(n.) A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.
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.
Clumpy
Definition:
(n.) Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mutations in most CRT genes confer additional phenotypes, among these are clumpiness, hydroxyurea sensitivity, temperature sensitivity and slow growth.
(2) The entity is characterized by a maturation arrest at the myelocyte stage, strikingly clumpy chromatin, and a clinical course marked primarily by difficulties caused by anemia and thrombocytopenia.
(3) He wears clumpy black shoes instead of the custom-made red slippers favoured by his predecessor, Benedict; refuses to live in the magnificently decorated papal apartments, and drives himself around the city state in a 1984 Renault 4 of the sort favoured by Italian smallholders.
(4) A lesser side might have crumpled, particularly after the clumpy 2-2 draw against Sunderland that left them six points behind the following Wednesday, with only one game in hand.
(5) The ATT serum crossreacted with rat liver nucleoli and PtK1 cell nucleoli in which immunofluorescence labelling displayed a clumpy pattern.
(6) A 34-kd nucleolar protein (fibrillarin) of the U3 RNP complex was positive in immunoblotting of 22 sera (48%), which characteristically produced clumpy nucleolar staining.
(7) With the aid of polarization and electron microscopy, the myocardial-cell changes in the affected zones were classed into four morphological types, as follows: contracture type, intracellular myocytolysis, primary clumpy disintegration of myofibrils, and intravital autolysis of ischaemized cells.
(8) Disruption of the gene caused phenotypes similar to, but more severe than, those caused by missense mutations: high-level constitutivity for invertase, clumpiness, temperature-sensitive growth, alpha-specific mating defects, and failure to homozygous diploids to sporulate.
(9) Electron microscopic description of the characteristic abnormal clumpy chromatin cells is included.
(10) Clumpy or ovoid deposits of amyloid were present within the stroma of 41 epitheliomas, whereas no amyloid was found in the tumor cell islands.
(11) Cells deficient in Chs2 showed clumpy growth and aberrant shape and size.
(12) In addition clumpy grains of c-myc in squamous cell carcinoma appeared more frequently than in squamous metaplasia or dysplasia.
(13) Type 1 cells contained an ovoid dark nucleus with clumpy chromatin and possessed only a very thin rim of cytoplasm.
(14) But I can't deny that in my nylon hockey skirt and clumpy studded boots, my knees covered in mud and my sweaty fringe in my eyes, I felt that I looked too substantial, too challenging.
(15) Remarkably, the spaT mutant colonies revealed a clumpy surface morphology on solid media.
(16) All three patients with diffuse scleroderma had high titers of clumpy pattern antinucleolar antibody on HEp-2 cells.
(17) A homogeneous nucleolar staining pattern was found in 45 of the 64 sera (70.3%), a clumpy fluorescence associated with fibrillarin antibody in 14 (21.8%) and a speckled pattern was found in five of the sera (7.8%).
(18) Strong clumpy fluorescence of nucleoli in the interphase.
(19) In this fashion, we identified a large (90 kilobases) plasmid, pCLP51R, that encodes the lac+ marker, resistance to a lytic phage called LP10G (1pr+), high-frequency conjugal donor ability (hft+), and clumpy growth of host bacteria in broth culture (clu+).
(20) The immunoreactivity was more uniform and diffused for FS proteins and granulated or clumpy for ODF proteins.