(n.) The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats of living matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the study of living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure, development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(2) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(3) The HTCA is promising as a potential tool for studying the biology of tumors.
(4) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(5) The lipid A moiety was shown to be responsible for this novel biological activity of the LPS molecule.
(6) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(7) Biological magnification of insecticides and PCB's occurred in both lakes.
(8) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(9) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
(10) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
(11) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(12) The analysis of blood lead concentration revealed an evident biological response to this environmental change: there was a decrease in blood lead level between 1977 and 1987, in both the countryside (control group) and, to a lesser extent, in the city.
(13) Combination of domain substitutions to generate the [Glu107,123]bFGF and [Arg19,Lys123,126]bFGF mutants did not show any additivity of the mutations on biological activity.
(14) Thus, introduction of arginine in position 5 with a hydrophobic amino acid in position 6 is compatible with high potency in several biological systems and results in compounds with lowered potency to release histamine compared to homologous peptides with tyrosine in position 5 and D-arginine in position 6.
(15) The crystal structure of the biological stain, "acridine orange," has been determined.
(16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
(17) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.
(18) That’s important, because Ebola is the Isis of biological agents .
(19) Men older than 75 showed a slightly higher mortality during the first year, but there were seemingly no relationships of tumor-biological or clinical significance between age at diagnosis and long-term relative survival.
(20) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
Entomology
Definition:
(n.) That part of zoology which treats of insects.
(n.) A treatise on the science of entomology.
Example Sentences:
(1) An entomological survey was therefore undertaken in September 1973 in 6 areas in the north-west of Nigeria to determine the prevalence of Stegomyia populations in the villages.
(2) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(3) The entomology of this parasite is discussed along with the pathologic manifestations of human infestation and a description of the various modes of treatment.
(4) Some arboviruses are highly pathogenic for Men or animals, Arboviruses epidemiological patterns in Madagascar were determined by entomological, serological, and virological surveys.
(5) A one year entomological was carried out the survey in the coastal town of Cotonou to study the urban transmission of malaria.
(6) It follows, from the entomological, parasitological and clinical data, that the transmission is high inside this focus and therefore, it seems necessary to take, all measures in order to eradicate the focus.
(7) Village Jethuli is bound by the river Ganga on the north and separated from neighbouring endemic villages on other three sides by agricultural land, is isolated entomologically (as regards sandflies).
(8) In entomological survey, Anopheles maculatus was collected more than other 10 anopheline species encountered.
(9) The author gives the results of an entomological survey in neo-caledonian archipelago (New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands), november-december 1972.
(10) The entomological method was found statistically more reliable and superior when compared to other prevalent methods.
(11) The CS anti-(NANP)n antibody level and prevalence during a 25-month period paralleled the pattern of seasonal transmission consistent with conventional parasitologic and entomologic measurements.
(12) Method contributes to reliable scientific estimation of postmortem interval on the basis of entomologic studies performed.
(13) There was no apparent reason for this cluster of cases, but geographical, climatic, and entomological studies are being carried out.
(14) Estimates of the entomological inoculation rate (EIR) ranged from 0.00006 to 0.005 in different samples and vectorial capacity (VC) was 0.0005 for the 1990 sample.
(15) This indicates that the introduction of native people into a populated malarious area will increase the percent of gametocyte carriers and may, thereby, increase the entomologic inoculation rate.
(16) In the cattle spaces 478 specimens (7 species) were caught, with use of the light trap--554 specimens (16 species), with the help of entomological net--79 specimens (5 species) as well as from the soil samples by the method of the laboratory rearing 1077 specimens (24 species) were obtained.
(17) The entomological indices confirm perfectly the epidemiological findings in the central region as well as in the marginal zones.
(18) Their impact on the entomological parameters is remarkable with a reduction of more than 98% of ma and the rate of entomological inoculation (REI) in the houses.
(19) An entomological survey conducted at the international airports of the Fiji Islands showed Aedes albopictus breeding in the protective area of Nadi airport.
(20) The baseline clinico-parasitological parameters collected during the initial survey and the entomological observations made during the first year as a part of a longitudinal study undertaken in a brugian endemic rural community are presented in this paper.