(n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
(n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
(n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
(n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
Example Sentences:
(1) Temporary mood states (depression, elation, neutral) were produced by means of Velten's auto-suggestion technique.
(2) When I left the room, along with elation, there was relief.
(3) Using an experimental procedure which minimised covert experimenter bias, subjects performed under both elation and depression mood inductions in one of four conditions: music present or absent by mood change instructions present or absent, using a crossover design.
(4) When prompted with the question, “That’s not a no though?”, Prince replied, “No.” Later that night, Prince turned up at the one-time roller disco in north London to play a set to a few dozen elated journalists and, towards the end of the show, a swarm of even more elated fans.
(5) Moreover ELAT-CSG is significantly more sensitive than ELAT-LAV (P = 0.03).
(6) 2 ml of fetal RBC in a 1,600-ml red cell mass can be quantified using the modified ELAT.
(7) I feel pleased to have crossed out 10 things today, then realise I’ve added 15 items to my list so my elation is shortlived!
(8) Yesterday afternoon, Straw described the mood among Ed Miliband's team – who had by now got used to being front- runners – as "elated" – and those among David's as "nervous".
(9) Following the initial immersion, subjects participated in the Velten mood induction procedure by reading either depressive, neutral or elative statements.
(10) Elated and depressed subjects performed best under positive and negative feedback, respectively.
(11) Nicotine fuses with nicotinic receptors, which trigger the release of several neurotransmitters – including serotonin and dopamine – which are both associated with positive side-effects, including elation and excitability.
(12) The effect of negative, positive, or neutral feedback on a rotary pursuit task as a function of the subject's depressed or elated mood was ascertained.
(13) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.
(14) The 48-hour postinjection titer was compared with the size of bleed as measured by Du testing and the enzyme-linked antiglobulin test (ELAT).
(15) "You know I sort of feel elated, exhausted and thrilled.
(16) Although 51Cr is the accepted method for red cell survival, the ELAT method can be used to estimate transfused red cell survival.
(17) Self-rated anxiety was not found to be associated with the number of people present, whereas self-rated elation was positively correlated with the presence of others.
(18) For example, alcohol increased elation and vigor scores in the consistent choosers of alcohol, whereas it decreased scores on these measures in the consistent placebo choosers.
(19) Of the various psychiatric symptoms elation was significantly correlated with the presence of widespread MRI abnormalities, while flattening of affect, delusions and thought disorder correlated with the degree of pathology in the temporo-parietal region.
(20) Prior to treatment, patients rated hyperactive-elated, angry, and agitated had more motor activity, and patients rated anergic and retarded had less motor activity.
Equisetum
Definition:
(n.) A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microtubules of root hairs of Raphanus sativus, Lepidium sativum, Equisetum hyemale, Limnobium stoloniferum, Ceratopteris thalictroides, Allium sativum and Urtica dioica were investigated using immunofluorescence and electron microscopy.
(2) Cortex cells of Equisetum hyemale are broken open while still in buffer, after initially being attached to poly-L-lysine-coated grids.
(3) Two ferredoxins were isolated from horsetail (Equisetum telmateia) and their amino acid sequences were determined by use of a sequence analyzer in combination with carboxypeptidase digestion and manual Edman degradation of tryptic peptides of carboxymethyl-ferredoxins.
(4) Chloroform extracts of Equisetum fluviatile, E. hiemale var.
(5) The substitution rates for the three codon positions and the intervening sequences show that in Psilotum both genes are transcribed and are under selection pressure, however, this seems not to be the case for Equisetum.
(6) Motile sperm of four ferns (Marsilea, Pteridium, Lygodium and Aneimia), a horsetail (Equisetum) and a liverwort (Marchantia) were fixed in the presence of tannic acid to visualise the dynein arms.
(7) Amino acid sequences of two ferredoxins isolated from Equisetum arvense were determined by conventional procedures.
(8) Several ultrastructural cytochemical methods are used to determine the constituents of the ripe nucleus of Equisetum arvense L. They show that: DNA, associated with an arginine-rich histone, is localized in central region of the nucleus; nucleoplasm is reduced to a thin peripheral coat and contains a probably lysine rich histone; RNA is not detectable; non histone proteins form lenticular amounts disposed against the nuclear membrane.
(9) Numerical parameters of microtubules in Raphanus, Equisetum and Limnobium were determined from dry-cleave preparations.
(10) Hybrid formation was detected by the endonucleolytical mode of the RNA-DNA specific action of RNase H. Provided that the hybrid interaction involved 6 successive base pairs, 5S rRNA loop c nucleotides 42-47 displayed accessibility in Escherichia coli, Bacillus stearothermophilus and Thermus thermophilus 5S rRNAs as well as in eukaryotic 5S rRNAs from Saccharomyces carlsbergensis, Rattus rattus and Equisetum arvense.
(11) Of these Pteridium aquilinum and Equisetum ramosissimum were found to have considerably more thiaminase activity and lower thiamine content than Malva parviflora, Pennisetum clandestinum and Medicago sativa.
(12) Using PCR across intron-exon boundaries we show that two different genes encode the catalytic subunit of the V-ATPase in Psilotum nudum and Equisetum arvense.
(13) The degree of difference in the sequences of the 18S coding region between C. reinhardtii and C. moewusii or C. eugametos is comparable to that between an angiosperm and Equisetum and may reflect an ancient divergence between two species in one algal genus.
(14) The mtDNA of Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern) is approximately 300 kb in size, while that of Equisetum arvense (common horsetail) is at least 200 kb.
(15) Histones were extracted from chromatin of the following: a moss (Polytrichum juniperinum); the primitive vascular plants Psilotum nudum and Equisetum arvense; a fern (Polypodium vulgare); the gymnosperms fir (Abies concolor), yew (Taxus canadensis) and Gingko biloba; the dicotyledonous angiosperms tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) and maple (Acer saccharinum); and the monocotyledonous angiosperms corn (Zea mays) and lily (Lilium longiflorum).
(16) Terminal complexes not described before include the following: linear terminal complexes (TCs) with three rows in Eremosphaera, Microdictyon and Chaetomorpha; globular terminal complexes in Ophioglossum, Psilotum, Equisetum and Gingko.
(17) Analysis of the ferredoxin of the primitive vascular plant Equisetum indicates that the cysteine residue normally found at position 18 of plant-type ferredoxins is replaced by a valine, although the spectroscopic properties of the ferredoxins are unaffected.