(n.) The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
(n.) The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.
(n.) A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.
(n.) The glass over the dial of a watch case.
(n.) Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.
(1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
(2) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
(3) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(4) The crystal structure of the biological stain, "acridine orange," has been determined.
(5) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(6) Early in the regression process, cholesterol esters are reduced at least partly by hydrolysis to yield cholesterol, some of which may crystallize and inhibit rapid regression.
(7) Here we determine the position of bound ADP diffused into the recA crystal.
(8) The virus material in these crystals had been subjected to treatment with EDTA at pH 8.0 before crystallization at pH 6.5.
(9) Results obtained show that chlorophyll is more active than other inhibitors studied and suggest a higher surface adsorption intensity on the primary sources of the crystal surface.
(10) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.
(11) The molecular structure of the hexagonal crystal form of porcine pepsin (EC 3.4.23.1), an aspartic proteinase from the gastric mucosa, has been determined by molecular replacement using the fungal enzyme, penicillopepsin (EC 3.4.23.6), as the search model.
(12) In vitro experiments show that these macromolecules are able to interact with specific faces of different crystals, influencing both nucleation and crystal growth.
(13) 2 Each of the drugs significantly increased leucocyte cyclic AMP content within 3 h of the injection of crystals.
(14) For Kevin Phillips, just like Wilfried Zaha, this might have been his final act as a Crystal Palace player.
(15) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
(16) Six dogs were instrumented with electromagnetic flow probes and subendocardial ultrasonic crystals.
(17) The crystallization of the lipase was successfully carried out.
(18) The values of the energy level distributions in crystals obtained from the measurements and analysis reported here are compared with those obtained by a different method for the same protein complex in frozen solution.
(19) The crystal structure of proteolytically modified human ACT has been solved at 2.7-A resolution (Baumann et al., 1991).
(20) These observations support our hypothesis that calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition in joints is regulated by the physical chemical gel state of the connective tissue matrix.
Crystallography
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine or science of crystallization, teaching the system of forms among crystals, their structure, and their methods of formation.
(n.) A discourse or treatise on crystallization.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the open reading frame of the E-type cDNA agreed with the amino acid sequence of the E isoenzyme determined by protein sequencing and x-ray crystallography.
(2) A tertiary-structure model of the active site of this ribozyme has been constructed based on comparative sequence analysis of related group I intervening sequences, data on the accessibility of each nucleotide to chemical and enzymatic probes, and principles of RNA folding derived from a consideration of the structure of tRNA determined by x-ray crystallography.
(3) The structure of asperlicin has been determined by NMR and mass spectral analysis, and X-ray crystallography.
(4) The location of the metal and carbohydrate binding sites, established unequivocally in concanavalin A by high resolution X-ray crystallography, appears to be the same in the other legume lectins.
(5) Five of these 15 protons reside on residues that are found within the epitope as defined by X-ray crystallography.
(6) Specific ion ratios were correlated with crystallography and ultrastructure.
(7) This arrangement is consistent with that of ADP-ribose and zinc in the crystalline complex of liver alcohol dehydrogenase as determined by X-ray crystallography (Branden et al., (1973), Proc.
(8) Molecular structures of three triazenes have been determined using X-ray crystallography.
(9) The delineation of epitopes can be achieved by antigenic cross-reactivity studies or by X-ray crystallography.
(10) The structure of the antimetabolite was finally established to be 7-hydroxyguanine by X-ray crystallography.
(11) The orientations of the porphyrin normals in these deoxy Fe-Co hybrid hemoglobins in terms of the g parallel signals, were closely coincident with those of the heme normals of deoxyhemoglobin determined by x-ray crystallography.
(12) Single molecules of glycogen phosphorylase b exhibit images in the electron microscope which are similar in shape and dimension to those derived from X-ray crystallography.
(13) The structures and absolute configuration of two unique alkaloids isolated from the Colombian frog, Dendrobates histrionicus, have been elucidated by Roentgen-ray (x-ray) crystallography.
(14) We support earlier findings of a greater degree of beta-sheet structure in solution than has been reported by X-ray crystallography and, importantly, the invariant residue associated with neurotoxicity, Trp29, is shown to be in a similar environment to that found in alpha-cobratoxin and LS III from Laticauda semifasciata.
(15) The overall structure, which is almost identical to that found by X-ray crystallography, is disc shaped and consists of a central four component mixed parallel and antiparallel beta-sheet flanked by a 13 residue alpha-helix on one side and the reactive site loop on the other.
(16) The three-dimensional structure of the Bowman-Birk type proteinase inhibitor (PI-II) has been determined by x-ray crystallography and refined at 2.5-A resolution.
(17) (The X-ray crystallography was performed by Kamphuis et al.
(18) The carbon-13 NMR results support previous investigations by halide ion NMR and x-ray crystallography.
(19) Another logical step in their study will be to examine polyhedrin quaternary structure utilizing X-ray crystallography.
(20) By combining the structural data from X-ray crystallography, and the functional data from site-specific mutagenesis a model is proposed for homotropic cooperativity in aspartate transcarbamoylase that suggests that the allosteric transition occurs in a concerted fashion.