(v. t.) To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abnormal Z bands and disarrangement of myofibrils were often observed.
(2) the sphenoid, ethmoid, and occipital bones) and to abnormal spatial relationships between the cribriform plate and the crista galli, resulting in a positional disarrangement of the points of basal attachment of the dura matter.
(3) The degree of aneuploidy indicates how far tumour cells have progressed in their cellular disarrangement, and information about a tumour's proliferative capacity is given by the S phase measurements.
(4) Changes of the hair bundles, such as disarrangement of cilia, increased fragility of cilia and formation of giant cilia, have also been observed in aged individuals.
(5) The distribution of ferritin particles was somewhat disarranged on the surface of unfixed platelets incubated with TM60 compared to that in the fixed platelets.
(6) The left ventricular wall thickness, the diameters of myocytes and the percentage of fibrosis in the HCM group were significantly greater; and the eccentricity e was significantly less, suggesting that myocardial disarrangement was significantly more severe than that in the controls.
(7) Deviation from the norm of architecture at the ureteropelvic junction was disclosed: Reduced muscles with increased connective tissues in four cases and disarrangement of bundles in eight cases, including two with predominantly longitudinal element, three with circular element and another three with irregular orientation.
(8) This disarranged symbiosis may be regenerated under light cultivation by adding different species of Chlorophyceae (Chlorella, Dunaliella) and chrysophyceae (Ochromonas, Cyclotella), but not of Cyanophyceae (Anabaena, Nostoc, Oscillatoria, Anacystis).
(9) In the dentinal tubules after 120 days, reticular degeneration and empty in Bis-GMA group, and disarrangement of microfilaments and microtubules was seen in EDMA, Tri-EDMA and UDMA groups.
(10) Addition of delta 12-PGJ2 to confluent HSC-1 cells resulted in the disappearance of actin filaments and the disarrangement of keratin filaments, as visualized with fluorescent-labeled phallacidine or immunofluorescence.
(11) This is reflected in a still remaining slight disarrangement of the subepithelial collagenous fibres at the 20 postoperative day.
(12) We conclude that diastolic dysfunction in HT-ASH can be attributed to the percentage of fibrosis, and to disarrangement of myocytes in HCM.
(13) Most frequent were colonies or aggregates of amebae in the crypts between the epithelium and basement membrane, causing either no evident necrosis or changes ranging from necrosis and disarrangement of adjacent cells to complete destruction of the epithelium and reduction of the cells to pyknotic bodies.
(14) The ependymal disarrangement involved disruption and flattening of the ependymal cells, which were often devoid of microvilli, cilia and intercellular junctional complexes.
(15) A flat two-dimensional pattern is seen when these same lines are disarranged.
(16) Histological examination of testes in thallium-treated animals revealed disarrangement of the tubular epithelium and ultrastructural changes in the Sertoli cells with cytoplasmic vacuolation and distension of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum.
(17) Morphology of right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens was evaluated in terms of hypertrophy, disarrangement, fibrosis, degeneration, endocardial thickening, interstitial changes, and types of fibrosis.
(18) At the 16-day stage, the corneal epithelium became irregular in thickness and the corneal stroma was discontinuous, having disarranged collagenous fibrils.
(19) 4) Thickening of the tunica intima, obstruction, disarrangement of the elastic fibers and distruption of the vessels were observed in the inferior alveolar artery, the arterioles, and also occlusion, which gave various appearances, in the vessels within the Haversian canal and the canal of Volkmann was seen.
(20) The latter is possible because, according to the presented data, the condensation of chromatin into chromosomes is associated with a decrease in accessibility of N-3 in adenine (the protection of the minor groove of DNA) to modifications, and with an increased methylation of N-1 in adenine (the disarrangement of the secondary structure of DNA).
Squabble
Definition:
(v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
(v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.
(v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.
(n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Thursday the word in Brussels was there would be fresh elections in April, a ballot likely to entrench the divide, deepen the crisis of political accountability and legitimacy, and result in yet further months of government-less squabbling.
(2) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
(3) What we are seeing is the government really squabbling over what is such an important and profound piece of legislation for our country, like kids in a schoolyard.” Shorten told reporters on Sunday the government’s citizenship laws were “rapidly descending into a farce”, and called on it to urgently release the text of the legislation so Labor could scrutinise it.
(4) Precisely how juvenile was, of course, open to yet more squabbling.
(5) My son’s Guyanese-Canadian teacher and the Muslim Milton scholar I went to high school with and the Sikh writer I squabble about Harold Innis with and my Ishmaeli accountant, we can all be good little Torontonians of the middle class, deflecting the differences we have been trained to respect.
(6) There is boardroom squabbling, the workforce is in open revolt and there are no new product lines.
(7) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
(8) At the time they were stressful – battling with traffic, fights over radio stations, squabbles over who was going to sit in the front seat and listening to a muddle of languages together with drama lines and songs to be sung.
(9) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
(10) Amid squabbles over boundary changes, mansion tax, Europe and the NHS, each of them was up for the fight.
(11) Momentum Hastings seems pleasantly free of the kind of dogmatic, acrimonious squabbles that have recently engulfed the movement at national level.
(12) Likewise, he feels, parenting is too important to fall foul of party political squabbles.
(13) We kids had obviously been squabbling and had been banned from making any noise or, "I'll stop the car and bang your heads together!"
(14) When superpowers and former superpowers squabble, lives are ruined.
(15) Preparatory talks last month in Bangkok ended in acrimonious squabbles .
(16) The same can't be said of our squabbles at the decade's end.
(17) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
(18) A new body is to be elected to do the job, but with arguments raging over the place of Sharia law in that constitution, and with regional leaders squabbling for influence, there is no sign of when those elections will happen.
(19) If the experiment has been a disaster for Greece, it is also a colossal failure for Europe , with the result that at the very apex of leadership the EU nowadays resembles an unhappy assembly of squabbling politicians locked in what could not be called an “ever closer union”.
(20) From the lawn we could see nothing but tree tops and the only interruption to lazy mornings on the terrace was the noise of squabbling langur monkeys and green parrots.