(n.) An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper describes a new method of reconstructing acquired complete and incomplete cleft earlobes which are elongated and have lost their normal bulk due to the wearing of heavy, dangling earrings.
(2) "Learning from school is useful for everybody, but making earrings is not that useful for everything."
(3) Patients' failure to use the recommended pressure earring and alteration in endocrine balance were noted in three of the four patients with recurrent keloids.
(4) Meyers said: “That’s the face you make when your wife snatches away your newspaper and screams: ‘Whose earrings are these?’” Trump’s presidency is still in its early days: extremely early for a special prosecutor to be involved.
(5) Only one patient (who underwent earlobe keloid excision) has greatly improved keloids after only 9 months follow-up, but this patient needs to wear pressure earrings continuously.
(6) We report an unusual cause of localized cutaneous argyria, due to the cutaneous implantation of a silver earring back.
(7) The patient is instructed to wear the earring for 4 to 6 months.
(8) A simple method of repairing a complete or incomplete cleft of the earlobe with preservation of a hole for an earring is described.
(9) (An early profile described his secretary as "a busty hippy in a skintight, purple mini-dress, with filigreed white stockings, lace-up boots and funkily mismatched earrings".
(10) Chandelier earrings Sparkly, gobstopper styles worn by celebrities ranging from Kim Kardashian to Keira Knightley.
(11) Films financed by Ingenious include Avatar, Die Hard 4 and Die Hard 5 and Girl with the Pearl Earring.
(12) So I started wearing big hoop earrings and scraping my hair back and dressing like they did.
(13) Several roentgenologic examinations revealed a small, closed earring in the stomach.
(14) "They compliment your earrings," cooed the reporter, who also noticed a "thin, shaggy-haired employee … skipping as he worked".
(15) At the same time, 62% of 735 young schoolgirls were found to have dermatitis of their earlobes and all regularly wore cheap earrings.
(16) He wears only a little ochre-coloured cloth and small hooped earrings, and smears his body in ashes.
(17) The three Alexander McQueen outfits that made the most front pages from the Duchess of Cambridge's recent tour wardrobe were: a sky blue belted knee-length coat, accessorised with navy round-toe suede shoes and a matching clutch bag; a demure dove grey coat with a jaunty grey hat; and a ballet-shoe pink peplum top and skirt, which the duchess wore with LK Bennett courts and pearl drop earrings.
(18) Gold hoop earrings, a black and white colour palette, cropped tops and red lipstick are becoming signatures .
(19) Earrings from the ACHICA Downton Abbey jewellery collection.
(20) We report here an 9-month-old boy who swallowed an earring.
Heteroclitic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Heteroclitical
Example Sentences:
(1) The first concerns precursor cells that give rise to lambda-bearing NP-specific antibodies with heteroclitic fine specificity.
(2) The data suggest that the humoral response to different epitopes of a protein antigen during the maturation of the immune response is a stochastic process leading to transient humoral immunodominance, enhancing Ab populations and heterocliticity, depending upon individual characteristics, either in outbred or inbred populations.
(3) The goal of these experiments has been to capitalize on the functionally distinct responses of heteroclitic CTL to cross-reactive Ag to explore the role of Ag in regulating CTL proliferation and lytic function.
(4) It is predicted that a combination of solid-phase competition assay with high epitope density and direct binding assay with low epitope density would result in optimal detection of heteroclitic antibodies and small differences in antibody affinity for cross-reactive antigens.
(5) By contrast, the heteroclitic Abs to eGH developed by hypopituitary patients therapeutically injected with human growth hormone failed to react with any eGH-derived fragment.
(6) m ABs 8 to 14 and 16 to 20 demonstrated heteroclitic behavior, that is, they bound CTT IIIa better than the immunogen CTT III.
(7) One assay method failed to detect heteroclitic activity of 1 antibody which was clearly evident in the other 3 assays.
(8) Moreover, some anti-BP mAbs and anti-Cop 1 mAbs reacted in a heteroclitic manner and favored the cross-reactive antigen over the immunogen.
(9) However, immunization with the heterologous peptide resulted in a response strictly directed to rat CII and the immunogen while immunization with the autologous peptide elicited T cells which reacted in a heteroclitic fashion, with a stronger response to the heterologous peptide than to the autologous peptide, and did respond to rat CII but not to mouse CII.
(10) Polypeptides (Lys-Ser-Glu)n induced cross-reacting or heteroclitic antibodies.
(11) Monoclonal and anti-dinitrophenyl and anti-trinitrophenyl IgE antibodies were used to measure heterocliticity using competitive inhibition assays with homologous and heterologous haptens.
(12) To our knowledge, this is the first description of a T cell clone that is specific for a class I antigen and cross-reacts heteroclitically with a class II antigen.
(13) A number of antibodies showed heteroclitic binding to particular insulin variants.
(14) Med., 146 (1977) 1323-1331), by comparing the encephalitogenic guinea pig sequence to a less potent analog, had also previously observed what now would be termed a heteroclitic phenomenon at the T cell level in Lewis rats.
(15) In this report, we employ a competition assay to confirm that this alloresponse involves a groove-binding peptide, demonstrate that this peptide derives from or depends on fetal calf serum and exploit a panel of antigen-presenting cell lines--each displaying an Ak complex with a different position 69 substitution--to establish that the alloresponse is not just a heteroclitic response to ribonuclease, itself.
(16) The results indicated temporal and individual variations in the titers of each class of Ab as well as the existence of enhancer and heteroclitic Ab.
(17) Products of both genes had an exotic (heteroclitic) fine-specificity.
(18) Although most of the animals showed cross-reacting Ab, two out of 12 mice, chronically injected, developed heteroclitic Ab.
(19) Heterocliticity towards non-human GH was also detected.
(20) Some of the antibodies could be inhibited to a greater degree with the cross-reacting haptens than with the haptens homologous to the immunizing antigen, therefore these antibodies were heteroclitic.