(v. i.) To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
(v. i.) To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
(a.) Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(2) A hypothetical scheme is presented that pursues the processes involved in invasion from the biochemical events generated by attachment of the parasite, to the steric rearrangement of red cell membrane proteins, which culminates in invasion.
(3) He'd later carry this over into Netflix's House Of Cards but before that, TV had already begun to emulate this new, bleak, antiheroic maturity with a cycle of dark, longform, acclaimed dramas, commencing with The Sopranos and culminating in Breaking Bad .
(4) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
(5) It was found that: the two cell types have the same basal adenylate cyclase activity; prespore cells and prestalk cells are able to relay the extracellular cAMP signal equally well; intact prestalk cells show a threefold higher cAMP phosphodiesterase activity on the cell surface than prespore cells, whereas their cytosolic activity is the same; intact prestalk cells bind three to four times more cAMP than prespore cells; no large differences in cAMP metabolism and detection were observed between cells derived from migrating slugs and culminating aggregates.
(6) Despite a dreadful end to last season, culminating in a 6-1 defeat at Stoke City, FSG are pressing ahead with transfer plans agreed with Rodgers, indicating the manager’s position is safe at the moment.
(7) After standardized observation of mating behavior culminating in ejaculation and a sperm plug, females were allowed to produce litters in undisturbed conditions.
(8) As culmination proceeds, pstA cells transform into pstB cells by activating the ecmB gene as they enter the stalk tube.
(9) Significant numbers of PFC were encountered in the spleen as early as 14 to 18 hours after a single intravenous injection of antigen; after 36 hours the number of PFC rose rapidly and culminated in a maximum population at 5 days, followed by a rapid decline and plateau similar to that for circulating antibody.
(10) Richard Betts, a climate expert at the Meteorological Office and one of about 130 senior authors of Friday's report, said: "This is the culmination of three years' work.
(11) It will feature in meetings of the G8 group of industrialised countries, and the Tokyo international conference on African development, culminating in the Brussels meeting on the new deal for fragile states.
(12) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(13) This diplomatic battle culminated last year in the signing of a peace agreement between the rebels and the government which imposed an immediate ceasefire, and was supposed to lead to a government of national unity with Machar once again in the vice-president’s office.
(14) Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that an anterior-posterior gradient of cyclic AMP exists in migrating pseudoplasmodia of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and that this gradient may be responsible for control of the proportions of stalk and spore cells that form during culmination.
(15) The Hanover action was, she says, the culmination of years of protests and training, the result of tactics that have evolved from action to action.
(16) But relations have steadily improved, as did the Vatican’s influence, culminating in last December’s deal with the US.
(17) His comic adventures are too many to relate, but it may be said that they culminate in a café of 'singing waiters' where, after a wealth of comic 'business' with the tray, he shows his disdain for articulate speech by singing a vividly explicit song in gibberish.
(18) Enzyme activity in developing spore cells increased 10-fold during differentiation from myxamoebae (0 h) to the culmination stage (20 h) and decreased slightly at sorocarp (24 h).
(19) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
(20) We propose a model whereby a protein repressor, under the control of PKA, inhibits precocious induction of stalk cell differentiation by DIF and so regulates the choice between slug migration and culmination.
Fulminate
Definition:
(v. i.) To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.
(v. i.) To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority; to thunder forth menaces.
(v. t.) To cause to explode.
(v. t.) To utter or send out with denunciations or censures; -- said especially of menaces or censures uttered by ecclesiastical authority.
(v. i.) A salt of fulminic acid. See under Fulminic.
(v. i.) A fulminating powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cerebral edema is a serious complication of the encephalopathy in fulminant hepatic failure.
(2) This paper details the first case report of a patient with fulminant, gangrenous, ischemic colitis caused by polyarteritis nodosa which was successfully treated surgically.
(3) Two cases have been examined in detail, one because of a fulminant shock after synthetic ACTH and the other because of very high antibody titres without clinical symptoms of ACTH allergy.
(4) Histopathology of the tissues infected by M. incognitus varied from no pathological changes to fulminant necrosis with or without an associated inflammatory reaction.
(5) This is the first case of a fulminant phase of mumps ventriculitis leading to aqueductal stenosis, which has been treated using a ventriculoscope for the first time.
(6) Hyperacute rejection is uncommon, although syndromes of fulminant graft failure due to immunological mechanisms have been described.
(7) Prolonged disturbance of consciousness associated with periodic EEG discharges developed in a 57-year-old male after fulminant hepatitis.
(8) A 23-year old female patient on a prolonged regimen of tuberculostatic chemotherapy finally developed fulminant hepatic failure shortly after addition of hormonal contraception.
(9) Such markers are prerequisites for therapeutic trials with potent drugs which are only justified for patients with fulminant hepatitis and patients with progression to chronicity.
(10) We conclude that liver transplantation can be applied successfully to the difficult clinical problem of fulminant and subacute hepatic failure.
(11) One case of fulminating disease showed a change to slow progression and survived a year longer than was otherwise expected.
(12) Splenectomy was performed on one twin at age seven years who survived a complicating pneumococcal septicaemia ten days after the procedure, but who succumbed to fulminating infection three years later.
(13) Symptoms continued to worsen, however, and the patient died of fulminant hepatic necrosis.
(14) The fulminant collection of pseudopolyps was palable in the epigastrium on physical exam and caused a partial obstruction to the retrograde flow of barium.
(15) Two of the patients (both teenagers) died of fulminant infection during the first 36 hours of therapy and one elderly woman developed aspiration pneumonia requiring penicillin therapy to be prolonged beyond four days.
(16) Sudden enhanced replication of a HBV mutant as a result of such therapy can be a cause of either very severe hepatitis or occasionally fulminant hepatitis.
(17) In addition to the classic signs of a fulminant ruptured ectopic pregnancy, a history of upper abdominal pain was the only distinguishing feature.
(18) These findings indicate that flumazenil may be valuable in treatment of acute HE occurring in fulminant hepatic failure or in decompensated cirrhosis.
(19) In the absence of definitive medical treatment for severe fulminant hepatic failure, liver transplantation may be appropriate in selected patients.
(20) The spectrum of disease patterns ranges from a benign form to a very fulminant and occasionally fatal one.