(n.) The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
(n.) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, perhaps, because the exercise is continued until most of those who take part in it break down.
(n.) Any rude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because the mitogenic action of IL 2 resembles that of some growth factors, the possible role of phosphatidylinositol breakdown in the activation of T cells by IL 2 was examined.
(2) It is also becoming apparent that effects of insulin and other acute regulatory agents on muscle breakdown are limited to nonmyofibrillar components.
(3) The coronary vasodilator adenosine can be formed in the heart by breakdown of AMP or S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAdoHcy).
(4) Post-operative levels of C3 breakdown products were significantly higher in atheromatic patients than in controls, most likely due to the insertion of dacron arterial prostheses in the first group.
(5) F(ab')2 anti-Ig stimulates the rapid breakdown of inositol phospholipids in B cells, resulting in the prolonged release of inositol (poly)phosphates and diacylglycerol.
(6) The kinetics of the luminescent signal with the different luciferin esters varied significantly, indicating possible differences in the rates of uptake, breakdown and enzyme inhibition.
(7) The muscle-protein breakdown is sustained and the released amino acids are taken up by the liver and other RE structures where they are used as substrates for energy and for synthesis of defense-related proteins.
(8) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
(9) Third, an indirect activation of protein kinase C may occur via an increase in the rate of phosphoinositide breakdown.
(10) The response is dose dependent for LPA concentrations from 10(-8) to 10(-3) M. Incubation of oocytes in LPA does not induce germinal vesicle breakdown.
(11) The breakdown of systemic fibrinogen may be important because of the anticoagulant effect this can produce.
(12) The breakdown of homocysteine, via the transsulphuration pathway, was augmented by Zn deficiency.
(13) Parallel sections were analyzed for possible parenchymal changes associated with the BBB breakdown.
(14) The breakdown of answers to both questions revealed a significant partisan divide depending on people’s voting intention, with Labor supporters much more likely than Coalition backers to see the commission as a political attack and Heydon as conflicted.
(15) The commonest finding is a slight to moderate breakdown of BCB function without evidence of intrathecal immunoglobulin synthesis.
(16) HOE was the most active compound, being able to accelerate PIP2 breakdown at concentrations between 10(-12) and 10(-6) M, while in the case of HEE the effective doses ranged from 10(-11) to 10(-7) M and from 10(-9) to 10(-6) M in the case of HNE.
(17) The critical membrane potential difference for breakdown is therefore pulse-length independent.
(18) Della Roe, Dhu’s mother, said the loss of her daughter had triggered an emotional breakdown.
(19) With ribosomes the pH optimum of proteolytic breakdown is at about 7.
(20) The findings link terminal breakdown of the blood-brain barrier and extensive viral antigen expression in CSF leukocytes with experimental CDV infection resulting in death.
Faulty
Definition:
(a.) Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
(a.) Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany's darkest secrets – podcast Read more From the very start, the investigation was riddled with basic errors and faulty assumptions.
(2) The other patient developed bleeding following cesarean section which did not respond to angiographic embolization due to faulty technique.
(3) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(4) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
(5) Disturbances of ocular motility following trauma are manifested by diplopia and faulty ocular rotations which frequently require an abnormal head position for fusion.
(6) The following advantages must be pointed out in respect of using DLR in thoracic diagnosis in the intensive-care ward: No faulty exposures; the thorax can be x-rayed with the patient recumbent in bed, with lateral take: the image brightness in maintained at a constant level by histogram selection; electronic image processing and storage.
(7) As that faulty elision is obvious to most people, the attack switches to the Lib Dems' failure to investigate.
(8) Instead, according to defence sources, the problem was with telemetric directional data, ie faulty information.
(9) Some women may carry faulty mitochondria without knowing.
(10) Infections occurred in four patients with leukaemia and severe agranulocytosis (after faulty puncture, and after rupture of the connection between catheter and injection port).
(11) On two-dimensional gels, the faulty proteins were shown as a trail of spots with molecular weights similar to those of the authentic proteins but separated in the isoelectric focusing dimension, a phenomenon we call "stuttering."
(12) In view of the hypocalcaemic properties of calcitonin and the importance of calcium ions in cell aggregation, this phenomenon has been attributed to an alteration in cell adhesion which results in faulty cell migration during gastrulation with consequent abnormalities of the prechordal region of the archenteron roof and the overlying neural plate.
(13) Explanations of these results have included accelerated evolution in the snake lineage, paralogy rather than orthology, and faulty determination of the sequence, and the rattlesnake is now often omitted from cytochrome c phylogenetic trees.
(14) Sometimes these errors are due to faulty vigilance or incompetence, but usually they are made by appropriately trained, competent practitioners.
(15) Surveillance systems and other descriptive efforts can provide useful information on the scope and spectrum of agricultural injuries but can seldom identify specific factors, such as faulty machinery, risky behaviors, or particularly hazardous environments, which can be the focus of preventive efforts.
(16) The recall has also triggered a federal investigation, congressional hearings and a flurry of lawsuits from family members of people killed in cars with faulty switches.
(17) These lesions probably represent "pseudoosteolysis" with faulty primary bone formation rather than true osteolysis of previously normal bone.
(18) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
(19) Poor motor training or reflex inhibition causes secondary, less efficient mechanisms to be substituted for the primary ones, resulting in faulty coordination.
(20) The etiology is faulty maturation of procollagen III and the diagnosis is based upon fibroblast culture.