(a.) Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.
(a.) Having the power of electing or appointing.
(n.) The person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
(n.) That which constitutes or composes, as a part, or an essential part; a component; an element.
(n.) One for whom another acts; especially, one who is represented by another in a legislative assembly; -- correlative to representative.
(n.) A person who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact.
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(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) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(5) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(6) Although no anatomical 'barrier' has been described, it has been suggested that the gel mucus and epithelial phospholipids are constituents.
(7) Voters would have to collect the signatures of 10% of constituents to force a byelection.
(8) Concentrations of each constituent were correlated with the growth inhibitions of Bacillus subtilis (IP-5832).
(9) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
(10) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
(11) The aim was to clarify the nature of their constituent cells, specifically the giant ganglion-like cells and spindle cells, and to discuss the implications for histogenesis.
(12) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
(13) The review will now be delayed for five years, leaving the next election to be fought on the existing constituency boundaries, and seriously damaging David Cameron's chances of winning an overall majority in 2015.
(14) Laminin is a constituent of the basement membrane in both chicken and quail blastoderms.
(15) Later Downing Street elaborated on its position, pointing out that Brooks was a constituent of Cameron's and, in any case, "the prime minister regularly meets newspaper executives from lots of different companies".
(16) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
(17) The cultivation of embryos in shell-less culture did not affect the normal macroscopic or histological appearance of the membrane, or the rate of proliferation of its constituent cells, as assessed by tritiated thymidine incorporation.
(18) It was because MPs have to face their constituents."
(19) We have already had the failure of House of Lords reform, the failure to change constituencies and the imbalance of MPs between England and the devolved assemblies.
(20) The test subjects ate up their food appraising the gustatory qualities of the diet constituents.
Glyceride
Definition:
(n.) A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.
Example Sentences:
(1) Laser photolysis techniques have been used to characterize the reactivity of triplet state lipoidal benzophenone derivatives toward fatty acids and glycerides in benzene solution.
(2) The increase due to fasting in triglyceride (TG) was not observed when the liver previously contained relatively large amounts of the glyceride.
(3) D-Fenfluramine also decreased the incorporation of glucose into glyceride-glycerol, but this effect was less pronounced than that for fatty acid synthesis.
(4) Epimeric separation of the galactosyl and glucosyl glycerides was for the first time achieved by thin-layer chromatography.
(5) This galactolipase promotes the hydrolysis of monogalactosyldiglyceride and digalactosyldiglyceride, in the process liberating two free fatty acids into the membrane bilayer, leaving the residual galactosyl glyceride group to diffuse into the aqueous bulk phase.
(6) In other animals of the same group, it was shown that intravenous infusion of adrenaline in a similar quantity to that detected in the circulation following anaphylaxis (0.3 mug min-(-1) for 40 min) caused losses of triglyceride and partial glycerides from the lungs.
(7) Castration decreased prostatic total lipid, total phospholipids and total glyceride glycerols.
(8) The kinetics of variations show a remarkable phase concordance between the respective effects of both hormonal forms, with strong positive correlations in the case of phospholipids, fatty acids and glycerides.
(9) In both sexes, esterification of free fatty acids to acyl glycerides and their mobilization from liver to gonads seemed to be restricted as a result of pesticides action.
(10) More glucose was diverted into glyceride glycerol in the fat-fed group.
(11) Diacyl glycerol was the major (60%) glyceride glycerol and phosphatidyl choline and ethanolamine were the major phospholipid classes.
(12) Different classes of glyceride glycerol, cholesterol and phospholipid were also diminished due to thyroxine treatment.
(13) Although widespread in plants, animals and Gram-positive bacteria, glycosyl glycerides have been seldom reported in Gram-negative bacteria and this work is the first evidence of their occurrence in the bacterial family Rhizobiaceae.
(14) Synthesis of glyceride fatty acids from glucose reached maximal rates only after several hours of incubation in Krebs-Henseleit bicarbonate buffer, with or without added bovine albumin.
(15) Metabolism of phospholipids-glycerides was studied in rat erythrocyte membranes under conditions of acute and chronic acoustic stress.
(16) The ability of fat cells to incorporate glucose into glyceride glycerol in the presence of palmitate decreased with increasing periods of starvation.
(17) The decrease in glycerol uptake induced by adrenaline, the decrease in incorporation of glycerol into glycerides induced by insulin and insulin plus adrenaline and the synthesis of fatty acids were dependent on the presence of glucose in the medium.
(18) Two patients with type III hyperlipoproteinemia failed to demonstrate reciprocal increases in LDL despite more than 40% reduction in plasma glycerides or VLDL with weight reduction or clofibrate therapy.
(19) The glyceride structure of these oils was computed using the technique of pancreatic lipase hydrolysis.
(20) The results showed that mevalonate was the most-suitable radioactive substrate for measuring cholesterol synthesis, whereas glucose was the most-suitable radioactive substrate for measuring fatty-acid and glyceride-glycerol synthesis.