(v. t.) To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.
(v. t.) To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jeremy Corbyn could learn a lot from Ken Livingstone | Hugh Muir Read more High-minded commentators will say that self-respect – as well as Burke’s dictum that MPs are more than delegates – should be enough to make members under pressure assert their independence.
(2) During the growth of Azotobacter vinelandii in batch culture in Burk's 2% glucose medium supplemented with 50 mg EDTA per litre, water-insoluble capsular polysaccaride material accumulated in cultures prior to the appearance of water-soluble polysaccharide in the culture medium.
(3) In our studies of the 131I-labeled anti-Thy 1.1 antibody treatment of murine lymphoma we have used cell binding assays with a combination of Lineweaver-Burk analysis to determine immunoreactivity and Scatchard analysis to determine antibody avidity.
(4) The Guardian’s Jason Burke ( @burke_jason ) has insights into AQAP and al-Qaida in his frequent reportage for the Guardian.
(5) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(6) The cardiovascular pharmacology of two Chinese herbs, Salvia miltiorrhiza (SM) and Panax notoginseng (Burk) F. H. Chen (PNG) were studied both in vivo and in vitro.
(7) A Lineweaver-Burk plot, as well as a Dixon plot, indicated that the nature of inhibition is noncompetitive with a Km value of 0.134mM and a Ki value of 1.58mM at 37 degrees C. An Arrhenius plot showed that the transition temperature is significantly reduced in the presence of tetrabutylammonium ion.
(8) The federal opposition’s finance spokesman, Tony Burke, said the GST was a regressive tax.
(9) Lyle Shelton, the head of the vocal conservative ACL, locked horns with his fellow panellists, particularly the health advocate, author and civil rights activist Dr Kerryn Phelps and the former federal Labor speaker Anna Burke.
(10) Former Labor speaker Anna Burke, a non-aligned party member, said Shorten should have allowed the debate on the floor of the Labor conference rather than stating a fixed preference for boat turnbacks before members had a chance to debate.
(11) It seems, therefore, that the kinetic parameters derived from initial uptake rates of glucose in intact cells 1-5, 11 using single flux analysis, such as Eadie-Hofstee- or Lineweaver-Burk-plots, are in error.
(12) Lineweaver-Burk plots for butyrylthiocholine were obtained at different times during the course of inactivation.
(13) The pure enzyme shows non-linearity in the Lineweaver-Burk plot, thus indicating the presence of two enzyme forms with Km values of about 0.65 mM and 8.5 mM.
(14) The Km value for CTP was calculated as 0.0156 mM, by Lineweaver-Burk analysis.
(15) By plotting Lineweaver-Burk plots of the rates of transport of the galactose derivatives, the apparent V and K(m) values were obtained.
(16) Lineweaver-Burk analysis of microsomal phenol UDP-glucuronosyltransferase activity suggested that MC-treatment induced a high affinity isozyme (KM = 0.14 mM), in addition to the low affinity isozyme (KM = 3.1 mM) present in liver microsomes from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(17) The murine monoclonal antibody (MAb) 5A8, which is reactive with domain 2 of CD4, blocks human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection and syncytium formation of CD4+ cells (L. C. Burkly, D. Olson, R. Shapiro, G. Winkler, J. J. Rosa, D. W. Thomas, C. Williams, and P. Chisholm, J.
(18) Geographical location of Manus Island The immigration minister, Tony Burke, who recently moved women and children off Manus Island because of substandard conditions, said families would not be sent to the centre until it was upgraded.
(19) For the investigation of intramitochondrial transport of cholesterol, measurement of free cholesterol (FCh) of Mt and the Lineweaver-Burk plotting for cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme (CSCC), prepared by osmotic shock and sonication of Mt, were carried out.
(20) Lineweaver-Burk plots for insulin as varied substrate were linear, whereas those for the thiol substrates were nonlinears: the plots for low molecular weight monothiols (GSH and mercaptoethanol) were parabolic; those for low molecular weight dithiols (dithiothreitol, dihydrolipoic acid, and 2,3-dimercaptopropanol) were apparently linear modified by substrate inhibition; and the plots for protein polythiols (reduced insulin A and B chains and reduced ribonuclease) were parabolic with superposed substrate inhibition.
Burse
Definition:
(n.) A purse; also, a vesicle; a pod; a hull.
(n.) A fund or foundation for the maintenance of needy scholars in their studies; also, the sum given to the beneficiaries.
(n.) An ornamental case of hold the corporal when not in use.
(n.) An exchange, for merchants and bankers, in the cities of continental Europe. Same as Bourse.
(n.) A kind of bazaar.
Example Sentences:
(1) About twenty five dissections of the forefoot, we have precised the presence of serosis burses, upper the profound transversal intermetatarsus ligament, in the intercapito metatarsus region.
(2) In precising the situation and the anatomic characteristics of these burses, this study contributes to clarify the etiology of some inflammatory or static pains of the foot.
(3) The omental dialysis is an elimination procedure of active pancreatic enzymes from the omental burse.
(4) These burses, recently described by Bossley (New Zealand), are not described in the classical anatomic books.