(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.
(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.
(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(3) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(4) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(5) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(6) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(7) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(8) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
(9) Patient or fetal cord serum is commonly used as a protein supplement to culture media used in in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
(10) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
(11) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
(12) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(13) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(14) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(15) Small pieces of anterior and posterior quail wing-bud mesoderm (HH stages 21-23) were placed in in vitro culture for up to 3 days.
(16) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
(17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
(18) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
(19) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(20) This activation demonstrated in humans confirms the pharmacological results of the interferon induction obtained with SL04 in vivo in mice and in vitro in human cell cultures.
Galician
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Galicia, in Spain, or to Galicia, the kingdom of Austrian Poland.
(n.) A native of Galicia in Spain; -- called also Gallegan.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four decades later, she continues to head the remote rural Galician municipality of Ramirás, population 1,800.
(2) That may require his to employ another stereotypical skill attributed to some Galicians – of doing one thing while persuading people he is actually doing the opposite.
(3) The genetic polymorphism of three salivary enzymes (esterase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and amylase) was studied in 580 autochthonous individuals from the Galician population (North-West Spain).
(4) Population genetic studies of ORM polymorphism in the Galician population were also carried out.
(5) He is fiercely private – rarely interviewed and hardly photographed – but he is a familiar face in La Coruña, the Galician city in northern Spain and a short distance from Arteixo, where Inditex is headquartered.
(6) Vaccine coverage, morbidity prevalence, and immunity to measles, rubella, and mumps, were estimated in 1985-1986 among a sample of 2 to 5 years old Galician children, studied through questionnaires and immunoenzymatic determinations of antibodies.
(7) With Rajoy and the PP reinvigorated by the Galician victory – and seemingly undamaged by a slew of corruption scandals – much will depend on Sánchez.
(8) Heterotrophic bacterial communities associated with four red tides caused by Mesodinium rubrum and Gymnodinium catenatum in two Galician Rias (North West Spain) were examined.
(9) Most parties agree that there needs to be constitutional reform to include these Spaniards who want to be something else (Basques or Galicians as well as Catalans).
(10) Regulars swear by the steak tartare (made from Galician rump steak).
(11) The objective was to establish the toxic and adhesive abilities of E. coli strains that cause porcine diarrhoea in Galician farms.
(12) Benítez has coached Mourinho’s former teams three times: at Inter, Chelsea, and now Real Madrid, and Montserrat Seara, Benítez’s wife, poked fun at the Portuguese coach in the Galician newspaper La Region.
(13) He is 27, like Hernández, and equalled a 22-year club record this season when he emulated Bebeto’s achievement of having scored in seven successive games for the Galician club.
(14) Genetic variants of leukocyte mitochondrial glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase, mitochondrial malic enzyme and phosphoglucomutase locus III were studied in the Galician population.
(15) GPT and GLO-I phenotypes were determined by means of isoelectric focusing and starch gel electrophoresis, respectively, in a sample of the Galician population (Northwest Spain); GPT: n = 302, GLO-I: n = 500.
(16) Smoking habits among final-year Galician medical students have been studied using a questionnaire complying with the recommendations of the W.H.O.
(17) There was no significant heterogeneity between 8 Galician subpopulations.
(18) In the wake of the Brexit vote and at a time of renewed clamour for Catalan independence – not to mention the scandals engulfing the PP – the 61-year-old Galician remains confident in his showing at the polls and happy to take his time.
(19) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Monday March 26 2007 Some language degrees offered at Oxford University were omitted from the list at the end of the article below: they are Portuguese, Russian, modern Greek and Celtic; and as subsidiaries, Czech, Polish, Catalan and Galician.
(20) One of the most poignant examples of this change is in Ferrol, the Galician city in Spain’s north-west where Franco was born in 1892.