(n.) A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gel permeation chromatography of the CIT-agarose eluates revealed one protein peak that coincided with PDE activity at an elution position of 135,000 daltons.
(2) Cold-induced thermogenesis (CIT) also reappeared soon after nutritional rehabilitation.
(3) Eleven insulin-dependent diabetic patients were treated in random order by 2-mo continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) or 2-mo conventional injection treatment (CIT) with crossover to the alternative regimen.
(4) Nondepleted cells stimulated with the calcium ionophore A23187 showed only a transient accumulation of L-Cit, indicating that L-Cit is recycled to L-Arg during the biosynthesis of endothelium-derived relaxing factor.
(5) We evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion therapy (CSII) as compared to conventional injection treatment (CIT) in an ordinary diabetic clinic in a one-year randomized crossover study of 65 type I diabetic patients.
(6) The cancers showed important differences from those seen following conventional immunosuppressive therapy (CIT).
(7) However, in the latest period (between 1983 and 1986) the average half-life was 7.6 years for CIT below 13 hours, 7.2 years for those with 13 to 24 hours and 6.4 years for more than 24 hours.
(8) About 60% of America's clothing industry depends on CIT for financing.
(9) Therefore, the positive growth rates of isolates after incubation for 24 hr on CA medium was significantly higher (p less than 0.01) than that on Acet medium and C-Cit medium.
(10) Non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) were the most common tumors, being 41% compared with 12% in CIT patients.
(11) The net impairment in both retinopathy grading and individual lesions was significant during CSII as compared with CIT (P less than 0.05).
(12) In cit+ strains, buffering of the medium to pH 5.7 caused sustained maximal activation, while buffering to pH 7.2 prevented enhancement of activation.
(13) In the CIT group both GFR and UAE values were unchanged.
(14) Other MA are increased seven-fold in Cy-A-treated patients and between two- and six-fold in those receiving CIT.
(15) The antagonism of AcA utilization by AcO or Cit is thought to be exerted at the AcO permease.
(16) The effects of 3 wk of near normoglycemia by continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) on plasma immunoreactive somatostatin (IRS) responses to arginine (0.5 g X kg-1 X 30 min-1) in seven patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) were compared with the same patients in poor glycemic control during conventional insulin therapy (CIT) and with seven normal controls.
(17) Renal handling of CIT was studied in 45 children with various chronic kidney disorders under standard inulin clearance conditions.
(18) Male nude mice were implanted with osmotic minipumps releasing 50 micrograms of a potent antagonist of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) per day [N-Ac-[D-Nal(2)1,D-Phe(pCl)2,D-Pal(3)3,D-Cit6,D-Ala10]LH-RH] (SB-75) [Nal(2), 3-(2-naphthyl)alanine; Phe(pCl), 4-chlorophenylalanine; Pal(3), 3-(3-pyridyl)alanine; Cit, citrulline], or they were treated with s.c. injections of SB-75 (25 micrograms twice a day).
(19) This cortical imaging technique (CIT) is validated by applying it to artificially derived data.
(20) In urethane-anesthetized rabbits CIT decreased the blood pressure, and in succession it lowered, flattened and inverted the T wave of ECG suggesting heart ischemia.
Lit
Definition:
() of Light
() of Light
() a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
(4) The central lobby is lit by a over-storey whose windows actually open (far rarer than it should be), and protected from the sun by automatic blinds.
(5) Trafalgar Square in central London was lit up by flash bulbs as part of the demonstration against photographers being unfairly targeted by police after taking photos.
(6) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
(7) I shall never forget a cherry tree in Kyoto lit with braziers at dusk.
(8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
(9) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
(10) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
(11) You have escape holes in the net, lit by LEDs so the fish can swim out.
(12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
(13) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
(14) The answer lies in a mix of carrot and stick provision including investing in a more integrated public transport network, encouraging active transport in the form of walking and cycling, and enticing people out of their cars.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luminous umbrellas lit beneath high wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin.
(15) Significant qualitative and quantitative changes in the fatty acid composition occurred during incubation of epimastigotes derived from LIT medium in the triatomine artificial urine (TAU).
(16) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
(17) Internal UN documents, marked “strictly confidential” and leaked to the Guardian, reveal how the UN’s internal complaints unit uncovered evidence the woman was abused with lit cigarettes and photographed lying on the ground.
(18) Two decades from now, the government imagines people will still be able to fly when they want (including from a third Heathrow runway), drive (but efficiently and perhaps electrically), and live in warm, well-lit (but far better insulated) homes.
(19) He has the right idea in combining old and new, like Fulgence Bienvenüe, who built the all-electric Paris Metro , yet lit his house by candles because they're beautiful.
(20) On the walls of brightly lit meeting rooms – each named after garment manufacturing zones around the city – are posters of laughing, thin, beautiful young Europeans of varying ethnic backgrounds wearing the bright, cheery, fashionable clothes of the company's brands.