(v. t.) To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
(v. t.) To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors.
(v. i.) To separate; to go or move into different parts; to vanish; as, the company dispersed at ten o'clock; the clouds disperse.
(v. i.) To distribute wealth; to share one's abundance with others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
(2) Somatostatin inhibited carbachol- and cholecystokinin octapeptide-induced pepsinogen secretion from dispersed gastric mucosal cells in a dose-dependent manner.
(3) The results of the measurements permitted the identification of five main cytologic types, with regard to nuclear size, nuclear area dispersion and irregularity of nuclear profiles.
(4) Considerable glucose 6-phosphatase activity survived 240min of treatment with phospholipase C at 5 degrees C, but in the absence of substrate or at physiological glucose 6-phosphate concentrations the delipidated enzyme was completely inactivated within 10min at 37 degrees C. However, 80mM-glucose 6-phosphate stabilized it and phospholipid dispersions substantially restored thermal stability.
(5) Despite their wide dispersion, Vmax and the stereological determinations correlated strongly at 2 mo of age, confirming that Vmax is a robust indicator of the surface area of the air-blood barrier.
(6) Phosphatidylcholine dispersed on Celite was rapidly solubilized by neutral bovine serum albumin solutions.
(7) The alpha-ScTx receptors seemed to be randomly dispersed on both cell bodies and cell processes.
(8) The RB transcript is encoded in 27 exons dispersed over about 200 kilobases (kb) of genomic DNA.
(9) We show that, in digitonin-permeabilized goldfish xanthophores, the pigment organelles can be induced to disperse by a combination of cAMP, ATP, and xanthophore cytosol.
(10) These results are consistent with the idea that RPE pigment dispersion is triggered by a substance that diffuses from the retina at light onset.
(11) Neither temporal dispersion nor focal conduction block occurred.
(12) Brain macrophages were studied in dispersed monolayer cultures of post-natal mouse cerebella.
(13) These factors include narrowing of septal arteries and the artery to the atrioventricular node, preservation of fetal anatomy with dispersion in the atrioventricular node and His bundle, fibrosis of the sinus node, clefts in the septum, multiple atrioventricular pathways and massive myocardial infarction.
(14) The number of dispersed iccosomes was markedly reduced by day 5.
(15) Further preparations were conducted to evaluate coatings applied from aqueous dispersion (pseudolatex) using air suspension coating technique.
(16) Variation of scrotal colour was not due to changes in melanocyte number or dispersion of melanosomes.
(17) Southern blotting experiments using somatic cell hybrids containing either the human chromosome 3 or the X chromosome confirm the presence of multiple dispersed RTVL-H sequences on these two chromosomes.
(18) A new method based on solid phase dispersion of tissue for the subsequent isolation of drugs is reported.
(19) It appears, therefore, that the aggregation and dispersion of pigment within the melanophores is the primary mechanism responsible for the changes in color of this species.
(20) When detergent-dispersed LA was contaminated with linoleic acid hydroperoxide (LOOH), lipid peroxidation was catalyzed by Fe2+ via reductive cleavage of LOOH (LOOH-Fe2+-induced lipid peroxidation), and Fe2+ was oxidized simultaneously in SDS micelles, even when H2O2 was not present.
Intersperse
Definition:
(v. t.) To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book.
(v. t.) To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oligospermic status interspersed with azoospermia was maintained by periodic boosting.
(2) Evidence is accumulating that the two major families of interspersed repeated human DNA sequences, Alu and L1, are not randomly distributed.
(3) The cloned DNA consists of an approximately 21 kb stretch of unique or low copy number sequence that is bounded by repetitive elements interspersed with further unique sequences.
(4) In some areas, the tumor shows a striking resemblance to Kaposi's sarcoma; criss-crossing fascicles of spindle cells are interspersed with narrow vascular spaces, but PAS-positive hyaline globules are absent.
(5) DNA molecules from cells or nuclei treated with 4'-aminomethyl trioxsalen and ultraviolet light are highly crosslinked and appear as loops interspersed by double stranded regions when analyzed in the electron microscope under denaturing conditions.
(6) HRCT scans at the apex of the thorax in all nine patients scanned at this level showed that extrapleural fat with interspersed vessels accounted for most of the plain radiographic opacity.
(7) We had no false positive results in greater than 500 negative controls interspersed among the test samples.
(8) This peptide contains 34 glycine, 10 DMA, and 6 phenylalanine residues and has clusters of glycine and NG,NG-dimethylarginine interspersed with phenylalanine residues.
(9) We describe the organization of the complex, interspersed 724 family of DNA sequences that is distributed in multiple copies about the pericentromeric region of human acrocentric chromosomes.
(10) Dogs were subjected to four 5-min episodes of left anterior descending coronary occlusion interspersed with 5 min of reperfusion followed by a final 60-min reperfusion period.
(11) Comparison of their respective protein products shows interspersed blocks of conserved and divergent amino-acid sequences.
(12) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
(13) In the last group, to test the possibility of transfer to the awake state of the hippocampal response acquired in PS, the CS alone were presented interspersed with periods of wakefulness.
(14) We find that during hibernation the marrow cavity of the long bones is filled with lipid deposits interspersed with vascular sinusoids containing mononuclear cells and red blood cells.
(15) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
(16) Transposable and interspersed repetitive elements (TIREs) are ubiquitous features of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.
(17) There are one major and at least five minor families, whose members are partly clustered and partly interspersed on the mouse chromosome.
(18) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
(19) During the interspersal procedure a picture thats name was being trained was alternated with pictures already known; during the concurrent procedure a picture thats name was being trained was alternated with other pictures thats names were unknown.
(20) Stabilized 5 and 25% normal serum albumin (human) derived from plasma, placentas and plasma-placental blends was subjected to repeated heating at 56 degrees C for 120 h, interspersed with storage at 4 degrees C for 48 h. Immunoelectrophoretic analyses showed that after the ninth heating, 5% plasma albumin developed a component which migrated in the alpha-globulin region and gave a reaction of nonidentity with albumin.