(n.) The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
(n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the settled part of a country; a frontier district.
(n.) A strip or stripe arranged along or near the edge of something, as an ornament or finish.
(n.) A narrow flower bed.
(v. i.) To touch at the edge or boundary; to be contiguous or adjacent; -- with on or upon as, Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
(v. i.) To approach; to come near to; to verge.
(v. t.) To make a border for; to furnish with a border, as for ornament; as, to border a garment or a garden.
(v. t.) To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the region borders a forest, or is bordered on the north by a forest.
(v. t.) To confine within bounds; to limit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(3) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(4) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(5) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(6) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(7) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(8) Results of detailed studies on tissue reactions to Cysticercus bovis in the heart of cattle, together with a comparison of findings in animals with spontaneous and experimental infection, and an evaluation of tissue reactions in relation to the location, morphology and morphogenesis of C. bovis provided evidence for the fact that in general, the response of the heart to the presence of C. bovis was an inflammatory reaction characterized by the origin of a pseudoepithelial border and a zone of granulation tissue.
(9) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(10) However, in the normal and border zones of the verapamil group the mitochondria are smaller when compared with the respective zones in the two other groups, but increases relatively more in size in the border and ischaemic zones.
(11) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
(12) Comparison of germline and translocation clones demonstrated that breakage of chromosome 1 had occurred at the border of a tandem repeat of Alu sequences.
(13) Subcortical leukomalacia occurs in this triangle as well as in border zones between the major cerebral arteries.
(14) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(15) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(16) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
(17) All inhibitors had no effect on L-Ala uptake into brush-border membrane vesicles in presence of Na+ gradient.
(18) Most of the subjects' mandibular movements did not improve to the point of making reproducible border movements on a pantograph.
(19) These changes were accomplished by an increase in sagittal condylar growth and by bone resorption at the posterior part of the mandibular lower border.
(20) But no one was sure, and in this information vacuum the virus reached nearby towns and crossed borders.
Fimbriated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Fimbriate
(a.) Having a fringed border; fimbriate.
(a.) Having a very narrow border of another tincture; -- said esp. of an ordinary or subordinary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The attachment by type 1 fimbriated strains to HT-29 cells was reduced by meconium only in some cases.
(2) Infections caused by P-fimbriated Escherichia coli were not more often associated with residual urine than infections with nonP-fimbriated Escherichia coli or other bacterial species.
(3) Purified material was used to produce a polyclonal antiserum that agglutinated all nonfimbriated and fimbriated B. pertussis cells containing serotype 3 agglutinogen.
(4) The examination by electron microscopy revealed that TR-cells were highly fimbriated but not TS- and OS-cells.
(5) As described previously, fimbriated H. influenzae variants adhered to a greater extent than nonfimbriated variants to human buccal epithelial cells (2.1 and 0.29 bacteria per cell, respectively, as determined by the radioactive assay [P less than 0.05]; 7.6 and 1.6 bacteria per cell, respectively, as determined by the immunofluorescent assay [P less than 0.01]).
(6) Also all these drugs with the same sub MICs alter the haemagglutination titre and inhibit the fimbriation process of the uropathogenic E. coli.
(7) Second, the sheep erythrocyte reactivity of P-fimbriated strains could not be attributed solely to recognition of the Forssman glycolipid and may not be used to define the prsJ96-encoded phenotype.
(8) There was also association of fimbriate capsulate bacteria with damaged organ culture epithelium in one of four experiments.
(9) Among MR strains, P-fimbriated and S-fimbriated strains were present in 25.7% and 28.6%, respectively, indicating that these two MR fimbriae were not always specific for the prostatitis-derived E. coli.
(10) The proportion of fimbriate strains amongst Escherichia coli freshly isolated from infected urines did not differ significantly from the proportion amongst commensal Esch.
(11) The results indicate that phase variation and the production of 987P fimbriae by fimbriate cells are under independent physiological control.
(12) The best-studied system is the interaction of type 1-fimbriated (mannose-specific) Escherichia coli with human phagocytic cells.
(13) Type 1 fimbriae-bearing E. coli bound 50 times more THP than did non-type 1-fimbriated or P-fimbriated strains.
(14) In contrast, binding of 4 non-type-1 fimbriated O157:H7 strains could not be demonstrated.
(15) These features included the development of lobulated nuclei, a reduced nuclear to cytoplasmic ratio, increased complexity and development of the cytoplasmic components, and the disappearance of fimbriated plasma membrane structures.
(16) TNF alpha (10(-9) M) synergistically augmented the non-type 1-fimbriated E. coli-stimulated LTB4 release and additively increased secondary granule release without affecting primary granule release.
(17) Here, we report an even broader conservation of this minor adhesion protein extending to other genera and species of type 1 fimbriated Enterobacteriaceae.
(18) Escherichia coli with both P and type 1 fimbriae caused vaginal colonization in the female green monkey, while only the P-fimbriated bacteria frequently caused ascending bladder infection.
(19) Under incubation conditions used previously to document in vitro adherence of other diarrheagenic E. coli, only the one type-1 fimbriated E. coli O157:H7 strain, designated CL-49, adhered to isolated human and rabbit epithelial cells.
(20) Fifty per cent (378) of all children were colonized and a quarter (183) had pure cultures of P-fimbriated E. coli in at least one faecal sample.