(n.) The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(2) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(3) The first site we explored was a big burial cairn in the shadow of Carn Menyn, where the Stonehenge bluestones come from."
(4) Getting them to end traditional burials [in which washing the body was a route of transmission of the virus] and accept that treatment was for their benefit was very difficult.
(5) His body was flown to Melbourne for burial the following week.
(6) It offers details for preparing the baby for viewing and holding, describes burial arrangements, and provides information on hospital policies for the disposal of a fetal demise or stillbirth.
(7) The first bluestones, the smaller standing stones, were brought from Wales and placed as grave markers around 3,000BC, and it remained a giant circular graveyard for at least 200 years, with sporadic burials after that, he claims.
(8) How society uses human and monetary resources will be markedly affected by AIDS, considering the high social costs of education, condoms, treatment, death and burial.
(9) The Wellcome Trust announced it was funding the first human trials of a third vaccine , to start imminently, so that it can be tested in health workers and burial teams in west Africa in December, alongside two others.
(10) Inman-Cook says there are a lot of urban myths about home burial and that, strictly speaking, you don’t need permission from anyone.
(11) The method is based on the potential of mean force, with a reaction coordinate expressed by residue burial.
(12) During the period of burial, data were collected daily on the air, soil, and cadaver temperature at each burial site.
(13) (2) Secondary structure formation is driven by local hydrophobic surface burial and precedes the formation of most tertiary interactions.
(14) Force field energies, solvation free energies, exposure of charged residues and burial of hydrophobic residues, and packing of hydrophobic residues at the base of the loop were used as selection criteria.
(15) The burial of these residues in subunit contacts is consistent with their spectroscopic and electrostatic properties.
(16) A spokesman for the Danish Islamic Burial Fund objected to Hussein being buried at a cemetery run by his group.
(17) The unresolved problem, as King complained a year ago at Mansion House, was that the Bank had become like a vicar whose congregation attends weddings and burials but ignores the sermons in between.
(18) We transcribe here (with modern spelling) the cédula and burial certificates, and we then comment on their significance.
(19) I watched a team of young Sierra Leonean burial volunteers in anti-contamination suits descend in this environment of straw-topped huts, towering forests and mud-lined streams.
(1) The nucleotide sequence of genome segment A cDNA of the STC strain of infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) was determined and compared with sequences of the homologous genome segment of the 002-73 strain of IBDV and the Jasper strain of infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV).
(2) Histopathologically, infectious bursal disease was characterized by bursal and thymic necrosis, aplastic anemia, acute hepatitis with fatty change, and systemic inflammatory response.
(3) Bursas from some of these chicks were examined for infectious bursal agent-specific fluorescence four days after vaccination and bursas from others were examined for histological lesions of infectious bursal disease 21 days after vaccination.
(4) Most colonisation of bursal follicles probably occurs prior to day 13.
(5) Using neutralizing monoclonal antibodies, three categories of escape mutants were selected from a stock of wild-type infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV).
(6) Consistent with persistent embryonic viral infection and altered bursal function, only IgM-producing cells were detected in the spleens of 7-day-old experimental birds.
(7) Direct injection of antigen into bursal tissue of young chickens followed by subsequent intravenous immunization markedly stimulated agglutinin production against Brucella abortus.
(8) Coccidial life-cytle stages were detected in the bursa of Fabricius of broiler chickens inoculated with Eimeria tenella, whether or not the chickens had previously been infected with infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV).
(9) Infectious bursal disease virus alone induced a persistent depression of Ia-expressing cells in the bursa and the spleen and no measurable change in the bone marrow lymphocyte subpopulations.
(10) The antigen-specific recovery was observed by simultaneous administration of sterile antigens into the bursal lumen at the time of BDL.
(11) Diversification within these tumor cells seems to occur by gene conversion events comparable with those observed in bursal B cells.
(12) Essential bursal microenvironmental elements, however, are altered or lost following TP treatment, while bursae from Cy-injected birds can be reconstituted with donor precursors.
(13) It was concluded that virus susceptibility is most likely determined at the bursal stem cell level of differentiation, possibly by a process of allelic exclusion at the retroviral receptor locus.
(14) Two independent non-overlapping epitopes could be demonstrated on the structural protein VP3 of infectious bursal disease virus by non-neutralizing monoclonal antibodies produced against serotypes I and II.
(15) When injected subcutaneously it does not reduce bursal weight and the histological pattern does not change, while primary and secondary immune responses are significantly lowered.
(16) Quails developed necrotizing tracheitis, proliferative and necrotizing bronchitis and pneumonia; multifocal necrotizing hepatitis; necrotizing splenitis, with or without hyperplasia of splenic mononuclear phagocytes; bursal lymphoid necrosis; and bursal atrophy.
(17) Maturation of bursal stem cells in an allogeneic environment was studied.
(18) Specific antibodies were investigated in serums of chicks vaccinated with live vaccine and revaccinated with inactivated vaccine against the infectious bursal disease virus, using three methods.
(19) The developmental and phenotypic characteristics of the bursal lymphocytes and chicken B cell lines that express RAG-2 mRNA demonstrate that selective RAG-2 expression occurs specifically in B cells undergoing Ig diversification by gene conversion.
(20) From these conclusions the etiology of the dysgammaglobulinemia in UM-B19 chickens is hypothesized to be primarily due to delayed bursal development: Immature BG cells are eliminated by environmental antigens during the neonatal period in a process similar to tolerance induction.