(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.
Semicircular
Definition:
(a.) Having the form of half of a circle.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(2) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(3) These findings imply that otolithic afferents, unlike those from the semicircular canals, do not interact with neural centres mediating visual localization.
(4) In all patients, the nystagmus elicited during the paroxysm was compatible with excitation of the posterior semicircular canal.
(5) In a series with sixteen normal adult volunteers, 22 to 45 years in age, 100% of the cochleae, vestibules, and lateral and posterior semicircular canals were clearly demonstrated in T2 weighted images.
(6) The chief characteristics of stage 18 (approximately 44 postovulatory days) are rapidly growing basal nuclei; appearance of the extraventricular bulge of the cerebellum (flocculus), of the superior cerebellar peduncle, and of follicles in the epiphysis cerebri; and the presence of vomeronasal organ and ganglion, of the bucconasal membrane, and of isolated semicircular ducts.
(7) Ach, cholinomimetics and cholinergic antagonists were therefore applied to frog isolated whole labyrinths and isolated semicircular canals.
(8) The electrical activity of single trochlear motoneurons (TMns) and axons of second order vestibular neurons presumably terminating on these motoneurons were studied during natural stimulation of semicircular canals and otolith organs in cats anesthetized with Ketamine.
(9) Warming or cooling stimuli to the canal side changed the activity of the semicircular nerve.
(10) In an attempt to destroy selectively the affected peripheral vestibular labyrinth in patients with intractable vertigo as a result of Meniere's disease, a known quantity of streptomycin was introduced within the bony labyrinth following fenestration of the horizontal semicircular canal.
(11) The decrease of the postrotatory reactions is not due to a lesion of the ampullary nerves of the horizontal semicircular canals and it may be explained by the existence of functional connections between the VAC and the horizontal canal.
(12) (4) The lateral semicircular canal was completely obliterated with destruction of the membranous canal.
(13) Separate extracellular injections were made of the anterior branch, the posterior branch, the ampullary nerve of each of the three semicircular canals, and the branch to the saccule.
(14) Intracellular records with glass microelectrodes filled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were taken from primary afferents of the horizontal semicircular canal in the lizard, Calotes versicolor.
(15) The other in Montreal, Canada, employed De Vega's semicircular annuloplasty in 17 cases.
(16) Our patient had anomalous configuration of lateral semicircular canal and an abnormally high location of the utricle and saccule.
(17) Although this series is not comprehensive enough, it seems to indicate that interruption of the lateral semicircular duct has a possibility of diminishing labyrinthine hydrops, as in cases of Ménière's disease, without hearing disturbance, provided that complications do not develop.
(18) Semicircular annuloplasty was applied to 16 patients with congenital heart diseases with systemic atrioventricular valve regurgitation (congenital MR 4, ECD 4, Fontan 7, BWG 1).
(19) The specimens revealed: absence of normal bile ducts; presence of thin-walled tubular or saccular cholangiectases with semicircular and annular fibrous crests, without evidence of superinfection; cholangiectases with secondary acute or chronic-cellular cholangitis, with or without cholangitic abscesses; fibrous cholangitis without ductal dilatation; transformation of bile ducts into fibrous cords which were either solid or contained remnants of bile duct epithelium, and complete loss of bile ducts.
(20) When simulating normally functioning semicircular canals, the model produced no nystagmus.