(n.) An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
(n.) A cluster; a group; a thicket.
(n.) The compressed clay of coal strata.
(v. t.) To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.
(v. i.) To tread clumsily; to clamp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-eight fluids were found to have crystals (monosodium urate (MSU) in 15, calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) in 5, CPPD plus apatite-like crystals in 9, apatite-like clumps alone in 8 and lipid liquid in 1).
(2) These particles were clumped by the addition of anti-HTLV-III-positive serum suggesting that they may represent intermediate forms of the virus.
(3) The compound caused extensive clumping, of cells, which appeared not to be related to the ability of boronates to esterify to diols.
(4) Central nervous system (CNS) cultured neurons while exposed to different concentrations and pH of L-lactic acid exhibited in general chromatin clumping, vacuolization in the cytoplasm, appearance of lipid bodies, accumulation of polyribosomes, cytoplasmic lucency and swollen and aggregation of mitochondria.
(5) Data presented demonstrate that the slide preparation and clump evaluation procedures used for this study yield reliable and reproducible data.
(6) Electron microscopy indicates that the major structural alterations produced by exposure to concentrated BWSV and 20 mM calcium Ringer solution are the swelling of nerve terminal mitochondria and the clumping of synaptic vesicles, large numbers of which remain in the terminals.
(7) There were marked margination of nuclear clumping chromatins.
(8) After collagenase and elastase digestion, bovine ligamentum nuchae showed type VI collagen fibrils and clumps of beaded fibrils like those in zonule and vitreous.
(9) Subsequently (35-hr pupa) the DLM commences to degenerate, forming random clumps of vacuolated muscle tissue.
(10) These deeper ipsilateral clumps occupied a rather well defined layer extending in depth from about 100 mum to about 175 mum.
(11) Consequently, eggs and feces would not be deposited uniformly throughout the hosts home range, resulting in a clumped distribution of larval development sites at host resting areas.
(12) Fibrin could be seen around some of the platelet clumps and was the main component in a small number of the thrombi in two patients.
(13) In comparison with the controls, the isoproterenol-treated (Group A), the Ca-treated (Group B), and the diltiazem-posttreated (Groups E and F) showed severe myocardial cell damage, such as sarcolemmal disruption, mitochondrial swelling, intramitochondrial electron-dense granules, membranous structures along mitochondrial cristae, thickening or close packing of the Z-lines, separation of cell junctions, frayed myofibrils, clumping of chromatin, and intracellular fluid accumulation.
(14) The beneficial effects of D in AMI reported here could be partly attributed to its ability to enhance PGI2 release from vascular walls; D might also relieve ischemia by improvement of local tissue oxygenation, energy supplies and platelet function by its ability to deaggregate platelet clumps.
(15) It is proposed that the presence of cytophilic antibodies on immune macrophages represents an expression of antibacterial cellular immunity by enhanced clumping and phagocytic activities of the macrophages.
(16) Immediately after the induction of agglutination, wild-type cells begin to form aggregates, and within 30 min the cells are packed side-to-side in clumps containing thousands of cells.
(17) Following one or more hours of ischaemia crater-like depressions and blebs appeared on the luminal surfaces of ventricular endothelial cells, with margination and clumping of nuclear chromatin, loss of glycogen granules, swelling of mitochondria, and the development of subendothelial membrane-bound dilatations of myocytes.
(18) They formed clumps of cells, mainly pairs and triplets.
(19) These cells were disseminated throughout the lymphoid tissue or grouped in clumps, in plaques or, more rarely, as true follicles.
(20) In the patients with long-term disease there was widespread atrophy of the choroid and pigment epithelium and variable amounts of pigment clumping and subretinal fibrous tissue deposition.
Crump
Definition:
(a.) Crooked; bent.
(a.) Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crump said the family and its attorneys did not feel it was “appropriate” to get into the substance of Baden’s testimony.
(2) Benjamin Crump, the attorney representing Brown’s family, said in a statement: “The family of Michael Brown Jr will wait for official word from the Justice Department regarding whether or not any charges will be filed against the police officer who shot and killed him.” “The family won’t address speculation from anonymous sources,” he added.
(3) Crump urged authorities to conduct a swift and transparent investigation.
(4) This video shows in crystal-clear HD that the responding officers acted inappropriately and recklessly, both in how they handled the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice and the events that immediately followed,” said Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for the Rice family, who has represented the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
(5) Between bursts of machine-gun fire and the crump of explosions – unmuffled in crisp mountain air – the starry sky above the Syrian frontier offers ethereal distraction.
(6) To the law enforcement officers who will be patrolling the streets, we would like to thank you in advance for not having a repeat of horrific encounters that took place in August,” said Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Brown family.
(7) Then, following more mouth, another short one crumps the handle - they run two - before torso is offered to bouncer, it takes back and earns four.
(8) Crump said that the daughter of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, Dr Bernice King, had sent him a message that read: "Today is a defining moment for the status of my father's dream.
(9) Brown’s family has hired civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, the same lawyer who represented the family of Trayvon Martin.
(10) The multistage model of Armitage and Doll, as extended by Whittemore, Day and Brown, and Crump and Howe, is used to estimate the dose effect on the ordered stages of tumor development.
(11) And George Zimmerman is trying to have us believe that his life is so terrible now," Crump said on ABC's Good Morning America.
(12) John Crump, senior advisor on climate change, GRID-Arendal , Ottawa, Canada John works at Grid Polar Centre, which provides advice to UNEP and also leads a number of climate change projects, including Many Strong Voices.
(13) There is nothing written anywhere in the law that police officers are to be treated any differently from any other citizen … When there is probable cause you don’t have to have a grand jury, you can charge.” “All the witnesses say they didn’t see police officers attempt to perform CPR,” said Crump, adding: “They’re supposed to de-escalate, not escalate a situation, and everything you see in that video escalated the situation.” Tamir Rice is the youngest victim of three recent high-profile deaths at the hands of police in the US, none of which have resulted in disciplinary action.
(14) John Crump, senior advisor on climate change, GRID-Arendal , Ottawa, Canada Realise that we are part of the problem : We need to see ourselves as part of the problem as well as part of the solution.
(15) Kuyt's shoulder crumps right into the full back's coupon, who then falls awkwardly on his back.
(16) Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for the Brown family, described the new video as 'of paramount significance'.
(17) We want justice for our son.” Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said: “No violence, no violence.” The couple was supported by their attorney, Benjamin Crump, who previously represented the parents of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old unarmed boy who was shot dead by a neighbourhood watch captain in 2012.
(18) These methods are similar to those proposed earlier by Farrar and Crump (1988, Fundam, Appl.
(19) Benjamin Crump, the lawyer for Brown's family, said both workers came forward and told the family their account of the shooting.
(20) Crump himself has gone on to represent the families of Brown and Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot dead by Cleveland police, whose case has also been taken up by the Black Lives Matter movement.