(n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.
(n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.
(n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.
(n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.
(n.) A state of distress or trouble.
Example Sentences:
(1) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(2) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(3) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(4) Most notably, retroperitoneal lymph nodes in rabbits remained dark blue up to 28 days after hindlimb endolymphatic instillation of liposomal patent blue.
(5) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
(6) 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.
(7) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
(8) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(9) Steady state levels of chloroplast mRNA encoding the core PSII polypeptides remain nearly constant in the light or the dark and are not affected by the developmental stage of the plastid.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) The results indicate that CRALBP X 11-cis-retinol is sufficiently stereoselective in its binding properties to warrant consideration as a component of the mechanism for the generation of 11-cis-retinaldehyde in the dark.
(12) Although the Ca2+-independent mechanism accounts for about two thirds of the total acetylcholine release in the dark, the amount of acetylcholine released in this way is small compared with the release of acetylcholine triggered by stimulation of the retina with light.
(13) The extracellular concentration of GABA is probably high in prolonged darkness, and it is low after prolonged light exposure.
(14) In lettuce, the presence of 2,4-D in the light lowered the concentration of total Hg (or MeHg) required to reduce growth by 50%, about 13 times relative to that in the dark (i.e., it sensitized the cells).
(15) This suggests that many retinal ganglion cells continue to discharge in total darkness for long periods.
(16) In darkness, raising the concentration of K in the fluid of perfusion gives an increase of the efflux of (86)Rb and increasing the extracellular concentration of Ca yields a retention.
(17) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(18) One elderly woman was left alone in the dark for hours unable to find food or drink.
(19) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
(20) It was observed that the circadian rhythm was disrupted by injections of lithium at the beginning of the light as well as the dark phase of the LD cycle.
Void
Definition:
(a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
(a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
(a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use.
(a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
(a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
(a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
(n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
(a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
(a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
(a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
(v. i.) To be emitted or evacuated.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The Lex antigen was present in the void volume fraction of the majority (85%) of sera from adenocarcinoma patients.
(3) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
(4) The acquisition of dryness is accelerated by eradication of bacteriuria and a sympathetic and energetic management regime, which should place responsibility on the child and result in the child voiding more frequently and completely.
(5) Excretory urogram revealed bilateral hydronephrosis and voiding cystogram revealed VUR on left ureter.
(6) Primary invasive adenocarcinoma of the bladder was diagnosed in a fifty-two-year-old male with a two-month history of irritative voiding symptoms.
(7) Residual urine volume and urine voiding efficiency are also calculated.
(8) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(9) Some of this LPS-associated polysaccharide eluted as the void volume of a G-100 column but differed from PS by its lack of galactose and arabinose.
(10) Cytological examination of voided urine is an established investigation in urological practice.
(11) At 12 months TURP had also improved micturition time and voided volume, which TUI had not.
(12) Chlamydia trachomatis was detected from first-voided urine sediments of 97 male patients with urethritis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(13) SEM of the resulting surface showed rounded fragments of enamel rods, enamel melting, cracks, and smooth-edged voids.
(14) By 16 weeks, fibrocartilage had filled the void in the curetted disc spaces.
(15) Both the void volume protein peak and the procoagulant activity peak from the 0.25 M calcium chloride-agarose gel column support ristocetin-induced platelet aggregation.
(16) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(17) Cation exchange chromatography on carboxymethylcellulose-Sephadex with a starting buffer of pH 5 containing 2 mM CHAPS plus 20 mM beta-OG, followed by a pH 8 buffer, showed a very small OD peak at the void volume (P) and a second peak with about 95% of the protein (E).
(18) The one peak which was common to both sera appeared with the void volume and was identified as albumin.
(19) The first peak eluted at the void volume containing lipoproteins, alpha 2- and beta 2-macroglobulins, and the second peak at the fraction of albumin.
(20) Oxendolone + bunazosin tended to show a better clinical efficacy than the other of these regimens, when the improvement was defined as that with more than one degree in the severity of retarded voiding, prolonged voiding, urinary stream condition, abdominal pressure on voiding and residual urine sensation.