(n.) A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together.
(n.) A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four feet broad; -- originally measured with a cord or line.
(n.) Fig.: Any moral influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord; an enticement; as, the cords of the wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity.
(n.) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, esp. a tendon or a nerve. See under Spermatic, Spinal, Umbilical, Vocal.
(n.) See Chord.
(v. t.) To bind with a cord; to fasten with cords; to connect with cords; to ornament or finish with a cord or cords, as a garment.
(v. t.) To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
(imp. & p. p.) of Core
Example Sentences:
(1) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(3) A complex linkage between the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix is illustrated both in the cord forming Sertoli and granulosa cells, and in the adjacent mesenchymal cells.
(4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(5) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(6) Subdural tumors may be out of the cord (10 tumors), on the posterior roots (28 tumors), or within the cord.
(7) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
(8) Stimulation with these electrodes were effective for inducing voiding with little residual volume after the recovery of bladder reflexes, 3 weeks after experimental spinal cord injury in the dog.
(9) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(10) In addition to terminating at the brachial segments, they had one to three collaterals to the upper cervical cord (C3-C4), where the propriospinal neurons projecting to forelimb motoneurons are located.
(11) In umbilical cord blood a higher level of lipoperoxide was observed in patients with toxemia of pregnancy than in normal pregnant women.
(12) The antibody reacted with adult as well as with cord red cells, and its reactivity was strongly diminished by treatment of the cells with neuraminidase and to a lesser degree by treatment with protease.
(13) Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord clearly demonstrated the entire lesion.
(14) The evolution of tissue damage in compressive spinal cord injuries in rats was studied using an immunohistochemical technique and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analysis.
(15) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(16) We have also studied the distribution of tenascin mRNA in the developing spinal cord and spinal ganglia.
(17) Serum ferritin was measured in 51 term normal pregnant mothers and the corresponding cord blood samples.
(18) Spinal cord stimulation would suppress at least the dorsal horn neurons which were destroyed by various kinds of diseases.
(19) These findings support the hypothesis that the presence of FSC tissue will have an effect on the persistence of glial scar tissue in a chronic lesion site as well as limit the extent to which a new scar is formed in response to a second injury to the spinal cord.
(20) The first spinal nerve and the spinal accessory nerve (XI) have no sensory projections, but the second spinal nerve has typical projections along the dorsal funiculus of the spinal cord.
Line
Definition:
(n.) Flax; linen.
(n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.
(v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
(v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
(v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
(v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
(n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
(n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
(n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
(n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
(n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
(n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
(n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
(n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
(n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
(n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
(n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
(n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
(n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
(n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
(n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
(n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
(n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
(n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
(n.) A measuring line or cord.
(n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
(n.) Instruction; doctrine.
(n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
(n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
(n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
(n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
(n.) A trench or rampart.
(n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
(n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
(n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
(n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
(n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
(n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
(n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
(n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
(v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
(v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
(v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
(v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
(2) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
(3) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(6) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(7) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(8) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(9) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(10) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
(11) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(13) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
(14) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
(15) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(17) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
(18) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
(19) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
(20) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.