(v. t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
(v. t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.
(v. t.) Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.
(v. t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
(v. t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
(v. t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
(v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
(v. t.) A compliment.
(v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
(v. t.) To compliment.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have cloned the phr gene that encodes DNA photolyase from Salmonella typhimurium by in vivo complementation of Escherichia coli phr gene defect.
(2) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(3) Serum complement studies revealed decreased levels of C4, properdin, and C3.
(4) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(5) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
(6) This linkage information was used to design complementation tests to determine allelism with previously characterized complementation groups affecting sensitivity to radiation.
(7) Most of the antibodies had some degree of complement-independent neutralizing capacity, but in common was a large neutralization-resistant fraction of virus (range 13 to 78%).
(8) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(9) These studies show that complement activation can frequently be detected in the plasma of IgA nephropathy patients.
(10) Usually they are characterized by an increased level of complement components involved in the classical pathway and therefore reflect activation by antigen antibody complexes.
(11) Allelic complementation was not observed, despite testing of a large number of allele pairs, and alleles suppressible by the ochre suppressor SUP11 were absent from a sample of 48 spontaneous mutants and occurred infrequently (7%) among a sample of ultraviolet-induced mutants.
(12) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
(13) Skin allografts survived longer on ALS-treated, complement-deficient (C5 negative) recipients than on ALS-treated, complement-competent (C5 positive) recipients.
(14) These antibodies are usually characterized by the conventional platelet complement fixation test.
(15) This syndrome is consistently correlated with abnormally elevated serum IgG levels, antinuclear antibodies, anti ds- and ssDNA antibodies, and circulating immune complexes, as well as depressed serum hemolytic complement.
(16) This study was conducted using a standard complement-dependent microcytotoxicity assay.
(17) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.
(18) Viruses isolated from ticks (Ixodes uriae) from a seabird colony on the Isle of May, Scotland, were shown by complement fixation tests to be related to the Uukuniemi and Kemerovo serogroups.
(20) The same marker was found in all metaphases from 2 different metastases, but skin fibroblasts from the same patient had a normal chromosome complement.
Copula
Definition:
(n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.
(n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ejaculation occurred frequently in the SU condition but rarely in SR tests, results suggesting that sheath retraction may normally inhibit ejaculation in ex copula tests, and perhaps during copulation as well.
(2) In the ex copula genital reflex test, DPAT dramatically inhibited ejaculation and the display of penile erections.
(3) In a second experiment, intracranial microinjection of quinelorane was followed by ex copula reflex tests.
(4) Purkinje cell responses in lobules I-III were equivalent at both SRIF doses, and degeneration in the copula pyramis, paraflocculus and paramedian lobule emerged at the higher SRIF dose.
(5) In the in copula mating test, 20 and 80 micrograms IT 8-OH-DPAT, significantly reduced ejaculation latency, intromission frequency and intercopulatory interval.
(6) The 8-OH-DPAT-induced increase in glucose utilization in the copula pyramis, that is putatively associated with the appearance of the 5-HT behavioural syndrome, was also blocked by BMY 7378, as was the behavioural syndrome.
(7) The largest increases occurred in granule cell patches in the contralateral copula pyramidis (Cop P) and pyramis (P), the hemispheric and vermal portions of the eighth cerebellar lobule, respectively.
(8) At 40 days of age all animals were gonadectomized, received implants of TP in silastic capsules, and were tested in subsequent weeks for masculine copulatory behavior and ex copula phallic responses.
(9) Such grouped receptors may function to indicate position of the worm in copula.
(10) There was a partial recovery of emission in copula by the fourth week of treatment, suggesting that a nonadrenergic mechanism had assumed this function.
(11) In Experiment 1 a D1 agonist injected into the MPOA increased the number of ex copula erections but decreased the number of seminal emissions.
(12) Transition of the tegumental surface from the juvenile to the adult form begins after worms are in copula and have grown to several millimeters in length.
(13) Paired males were found to be in copula on 20-34% of observations.
(14) The purpose of the study was to determine whether Black inmates could be distinguished from White inmates by their use of the present progressive, final stops, distributive be, remote aspect been, noun plurals, third person singular present tense, possessives, consonant clusters, and the copula.
(15) Unpaired males lacked spined tubercles and the development of the spines is considered to occur only when worms are in copula.
(16) Metergoline pretreatment also failed to antagonize the RDS-127-induced facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
(17) Both spined and unspined tubercles were found on the dorsal and dorso-lateral surfaces of sexually mature (in copula) male worms.
(18) In contrast to seminal emission ex copula, pimozide pretreatment failed to antagonize the RDS-127 facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
(19) Genital reflex ex copula tests were used in order to assess these two responses without the confounding factors of mating behavior.
(20) These studies indicate the need for cautious interpretation of data obtained from in vitro analyses of separated male and female mansonian schistosomes, and that such conditions may not reflect in vivo or in copula function.