(v. t.) Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
(v. t.) Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
(v. t.) Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
(n.) That which is made up of parts or compounded of several elements; composition; combination; compound.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(3) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
(4) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(5) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(6) Protein composition was determined in mesenteric lymph chylomicrons from fat-fed rats.
(7) In vitro transcription products were analyzed for their 5' end sequences and their oligonucleotide compositions.
(8) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(9) With better understanding of metabolic and compositional requirements, great advances have been made in the area of total parenteral nutrition.
(10) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
(11) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
(12) The specific rates of degradation of L-arginine-AMC, gly-proline-AMC, N-alpha-benzoyl-L-arginine-AMC and N-[p-toluene-sulphonyl]gly-pro-arginine-AMC were significantly greater in that group, indicating that the composition of their gingival crevicular fluid was different from that of the gingivitis group.
(13) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
(14) Changes in the plasma lipid composition are observed in patients and animals with malignancy and certain other diseases that are consistent with peroxidation of plasma lipoprotein lipids.
(15) These two crystallins were compared with respect to their native molecular masses, subunit structures, peptide mapping and amino acid compositions in order to establish the identity of each crystallin.
(16) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(17) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
(18) The PC modification was affected by the fatty acid composition of the exogenous PC species.
(19) Intrinsic bending of the 527-bp fragment (bend center approximately at bp 240) was represented as a composite of at least two components located near bp 170 and near bp 260.
(20) It is inferred that in this experimental model (1) high-density lipoproteins are probably excreted in the glomerular filtrate, (2) alterations in the composition of the excreted lipoproteins may occur during their passage through the nephron.
Delamination
Definition:
(n.) Formation and separation of laminae or layers; one of the methods by which the various blastodermic layers of the ovum are differentiated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dissecting aneurysms--which should be called incomplete internal aortic disease with delamination of the media--remains a fearsome disease in subjects over 50, despite advances in surgery.
(2) Pathologic examination revealed a damaged luminal surface in 22 grafts, deep folds in 8 grafts and delamination of the graft wall in 16 cases.
(3) Orthopedic surgeons should be aware of early delamination and surface failure in heat-pressed inserts.
(4) Water absorption and subsequent delamination made the plate flexible.
(5) These insights give us several ideas about possible therapeutic interventions: corticosteroids or other drugs might be used to blunt granulocyte responsiveness; iron chelation might be used to limit the production of toxic hydroxyl radical; competitive inhibition of oxidant damage might be possible using such simple compounds as methionine; protease inhibitors might blunt endothelial cell delamination.
(6) Meso1 is a molecule of 380 kDa that is first detected at the time of primary mesenchyme cell delamination from the wall of the blastula.
(7) No delamination was found for either system after vigorous washing with water.
(8) Localization of the transcript and protein in embryos has shown that the gene is predominantly expressed in a restricted set of tissues: the developing tracheal system and the delaminating midline glial and neural cells.
(9) Delamination, consisting of complete breakup of material in flakes and particles, appeared to be initiated by intergranular material defects and propagated by the excessive subsurface stresses beneath the contact zone.
(10) In embryos lacking any one of five genes, the restriction of ac expression to single cells does not occur; instead, all cells of each cluster continue to express ac, enlarge, delaminate and become neuroblasts.
(11) Results indicated that these dentinal bonding agents actually bonded to the smear layer, and samples demonstrated delamination of the smear layer from underlying dentin following thermocycling.
(12) The polyethylene of PCA tibial components showed serious delamination after only short durations, as a result of heat pressing.
(13) As the neural folds elevate, the NE and EE delaminate progressively beginning at the basal surface of the lateral extremes of the neural plate.
(14) The photophores differentiate as an outgrowth of the basal cell layer of the epidermis, from which they delaminate into the dermis.
(15) The polyethylene of the tibial components showed excessive delamination.
(16) Gross morphologic examination, light microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy demonstrated that the umbilical vein grafts appeared to be fragile and easily delaminated.
(17) The mitotic recombination experiment revealed that Notch product is required by epidermal cells subsequent to neuroblast delamination.
(18) At somitic levels, where the convergence is not important, delamination involves the progressive formation of a half-moon-shaped cavity.
(19) Abrasion from cement or bone and delamination wear were particularly pronounced in the knee.
(20) This ultimately resulted in disruption of the lamina, dispersal of the basal layer of the epithelium, and release of the crest precursors in the delaminate gap.