epithelium which had proliferated from the cut edges of the explant and from rete ridges near the cut edge (epiboly).
  • (8) This kind of distribution of microfilaments was always associated with resorption lacunae, and F-actin, vinculin, and talin zones correspond roughly to the edge of lacunae.
  • (9) Mario Balotelli’s life on the edge leaves him asking: why not me any more?
  • (10) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
  • (11) Three disks of different sizes (10, 25, and 45 mm in diameter) were attached to the edge of the baresthesiometer, and pressures of 1, 3 and 5 kg were applied to the 10 mm disk, and 1, 3, 5, and 7 kg to the other disks.
  • (12) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
  • (13) Under the electron microscope, slices appeared vacuolated near the cut surfaces, but well preserved internally (greater than 40 micron from the edge).
  • (14) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
  • (15) Attenuation compensation causes more noise to appear in the center than the edge for both modes and an average increase in uncertainty of 30%.
  • (16) Perisic darts in from the edge of the penalty area to get on the end of it and thumps a meaty header wide.
  • (17) The transversalis fascia of the floor of the femoral canal turns down to form the medial wall of the venous compartment of the femoral sheath, and has the support of the curved edge of the lacunar ligament which effectively bars the femoral canal from entering the thigh.
  • (18) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
  • (19) Oxytocin-like immunoreactive neurons were observed to lie within 77 nm of the edge of the lumen of capillary blood vessels.
  • (20) A formal notion of relatability is defined, specifying which physically given edges leading into discontinuities can be connected to others by interpolated edges.