(n.) An agent employed to advance, in a covert manner, the interests of his employers; one sent out by any power that is at war with another, to create dissatisfaction among the people of the latter.
(a.) Exploring; spying.
(a.) Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.
Example Sentences:
(1) The drainage blockade is active and located just inside the tunica albuginea at the origin of the emissary veins.
(2) There has been no dialogue between the Chinese government and emissaries of the Dalai Lama since 2010.
(3) Key figures are Frank Lowenstein, Kerry’s special emissary for Middle East peace, and David Makovsky, an expert from the Washington Institute thinktank who specialises in the highly-complex mapping work that will be crucial to any land swaps.
(4) The anatomic connections of the head with the mediastinum through extensions of the deep cervical fascia, and the intracranial venous sinuses connected through emissary veins to the facial veins, make infections of this region the most dreaded.
(5) Brown, meanwhile, was exploring the possibility of sending Brazil's Lula as an emissary to broker an agreement between industrialised economies and the developing world.
(6) On Sunday, after the ninth US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco rejected the government’s application for an emergency stay, Pence was sent as an emissary from the White House to several talkshows.
(7) A small foramen in the squamous part of the occipital bone just behind foramen magnum was noticed for the passage of emissary vein in one skull only, probably connecting occipital sinus with suboccipital venous plexus.
(8) The anatomy of the posterior condylar emissary vein is discussed, and the general evaluation of a patient with objective, pulsatile tinnitus is reviewed.
(9) The "emissary" is situated either along the right or left contour of the base of the common ventricle, its dimensions are variable.
(10) The emissary veins of the islet seem to serve for the quick conveyance of insular secretions into general circulation.
(11) And I thought, that's a good advertisement for death, for the emissary of death.
(12) Even as president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on TV her plan to nationalise Spanish-owned YPF, her emissaries were at the oil company's 35-storey Buenos Aires headquarters giving its Spanish directors 15 minutes to leave the building.
(13) Photograph: EPA Rael – once known as Claude Vorilhon, a French-born amateur sports racer and journalist – changed his name in 1973 after what he says was an encounter with extraterrestrials who declared that he had been chosen as their emissary to deliver a message of joy to humankind.
(14) "The vast lazy planes that floated overhead were emissaries from another world."
(15) Anderson has gone so far as to screen the movie for Tom Cruise, Scientology's chief emissary to the normals.
(16) Sir Denis Wright, an earlier UK ambassador to Iran, was chosen as emissary.
(17) Plain radiographs immediately after perfusion revealed prompt escape of dye into the systemic veins via a number of large transcortical emissary veins.
(18) Athens has set up a crisis management team, sent an emissary to the Middle East, contacted governments across the region and used its considerable contacts with the Syrian opposition in a bid to shed light on the clerics' whereabouts.
(19) Cerebral angiograms showed (1) the occluded confluence sinuum and compensatory venous collaterals, (2) venous drainage through the persistent falcial sinus, which was rare in an adult, from the straight sinus into the superior sagittal sinus (SSS), (3) venous drainage through diploic veins and emissary veins into scalp veins.
(20) In three patients, no blood flow could be detected in the ophthalmic emissary veins whereas in the fourth patient as well as in both control subjects, blood flowed from the intracranium to the face.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.