(n.) A large American serpent, so called from the sound it makes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endocrine cells in the airway epithelium of human fetal lungs are known to contain an amine, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT), and a peptide, bombesin (BOM).
(2) Injections of BOM into the posterior hypothalamus did not affect body temperature control.
(3) The distribution and fine structure were studied of the following 3 peptide-containing fibers of enteric origin, vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP), bombesin (BOM) and cholecystokinin (CCK)-like immunoreactive peptide in the celiac-superior mesenteric ganglion complex (CMG) of the guinea pig.
(4) The present study demonstrates calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), somatostatin (SOM), bombesin (BOM), and substance P (SP) at the electron microscopic level in lumbar dorsal root axons of normal rats.
(5) Those containing VIP or CCK formed symmetrical synapses, while those containing BOM formed assymetrical ones.
(6) The labeled axons were exclusively unmyelinated for SP, SOM, and BOM, and predominantly unmyelinated for CGRP.
(7) The two growth rates of BoM and BrM show negative allometry, the rate of increase of BoM being 2.45 and that of BrM 1.16 between the 1st day and day 19-25.
(8) Bombyxin-II (Bom-PTTH-II) reveals a structural homology with human insulin and similar biological properties to adenocorticotropic mammal hormone.
(9) The focus of this paper is to use this sequence data coupled with a review of the literature and our own work to examine the nine known functional regions of ColE1: imm (colicin E1 immunity), rep (replication function), inc (plasmid incompatibility and copy number control), bom (basis of mobility), rom (modulator of inhibition of primer formation by RNA I), mob (plasmid mobilization), cer (determinant for conversion of plasmid multimers to monomers), exc (plasmid entry exclusion), cea (structural gene for colicin E1), and kil (structural gene for the Kil protein).
(10) However, the exact endocrine cell type that contains 5HT and BOM has not been described at the ultrastructural level.
(11) In the hindgut BOM-IR neuronal cell bodies were found.
(12) The results explain the prevailing hypothermic effect of BOM as the consequence of the concerted decrease in threshold temperatures and "gains" of all autonomic thermoregulatory effectors and suggest the activation of warm inputs, relative to cold inputs, at the hypothalamic level as the underlying mechanism.
(13) Mobilization of the plasmid ColE1 from cells containing a conjugative plasmid (such as F) requires the synthesis of ColE1 mob proteins, and the presence, in cis, of bom (basis of mobility), a region of ColE1 containing the origin of transfer (oriT).
(14) Using indirect immunofluorescence, 5HT- and BOM-like immunoreactive cells were observed both in nonincubated airways and in explants maintained for five days in organ culture.
(15) Fifteen patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal were treated with a combination of bleomycin, vincristine, and high-dose methotrexate (BOM) with leucovorin rescue.
(16) 1-26 August, 1.30pm, Assembly Rooms, £10 Jane Bom-Bane Musical mechanical hat woman.
(17) The small amount (1%) of D-histidine found is due to racemization in the synthesis of BOC-His(BOM).
(18) These results demonstrate that both 5HT and BOM content in endocrine cells of explants from human fetal airways can be well maintained in organ culture for at least 5 days and that they are responsive to pharmacologic inhibition of 5HT synthesis.
(19) She was speaking at a ceremony on Tuesday to mark the opening of two new nature reserves: the 34,000-hectare (83,980 acres) Bom Jesus Biological Reserve in Paraná, and the 8,500-hectare (20,995 acres) Furna Feia National Park in Rio Grande do Norte.
(20) Insect melanization hormones Bom-MRCH in their structural characteristics and properties resemble those of mammal MSH, and leucosulfakinins Lem-SK-I and -II show some similarities with gastrin II and cholecystokinin.
Bot
Definition:
(n.) See Bots.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scott also released the code to the Parliament Edits bot, allowing similar accounts to be set up for other nation's legislatures.
(2) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(3) The foals and yearlings were allowed to graze on open pasture throughout the experiment to provide a natural source for bot and helminth infections.
(4) And even for the non-specialist, certain lines, such as "Bot Arthure wolde not ete til al were served", present little problem, especially when placed within the context of the narrative.
(5) I can see their point but it does not feel right to me that the random output of a program can be considered something I said.” Even more intriguingly, the death threat was issued during a conversation with another bot, each having been programmed to reply to messages from strangers.
(6) February 2000 Bot programs are encrypted, so their purpose only becomes clear when they are used to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, bringing down sites such as Amazon and eBay.
(7) "It could be a declared bot and fairly overt influence play, or pretend to be a human and conduct its influencing in less obvious ways," says the 2011 report by Daden, a technology group that develops chatbots for commercial and educational clients.
(8) The authors report the long-term treatment results for advanced stage base of tongue (BOT) and tonsillar fossa (TF) carcinomas treated with surgery and postoperative radiation therapy (RT) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
(9) A programmable DIY robot kit, Rapiro builds a bot around either a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino board, allowing kids and adults to construct and programme their own robot.
(10) Insulating robots Also poised to improve our homes is q-bot, a London startup that has invented a robot that squeezes under floorboards and sprays insulation into areas that no human can reach.
(11) The 7-year actuarial local control rates for BOT and TF lesions were 81% and 83%, respectively.
(12) "The Kremlin swindlers have understood that paid commenters and an army of bots can't help them in any way with their 'ideological struggle for the internet'," Navalny wrote in his blog on Tuesday .
(13) As for pot, it stops her performing, driving or writing, and just isn’t feasible when you have two small boys wanting you to play Rescue Bots.
(14) This had the effect of incorrectly understating both our receipts and payments as reported on the original return which have now been corrected in the amended return.” “We have implemented measures to ensure that these errors are not repeated in future annual returns.” The donation amendments were revealed by DisclosureBot , a Twitter bot that tweets whenever political parties file donation amendments , or when politicians update their register of interests.
(15) Minimal generation time for C. buccata is concluded to be 11 weeks, allowing up to four generations of flies to occur annually in the southern and one generation to occur in the northern distributional limits of this bot fly.
(16) Finally, with nonsense word counterparts to word stress pairs (bótgog vs. bot góg) preserving phonetic information but lacking semantic content, no ear asymmetry was found.
(17) No RAR-cells were activated from the BOT (n = 8) or from the C3-C4 segments of the spinal cord (n = 11).
(18) The results indicated that visual reports of cineangiograms tend to overestimate the pre-PTCA diameter percent stenosis and to underestimate the post-PTCA residual stenosis in comparison with the computer (p less than 0.001 in bot cases).
(19) Between 1973 and 1986, 51 patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the BOT (n = 31 patients) and TF (n = 20 patients) were treated with surgery plus RT.
(20) The cases mentioned show that occasionally is to reckoned with autochthonic myiasis - above all due to larve of blue-bottles, meat and bot-flies - not only in tropic countries, but also in Middle Europe (especially during the warm seasons and when a considerable quantity of flies is present).