(n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
(n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
(n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(v. t.) To shield; to defend.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two cases are from a six-generation family with an autosomal dominant corneal dystrophy resembling Reis-Bucklers' dystrophy.
(2) At first I think the plant might be a holly fern or a rigid buckler fern because of its stiff bearing out of mossy limestone rocks.
(3) The Tanner and Whitehouse method showed better repeatability than the Greulich and Pyle atlas or the Buckler handbook when a sample of the radiographs were assessed twice by the same observer.
(4) The results showed that when a portion of 2C was present, the primary cleavage by the 3C protease was between 2C and 3A, and the cleavage site was QG, as predicted by J. I. Cohen, J. R. Ticehurst, R. H. Purcell, A. Buckler-White, and B. M. Baroudy, J. Virol.
(5) We have mapped a site within exon 1 of the murine c-myc gene that forms a variety of complexes with nuclear proteins derived from the murine WEHI 231 B-lymphoma cell line in exponential growth that are altered following treatment with phorbol ester, when transcription of this gene is reduced [Levine, R.A., McCormack, J.E., Buckler, A.J.
(6) Buckler, Charles E. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md.
Targe
Definition:
(n.) A shield or target.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, with category I antisera, although the immunoreactivity of FPA itself is unaltered by thrombin treatment, larger polypeptides [e.g., Aalpha 1(Ala)-23tArg)] show a 100-fold increase in immunoreactivity following thrombin treatment and thus can readily be identified and separately quantitated.
(2) Placement of the brackets have evoluted from a quantized system in two dimensions (Targ 1) to a no quantized system in three dimensions (Class System) and finally to a real quantized system in three dimensions (Targ 2 with a compass of thickness with measures the first order band).
(3) The use of color wax and of the TARG are the two deciding elements of this work.
(4) Inquiry investigations were carried out covering 657 individuals from two counties: Plock and Nowy Targ.
(5) Fast components of the COR induced gaze shifts in the direction of the relative head movement ('anticompensatory' direction) which could be suppressed by imagining an earth fixed targed.
(6) Today ten years later the authors present the progress which have been realized: the evolution of the brackets, the accuracy of their placement in the lab procedure with the new targ, the making of the wire, the patient's comfort increase.