(n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood.
(n.) A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
(n.) A matron who accompanies a young lady in public, for propriety, or as a guide and protector.
(v. t.) To attend in public places as a guide and protector; to matronize.
Example Sentences:
(1) The molecular chaperone GroE facilitates correct protein folding in vivo and in vitro.
(2) Ellen Page is to make her directorial debut with Miss Stevens, starring Anna Faris as a teacher chaperoning a mob of high school students to a state drama competition.
(3) According to its physical and biochemical properties, poly(L-malate) may alternatively function as a molecular chaperone in nucleosome assembly in the S phase and as both an inhibitor and a stock-piling agent of DNA-polymerase-alpha-primase in the G2 phase and M phase of the plasmodial cell cycle.
(4) Two proteins, P1 and P2, which are specifically altered in mammalian cell mutants resistant to antimitotic drugs, have been identified as the homologs of two members of the class of proteins known as molecular chaperones.
(5) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(6) Spending time with Fred Miller, 93, and his fiancee Joan Emms, 84, veers close to chaperoning lovestruck teens.
(7) In the presence of HSP70s both the autoprotease and transpeptidase activities were inhibited, indicating that these chaperones can interact with nascent polypeptides and, in the cases studied here, perturb their normal structures.
(8) Other reasons for using a chaperone included a patient with emotional problems, a history of rape or sexual abuse, a seductive patient, an uncomfortable patient or physician, a first pelvic examination, and medicolegal issues.
(9) In a survey of 200 female patients attending a five-man practice in a health centre, 75 per cent of the respondents stated that they would like to be offered a chaperone at pelvic examinations.
(10) Complementation experiments with E. coli groE mutants showed that the chaperonin-10 and chaperonin-60 genes from the endosymbiont are expressed in E. coli and that they can function as molecular chaperones together with endogenous GroEL and GroES, respectively.
(11) We have previously reconstituted the soluble phase of precursor protein translocation in vitro using purified proteins (the precursor proOmpA, the chaperone SecB, and the ATPase SecA) in addition to isolated inner membrane vesicles.
(12) These results support the notion that both H and L chains require the chaperoning function of BiP before or during the process of antibody assembly.
(13) Constitutively expressed heat-shock proteins of the hsp60 and hsp70 families, classified as 'molecular chaperones', have important functions in the folding and intracellular sorting of newly-synthesized proteins.
(14) This sequential mechanism of chaperone action may represent an important pathway for the folding of newly synthesized polypeptides.
(15) At times the tightly chaperoned tour already felt as if National Lampoon’s Cuban Vacation had been scripted by over-earnest communist officials.
(16) These findings demonstrate that the GdnHCl denaturation of complex polymeric proteins is unlikely to follow a reversible two-state denaturation pathway, and support the involvement of a chaperone-like protein in the folding and assembly of the fimbriae in vivo.
(17) The only exit from chaperones and chilblains was marriage.
(18) The medical literature contains no consistent recommendations regarding chaperon practices during physical examination of patients.
(19) We investigated whether in vivo holoenzyme formation was influenced by the association of the apoenzyme with cellular chaperones.
(20) The level of awareness of clinical teaching was poor and examination of women patients without a chaperone caused distress and should be rectified.
Forehead
Definition:
(n.) The front of that part of the head which incloses the brain; that part of the face above the eyes; the brow.
(n.) The aspect or countenance; assurance.
(n.) The front or fore part of anything.
Example Sentences:
(1) Average exposure during angiocardiography to the forehead was 3.2 mrem., to the hand 4.2 mrem.
(2) Is there not enough material available, can neck-, breast-or forehead flaps cover the defect, although they do not fulfill the demands for a satisfactory restoration of specific function.
(3) After all those years imagining what he would look like; first his hair, then his forehead and then those blue, blue eyes gradually revealed themselves.
(4) Report on a 79 years old female patient with a giant basalioma terebrans which has been growing for 15 years at the forehead.
(5) The forehead flap covers fabricated composite flaps of intravasal lining and primary cartilage grafts that create the subsurface architecture of the external nose.
(6) Traumatic endothelial rings were observed in the cornea obtained from a 4-year-old boy after a fatal gunshot wound to the forehead.
(7) The infant, who was utterly small for his gestational age, showed an aberrant motoric pattern and a high forehead, low-set ears, a prominent occiput and scoliosis, an extension defect in the knee joints and flexed, ulnar-deviated wrists.
(8) These changes comprised macrocephaly, prominent forehead, micrognathia, large fontanelle, flat nasal bridge, low-set ears, facial capillary naevi, cardiac defect and small size for gestational age.
(9) For the treatment of defects of the lateral nasal wall, in addition to the insular flap operation from the nasolabial region and the forehead, the medial frontal flap technique as described by Kazanjian is particularly recommended.
(10) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
(11) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(12) (Has anyone come across a couple who have tried this successfully, without one smashing the bottle of wine across the other's forehead?
(13) Common signs and symptoms include forehead laceration and deformity, and fracture of the frontal sinus.
(14) Large defects after Mohs' surgery for these lesions may involve the nose, cheek, forehead, and other parts of the face as well as the eyelids, medial canthus, and lacrimal drainage system.
(15) The P100 latency was measured at Oz with a forehead reference (Pz, O1 and O2 channels were also recorded).
(16) forehead for 0-3 days, chest for 4-5 days, sternum for 6 days and later).
(17) Its utility thus rivals the more commonly used medially based deltopectoral flap and forehead flap.
(18) An aneurysm of the superficial temporal artery is a rare lesion, which should be suspected after blunt trauma to the forehead that is followed by the appearance of a pulsatile cystic lesion in the region of the superficial temporal artery.
(19) Procedures included forehead and orbital repositioning, frontofacial advancement, Le Fort III and particularly Le Fort I osteotomies, as well as mandibular osteotomies and fracture repair.
(20) The detergent scrub technique was used for harvesting corneocytes from three body regions (forehead, palm, and sole) of normal persons (n = 20) under casual conditions and after thorough defattening of the skin with 70% isopropyl alcohol or petrol.