(a.) A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.
(a.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
Example Sentences:
(1) Everything looks good, the nurse said, and she pointed to a little white blotch: the indisputable sign that we were having a boy.
(2) Immune serum stains yeast cells to give a striking pattern of spots and blotches not seen with preimmune serum.
(3) In the national forest at Gribskov, Olrik points out an ash that has been cut down, how the beautiful light-coloured wood that makes ash so popular for furniture and other uses is discoloured and blotched.
(4) The Abyssinian is incompletely dominant to the striped and blotched alleles, whereas striped is completely dominant to the blotched.
(5) Based on the results of agar gel double immunodiffusion tests with broad spectrum rabbit antisera and narrow spectrum mouse immune ascitic fluids and formalin-fixed purified viruses, a close relationship was established between 3 members of the Cucumovirus group namely Robinia mosaic virus (RoMV), clover blotch virus (CBV) and peanut stunt virus (PSV).
(6) Three alleles of the tabby locus (T) have been identified, namely, Abyssinian (Ta), striped (T), and blotched (tb).
(7) Over the course of the last century, while blotched executions have fueled movement from one execution method to another, they have not posed a serious challenge to the continuing viability of death as a punishment.
(8) The amount of LL-N-(2-amino-2-carboxyethyl)aspartic acid which accumulates in the P. teres cultures is low, indicating that aspergillomarasmine A is the toxin which plays the major role in the pathological changes associated with the barley net-spot blotch disease.
(9) Both P. putida, the bacterium responsible for initiating basidiome development of A. bisporus, and P. tolaasii, the causal organism of bacterial blotch disease of the mushroom, displayed a positive chemotactic response to Casamino acids and to A. bisporus mycelial exudate.
(10) These data indicate that amino acid sequences of coat proteins of azuki bean mosaic virus, the Type and W strains of blackeye cowpea mosaic virus, three isolates (74, PM, PN) of a potyvirus obtained from soybean in Taiwan, and the Blotch and Mild Mottle strains of peanut stripe virus (PStV) may be very similar to the known sequence of PStV Stripe coat protein.
(11) The first is the apparent absence of blotched tabby and a relatively high frequency of Abyssinian tabby.
(12) All that is left of the grasslands here are yellowing blotches on a stony surface riddled with rodent holes.
(13) Abnormalities in MRI were high-intense spots, blotches and streaks, located predominantly in the periventricular area.
(14) Ten years later, purplish to brownish blotch and nodules accompanied with heating sensation and pain appeared and increased in size gradually on the left forearm.
(15) But look closely and there are telltale signs – purply discoloured blotches on his hands, a trellis of veins running through his cheeks like a Red Windsor cheese.
(16) Check for lumps and blotches ; try not to let anyone near your foreskin with a knife without good reason until you're old enough to know that is what you want; stick to soap and water rather than chemical gunk – and listen to Suzanne about the toaster thing.
(17) Among these cases, 6 patients have localization of perineum and 18 patients have local blotch pigmented papules.
(18) In two of the cases, reddish-purplish blotches over lower limbs, not raised and which blanched on pressure, was an unusual feature.
(19) Storage at 45 degrees and 75% relative himidity resulted in significant changes in most measured parameters; tablets showed blotching, substantial weight loss, and complex changes in disintegration and dissolution.
(20) Pseudomonas tolaasii Paine is the causal organism of the economically significant brown blotch disease of the cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus (Lange) Imbach.
Irregular
Definition:
(a.) Not regular; not conforming to a law, method, or usage recognized as the general rule; not according to common form; not conformable to nature, to the rules of moral rectitude, or to established principles; not normal; unnatural; immethodical; unsymmetrical; erratic; no straight; not uniform; as, an irregular line; an irregular figure; an irregular verse; an irregular physician; an irregular proceeding; irregular motion; irregular conduct, etc. Cf. Regular.
(n.) One who is not regular; especially, a soldier not in regular service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
(2) They were more irregularly curved and consisted of various substances.
(3) The results of the measurements permitted the identification of five main cytologic types, with regard to nuclear size, nuclear area dispersion and irregularity of nuclear profiles.
(4) A detailed stereochemical analysis of known protein structures has been made which shows that: (1) irregular regions of proteins consist of a limited number of standard structures formed by three, four of more residues; (2) an amino acid residue of a protein can adopt one of the six sterically allowed conformations designated here as alpha, alpha L, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon.
(5) Endoscopy showed an irregular erosion of 4 by 2 cm, from which biopsies were taken.
(6) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
(7) Although the level of ventilation is maintained constant during eating and drinking, the pattern of breathing becomes increasingly irregular.
(8) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
(9) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
(10) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.
(11) These findings are in agreement with the concept that irregular lesions represent ruptured atherosclerotic plaques and demonstrate that they usually originate from mildly occlusive smooth plaques.
(12) After 21 months, there appears to be no correlation between the amount of material adhering to the IUD and method complications (irregular and excessive bleeding) or method failure (pregnancy).
(13) The patient described in this report has the classic findings of Bardet-Biedl syndrome in conjunction with tibia vara and irregular physes of the lower extremities.
(14) After cessation her previously regular menstrual periods became very irregular and complete amenorrhea had lasted 4 months.
(15) Histochemical and electron-microscopic observations on a 30-month-old child with Hurler syndrome showed marked irregularities in chondrocyte orientation within the growth plate, along with disruption of the normal columnar architecture.
(16) The endocrine pattern and ovarian characteristics of 110 healthy adolescents with menstrual irregularities were investigated during the early follicular and premenstrual phases and were compared to those of 14 adolescents with regular menstrual cycles and 20 adults.
(17) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(18) Light microscopic examination of irregularly thickened white and black portions of abnormal scales demonstrated two distinctive populations of pigment-containing cells.
(19) In the second hypertrophied form [Type II], the endoplasmic reticulum is very prominent and occurs as a series of grossly dilated sacs of irregular shape.
(20) Disruption of the rhythmic activity of the inspiratory neurons and its replacement by a continuous and irregular discharge may lead to sustained contraction of inspiratory muscles and cessation of respiration.