(n.) A work of acknowledged excellence and authority, or its author; -- originally used of Greek and Latin works or authors, but now applied to authors and works of a like character in any language.
(n.) One learned in the literature of Greece and Rome, or a student of classical literature.
Example Sentences:
(1) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(3) Classical treatment combining artificial delivery or uterine manual evacuation-oxytocics led to the arrest of bleeding in 73 cases.
(4) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(5) The simultaneous administration of the yellow fever vaccine did not influence the titre of agglutinins induced by the classic cholera vaccine.
(6) N-Methoxysulphonamides showed no inhibitory activity, as predicted by the classic work of Krebs on N-substituted inhibitors.
(7) The interactions of 3 classical alpha-adrenergic antihypertensives of prevalently central type (St 155 or clonidine St 600; BR 750 or guanabenz) with the narcotic effects of pentobarbital have been investigated in the Mus musculus.
(8) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(9) We have characterized the binding of the selective muscarinic antagonist [3H]pirenzepine ([3H])PZ) and the classical muscarinic antagonist (-)-[3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate ((-)-[3H]QNB) to muscarinic cholinergic sites in rabbit peripheral lung membranes.
(10) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(11) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
(12) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
(13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(14) Classically, parathormone is known to increase bony reabsorption and raise serum calcium.
(15) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
(16) Here we compare this revised technique to the classical sucrose density centrifugation procedure.
(17) This study demonstrates that a second classical neurotransmitter, dopamine, can act to suppress regenerative neurite outgrowth.
(18) Classic technics of digital image analysis and new algorithms were used to improve the contrast on the full image or a portion of it, contrast a skin lesion with statistical information deduced from another lesion, evaluate the shape of the lesion, the roughness of the surface, and the transition region from the lesion to the normal skin, and analyze a lesion from the chromatic point of view.
(19) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
(20) Detection of the noncarboxylated forms allows an indirect and specific measure of the vitamin K deficiency found in early, classic, and late hemorrhagic disease of the newborn (HDN), malabsorption syndromes, and drug related (warfarin, anticonvulsants, and antibiotics) states.
Clastic
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to what may be taken apart; as, clastic anatomy (of models).
(a.) Fragmental; made up of brok/ fragments; as, sandstone is a clastic rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Possible integration of the clastic binding processes into other, better-recognized processes at the receptors is considered.
(2) Pyruvate was metabolized through a clostridial-type clastic reaction.
(3) Semiempirical (CNDO) molecular orbital calculations, based on a previously investigated morphine-receptor clastic-binding system, were performed using a series of ethyl and propyl amines as models for the analgesic receptor.
(4) An in vitro system for isolated dentinoclasts is described in which clastic cells which are not contemporaneously engaged in resorption are gently rinsed from the surface of actively resorbing root dentin.
(5) Behavioral changes included marked apathy, inertness and hypersomnia, together with occasional clastic agitated episodes and verbal and gestural stereotypies and soliloquies.
(6) A clostridial-type clastic reaction was utilized by the spirochete to degrade pyruvate to acetyl-coenzyme A, CO(2), and H(2).
(7) This study demonstrates a relationship between the biochemical properties of the extracellular matrix of a cartilaginous model of long bone and the fusion of mononuclear clastic elements into multinucleate chondroclasts.
(8) Animal viruses, predominantly enteroviruses, were detected in shallow water at bottom depths and in clastic marine sediments.
(9) Failure to express either clear zones or ruffled borders by cells cultured on collagen-coated coverslips was interpreted to reveal that collagen itself is not capable of, but requires the mineral component of hard tissue for, producing morphologic resorbing structures in clastic cells.
(10) It was concluded that the direct effect of steroids on clastic cells may be one of inhibition (the degree of which depends on the nature and dose of the steroid) whereas, in vivo, systemic administration may cause more secondary effects (such as PTH stimulation) to compete with this inhibition.
(11) Sanitary, chemical, bacteriological and toxicological characteristics of water and clastic deposits in the area of water abstraction systems used for economic and drinking purposes near a large inhabited locality are presented.
(12) The spirochete utilized a clostridial-type clastic reaction to metabolize pyruvate to acetyl-coenzyme A, CO(2), and H(2), without production of formate.
(13) In addition, the results indicated that the enzymes of strain 82 involved in the clastic split of pyruvate to formate and acetate are inactivated by exposure to 46 C and that the lactic and glycerol dehydrogenases are more heat-labile than those in E. coli.
(14) Production of H(2) by S. maxima may occur through a pyruvate clastic system similar to that present in coliform bacteria.
(15) A clastic analysis was made on the base of a factorial model of Newcastle disease in this country for the 1970-1979.
(16) The atrophy is accompanied either by normal or increased bony trabecularization, together with increased osteoblastic and -clastic activity.
(17) The spirochetes used a coliform-type clastic reaction to metabolize pyruvate.
(18) Cell-free extracts of Clostridium perfringens were found to contain all the enzymes of the Embden-Meyerhof pathway of glycolysis in addition to lactic acid dehydrogenase and the pyruvate-clastic system.
(19) Osteoclasts colonized and resorbed fully mineralized dentin, whereas clastic cells were not observed on unextracted demineralized dentin and predentin.
(20) Possible alternative explanations of the facts which led to the clastic binding hypotheses are offered.