(n.) A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.
(n.) A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberk/hn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.
Example Sentences:
(1) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(2) A comparative evaluation of these data suggest that hormone independent cells are present in the cervical crypts of late menopause women and that a cyclic change of hormone dependent cells may occur in fertile women, analogous to the cyclic changes of endometrial mucosa.
(3) The proliferating cells showing increased hybridization include normal mitotically active crypt epithelium, regenerating epithelium in ulcerative colitis, adenomatous epithelium, and adenocarcinomatous epithelium.
(4) There was also a reduced crypt cell proliferation, a reduced villus height and a decreased ALP activity in the ileal mucosa.
(5) Explants maintained villus-to-crypt ratio between 1:1 and 1.5:1 for 48 hours.
(6) The diameters of regenerating crypts were measured at various times after X-rays and cis-platinum given either alone or in combination.
(7) In both of these groups, the inoculated bacteria were recovered from the colon, and T hyodysenteriae was demonstrated in the colonic crypts, epithelium, and lamina propria.
(8) Succinylated wheat germ agglutinin bound more to crypt than to villus enterocytes.
(9) The crypts were studied at 1, 5, 7, 15 and 30 days after the initiation of treatment.
(10) Newborn animals already exhibited clearly recognizable crypts of Lieberkühn.
(11) In addition, we found that carbamoylphosphate synthetase mRNA is present mainly in the epithelium of the crypts of the proximal part of the small intestine, whereas carbamoylphosphate synthetase protein is present in the epithelium of both crypts and villi.
(12) The peptide toxin apamin inhibits Ca2(+)-activated K+ channels exclusively in surface cell vesicles, while charybdotoxin inhibits predominantly in the crypt cell membrane fraction.
(13) Intrinsic factor-mediated uptake of cobalamin could not be demonstrated using ileal crypt or jejunal villous or crypt cells.
(14) A method has been developed for the simultaneous isolation of basolateral plasma membrane vesicles from surface and crypt cells of rabbit distal colon epithelium by sequential use of differential sedimentation, isopycnic centrifugation and Ficoll 400 barrier centrifugation.
(15) In contrast, foci formed by 3-4 dysplastic crypts were decreased by the starch diet (P less than 0.05).
(16) In the former group the changes observed were mucosal oedema with acute inflammation of varying severity but with preservation of the crypt architecture.
(17) (ii) In young sucklings (10 days old), SC was virtually absent in both villus and crypt cells, but its concentration progressively increased in weanling rats and reached adult levels by day 40 postpartum.
(18) Sub-groups of 5-7 rats were sequentially killed at 4, 8 and 12 months for evaluation of the length, cell numbers and 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrDU) labeling indices of large bowel crypts together with ODC activity.
(19) One of the conventional approaches used in the past provided estimates of about 70-80 clonogenic cells per crypt (i.e.
(20) Immunofluorescence studies employing monoclonal antibodies specific for villus and crypt cells in vivo, and various enzyme assays, have demonstrated a level of differentiation and maturation of the cultured epithelial cells similar but not identical to that of suckling intestinal mucosa in vivo.
Cryptography
Definition:
(n.) The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ryan Rubin, MD of global risk consultancy Protiviti, agrees: "CryptoLocker has been designed to make money using well-known, publicly available cryptography algorithms that were developed by governments and other [legitimate] bodies.
(2) Bitcoin is a digital currency based on a methods of cryptography similar to those used to protect confidential emails.
(3) When every OAP has been taught to use the net, when every homeless person has a scavenged netbook, when protocols have mutated again to hide their users' transactions with state-of-the-art cryptography, there will be no penalty harsh enough to make the tiniest dent in filesharing.
(4) He was withering on the subject the NSA’s undermining of the US National Institute for Standards in Technology’s cryptography projects, saying it had “radicalised mild-mannered cryptographers.
(5) Earlier this month the Guardian explained how NSA and GCHQ have worked to insert mathematical weaknesses into cryptography systems used to scramble internet data and other information.
(6) But almost two years after he bailed from what he calls the Australian “citizen ship” (to know Murrumu is to be involved in a constant game of verbal cryptography) there seems little doubt he is doing much more than making a merely symbolic point about Indigenous sovereignty, the destructive legacy of invasion, and the urgent need for the commonwealth to strike treaties with the first nations.
(7) On the other side, virtually every security and cryptography expert tries patiently to explain that there’s no such thing as “a back door that only the good guys can walk through” (hat tip to Bruce Schneier).
(8) The focus is on learning programming skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and other languages, with a host of classes to then push on: from applied cryptography through to robotics AI.
(9) Whether or not a 64-bit CPU helps, it would be surprising if Apple stepped sideways and designed a 32-bit version of the A7 with the cryptography unit and Touch ID for, say, a 32-bit Touch ID-enabled low-end iPad.
(10) Allan listed and responded to eight claims isolated from the report written by researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
(11) Bitcoins are “mined” by using computers to calculate increasingly complex algorithmic formulas and uses public-key cryptography.
(12) It also emerged on Wednesday that police had called in a GCHQ cryptography expert to help crack a password used to lock files within a laptop.
(13) Christian Payne moved a monthly gathering of cryptography fans from Bletchley Park to TNMOC after what he said was indifference to the group from the trust.
(14) The currency's cryptography makes it almost immune from counterfeiting and its relative anonymity holds out the promise of being able to spend money across the internet without scrutiny.
(15) This actually happened yesterday: A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American university, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the university's servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography.
(16) The Tunny traffic was produced by a Lorenz CZ cryptography machine which the Bletchley Park mathematicians were able to replicate without ever seeing it.
(17) A lot more people have become aware of what can be done.” Cryptography expert and author Bruce Schneier said some of the techniques the NSA used to hack routers are starting to be seen in criminal cases, amongst other attack types.
(18) The report, from researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, was commissioned after an original draft report revealed Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law .
(19) Our national security will be significantly enhanced if we store less data, not more, and increase the use of strong cryptography, rather than reducing it.” Eris Industries was formerly based in the UK, but moved to Connecticut, US, after the general election.
(20) Last week's report said the data stolen by Flame was encrypted "in such a way that only the attackers can read it through strong public key cryptography.