(n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.
Example Sentences:
(1) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(2) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(3) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
(4) The increased release of alkaline phosphatase from the particulate matrix by lysophosphatidylcholine was confirmed by disc electrophoresis.
(5) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(6) Patients should be evaluated by perimetry using an appropriate strategy and contrast sensitivity testing, along with careful examination of the optic discs.
(7) Albumin was highly purified from a commercially available rat albumin preparation (Fraction V) using disc electrophoresis.
(8) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
(9) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
(10) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
(11) Clinical findings and operative results of 212 operated cases of disc protrusion are analyzed in this paper.
(12) The initial effects of chymopapain, a chemonucleolytic agent, on the intervertebral disc of dogs were studied by light and electron microscopic techniques.
(13) Astrocytes nearer the optic disc showed the stellate shape characteristic of mature cells.
(14) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
(15) Existing visual field defects in three patients were slightly aggravated and in four patients, with a pathological optic disc, visual field loss developed.
(16) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
(17) We analyzed 80 consecutive cases of lumbar disc herniation who underwent an extraperitoneal anterolateral discectomy according to clinical and radiologic parameters.
(18) The disc-gel patterns of the 8 m urea-soluble proteins showed that C. perfringens caused extensive proteolysis in pig muscle and a lesser extent of proteolysis in rabbit muscle.
(19) The cervical discogenic (painful disc) syndrome consists of scapular pain radiating to the head, shoulder and upper arm, often associated with paraesthesiae but without neurological deficit.
(20) Manganous chloride and Congo red incorporated into blotting paper discs have been used to differentiate gonococci from meningococci.
Fisc
Definition:
(n.) A public or state treasury.
Example Sentences:
(1) To bring greater transparency to the NSA's surveillance under the Patriot Act, the ACLU filed two motions with the secretive FISC asking it to release to the public its opinions authorizing the bulk collection of Americans' data by the NSA, and we are continuing to litigate a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that we filed in 2011 demanding the government release information about its use and interpretation of Section 215.
(2) But foreign intelligence surveillance court (FISC) opinions since then suggest that the new rules have also failed.
(3) A 2009 FISC opinion, evaluating the process from 2006 to 2009, dedicated a whole section to "misrepresentations to the court", and stated that the government has "repeatedly submitted inaccurate descriptions" of the process the FISC was reviewing.
(4) The newly-disclosed 2009 opinion includes a whole section entitled "Misrepresentations to the Court" , which begins with the sentence: The government has compounded its noncompliance with the court's orders by repeatedly submitting inaccurate descriptions of the alert list process to the FISC.
(5) mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) Reforms agreed to today: declassification of FISC opinions, reduce holding 215 data to 3 yrs, adversarial amicus at FISC.
(6) "Realistically, however, I would not anticipate many such cases given the fact-intensive nature of Fisc opinions," Walton wrote.
(7) In 2015, he accepted an appointment as an amici curiae for the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Court (FISC), in which he will offer an outsider’s opinion on novel government data requests.
(8) Diagnosis of parents and siblings was based on interviews with the probands, and only those with "definite" panic disorder by the FISC criteria were considered to be affected.