(n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.
Example Sentences:
(1) You’re most at risk of being killed when you leave,” Burnet says.
(2) They could be upstairs or even behind the door,” says Burnet.
(3) In some cases, our staff can be more approachable.” The focus on domestic abuse started six years ago at Peabody, when Burnet was hired, and in that time the number of new cases reported has increased by 825%.
(4) You need to think about the fact it could be masked as something else.” If an employee spots the signs of domestic abuse, they report their concerns to the organisation’s specialist team, led by Burnet.
(5) According to the authors, although in a few cases the tumour may induce development of a clone secreting Igmc, usually carcinoma and Igmc are independent from one another and are due to a common mechanism : reduction in cell immunity, according to Burnet.
(6) The age dependence and the anatomical distribution of the lesions of such disorders imply a Burnet type 'forbidden clone' theory of ageing.
(7) Burnet spent three years working at domestic abuse charity Refuge before moving to Peabody, a large provider of social housing in London.
(8) The first, proposed by Cunningham, holds that clonal deletion as viewed by Burnet operates in early life; however, later in life all autoreactive B cells not eliminated during ontogeny are prevented from expanding and secreting anti-self antibodies by a compensatory suppressor mechanism.
(9) The discovery of the 'one cell - one antibody' dogma and the demonstration that only a small minority of B cells possessed receptors specific for a given antigen were consistent with Burnet's clonal selection hypothesis, which was later formally proven by preparing antigen-specific lymphocytes and inducing clonal activation in vitro.
(10) Burnet says the aim is to get the leaders in the community to act.
(11) I believe that Wally Rowe would have been interested, for every case I have described presents problems in the ecology of viruses, and like my mentor Macfarlane Burnet, Wally approached virology from an ecological point of view, whether he was thinking about the DNA provirus of retroviruses and the host chromosome, the pathogenesis of disease, or the spread of viruses in animal populations, all topics to which he made major contributions.
(12) Circulation of the Q fever agent with different virulent properties has indicated the necessity of purposeful diagnosis of this sickness both among the acute fever diseases and among flaccid course, subclinical and chronic ones not excluding the etiological role of the Burnet rickettsia.
(13) If the Burnet's hypothesis of the antieoplastic "immunological surveillance" is strictly interpreted, it would result unappropriate to speak of "immunosuppressive therapy" in malignant hemoblastoses and allied neoplastic diseases, although the treatment of such affections consists of the administration of mostly immune system-depressing agent.
(14) The model describing the reaction of the immune system to infectious agent invasion is constructed on the bases of Burnet's clonal selection theory and the co-recognition principle.
(15) By splendid irony, the unexpectedly available space in the vault at Westminster Abbey was soon filled ‑ with the bodies of a troop of illegitimate offspring of Charles II and their families, including the Earl of Doncaster, son of the king and his mistress Lucy Walter, and Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Cleveland and Southampton, his son by Barbara Villiers, the woman described by Bishop Burnet as "a woman of pleasure ... vastly expensive and consequently very covetous".
(16) Many problems still remain unsolved, but now as ever, the basis of most experimental studies is still formed by Burnet's clonal selection theory.
(17) Initially scheduled for only 13 weeks due to fears that its length would turn viewers off, it went on to become the most popular news show in Britain, launching the careers of some of our beest known newsreaders such as Alastair Burnet, Reginald Bosanquet, Sandy Gall, Alastair Stewart and Trevor McDonald.
(18) According to the Burnet's immune surveillance theory the T-lymphocytes eliminate malignant cells in an early stage.
(19) Burnet's clonal selection theory suggests that each B lymphocyte is committed to a single antibody specificity.
(20) The action of polyphenols of great burnet is more effective as compared with venoruton.
Burnt
Definition:
() of Burn
(p. p. & a.) Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
(2) Chemical analysis of the smoke concensate of bidis and cigarettes showed that condensate from bidis had a higher benzo[a]pyrene level than was observed in cigarette smoke condensate, when compared on the basis of the mass (mg) burnt.
(3) We believe that 'neuromuscular and vascular hamartoma' is not a hamartomatous condition but may be seen as part of the histological spectrum of Crohn's disease, possibly in a chronic and 'burnt out' phase.
(4) The authors present a retrospective investigation concerning 49 EEG performed on 45 patients from five months to nineteen years old, presenting a burnt skin surface of between 1% and 70%.
(5) The fires raced through burnt and unburnt areas alike, leaping roads and clearings.
(6) "Will I get burnt to death in a giant effigy of a man woven from wicker?"
(7) Associate professor Ian O’Hara from Queensland University of Technology’s Centre for Tropical Crops and Biocommodities is leading a $5.7m project (with $2.1m Arena funding ) to convert the industry’s crop wastes (which are usually either burnt or left to degrade) into renewable fuels for farming and transportation.
(8) Divers have found the body of one of two oil workers who were missing after four others were badly burnt by an explosion on a platform in the Gulf of Mexico.
(9) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(10) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
(11) Twenty cows and 20 uncalved 20 month old heifers with severely burnt teats were studied.
(12) Pulsatile release of luteinising hormone was found in control subjects but was absent or diminished in burnt patients with low serum testosterone concentrations.
(13) This must have happened while the rest of us were trying to avoid being burnt at the stake by raging Protestants and Patrick Harvie.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Burnt-out classrooms in Chibok, from where Boko Haram fighters seized 276 teenagers in April 2014.
(15) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
(16) "The film has burnt everybody out for this year," says Allen, pointing out that the actors who play Will and Simon, Simon Bird and Joe Thomas, are pushing 28.
(17) After 20 days 4 sheets of cells of first subculture, each 10 cm in diameter, representing a surface of approximately 300 cm2, were implanted on the front of the left thigh, which was burnt third-degree deep.
(18) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
(19) Sulfuric acid was carefully distilled off the burnt material.
(20) Howard Amos (@howardamos) Back outside the burnt out trade union building.