(a.) Relating to a base; performing the office of a base in a salt.
(a.) Having the base in excess, or the amount of the base atomically greater than that of the acid, or exceeding in proportion that of the related neutral salt.
(a.) Apparently alkaline, as certain normal salts which exhibit alkaline reactions with test paper.
(a.) Said of crystalline rocks which contain a relatively low percentage of silica, as basalt.
Example Sentences:
(1) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(2) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(3) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(4) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(5) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(6) These four cytokeratins were also found in the epithelial and biphasic mesotheliomas, most of which, however, also expressed, additional cytokeratins, such as the basic Polypeptide 5 and, in some cases, Cytokeratins 4, 6, 14, and 17.
(7) The deactivated columns had the residual silanols on the silica gel chemically inactivated to reduce the interaction with basic groups or analytes.
(8) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(9) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(10) The determination of basic levels of TSH is more sensitive and more precise.
(11) The authors present the first results on the utilization of fish infusion (IFP) as a basic medium for the cultivation of bacteria.
(12) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(13) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(14) All 3 drugs increased the basic cycle length of pacing at which VT was induced and the cycle time of the resulting VT.
(15) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
(16) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
(17) One of the proteases obtained was found to catalyse cleavage on the COOH-side of peptide sequences containing consecutive hydrophobic and basic residues.
(18) TCR beta chain gene expression of individual T cell clones that share the same MHC class II restriction and similar fine specificity for the encephalitogenic NH2 terminus of the autoantigen myelin basic protein (MBP) has been examined.
(19) Basic components of and differences between various forms of contrast treatment are discussed.
(20) Basic problem areas in the design and conduct of this assay in humans will also be discussed, as will the future potential of the assay.
Basin
Definition:
(n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
(n.) The quantity contained in a basin.
(n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
(n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
(n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
(n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
(n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.
Example Sentences:
(1) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
(2) Fold the edges of the baking parchment down over the rim of the basin.
(3) The first village, Gezirat El-Maabda, has a basin system of irrigation.
(4) Since 1975, the annual average thickness in just the central part of the basin had dropped from about 11 feet to 4 feet — a decline of 65%.
(5) Activity of the opisthorchiasis focus in the Tobol-Ubagan river basins has increased under the influence of several anthropogenic factors.
(6) The Indus water treaty (pdf) was signed in 1960 between India and Pakistan in response to the latter's fear that the location of the basin of the River Indus in India could have adverse effects on agriculture in Pakistan.
(7) From these results it is inferred that tubular brush-border damage occurs in inhabitants of the Jinzu River basin.
(8) Transplantation of autologous salivary glands to the lacrimal basin has been performed in patients with severe xerophthalmos and with or without severe xerostomia.
(9) Half the young people of the Mediterranean basin are reportedly out of work .
(10) Self-assembly kitchen wall units are being added to the basket to improve coverage of furniture, while basin taps are being removed.
(11) Millions of tourists from Northern Europe visit the Mediterranean basin each year.
(12) The Nationals also have questions about Greg Hunt’s Department of the Environment retaining responsibility for the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder , which manages environmental water holdings in the Murray-Darling Basin.
(13) In the Congo basin, many disabled people, who are exempt from ferry fares, smuggle goods across the waters dividing the nations' riverine capitals.
(14) The annual chest X-ray surveys conducted in Hokkaido during a 5 year period from 1972 to 1976 disclosed that the Furano basin located in a central mountainous district had an extremely high discovery rate of the cases with sarcoidosis.
(15) Ribotyping patterns of aeromonads recovered from well 1, detention basin, sand filter, softener, and distribution samples were compared with those of the five clinical isolates.
(16) A combined examination revealed Basin erythema in 57.7% of the patients, lupus vulgaris in 29.9% and papulonecrotic tuberculosis of the skin in 12.4%.
(17) Standard mortality ratios (SMRs) are mapped on the basis of non-metropolitan primary and secondary employment basins of Quebec.
(18) The upper Niger basin, the south-central part of Sierra Leone, and three small foci in the Gambia, Bakoye, and lower Niger river basins were areas with a high risk of onchocercal blindness.
(19) Satellite data, analysed by University of California at Irvine scientists, suggest that the state has been losing about 4tn gallons of water a year from the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins since the drought began in 2011.
(20) The measurement takes place in 10 mm-basins at the wave-length 540 nm.