(n.) One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or a garden.
(n.) One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
(3) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(4) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
(5) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
(6) A retrospective review was undertaken of 127 lower extremity fasciotomies performed for compartment syndrome after acute ischemia and revascularization in 73 patients with vascular trauma and 49 patients with arterial occlusive disease.
(7) The addition of a cerebral blood volume (CBV) compartment in the [18F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) model produces estimates of local CBV simultaneously with glucose metabolic rates when kinetic FDG studies are performed.
(8) Likewise, they had little or no effects on the fluorescence anisotropy of TMA-DPH, which is also thought to be located in the interfacial region of the lipid bilayer, either when the probe was located in the outer layer of the plasma membrane or when the probe was located in the inner membrane compartment.
(9) Pharmacokinetics of the parent drug followed a two-compartment model.
(10) All treatments cause equal translocation of receptor of the nuclear compartment.
(11) The effects of intra-arterial administration of substance P upon intestinal blood flow, oxygen consumption, intestinal motor activity, and distribution of blood flow to the compartments of the gut wall were measured in anesthetized dogs.
(12) A two-compartment model was used to describe the elimination of DCM from blood following single iv doses.
(13) Neonatal treatment with a low dose of the estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES) had no significant effect on adult estrogen binding within the assayed vaginal compartments; however, this treatment caused a 2-fold increase in the level of cytosolic progestin binding in the vaginal FMW over that in vehicle-treated mice.
(14) Thus the two proteins provide models with which to study targeting to each of these intracellular compartments.
(15) It was the purpose of this study to examine the relationship between body fluid compartments and multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis (MF-BIA).
(16) The authors have reviewed 14 patients with 14 cases of compartment syndrome treated at their institution from 1980 to 1988.
(17) Furthermore it is this small compartment that is preferentially radioactively labelled during short-term incubations with radioactively labelled precursors.
(18) The remaining fat pad was used for calculations of cell numbers in the fat cell and connective tissue cell compartment.
(19) Passive avoidance performance of HO-DIs was, indeed, influenced by the age of the subject at the time of testing; HO-DIs reentered the shock compartment sooner than HE at 35 days, but later than HE at 120 days.
(20) TTM predominantly enhances the removal of Cu from the short-term storage compartment, but effects on the long-term storage compartment may still be of significance.
Pigeonhole
Definition:
(n.) A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.
(v. t.) To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.
Example Sentences:
(1) Don't be afraid of being pigeonholed - it's great to have a niche.
(2) If we cease to aim for the universal pigeonholing of viruses into genera and species, binomial latinized names lose their chief justification.
(3) Minty, 46, sees humour as a powerful tool to relax people about an awkward subject, and is determined that the podcast should not be pigeonholed as "earnest" or "lecturey".
(4) It had been dubbed "the female answer to The Hangover" – a niche women's film – but to pigeonhole it in such a way is to do it a huge disservice.
(5) I want to have the freedom to work on many issues and not be pigeonholed into one particular area,” Carson, who is Trump’s most prominent African American supporter, told the Washington Post .
(6) He's pigeonholing women into the traditional role of motherhood, nurturing and marriage.
(7) In contrast to Amis's glittering literary career, Howard has for years been unfairly pigeonholed as someone who writes nice domestic dramas for the middle classes: not intellectual enough to be a Murdoch or Woolf or sufficiently populist to get to the top of the Amazon bestseller lists.
(8) Like those artists, Miguel refuses to be pigeonholed.
(9) "I don't really believe in standardised sexual pigeonholes," says Kaboom's hero Smith, whom Araki describes as "ambisexual".
(10) Her diva demands do not extend beyond the stage-door staff voluntarily leaving a hand-picked packet of her favourite black liquorice allsorts in her pigeonhole.
(11) "We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor."
(12) In order to delegitimise the camp, lots of passersby I met wanted to pigeonhole the protesters as either unrealistic youngsters, or lazy layabouts.
(13) There is no magic policy bullet that will get the party more ethnic minority votes – non-white voters aren't a homogenous group, and don't want to be pigeonholed.
(14) "Notes were left in my pigeonhole at college, there were Facebook messages," she said.
(15) So it was that, one sad afternoon at university, a woman I am still close to sobbed into my chest inside the ladies loos along the corridor from the college pigeonholes.
(16) This specific electronic nature of DNA take the form of magnetic pigeonholes in which an electric pulse is (0), or is not (1) stored as an area of local magnetisation.
(17) Betty Birch London SW6 Pigeonholed by your name My son born, brought up and educated in England, speaks only English, his mother tongue (my wife is English).
(18) Honestly, I’m pretty conventional.” As far back as he can remember, people have tried to pigeonhole him, just as they did his father.
(19) It is so easy and tempting to knock this into a pigeonhole: the misguided self-blame and denial of the victim.
(20) He's made it obvious in the past that he doesn't enjoy interviews, and hates the way that journalists pigeonhole.