(n.) The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
(n.) Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
(n.) Association; company.
(n.) Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
(n.) That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
(n.) Participation in the Lord's supper.
(n.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inquiry found the law enforcement agencies routinely fail to record the professions of those whose communications data records they access under Ripa.
(2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(3) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(4) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
(5) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(6) Their best evaluations were in medical care, personal attributes and communication.
(7) Continuity of care programs, such as that developed by the Pain Service of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York), with good communication and liaison work between hospital and community, add a much needed dimension to the pain management of these patients in the home.
(8) It was also demonstrated that the plexus of the median eminence is, at its periphery, in direct communication with the systemic venous twigs.
(9) So we’ve just stopped communicating now.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Damaged buildings in Kommunar.
(10) This paper employs a rhetorical form designed to clarify and sharpen the focus of the very special stance required--which must be painstakingly learned under careful supervision--in order to effectively tune in to communications coming from the unconscious of the patient.
(11) Interpreted in term of compartmental analysis, these observations suggest that a) the frog skin epithelium contains 2 separated but communicating compartments having different degrees of accessibility from outside; b) only that compartment filling at a fast rate (0.5 min) is involved in the transepithelial Na transport; c) the other one, filling at a rate of 4 to 7 min, is resplenished only under conditions where the basal pump system has a reduced activity.
(12) Faculty and students would be communicating and hopefully fulfilling the needs of and responsibilities to each other.
(13) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(14) That means investment in the transport schemes, the medical research and the communications networks that deliver the greatest economic benefit.
(15) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
(16) These can lead to communications blackouts around the Earth and produce aurorae; indeed, there have been several nice displays over recent weeks.
(17) The analysis of the neurophysiological correlations of the image formation process is followed by a study of the functional role of the image in psychic dynamics, its genetic relationship with sensation and speech, its role in the communication functions, in the structuring of the relationship between the internal and the external world.
(18) Under a dissecting microscope the vascular casts revealed direct communications from the skeletal muscle which penetrated deeply into the myocardium.
(19) The latest annual report from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has revealed that there was 582,727 requests for phone, web browsing and location data – commonly known as “metadata” – that can reveal detailed information about a person’s personal lives and associations.
(20) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.
Ectoplasm
Definition:
(n.) The outer transparent layer of protoplasm in a developing ovum.
(n.) The outer hyaline layer of protoplasm in a vegetable cell.
(n.) The ectosarc of protozoan.
Example Sentences:
(1) The egg cortex is enriched in two organelles, ectoplasmic spherules and associated structures, which are similar in appearance to nuage.
(2) A mutant receptor lacking the entire cytoplasmic tail (except for the five proximal amino acids) was also expressed on the apical membrane, suggesting that information for apical sorting was contained in the ectoplasmic or transmembrane domains.
(3) By site-directed mutagenesis, a stop codon was introduced in the receptor cDNA at the border between the ectoplasmic and membrane-spanning domain.
(4) These vesicles: (a) fractionate like basolateral plasma membrane in sucrose density gradients and in free-flow electrophoresis; (b) can be separated from the bulk of the likely organellar contaminants, including membranes derived from the late Golgi cisternae, transtubular network, and endosomes; (c) contain the proven basolateral constituents CE 9 and the ASGP-R, as judged by vesicle immunoadsorption using fixed Staphylococcus aureus cells and anti-ASGP-R antibodies; and (d) are oriented with their ectoplasmic surfaces facing outward, based on the results of vesicle immunoadsorption experiments using antibodies specific for the ectoplasmic domain of the ASGP-R. Only at times of chase greater than 45 min do significant amounts of the mature radiolabeled apical proteins arrive at the apical domain, and they do so at different rates.
(5) Comparison of these ectoplasmic portions showed that two of the forms corresponded to previously described murine molecules whereas the third one had a different ectoplasmic portion generated by specific changes in two regions.
(6) (2) It has been shown that in protoplasmic drops the endoplasm-ectoplasm transformation is accompanied by an actin polymerization from the non-filamentous state to F-actin.
(7) Actin filaments are found in amebas (1, 12, 13) which react with vertebrate heavy meromyosin (HMM), forming arrowhead complexes as vertebrate actin (3, 9), and are prominent within the ectoplasmic tube where some of them are attached to the plasmalemma (1, 12).
(8) Numerous large vacuoles were present within the ectoplasm just beneath the plasma membrane in untreated cysts.
(9) Further, they indicate that vinculin is co-distributed with actin bundles within each ectoplasmic specialization.
(10) A high resting [Ca2+]i of 1.5 to 2.0 x 10(-7) M in the uroid region or in retracting pseudopodia is associated with the transformation of rigid ectoplasmic gel into fluid endoplasmic sol, and a low [Ca2+]i of 10(-9) to 10(-8) M in the front region or in extending pseudopodia with the re-transformation of endoplasmic sol into ectoplasmic gel.
(11) Filament bundles in ectoplasmic specializations adjacent to germ cells closely follow the contour of and are arranged parallel to the long axis of the developing acrosome.
(12) The Mr 46,000 mannose 6-phosphate receptor is an integral membrane protein with its ligand-binding site in the ectoplasmic domain.
(13) Ectoplasmic specializations (ES) facing spermatids were studied in species representative of four classes of non-mammalian vertebrates (Pisces--bluegill; Amphibia--bullfrog; Reptilia--red eared turtle; Aves--domestic chicken).
(14) Stationary ectoplasm and flowing endoplasm are involved in a mutual transformation process: thereia an exchange of ectoplasm and endoplasm in the form of protoplasmic streamlets crossing the borderline between the endoplasmic stream and the ectoplasmic tube.
(15) At the cell periphery, the lateral cell membrane showed bizarre interdigitation and the ectoplasm showed hyaloplasmic rarefaction.
(16) The plasmalemma and hyaline ectoplasm together constitute the sensory and motor organ of macrophages.
(17) The results showed three types of ectoplasmic projections: namely, (i) a smooth surface and a narrow base; (ii) many folds and pits; and (iii) a ruffled surface and broad base, seen in clusters and located at intervals on the antimesometrial side only.
(18) The mechanical force responsible apparently originates from the formation of an ectoplasmic mucilage capable of exerting pressure over all of the ascus contents; when the apex of the peduncle ruptures, the ascospores are violently released.
(19) This finding suggested the resemblance of the area of the worm-like bodies to the ectoplasm.
(20) Isolated seminiferous epithelia, combined with NBD-phallacidin as a probe for actin, provide an ideal model system in which to study further the contractile properties of Sertoli cell ectoplasmic specializations and the possible involvement of these structures in events that occur during spermatogenesis.