(v. t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
(2) A technique to re-embed celloidin sections of human temporal bones for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is presented.
(3) Although PEEP, SN, and EMB all increased mean pulmonary arterial pressure, PEEP, had negligible effect on Zc and Ca, whereas SN increased Zc but decreased Ca (+24% and -49%, respectively), and EMB decreased both Zc and Ca (-33% and -39%, respectively).
(4) These results indicate that neither CIM, as currently conducted, nor immunophenotyping alone is sensitive or specific enough to substitute for EMB in screening for tissue rejection.
(5) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
(6) EMB caused no increase in deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis, nor in septum formation of dividing cells.
(7) We measured this variable in 87 subjects classified into five study groups: 19 controls (C), 18 alcoholics (E), 15 patients diagnosed as liver cirrhosis (CH), 11 chronic liver disease (HC) and 24 pregnant women (EMB).
(8) Indications for obtaining EMBs included acute rejection in the cardiac allograft, anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity, myocarditis, cardiomyopathies, specific heart diseases, idiopathic chest pain and arrhythmias, as well as the differential diagnosis of restrictive versus constrictive heart diseases.
(9) In these patients another EMB was performed after 3 or 5 days.
(10) The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.
(11) Hemodynamics were normal prephotopheresis and remained unchanged at the time when the postphotopheresis EMB showed no evidence rejection No adverse effects have been observed with photopheresis.
(12) That’s something we’re going to have to get right as we embed these systems into our lives,” Soltani, the former tech regulator, said.
(13) A review was conducted on 144 right ventricular histological sections (RVs) from hearts surgically resected for heart transplantation, 115 endomyocardial biopsies (EMB) from 100 patients investigated for dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), and 309 biopsies from 26 heart-transplant patients.
(14) France wanted to firmly embed Germany in Europe and improve Europe’s chances to harness globalisation.
(15) In another 15 patients (Group B) it was possible to administer 2 cycles of EMB, and 9 of them showed local disease progression and died.
(16) Furthermore, temperature shift-down experiments suggest that the emb-29 mutation defines a cell division cycle function that affects an essential activity required for progression into M phase.
(17) EMB was performed in 314 patients, a total of 1362 biopsies, and for evaluation 5564 specimens of cardiac tissue were taken.
(18) I vote for who I want.” embed The Guardian asked Placide, who was naturalized as an American citizen in 1990 and who works an evening shift for a nursing agency to put her two children through college, whether she thought Trump had made America great again.
(19) MARs without maintenance steroids and low serum creatinine levels had the highest risk (37.2% observed incidence) to develop moderate or severe rejection on subsequent EMB.
(20) Policy making My last recommendation is that government must eat its own lunch: it must formally embed structured data in how it develops, monitors and adapts public policy.
Nest
Definition:
(n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.
(n.) Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.
(n.) A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.
(n.) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
(n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
(n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
(v. i.) To build and occupy a nest.
(v. t.) To put into a nest; to form a nest for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(3) The nested gene is oriented in a direction opposite to that of factor VIII and contains no intervening sequences.
(4) The experiment had a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with two nest holding times and two storage methods.
(5) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(6) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(7) We conclude that both proprioceptive feedback and audio-feedback must be involved to yield maximal stimulation of follicular growth by the female's nest-coo display.
(8) Prolactin secretion was stimulated less in incubating hens deprived of their nests for 24 h (nest-deprived) than in laying hens after administration of the 5-HT receptor agonist quipazine, or precursor 5-hydroxytryptophan.
(9) Four mechanisms for the formation of ectopic meningioma have been suggested: (a) direct extension of an intracranial lesion; (b) distant metastasis from an intracranial meningioma; (c) origin from arachnoid cells within the sheaths of cranial nerves; and (d) origin from embryonic nests of arachnoid cells.
(10) After the relatively abrupt start of intensive nest-building, the seasonal course of a pair's behavior becomes more regular, an indication that this transition in the female's state is critical in pacing the pair's breeding activities.
(11) These centers will collaborate in a nested-case control study based on the pooled cases and a sample of the non-diseased respondents.
(12) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(13) Hens from both strains performed vacuum nest-building behaviour before laying.
(14) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
(15) The marked differences in the lipolytic activities of adipose tissue emphasize the distinct influence of the post-natal nutrition on metabolic functions in the later life and lead to the conclusion that the metabolism of adipose tissue of animals from small nests is directed towards a long-term increased storage of lipids.
(16) The most consistently sensational evidence from Icac has been around former Labor member Eddie Obeid and the influence he wielded in the NSW Labor government to feather his own nest.
(17) After 48 h of nest deprivation, the hens resumed nesting within 5 min of being returned to the pen although the plasma levels of Prl were low.
(18) Although distortion by competing risks is well-recognized in follow-up studies, the problem has not been as widely appreciated in nested case-control studies.
(19) We test first for confounded effects by examining socioeconomic effects while excluding and then including reproductive variables in nested multivariate models.
(20) The bird's nest inferior vena cava filter, in clinical trial since 1982, has been placed in 568 patients at risk for pulmonary embolism.