What's the difference between elevation and monoclinal?

Elevation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
  • (n.) Condition of being elevated; height; exaltation.
  • (n.) That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
  • (n.) The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
  • (n.) The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
  • (n.) The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line o/ sight; -- distinguished from direction.
  • (n.) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; -- called by the ancients the orthography.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
  • (2) Intestinal dilatation seemed in all cases a response to elevated CO2 only.
  • (3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (4) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
  • (5) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
  • (6) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
  • (7) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
  • (8) Hepatic enzyme elevations were more dramatic after blunt trauma, reflecting greater hepatocellular disruption.
  • (9) The erythrocyte sedimentation rate is almost always markedly elevated.
  • (10) Total cholesterol levels are elevated, particularly in hypopituitary women.
  • (11) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
  • (12) During capillary growth when endothelial cells (EC) undergo extensive proliferation and migration and pericytes are scarce, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels are elevated.
  • (13) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
  • (14) Beta-galactosidase, beta-n-acetyl-hexosaminidase, and alpha-fucosidase were sensitive indicators and were significantly elevated above control values by day 3 at both doses (P < 0.01).
  • (15) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
  • (16) Finally, it could be observed that elevated osmotic pressures reduced the lysis of isolated secretory granules when bicarbonate ions were present in the incubation medium.
  • (17) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
  • (18) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
  • (19) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
  • (20) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.

Monoclinal


Definition:

  • (a.) Having one oblique inclination; -- applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The crystals are monoclinic, space group C2, with a = 57.18 A, b = 21.63 A, c = 36.40 A, beta = 95.22 degrees, and one hairpin molecule per asymmetric unit.
  • (2) The space group symmetry is R21; the monoclinic unit cell contains two molecules and has the dimensions a = 12.4291(8), b = 7.4511(5), c = 12.7854(7) angstroms and beta = 102.295(7) degrees.
  • (3) Pure monoclinic or triclinic calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals, apatite crystals or mixtures of these crystals were injected into the synovial-like space created by the rat air pouch to compare the acute inflammation induced by these crystals.
  • (4) Crystals of 3 are monoclinic: P2(1), a = 5.317(2), b = 17.059(6), c = 9.514(3) A, beta = 99.18(3), Z = 2.
  • (5) C10H8F4N10O18, Mr = 632.22, monoclinic, Pc, a = 7.8885 (6), b = 6.7787 (4), c = 21.595 (2) A, beta = 108.21 (1) degree, V = 1096 (1) A3, Z = 2, Dx = 1.914 g cm-3, lambda(Cu K alpha) = 1.5418 A, mu = 18.7 cm-1, F(000) = 636, T = 293 K, 1791 unique data, 1733 with I greater than 3 sigma (I), R = 0.047.
  • (6) A large number of epitaxially dimensional matches between MSU and triclinic (t) and monoclinic (m) CPPD were identified, suggesting that MSU crystals can epitaxially induce CPPD crystal growth.
  • (7) C16H22NO+2.Cl-, Mr = 295.808, monoclinic, P2(1), a = 11.967 (1), b = 12.529 (1), c = 9.9369 (9) A, beta = 93.00 (1) degrees, V = 1487.8 (2) A3, Z = 4, Dm = 1.32 (2), Dx = 1.321 Mg m-3, lambda(Cu K alpha) = 1.54178 A, mu(Cu K alpha) = 2.289 mm-1, F(000) = 632, T = 291 K, final R = 0.040 for 2448 observed reflections.
  • (8) 7120 flavodoxin belong to the monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 48.0, b = 32.0, c = 51.6 A, and beta = 92 degrees, and one molecule in the asymmetric unit.
  • (9) Crystals grown from ammonium sulfate solutions belong to monoclinic space group C2 with a = 125 A, b = 111 A, c = 83.5 A and beta = 108degrees 45'.
  • (10) These crystals are monoclinic, space group C2, with unit cell dimensions, a = 2.845 nm, b = 1.354 nm, c = 3.413 nm, beta = 98.6 degrees.
  • (11) Form II crystallizes as monoclinic blocks, space group P21 with a = 64.5 A, b = 35.1 A, c = 25.2 A and beta = 91.8 degrees.
  • (12) L-Valyl-L-lysine hydrochloride, C11N3O3H23 HCl, crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 5.438(5), b = 14.188(5), c = 9.521(5) A, beta = 95.38(2) degrees and Z = 2.
  • (13) The unit cell is monoclinic, space group P2(1), with unit cell parameters: a = 41.4 A, b = 40.1 A, c = 37.5 A, beta = 90.01 degrees.
  • (14) GPb complexed with pyridoxal 5'-diphosphate (PLPP) has been crystallized in the presence of IMP and ammonium sulfate in the monoclinic R-state crystal form and the structure refined from X-ray data to 2.8 A resolution to a crystallographic R value of 0.21.
  • (15) The crystals are monoclinic with unit cell dimensions a = 121.2 A, b = 110.5 A, c = 81.8 A, and beta = 97.6 degrees, belonging to space group C2, and contain two molecules in the asymmetric unit.
  • (16) One grows as monoclinic plates, space group P2(1), with cell dimensions a = 66.9 A, b = 75.2 A, c = 86.9 A and beta = 102.9 degrees and the other as long hexagonal rods in space group P6(1)22 or P6(5)22, with cell dimensions a = b = 119 A, c = 83 A.
  • (17) To ascertain the sites that are available for strong binding between magnesium ions and phosphate groups in yeast phenylalanine transfer RNA, all distances below 5.5 A separating the phosphoryl oxygens (Op) of the 76 nucleotide residues have been computed from the latest atomic coordinates for the monoclinic form of the tRNA crystallized in the presence of magnesium chloride.
  • (18) One of them is monoclinic, space group P21, with unit cell dimensions a = 145.6 A, b = 78.1 A, c = 63.1 A, beta = 89.05 degrees, consistent with the presence of two molecules of the complex in the asymmetric unit.
  • (19) The crystals are monoclinic space group P2(1) with a = 42.6, b = 68.1, c = 50.2 A and beta = 112.9 degrees.
  • (20) Crystals are monoclinic, space group P2(1) with a = 5.088(2), b = 17.112(17), c = 9.581(6) A, beta = 92.34(4) degrees, Z = 2.

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