(n.) The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results presented here substantiate the hypothesis that in S. cerevisiae trehalose supplies energy during dormancy of the spores and not during the germination process.
(2) Therefore, even though serum total T3 and T4 are elevated during dormancy, free T3 and T4 levels are reduced to half of the levels in active squirrels as a consequence of increased serum binding capacity and affinity.
(3) We may find new clues to biological methods of prolonging arrest of cancer, by looking for cytogenetic abnormalities, alterations in oncogene expression and immunocytological composition, in patients showing prolonged dormancy of cancer.
(4) During dormancy there is very little incorporation of [3H]uridine in cells of hair germ and dermal papilla.
(5) The data also suggest that certain lipids and carbohydrates may provide the endogenous energy sources needed for dormancy preparation and cell maintenance under nutrient starvation.
(6) Normal circadian rhythmicity and normal responses to hypoglycemia were observed during an interval of dormance of the ectopic secretion.
(7) Additional studies showed that microbes with GDA were recoverable within (i) 5 days of an acid shock and (ii) 3 days after a 21-day dormancy (low-flow, low-maintenance) mode.
(8) The embryos incubated in the more drastically deficient media appeared to be damaged after 18-24 h. Nevertheless, the observation that the rate of DNA synthesis did not remain depressed suggests that such deficiencies are not the means by which embryonic dormancy is maintained in utero.
(9) Therefore, temperature played an important role differentially affecting completion of dormancy and postdormancy development.
(10) The low level in dormancy may anticipate the critical role of the enzyme during hatching.
(11) Attempts to induce differentiation and to change the biologic behavior of xenotransplanted human malignant tumors have failed so far, except for induced dormancy of breast carcinoma under unfavorable hormonal conditions.
(12) By count methods, different stages of progressive dormancy of E. coli cells were determined to exist in illuminated systems.
(13) Third, a latent infection marked by transcriptional dormancy is often established thereby obviating the use of proteins or RNA to detect the viruses.
(14) In between, varying proportions of sporozoites are depicted as producing hypnozoites, which exhibit varying periods of dormancy, ranging from less than 1 month (within the wide complement of the "tropical" strains) to approximately 21 months or more for the "northern" strains, before activation to schizogony and resultant relapse at the observed intervals.
(15) Male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) court only on emergence from winter dormancy.
(16) In experiment I, females were obtained in the fall, subjected to an artificial dormancy period, and placed on warm, summer-like conditions in the laboratory.
(17) Spreading out the potential for hypopus completion over time is adaptive, since a pool of hypopodes with prolonged and staggered dormancies serves to spread the risk of emergence of tritonymphs over extended periods of time; it buffers the population against sudden drought to which all other stages of the life-cycle succumb.
(18) By reducing metabolic rate by a factor ranging from 5 to 100 fold or more, animals gain a comparable extension of survival time that can support months or even years of dormancy.
(19) The results obtained do not support a scheme of sequential expression of genes during the emergence from dormancy as a counterpart of the sequence of the corresponding genes along the chromosome.
(20) This is suggestive of hormonal interplay in dormancy release by cold-treatment in pear embryos.
Syllepsis
Definition:
(n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time.
(n.) The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.