(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.
Polygenetic
Definition:
(a.) Having many distinct sources; originating at various places or times.
(a.) Of or pertaining to polygenesis; polyphyletic.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have stressed the influence of genetic factors, best exemplified as a single gene aberration in the occurrence of Heberden's nodes, while a polygenetic interplay may be involved in other forms of hand GOA.
(2) Genetic studies suggest a polygenetic mode of inheritance and a lower threshold of manifestation in women.
(3) There was little evidence for the polygenetic multiple threshold model of sex inheritance.
(4) The great variety of pathogenic factors emphasizes that metabolic myelosis must be counted among the polygenetic identical reactions of the central nervous system.
(5) The estimate of the fraction of interindividual variability associated with polygenetic effects was 26.5%.
(6) The finding that the Yaa gene-induced acceleration of lupus-like autoimmune disease is modulated by gene(s) within or closely linked to the H-2 complex underlines the crucial role of the major histocompatibility complex and the polygenetic nature of autoimmune disease in BXSB mice.
(7) In line with F1 data, it demonstrates the presence of a polygenetic correlate: at least one other locus is involved in each of the six outcome parameters.
(8) The hypothetical model for each psychosis proposes that polygenetic inheritance affects different central nervous system neuroanatomical sites in the human which are in homeostasis as to catecholamine neurotransmitter regulation of the psyche.
(9) This approach enables one to simultaneously estimate the frequencies and effects of alleles at specific loci along with the residual polygenetic variance component.
(10) It must be seen as a "phenomenologically identical, polygenetic type of reaction" (Janzen).
(11) By measuring polymorphic protein variability and restriction site variability in small regions of DNA known to contain genes that code for the proteins involved in these functions, it is possible to assign polygenetic effects to specific alleles or haplotypes.
(12) An autosomal-dominant mode of inheritance with reduced penetrance or a polygenetic mode of inheritance are discussed.
(13) Although the unique MHC haplotype of NOD mice is clearly a major contributor to diabetes susceptibility, evidence for a complex interaction between MHC loci and many other polygenetic factors is reviewed.
(14) The series of events that occurs after infection or tissue damage is polygenetic and involve multiple pathways.
(15) Polygenetic predisposition is a key factor in the multifactorial disorders of primary hypertension.
(16) Tetraspastic is a "polygenetic" reaction of the central nervous system without a final common path.
(17) According to their data and findings in literature, the following hypothesis was made: porphyria cutanea tarda is assumed to be a disease following the rules of the polygenetical heredity.
(18) In animal experiments, the authors have shown that the SLMC reaction directed againt a virus-induced tumour is under polygenetic control primarily governed by gene(s0 linked to the histocompatibility region.
(19) The majority of inherited diseases are due to unknown biochemical defects, or are either polygenetic or multifactorial.
(20) Thus, variation in this gene region may be one of the polygenetic factors involved in determining cholesterol levels in the normal population.