(n.) The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
(n.) Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(3) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
(4) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
(5) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
(6) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
(7) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(8) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
(9) Rats exposed to the bright-light condition suffered a pronounced loss of photoreceptor cells by 10 weeks, and an even greater cell loss by 17 weeks.
(10) Even Paul Bright had to get a private charity to fund half his work.
(11) There was a uniform decrease in brightness discrimination to either side of the foveal peak.
(12) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.
(13) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
(14) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
(15) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
(16) Ultrastructural cytochemistry with XRMA is limited by the need to use high-brightness electron sources.
(17) Kobani impressed on the Kurds that Erdoğan could not be trusted and that anti-Kurdish feeling continued to burn brightly in the Turkish state.
(18) The administration of the drug in Stage 1 improved the acquisition of the initial brightness discrimination and facilitated reversal learning independently of the drug administered in Stage 2.
(19) The highest expression was noted in a recurrent plexiform ameloblastoma in which almost 100% of the tumor cells were brightly reactive.
(20) Mercaptoacetate, injected in the middle of the bright phase, reduced the latency to eat but did not affect the duration of the subsequent IMI or cumulative food intake in LF rats.
Luminosity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The automated CellSoft semen analyzer identifies human spermatozoa on the basis of user-defined values for cell size and luminosity.
(2) In dim luminosity, the binocular system functioned better than the monocular system.
(3) In luminosity-type (H1) horizontal cells, the reversal potential of light responses was estimated at about 0 mV.
(4) In the latter the shift from a low to high light exposure increased NE excretion; in contrast, in migraineurs exposure to high luminosity resulted in a depression of NE excretion and an augmentation of E excretion.
(5) Test colors (14 interference filters, 4 Wratten filters, and white) were matched for human photopic luminosity and presented at luminance levels sufficient to induce vigorous responding from most cells.
(6) This level was the same as observed in luminosity-type and biphasic chromaticity-type cells, suggesting that the ionic mechanisms of synaptic transmission are common among horizontal cell types.
(7) In this analysis, we use the DMSP-OLS Stable Lights Dataset covering 1992-2012 to measure changes in luminosity in North Korea over time.
(8) These observations suggest a role of a GABAergic mechanism in the generation and transmission of luminosity responses in the trout pineal organ.
(9) Luminosity curves measured through a filter which artificially replaces the missing macular pigment is identical to the deuteranopic (Type II) curve.
(10) Extracellular Cl- activity and intracellular Cl- activities of luminosity and biphasic-chromaticity type horizontal cells were measured in freshly isolated, non-superfused roach retinae using double-barrelled Cl- -sensitive micro-electrodes.
(11) The effect of the shift from a low to a high luminosity of the environment on the urinary excretion of norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine (E) was studied in migraineurs (26 cases) and controls (25 cases).
(12) Intracellular recordings from luminosity-type horizontal cells of the turtle retina were used to analyze the effects of steady and flickering background illumination on the size of their receptive fields.
(13) In high-Mg2+ medium, luminosity-type cone horizontal cells (L-cells) hyperpolarized and lost their photoresponses at a full membrane hyperpolarization of about -80 mV.
(14) A different rotation gave a photopic luminosity curve.
(15) In 1 subject with good visual acuity of both eyes, no optic atrophy was observed but there was impairment in the luminosity function (tested with white test object on white background) of the peripheral visual field.
(16) In electrophysiological experiments involving intracellular recording from horizontal cells in the isolated retina of the roach, light adaptation of the retina has been shown to result in potentiation both of (1) the depolarizing component of biphasic chromaticity type S-potentials, and (2) the temporal frequency transfer functions of photopic luminosity type horizontal cells.
(17) The mechanism causing such a change of test responses was studied in the luminosity-type cone horizontal cells.
(18) The broad background effect further indicates that all photoreceptors have an input and suggests that a luminosity cell, such as the internal horizontal cell, may be involved.
(19) We have constructed a computer model that attempts to predict which pairs of rhodopsins are most suitable for making various luminosity and chromaticity discriminations in green coastal water.
(20) Other biological aspects should be analysed in relation to luminosity.