(n.) The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.
(n.) That which connects or joins together; bond; tie.
(n.) A relation; esp. a person connected with another by marriage rather than by blood; -- used in a loose and indefinite, and sometimes a comprehensive, sense.
(n.) The persons or things that are connected; as, a business connection; the Methodist connection.
Example Sentences:
(1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(2) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(3) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(4) Some of those drugs are able to stimulate the macrophages, even in an aspecific way, via the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), that is in connection with the bronchial associated lymphatic tissue (BALT).
(5) Histological studies of nerves 2 years following irradiation demonstrated loss of axons and myelin, with a corresponding increase in endoneurial, perineurial, and epineurial connective tissue.
(6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
(7) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
(8) I felt a much stronger connection with the kids on my home block, who I rode bikes with nightly.
(9) The method used in connection with the well known autoplastic reimplantation not only presents an alternative to the traditional apicoectomy but also provides additional stabilization of the tooth by lengthing the root with cocotostabile and biocompatible A1203 ceramic.
(10) Osteogenesis imperfecta is the common term for a heterogeneous group of heritable disorders of connective tissue with lethal and nonlethal forms.
(11) More needs to be known about the direct and indirect modulation of cytokine production by cyclosporin A in connective tissues, in order to understand its potential value in clinical disorders.
(12) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
(13) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
(14) Chris Jefferies, who has been arrested in connection with the murder of landscape architect Joanna Yeates , was known as a flamboyant English teacher at Clifton College, a co-ed public school.
(15) These differences in central connectivity mirror the reports on behavioral dissociation of the facial and vagal gustatory systems.
(16) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
(17) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(18) In the case of unilateral blockade at the groin or pelvis, the grafts connect the lymphatics of the thigh of the affected leg with lymphatics in the contralateral healthy groin.
(19) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(20) In view of many ethical and legal problems, connected in some countries with obtaining human fetal tissue for transplantation, cross-species transplants would be an attractive alternative.
Nexus
Definition:
(n.) Connection; tie.
Example Sentences:
(1) Google has tried hardware – even home hardware – before with a smart power meter (shut down in September 2011), the Nexus Q set-top box (never went on sale), and is currently trying to persuade people beyond geek boundaries to try its Google Glass headset.
(2) In addition to the nexuses, a junction characterized by the presence of 31 nm diameter hemispherical densities on the cytoplasmic surfaces of the septal membranes is revealed in thin sections.
(3) While the Nexus One's single-finger prodding works well enough, there's none of the pinching action to zoom into maps and photographs that makes the iPhone feel so advanced, nor its realistic-feel friction.
(4) Kenny said the tapes showed a 'toxic nexus' had existed between the banking industry and politicians during the 'tiger years'.
(5) These methods reveal different aspects of a complex subunit assembly forming the nexus membranes.
(6) Electronmicroscopic study of electrically coupled smooth muscles was undertaken to determine the distribution of nexuses in various types of smooth muscle.
(7) Results for one dimension suggest that threshold behavior is analogous to a chain reaction with criticality determined conjointly by the susceptibility of individuals within a community to a nexus of behavior conducive to rapid HIV spread and by the probability of transmission between susceptible communities.
(8) Detained by US immigration: 'In that moment I loathed America' | Mem Fox Read more After receiving notice that his Nexus card – part of a program designed to expedite border crossings for low-risk, pre-approved travellers – had been revoked, Ahmad decided to use his lunch break on Friday to pay a visit to the Nexus office in Michigan.
(9) Dixons, the last major electricals chain on UK high streets, said it sold more than 1m tablets, such as iPads, and Google's Nexus, in the three months to January, about three times more than in the same period a year before.
(10) Read more pieces like this: The great salty mess: pollution threatens US fresh water resources Climate change may ‘bottleneck’ the Panama Canal and disrupt world trade Advertisement Feature : The water, energy and food nexus - animation The water hub is funded by SABMiller.
(11) The structural heterogeneity of the nexuses is taken as an indication of the plasticity of the leptomeningeal tissue.
(12) Gap junctions (nexuses) were observed primarily in the basal and prickle cell layers.
(13) The average specific nexal resistance obtained was 5.9 omega cm(2) if one assumes that 100 percent of the septum is nexus.
(14) Google's plans to take on the iPhone are running into problems in Europe as several mobile phone companies plan to sell a cheaper version within weeks of the internet company's Nexus One device going on sale.
(15) Pits appear in the EF face and particles in the PF face, designating it as an A-type nexus.
(16) Now the company is partnering with organisations in those categories – Climate Nexus, ProPublica and Human Rights Watch respectively – to double down on these topics.
(17) Despite a glut of Android handsets in the last year, developed by companies including Samsung and Motorola, Google decided to oversee the launch of the Nexus One itself.
(18) Coleridge, denouncing “a contemptible democratical oligarchy of glib economists”, asked: “Is the increasing number of wealthy individuals that which ought to be understood by the wealth of the nation?” Dickens did much with Carlyle’s despairing insight into cash payment as the “sole nexus” between human beings.
(19) In the human trachea and main stem bronchi the smooth muscle has numerous cell-to-cell connections of the nexus or gap junction type.
(20) At least one appears to have been trained in Yemen – a country that has become a nexus of civil war, Islamic extremism and US counterterrorism operations over the past 15 years.