(n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
(n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
(n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
(n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
(n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
(n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
(n.) A mollusk. See Clam.
(v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
(v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
(n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.
Example Sentences:
(1) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
(2) In voltage-clamp experiments the ion current flowing through the channels was homogeneous indicating a defined conformation and a uniform size.
(3) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
(4) With a series of 117 aortic valve replacements, the authors have examined the results in relation to the method of protecting the myocardium while the aorta is clamped off.
(5) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
(6) Detailed voltage-clamp measurements revealed that ABA-activated ion currents could be reversed by depolarizations more positive than -10 mV.
(7) Multiple blood samples were obtained over one dosing interval following oral CyA administration in eight liver transplant patients before and after T-tube clamping.
(8) Furthermore, blood pressure, free fatty acid concentration, liver enzymes, and urate concentrations were significantly correlated with glucose infusion rate at the clamp test.
(9) Using the rate coefficient values found by SCoPfit, we simulated a voltage-clamp experiment with both models running under their Na(+)-Na+ exchange mode, and we computed the transient currents generated following voltage steps in both depolarizing and hyperpolarizing directions from a basic potential of -40 mV.
(10) The effects of alanine, glucose and tolbutamide on insulin-secreting cells (RINm5F) have been investigated using patch-clamp and single cell intracellular Ca2+ measurements.
(11) In the whole-cell current-clamp method, the cell membrane was depolarized by endothelin and then repolarized by nicorandil.
(12) The effect of physiologic elevations of plasma hydroxybutyrate induced by the infusion of sodium D,L-beta-hydroxybutyrate (15 mumol X kg-1 X min-1) on carbohydrate metabolism was examined with the euglycemic insulin clamp technique in nine healthy volunteers.
(13) The initial defect can be directly measured by glucose clamp and other sophisticated techniques; the clinical syndrome may be derived from a network of related variables known to be associated with reduced insulin action.
(14) We have investigated insulin responsiveness in relation to insulin sensitivity during sequential hyperglycemic clamping in low insulin responders (LIR), high insulin responders (HIR) and in women with a history of gestational diabetes (GD).
(15) In anesthetized cats, the enhancement of sympathetic activity and increase of the blood pressure in exclusion of afferents (section of vagosympathetic trunks and clamping of common carotid arteries) as well as the disappearance of the activity in enhanced afferentation, were shown to be transient and to disappear within a few minutes-scores of minutes in spite of the going on deafferentation or enhancement of afferentation.
(16) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(17) In a direct test of the hypothesis that the M2 coat protein of influenza A can function as a proton translocator, we incorporated a synthetic peptide containing its putative transmembrane domain into voltage-clamped planar lipid bilayers.
(18) The aortic cross-clamp time ranged from 51 minutes to 94 minutes (mean 71 minutes).
(19) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
(20) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.
Sandwich
Definition:
(n.) Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
(v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
(2) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(3) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(4) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Therefore, a modified sandwich ELISA was developed to measure IL-1ra protein concentration in synovial fluids.
(7) We used a "sandwich"-type immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure antibody against the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in serum from individuals with myasthenia gravis, with markedly different results for certain specimens, as measured by the two techniques.
(8) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(9) Monoclonal antibodies specific for two unique converting enzyme epitopes were utilized to develop a two-site sandwich enzyme immunoassay.
(10) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
(11) A sandwich was formed with proinsulin by using a monoclonal antibody against C-peptide labeled with alkaline phosphatase.
(12) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
(13) In this paper we describe a new assay for diphtheria toxin in bacterial cultures, based on a sandwich-dot immunobinding method.
(14) Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) in serum of cancer patients was measured by a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and the effect of sTfR for natural killer cytotoxicity was also studied.
(15) Patients with C2 disease are being controlled locally with the "sandwich" regimen, but it is not clear whether pre-op RT alone may be adequate in this group as well.
(16) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
(17) One was a culture of isolated cells between floating double layers of collagen gel, designated the "floating sandwich method."
(18) Yet sandwiched between these states are tax havens bleeding them of cash for no other reason than to avoid paying a fair share of that welfare burden.
(19) A sandwich enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) using a microtiter plate was developed.
(20) The environmental changes are explained consistently by a movement of the Met-105 side chain sandwiched by two indole rings of Trp-28 and 111 in the direction from Trp-111 to Trp-28.