(a.) Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky.
(a.) Hollow; void of contents.
(n.) A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess.
(n.) A curved sheath or breasting for a revolving cylinder or roll.
(v. t.) To make hollow or concave.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of glutamine the aggregate is readily dissociated following dilution of the extract; that is, velocity concaves upward as a function of increasing protein concentration.
(2) Under the SEM, the unstained area of rods is always showing a concavity, which is just a nucleoid in sections under the TEM.
(3) Three cases are presented in which a focal concave deformity occurred along the greater curvature of the stomach on upper gastrointestinal (GI) series.
(4) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
(5) The technique combines the conventional plotting the contour lines and the highlighting, by means of hatching, of the concavities (or convexities) of the 'surface' representative of radioactive distribution.
(6) The trapezoidal shape of the vertebrae and scarring of the soft tissues within the concavity made correction difficult.
(7) On freeze-fracture preparations, the fragments with concave profile, corresponding to the external fracture face of plasma membrane, displayed an intramembrane particle density (ranging from 0 to 750 particles per micron2) which is similar to that recorded on the corresponding fracture face of intact cells from the common lymphoblastic leukemia antigen positive leukemic cell line (Nalm-1) or of vesicles shed in the culture medium by Nalm-1 cells.
(8) In testicular and cauda spermatozoa NBD-phallacidin fluorescent material was present in the two ventral processes that extended from the upper concave surface of the sperm head; also fainter material occurred along the concave border and as a dorsocaudal spur.
(9) When viewed in the lateral projection, the concavities superimpose, lying in the posterior portion of the vertebral body.
(10) Dose-effect relationships for most of the sampling times were linear and sometimes linear-quadratic concave upward or downward.
(11) This should be prevented by a bone-graft operation along the concave side of the tibia.
(12) Since February 1982, 23 patients with scoliosis were treated by releasing the soft tissues on the concave side and plaster spinal fusion jacket.
(13) The DRT curves of all data were concave and appeared to have two discrete slopes (z(D) values).
(14) Between the concave surfaces of two bent cadaverine molecules exists water channels all along the short b axis.
(15) Homotropic cooperative effects were observed as shown by the concave downward curvature of the reciprocal plots.
(16) The late mortality is 3.8% per patient-year--standard disc group 2.9% per patient-year and convexo-concave group 4.3% per patient year (no significant difference).
(17) The relationship between chloride transport and extracellular chloride in the presence of bromide is concave upward which suggests that this anion inhibits chloride movement.
(18) (3) A row of regularly spaced ribosomes located in the concavity, but at some distance from the arciform filament.
(19) The authors also consider a problem of how to interpret the symptom of a "snake mouth" or a "concave lens" which (depending on its cause) can be either transient (in a large concrement) or stable (in an exophytic tumor, completely occluding the duct).
(20) In both maxillary and mandibular teeth, approximal concavities often started in enamel, extending down to the root surface.
Dish
Definition:
(n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.
(n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
(n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
(n.) A hollow place, as in a field.
(n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
(n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.
(v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.
(v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
(v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(2) The menu has mainly Russian dishes but there are British and French influences too.
(3) The densities of hepatocytes attained with PVF were about 10 times as high as those in the monolayer culture using conventional collagen coated Petri dishes.
(4) The teflon dish is re-usable, resistant to sterilization procedures, and easy to assemble.
(5) A nine-year-old Scottish girl who attracted two million readers to a blog documenting her school lunches , consisting of unappealing and unhealthy dishes served up to pupils, has been forced to end the project after the council banned her from taking pictures of the food in school.
(6) Human melanocyte cultures were established using disaggregated epidermal cell suspensions derived from foreskins and plated onto culture dishes in medium containing 2% fetal bovine serum, growth factors, hormones, and melanocyte growth factor (MGF) extracted from bovine hypothalamus (Wilkins et al., J.Cell.
(7) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.
(8) Culture dishes precoated with thin layers of acid soluble rat tail collagen simplify conditions necessary to obtain in vitro high IgG anti-DNP responses from primed and boosted mice.
(9) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(10) And on those occasions where I'm in the mood to take the wine pairing very seriously it's the vegetable dishes that require the most creative thought.
(11) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(12) Confluent monolayers of the fibroblasts were grown in petri dishes.
(13) To obtain the subcellular fractions, cell monolayers or cells previously detached from the culture dish were treated with non-ionic detergent N onidet P-40.
(14) Thus, human peripheral T lymphocytes coated with mouse monoclonal antibodies directed against the CD4 marker may be selectively and reproducibly removed from a lymphocyte population by a short incubation in modified plastic dishes coated with rabbit anti-mouse IgG antibody.
(15) The division block is independent of cell density in suspension culture and is not prevented by cell contact when cells grow attached to Petri dishes.
(16) Keratinocytes were plated onto tissue culture dishes using one of three basic serum-free media protocols; a) with no feeder layer in keratinocyte growth medium (KGM); b) onto mitomycin C-treated 3T3 mouse embryo fibroblasts; or c) onto mitomycin C-treated dermal human fibroblasts.
(17) Wide-eyed, tentative and much given to confidences – her voice falls to an eager whisper when she's really dishing – she seems far younger than her years.
(18) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
(19) Trypsinized epidermal cells were plated at nonconfluent concentrations in dishes coated with a collagen type I gel.
(20) We cultured thymic cells derived from various mouse strains on extracellular matrix coated tissue culture dishes, in the presence of conditioned medium.