(n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
(n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
(n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
(n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
(n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
(n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
(n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
(n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
(n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
(n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
(n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
(n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
(n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(2) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(3) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(4) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(5) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
(6) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(8) A significant decrease in response to two mitogens (PHA, Con-A) was seen in tumor-bearing rats concomitantly with the tumor growth.
(9) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(10) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
(11) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
(12) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
(13) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
(14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
(15) A method for constructing Ti plasmids bearing multiple copies of a sequence integrated in tandem is described.
(16) All smooth strains of Brucella bear two lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens in a ratio that defines the classification of strains in serovars, A (A greater than M), M (M greater than A) and A.M (A = M).
(17) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
(18) The authors studied the localization of neocarzinostatin (NCS) in cultured cells and in tumor-bearing rats by means of immunofluorescent staining.
(19) Women who first give birth at ages 16 and younger are more likely to bear a second child within the next two years (26 percent) than are women who have their first child at ages 17-18 (20 percent) or at ages 19-22 (22 percent).
(20) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
Habitus
Definition:
(n.) Habitude; mode of life; general appearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) A subgroup of patients who do not have the same genetic inheritance pattern have in addition a Marfanoid habitus and multiple mucosal neuromas.
(2) The situations that required nonstandard positioning techniques included stones in the distal or mid ureter, renal transplant, gallbladder or common bile duct, and unusual body habitus, such as myelomenigocele, bilateral lower extremity amputations and children with stones.
(3) The only other patient or treatment factor associated with SM was a possible direct correlation with the appearance of a cushingoid body habitus.
(4) The boy showed a significant deviation in behaviour pattern and development of body habitus already from early infancy.
(5) Predisposing factors in the progression of radiation injury include excessive radiation, underlying cardiovascular disease, fixation of the bowel, and an asthenic habitus.
(6) When the volume of electrically participating tissue was estimated from the actual measurement of the height of the thorax and the circumference at the base of the thorax, the variation in SV differences decreased substantially (Sramek equation), although still considerable for clinical use, and there was no relationship between SV thus obtained and body habitus.
(7) Chest-wall deformity or Marfanoid habitus were common clinical findings.
(8) In 95 fresh and fixed anatomical preparations, peculiarities of topographic-anatomical relations and morphometric indices of magistral arteries and their large branches have been studied in the pelvic girdle and a free hind extremity in mongrel dogs according to the type of their habitus.
(9) The phenotype was distinctive in that the habitus was female in character, but partial fusion of the labioscrotal folds, testes, and male wolffian duct structures that terminated in the vagina were present.
(10) A 28-year-old male pseudohermaphrodite with gynaecomastia was raised as a female until the age of 17 years, at which time he developed masculine features (deepening of the voice, development of facial hair, male distribution of body hair and male body habitus) and assumed a male gender role.
(11) Fourteen obese subjects (mean body weight, 124 kg; percent of ideal body weight [IBW], 178%) and ten control subjects of normal body habitus (mean body weight, 67 kg; 92% IBW) received 300 mg of phenytoin sodium by ten-minute intravenous infusion.
(12) These patients presented features similar to others reported with this syndrome as regards age, sex, habitus, menstrual irregularities, treatment, and prognosis.
(13) The DWEM, which is based on body habitus and height, was more accurate than other methods (P less than 0.01).
(14) Multiple endocrine neoplasia, type II B (MEN II B) includes thyroid carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, ganglioneuromatosis and marfanoid habitus.
(15) The patient's habitus was masculine despite the presence of a small phallus, pseudo-vaginal perineal hypospadias, bifid scrotum, gynecomastia, and diminished virilization.
(16) They have a short obese habitus distinct from that of their unaffected siblings and parents.
(17) With menstrual irregularity, visual field loss, growth abnormality, or changes in body habitus or appearance, however, further investigation is needed.
(18) The coloanal anastomosis should be strongly considered in any patient with a low-lying rectal lesion in whom body habitus precludes the possibility of conventional low anterior resection.
(19) In our referral population of ACB, this tendency among women for carotid bruit without stenosis does not seem to be related to lower hematocrit, higher prevalence of heart murmur, constitutionally smaller carotid arteries, or differences in pulse rate or body habitus.
(20) Three patients with male habitus, short stature and testicular differentiation are described.