(n.) A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission of mechanical power, etc.
(n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit.
(n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.
(n.) An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuring land.
(n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
(n.) The warp threads of a web.
(v. t.) To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog.
(v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.
(v. t.) To unite closely and strongly.
(v. t.) To measure with the chain.
(v. t.) To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
(3) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(4) Mannose receptor mediated uptake by the reticuloendothelial system has been suggested as an explanation for the rapid removal of ricin A chain antibody conjugates from the circulation after their administration.
(5) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(6) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
(7) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(8) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(9) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
(10) The reducing equivalents could be donated by formate or NADH through some segment of the membrane respiratory chain.
(11) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
(12) The seve polypeptide chains investigated had generalyy similar properties; all contained two residues per molecule of tryptophan and N-acetylserine was the common N-terminal amino acid residue.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Peptide:N-glycosidase F removed both the asparagine-linked oligosaccharide chains of ricin B-chain in the absence of lactose.
(15) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(16) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
(17) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
(18) The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis was F420 with one less glutamic acid in the side chain.
(19) The present study deals with 832 ossicular chain reconstruction procedures performed in 655 patients from January 1975 to December 1985.
(20) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
Flail
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
(n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(2) Such loads might worsen the chest wall distortion that is characteristic of patients with flail chest.
(3) The proximal ring of the graft effectively stabilized the flail aortic valve in two patients with aortic regurgitation associated with dissection of the ascending aorta.
(4) Serial studies demonstrated eventual disruption of the chordal attachments of the anterior tricuspid leaflet resulting in frank leaflet flail.
(5) Cardiac surgeons generally ignore the importance of the flail septum that results from anteroseptal infarction.
(6) The postoperative course of all the patients was uneventful and there was no incidence of flail chest or respiratory failure.
(7) We noted that mortality rate was highly dependent on major chest trauma: 68.6% for flail chest (FC), 56% for lung contusion (LC), 42.3% for hemothorax (HA), and 38.1% for pneumothorax (PN).
(8) Using type III struts, we have obtained stabilization of the flail chest in all cases even in patients with severe anterior paradoxical movement.
(9) Sixteen dogs were placed under general anesthesia and flail segments of the left chest were created by transecting ribs 7,8,9, and 10 anteriorly and posteriorly.
(10) The flurry of charges were announced in a statement released by the governing body on Monday evening which confirmed the referee, Mike Dean, had not witnessed Costa putting his hands in Laurent Koscielny’s face and, more significantly, the forward’s flailing left arm making contact with his marker.
(11) Localized pulmonary contusions were produced in the right lower lobes (RLL) of 12 anesthetized ventilated dogs, 6 of which had a flail segment in the chest wall over the RLL.
(12) The patients presented difficult management problems, having undergone an average of two previous operations per joint; 22 joints had suffered prior complications; 18 had less than 50 degrees of flexion and six were flail.
(13) But he flailed in vain as the police officers grabbed him, one forcing his T-shirt roughly up over his head as three or four others laid in with their wooden batons, dragging and pushing him to a line of waiting Land Cruisers and more helmeted cops.
(14) In it, her character, Donna Stern, navigates a break up, a flailing career, an unplanned pregnancy, and, ultimately, an abortion.
(15) The symptoms of myoclonic flail movements and memorable dreams which are observed in association with G-LOC may provide key information for unraveling the neurophysiologic mechanism of G-LOC and subsequent recovery.
(16) "Shaggy" echoes recorded from the aortic leaflets in diastole as well as irregular diastolic densities in the left ventricular outflow tract suggested flail aortic leaflets secondary to bacterial endocarditis.
(17) In reality, this medium is so new and so ever-changing, that everyone seems to be flailing around (some less than others) trying to figure out what to do next.
(18) In the treatment of severe chest injuries with flail chest either positive-pressure mechanical ventilation (and tracheostomy) is necessary or the surgical stabilisation of the chest wall by osteosyntheses of the broken ribs.
(19) In cases of concomitant serial rib resection radius and ulna will serve as stabilizators of the thoracic wall, thus avoiding a flail chest.
(20) Total mortality was 4.1%, and 13.6% in patients with flail chest.