(n.) A note or character of time, equivalent to two semibreves or four minims. When dotted, it is equal to three semibreves. It was formerly of a square figure (as thus: / ), but is now made oval, with a line perpendicular to the staff on each of its sides; -- formerly much used for choir service.
(n.) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
(n.) A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.
(n.) The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, the change of antibody production to the organism by Peyer's patch cells in the mice administered B. breve orally was tested by the Peyer's patch cell culture method.
(2) Two contrasting effects were observed in mixed cultures: survival of A. salina was promoted in low G. aponina populations, while enhanced toxicity of G. breve to A. salina occurred at higher culture populations.
(3) breve antibody production by Peyer's patch cells is suppressed, and thereafter, serum antibody to B. breve decrease and is not detected.
(4) The antigenic relationships of Bifidobacterium bifidum 1 peptidoglycans with different strains of this species (LVA-3, 791, GO-4), bifidobacteria of other species (B. adolescentis GO-13, B. breve 79-38, B. lactentis 79-41, B. longum GO-3) and bacteria of remote taxonomic groups (Streptococcus faecalis 6-3.
(5) The group containing the type strain of F. breve was phenotypically indistinguishable from another genomic group, and these two groups were significantly separated from the other flavobacteria studied.
(6) At certain concentrations of aponin, the ichthyotoxicity of G. breve cultures appeared to be mitigate d.
(7) B. breve did not grow on arabinose when this sugar provided the sole source of energy.
(8) Testing of purified CM whey proteins showed that alpha-lactalbumin and lactoferrin were potent growth promoters, showing greater activity for B. infantis and B. breve than for two strains of B. bifidum.
(9) SLYS was tentatively identified as Flavobacterium breve and Y as Flavobacterium devorans.
(10) Cultured Gymnodinium breve cells were extracted in acidified ether and fractionated by a new, convenient procedure utilizing thin layer chromatography or elution dry column chromatography.
(11) most frequently isolated from the three groups of infants were B. longum, B. breve, B. adolescentis, and B. bifidum.
(12) The Surutato and Breve Duro varieties were statistically similar to the casein PER (2.5).
(13) A bioactive isolate from the blue-green alga Gomphosphaeria aponina is cytolytic towards the dinoflagellate, Gymnodinium breve, Florida's red tide organism.
(14) The study involved altogether 73 strains of bifidobacteria, including 24 B. bifidum strains, 13 B. adolescentis strains, 7 B. infantis strains, 10 B. breve strains and 19 B. longum strains.
(15) In vivo, serum antibody to B. breve was detected first in mice fed the organism for 33 d; antibody decreased in mice fed these for more than 33 d. Serum antibody to Bact.
(16) 5S rRNA sequences were determined for the green sulphur bacteria Chlorobium limicola, Chlorobium phaeobacteroides and Prosthecochloris aestuarii, for Thermomicrobium roseum, which is a relative of the green non-sulphur bacteria, and for Cytophaga aquatilis, Cytophaga heparina, Cytophaga johnsonae, Flavobacterium breve, Flexibacter sp.
(17) Individual cocultivation of Acanthamoeba castellanii and A. polyphaga with X. maltophilia, Flavobacterium breve, and Pseudomonas paucimobilis showed better enhancement (1.5x) of ameba growth after 96 h than that obtained in the presence of Staphylococcus aureus, S. epidermidis, and Escherichia coli, the standard cocultivation species used for isolation of amebae from clinical specimens.
(18) It is concluded that B. breve activated plastic-adherent cells and that these cells secreted a soluble factor that enhanced proliferation of B cells.
(19) Gibberellic acid stimulates growth in the unicellular alga Gymnodinium breve (dinoflagellate).
(20) The effects of brevetoxin-B, a polyether toxin isolated from Gymnodinium breve Davis, on neuromuscular transmission were studied on the mouse hemidiaphragm using general pharmacological and electrophysiological methods.
Seal
Definition:
(n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
(n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.
(n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.
(n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
(n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
(n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.
(v. t.) To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
(v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.
(v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.
(v. t.) Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
(v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
(v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.
(v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
(v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal.
Example Sentences:
(1) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
(2) Cermet cement sealings showed defects more frequently.
(3) The channels usually ceased conducting within a few minutes after seal formation with the patch pipette and could not be re-activated with depolarizing voltage steps.
(4) For all the understandable insistence that parliament and London would continue as normal after Wednesday’s terrorist attack, almost 24 hours later a large section of streets around the area remained sealed off by police.
(5) Tone pulses and noise stimuli were mixed acoustically and presented using calibrated, sealed stimulating systems.
(6) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
(7) Ecological evidence is considered to suggest that the rapid maturation of C. semerme in rats may also occur when the parasite becomes established in seals.
(8) Increased conversion of 25-OHD to 24,25-(OH)2D and a high capacity for vitamin D storage in their large blubber mass appeared to be factors in the resistance of seals to vitamin D toxicity.
(9) The mechanism of sealed-off perforation of the duct is discussed.
(10) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(11) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(12) The results demonstrated that, when the coronal half of the root canal filling material was removed immediately after placement with pluggers, there was a loss of the apical seal and leakage in thirteen of twenty teeth.
(13) Ultrastructural study of the Leydig cells of nonbreeding crabeater, leopard and Ross seals showed that three types of cells could be distinguished.
(14) National bans on commercial trading in seal products are already in place in 30 countries including the US, the Netherlands and Italy.
(15) Under these conditions, with careful attention to sealing at ankles and waist, it was possible to estimate penetration as low as 0.3%.
(16) We used transvitreally delivered cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive to seal retinal breaks in 25 selected patients undergoing vitreous surgery for complicated retinal detachment.
(17) To date, numerous products have been evaluated, and many hundreds have received the council's seal of acceptance.
(18) She explained that, as a baby, she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM): her clitoris cut off and her vagina sealed, with only a small hole remaining for urine and menstruation.
(19) After accidental dissection of the thoracic duct in infants, leakage of chyle could be sealed successfully in 6 cases.
(20) These microcapsules can be dried and retain activity when sealed in a jar at 4 degrees C.