(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.
Iconoclast
Definition:
(n.) A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
(n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Banks, who made his money selling insurance and sees himself, like Nigel Farage, as an ex-public school iconoclast of the “liberal establishment”, is no longer just some rightwing outlier.
(2) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(3) Described by Econsultancy as “erudite and iconoclastic”, he was recognised as tech entrepreneur of the year at the 2016 UK Business Awards.
(4) Though he strongly disapproved of much of what later took shape as "New Labour", which he saw, among other things, as historically cowardly, he was without question the single most influential intellectual forerunner of Labour's increasingly iconoclastic 1990s revisionism.
(5) On Friday in St Petersburg, Florida, the legendary pro-wrestler, whose real name is Terry Bollea, delivered a $115m legal hit on the iconoclastic web publisher, a victory that signals a significant change in the public’s tolerance for media invasions of privacy – and that could bankrupt the site.
(6) This autumn’s project should deliver sparks as Khan creates and performs a duet with flamenco iconoclast Galván, exploring their fascination with rhythm, gesture, pattern and myth.
(7) I am something of a parvenu, but we should welcome the iconoclastic and the unconventional.
(8) Acknowledging the contribution of sociology and social sciences to psychiatry, it is suggested that the heroic period of social psychiatry and the iconoclastic approach of sociology of mental health are over.
(9) On the surface, the grumpy pacifist iconoclast had little in common with the war hero author of Seven Pillars of Wisdom - apart from a weakness for inordinately long prefaces.
(10) In some ways no one represents this better than the iconoclastic Varoufakis, whose investiture should go down as a textbook case of what happens when radicals come into town.
(11) While Brand’s iconoclastic politics, urging people not to vote and to abandon conventional party politics, emerge naturally from his subversive comedy, the spirit of Izzard’s surreal improvisations are harder to find in his pursuit of a conventional political career.
(12) The recent case of The Jewel of Medina, a work by Sherry Jones which is neither bold nor iconoclastic, exemplifies the problem.
(13) In his 20s he was an iconoclastic aesthete, who learned Chinese with the great Swedish sinologist, Bernard Karlgren, in Stockholm, not out of political commitment to Mao's recent revolution, but out of love for a venerable culture of grace and simplicity which, he thought, represented the blissful antithesis of the consumerist west.
(14) This iconoclastic critique from the right did not change US policy but gained the keepers of Rand's flame respect and credibility, said Ghate, a Canadian of German and Indian parentage with a PhD in philosophy.
(15) Outraged Gehry's iconoclastic designs include the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Maggie's Centre, a cancer daycare centre, in Dundee.
(16) The impresario and iconoclast Malcolm McLaren , who has died aged 64 from the cancer mesothelioma, was one of the pivotal, yet most divisive influences on the styles and sounds of late 20th-century popular culture.
(17) His backers, it should be noted, include such bold iconoclasts as Tessa Jowell, Lord Falconer and Alastair Campbell.
(18) If Christopher was louche, hedonistic and iconoclastic, Hitchens would be fastidious, puritanical and Christian.
(19) But Brolin said that “he came on [set] as the kind of mercurial iconoclast he is.
(20) These iconoclasts would happily leave behind the burden of ancient stones and get on with the church’s real mission.