(n.) The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.
(n.) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.
(n.) Depth of shade.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(2) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
(3) Osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone density.
(4) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(5) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(6) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(7) Size analysis of the solubilized IgA IP employing sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation, indicated that these were heterogeneous, with a size generally larger than 19 S.
(8) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(9) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(10) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(11) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(12) Macrophages internalize aggregated low density lipoprotein (LDL) by LDL receptor-dependent phagocytosis.
(13) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
(14) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(15) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
(16) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(17) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(18) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(19) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(20) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
Proctor
Definition:
(n.) One who is employed to manage to affairs of another.
(n.) A person appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, as lepers, the bedridden, etc.; hence a beggar.
(n.) An officer employed in admiralty and ecclesiastical causes. He answers to an attorney at common law, or to a solicitor in equity.
(n.) A representative of the clergy in convocation.
(n.) An officer in a university or college whose duty it is to enforce obedience to the laws of the institution.
(v. t.) To act as a proctor toward; to manage as an attorney or agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) An alternative is to let currently enrolled students proctor and tutor each other.
(2) Harvey Proctor said the Metropolitan police’s Operation Midland inquiry team , set up to examine claims that boys were systematically abused by an establishment paedophile ring, should be wound up and its head be put in charge of parking offences.
(3) He said in a statement: “’It is not for me to judge the innocence or guilt of Harvey Proctor.
(4) Confirmation of Proctor's 1958 estimate of high incidence of hysterical phenomena among a rural child psychiatric population is provided by recent observations on a small, random sample of children referred for psychological assessment in Australia.
(5) Shara Proctor, who might have had hopes of gold while Okagbare busied herself with the 200m, managed only two steps of a run-up before clutching at her left thigh and leaving the arena with her hoodie pulled sorrowfully around her face.
(6) These are my future,” Proctor said, placing her hands on her sons’ shoulders.
(7) Internal candidates who could succeed Sorrell include Dominic Proctor, the head of WPP's media-buying arm, Mindshare, and Shelley Lazarus, boss of Ogilvy & Mather.
(8) 16 subjects self-administered 18 microcomputer-based tests (13 new, 5 "core"), without proctors, over 10 sessions.
(9) However, it had not been established that the Proctor-Dix method would prove reliable and practical when routinely applied in a clinical setting.
(10) Proctor denied ever having sexual relations with anyone under 16, and pointed out that the acts for which he was convicted would not be unlawful if committed today.
(11) A significant relationship between test anxiety and effects of the unfamiliar proctor on test performance was shown.
(12) Studies of a trpA mutant constitutive for tryptophan synthase production support the hypothesis of autogenous regulation (R. F. Goldberger, 1974; A. R. Proctor and I. P. Crawford, 1975) of the Pseudomonas putida trpAB loci.
(13) The paranoid police have pursued a homosexual witch-hunt on this issue, egged on by media, Labour MPs and a ragbag of internet fantasists.” Scotland Yard declined to comment on Proctor’s press conference, although detectives had previously issued a statement saying officers found Nick’s allegations to be “credible and true”.
(14) L’Oreal, Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser and Johnson & Johnson are showing contempt for their customers by refusing to answer questions from MPs about the damage their personal care products are doing to our waters,” the Labour MP said, ahead of the hearing.
(15) Adequate training for surgeons already experienced in abdominal and biliary tract surgery can be acquired through a preceptorship in diagnostic laparoscopy, attending a course in laparoscopic surgery that includes both didactic instruction and live animal experience, assisting with the procedures in humans, and being proctored and certified as competent by an experienced general surgeon.
(16) Claims that boys were murdered by VIP sex ring are credible and true - police Read more “I denied all and each of the allegations in turn [to police] and in detail and categorised them as false and untrue and, in whole, a heinous calumny,” said Proctor’s statement.
(17) Even business is making its way to the bathroom: Reckitt Benckiser, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever have all got into water access and sanitation (Wash).
(18) ● Over the same period, at locations including the Carlton Club, a flat in Dolphin Square and a central London home, Proctor was alleged to have been present at Christmas parties with Nick.
(19) Nick told police that the former MP was part of a group of men who abused him over a decade from 1975, according to Proctor’s statement.
(20) Lewis had been the brains behind the “love your body” advertising campaign for Unilever’s Dove soap brand and ran other successful marketing programmes for the household goods group around the world — including one that forced rival Proctor & Gamble to pull Ariel out of parts of South America because the name became synonymous with lavatory seats.