(n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Isotope competition studies indicated that the pathway was regulated by isoleucine.
(2) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(3) [Ca2+]i exhibited a sigmoidal dependence on [Na+]o. Mg2+, a competitive inhibitor of Na2+-Ca2+ antiport in these cells, antagonized the increase in [Ca2+]i produced by lowering [Na+]o.
(4) In K+-depolarized basilar arteries, ifenprodil competitively antagonized the response to Ca2+, and this was enhanced by pre-incubation in calcium hopantenate.
(5) The effect of S-adenosylhomocysteine on DNA methylation was examined, and it was found at equal molar concentrations of S-adenosylhomocysteine to to S-adenosylmethionine that DNA methylation was competitively inhibited 50%.
(6) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(7) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(8) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
(9) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(10) The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the problems which arise from simultaneously developing regulatory and competitive approaches to health care cost containment can be solved, if recognized, and that those problems deserve more systematic investigation than they have so far received.
(11) The inhibition of all three agonist responses by 1.1 mM calcium was competitive.
(12) The specificity of the assay was established by competitive displacement of 125I-labeled arginine-rich protein from its antiserum by arginine-rich protein and lipoproteins containing this protein, but not by rat albumin or other purified apolipoproteins.
(13) The interaction between adrenalin and 5-hydroxytryptamine was competitive.
(14) Speaking to pro-market thinktank Reform, Milburn called for “more competition” and said the shadow health team were making a “fundamental political misjudgment” by attempting to roll back policies he had overseen.
(15) The specificity of the assay was further demonstrated by a lack of competition of cytochrome C, myoglobin, epidermal growth factor or bovine serum albumin with bFGF for binding to the antibodies.
(16) A competition radioimmunoassay for murine leukemia virus p30 has been developed.
(17) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(18) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(19) Presence of the optimum concentration is explained by a mechanism known as the non-competitive auto-inhibition.5.
(20) "Law is all I've ever wanted to do, but it's so competitive.
Intramural
Definition:
(a.) Being within the walls, as of a city.
(a.) Being within the substance of the walls of an organ; as, intramural pregnancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Principles and technique for selecting material from the human heart ventricular walls to study stereometrically their intramural arterial bed are described.
(2) Affected lymph nodes from 3 patients with Crohn's disease were homogenised and inoculated intramurally into the distal ileum of five piglets.
(3) The succession of excitation spreading about the cardiac ventricles was studied in 28 dogs using the intramural multipolar technique.
(4) Marked diffuse involvement of the intramural coronary arteries by amyloid deposits resulted in severe luminal compromise of numerous medium and small vessels.
(5) More adequate talks and correspondence by letter or through the telephone, a better compensation for the prison work, the convict representation in some sectors of intramural life, the measures as an alternative to enprisonment, all these actions represent the practical results of the reform achieved so far in a rather satisfactory way.
(6) A new provocative test for chronic mesenteric ischemia is described, based upon the demonstration of a fall in the intramural pH of the small bowel after introduction of a test meal into the stomach.
(7) If both estimated centers lie within the projected luminal contour, the mass arises intramurally.
(8) When present, thickening of the gallbladder wall, intramural abscess, pericholecystic fluid, and the presence of gallstones may be more specific than MR characterization of gallbladder bile.
(9) Nine groups of experiments were conducted on 120 rats and 55 dogs to study the morphological changes and the density of cholinergic nerve fibres in the intramural nerve apparatus of the stomach after cooling of the vagus nerves at various temperatures and time regimens of the exposure (-35-45 degrees, -70-80 degrees for 2-3 sec., 15 sec in one, two, and three exposures).
(10) Intramural newly-formed capillaries in thickened hyalinized vessels were observed in 68 per cent of the specimens.
(11) The authors present a case of intramural hematoma of the small intestines during anticoagulant treatment.
(12) Fourteen patients with post-traumatic obstructing intramural duodenal hematoma were reviewed.
(13) Out of those 8 patients 6 presented with mainly infectious complications while only 3 had an inadequate perioperative urine output and none presented with signs of arterial or of gastric intramural acidosis.
(14) Thus, vasa vasorum were shown to elongate their intramural segments in response to the changes of microenvironment in which the medial cells are placed, meeting the demand by the cells for increased supply of oxygen and nutrients.
(15) Peroxidase does not traverse the endothelium of intramural arteries and arterioles of controls over the 10-minute period of observation.
(16) The criteria of viability of the stomach after vagotomy are thought to be data of the intramural AP not lower than 40 mm Hg with the pulse oscillation amplitude not less than 0,5-1 mm.
(17) The gastric motility was inhibited by both vago-vagal and splanchno-vagal reflexes through the activation of non-adrenergic inhibitory nerve fibers and by splanchno-splanchnic reflex through the inactivation of the intramural cholinergic excitatory neurons.
(18) Systolic retinal and ciliary perfusion pressures were higher directly after oculopression, whereas the systolic and diastolic ocular blood pressures (intramural pressures) were lower.
(19) Gross pathologic examination revealed polypoid intramural growths ranging from 2.5 to 7.0 cm in greatest dimension.
(20) In two dogs, the reentrant circuit was located intramurally in close proximity to a patchy septal infarction.