(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.
Splotch
Definition:
(n.) A spot; a stain; a daub.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Splotch mutant embryo is proposed to be a new animal model for the study of peripheral nerve ensheathment.
(2) Concurrent research has recently characterized Sp2H, a radiation induced mutation at the splotch (Sp) locus, and found alterations in the murine paired box gene, Pax-3, in homozygous Sp2H DNA.
(3) The early development of delayed Splotch mouse embryos was examined histologically using scanning electron microscopy and morphometric techniques.
(4) Studies with the delayed splotch gene tested the hypothesis that offspring with a hereditary defect of neural-tube closure have other, unexpressed CNS defects, which may be elicited by teratological impulses.
(5) Yet grisly pictures on Xinhua's website show a shirtless man covered in purple splotches lying on a hospital bed, his left arm awkwardly splayed across his chest.
(6) The topogenesis of the hindlimb nerves of Splotch homozygous mutant mouse embryos was studied using light and electron microscopy.
(7) Sp1H mice, which have a radiation-induced allele of Splotch with a similar phenotype, were used for this study.
(8) We have used a set of markers newly assigned to the proximal portion of mouse chromosome 1 to characterize the chromosomal segment deleted in the splotch-retarded (Spr) mouse mutant.
(9) A major problem in the study of neural tube defects caused by the splotch (Sp) gene in the mouse has been the identification of gene carriers or potentially affected embryos at an early stage of development, since the gene's effects become visible only late in gestation or after birth.
(10) The splotch (Sp) mouse is a model for both neurulation defects and defects in neural crest cell (NCC) derivatives.
(11) The parameters of the cell cycle were determined in 10-day-old mouse embryos, homozygous for the splotch (Sp) gene, by the radioautographic method with H-3-thymidine.
(12) In this report, rare cases of neural tube defects and tail defects among the offspring of crosses between Splotch (Sp1H) heterozygotes are presented, which are not associated with a neural crest defect.
(13) The Splotch mutant mouse is proposed to be an animal model for persistent truncus arteriosus.
(14) Embryos carrying Sp or its allele splotch-delayed (Spd), have been shown to have delays in neural tube closure, and neural crest cell emigration, as well as a reduction in extracellular space around the neural tube.
(15) In the homozygous state, the splotch (Sp) gene causes spina bifida and exencephaly.
(16) By the 12th day, the posterior neuropore of controls had closed and secondary neurulation was underway; however in delayed Splotch embryos, the neural folds remained widely splayed and epithelium newly formed via secondary neurulation extended that abnormally open configuration to the tip of the tailbud.
(17) Splotch is caused by mutation in the mouse Pax-3 gene.
(18) The septation of the truncus arteriosus and the development of the aortic arch-derived blood vessels was studied in homozygotes of the Splotch mutant allele Sp1H.
(19) Mouse embryos, homozygous for mutations at the Splotch locus, are afflicted with spina bifida and disturbances of neural-crest-derived tissues, e.g.
(20) Embryos obtained from matings of mice heterozygous for the delayed Splotch gene exhibited a high incidence of lumbosacral (25%) or cephalic (7%) neural tube defects.