(n.) An estate in fee entailed, or limited in descent to a particular class of issue.
(n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.
(n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.
(n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage.
(n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.
(n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
(2) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(3) The purification entails cell lysis and solubilization of gpL115 with the detergent Nonidet P-40, sequential affinity chromatography on lentil lectin-Sepharose, wheat germ lectin-Sepharose, and, after treatment with sialidase, on peanut lectin-Sepharose.
(4) If figurative language is defined as involving intentional violation of conceptual boundaries in order to highlight some correspondence, one must be sure that children credited with that competence have (1) the metacognitive and metalinguistic abilities to understand at least some of the implications of such language (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980; Nelson, 1974; Nelson & Nelson, 1978), (2) a conceptual organization that entails the purportedly violated conceptual boundaries (Lange, 1978), and (3) some notion of metaphoric tension as well as ground.
(5) This concept entails that during some seasons the preovulatory phase of the development of the human egg is lengthened, causing congenital anomalies.
(6) Over the years he has been through 20 Ofsted inspections, with all the anxiety – and sometimes satisfaction – that entails.
(7) Hitherto performed abdominoperineal or sacroperineal procedures entailed major traumatizing surgery with an inherent risk of complications.
(8) Bone resorption entails both mineral removal and collagenolysis.
(9) Practically speaking, this entails, in each case, finding the form of therapy that is acceptable to the patient and that provides the greatest health benefits with the least likelihood of adverse affects.
(10) This finding entails important clinical implications, as the evaluation of the hypertensive patient is usually made with a single blood pressure monitoring.
(11) A 45-year-old White man presented with multiple aneurysm formation and severe constitutional symptoms, the control of which entailed long-term corticosteroid therapy.
(12) It is suggested that polyarthritis is a complex condition entailing many changes, both behavioral and endocrinological.
(13) For Davutoglu, this ambition entails a "comprehensive" approach embracing enhanced economic, cultural and social ties as well as political and security relations.
(14) The home care system was defined as nurse-directed with a consultant physician and did not entail extensive participation by other health professionals.
(15) For one thing, it would entail a waiting period, and that alone might stop a number of would-be mass killers.
(16) On the other hand, there is concern that in-flight delivery entails "extreme risks, both to mother and child."
(17) The experimental procedure per se entails some degree of resistance augmentation and CFC reduction during a 3-hour perfusion; however, no changes appear during the initial stage, i.e., corresponding to the period of artificial distension...
(18) The 19th century data suggest that efforts to prevent severe streptococcal diseases should begin with better characterization of the epidemiology of streptococcal disease, a task entailing identification of streptococcal virulence factors and measurement of their distribution among isolates from individuals with streptococcal diseases and in open populations.
(19) The systematic program entails the collection of data, review of the data to develop a program for reducing inventories, and monitoring of the results.
(20) Trance logic results from the "metasuggestion," experienced through participation in a formal induction procedure, that hypnosis entails new rules of experience and behavior.
Phylum
Definition:
(n.) One of the larger divisions of the animal kingdom; a branch; a grand division.
Example Sentences:
(1) This work extends the finding of proctolin-like substances to the annelid phylum.
(2) Because ctenophore and all other known metazoan mtDNA is circular, the shared occurrence of linear mtDNA in three of the four cnidarian classes suggests a basal position for the Anthozoa within the phylum.
(3) The nervous systems of the scyphomedusae Chrysaora hysoscella, Cyanea capillata and Cyanea lamarckii (Phylum Cnidaria) were stained using an anti-serum against the anthozoan neuropeptide Antho-RFamide.
(4) All organisms tested responded to ether and short-chain alkanols, but pregnanolone affected only organisms belonging to the phylum Chordata.
(5) In so doing one can isolate compounds with novel structures or unsuspected activities from almost any phylum, including tunicates, sponges, insects, or even the much-studied terrestrial plants, as exemplified in several recent studies in our laboratory involving activities ranging from antiviral and antimicrobial activity to cytotoxicity and immunomodulation.
(6) The phylum Sporozoa comprises three large distinct groups of organisms as follows: Perkinsemorpha, Gregarinomorpha and Coccidiomorpha.
(7) S. muris and Theileria annulata belong to the phylum Apicomplexa, but the latter organism is a tick-borne protozoon in the subclass Piroplasmea and causes tropical theileriosis in cattle.
(8) Sporozoan zoites contain specific organelles that are involved in host cell invasion, a process highly conserved within this phylum.
(9) The chromatrope pigment of Mermis nigrescens (Phylum: Aschelminthes, Class: Nematoda) was previously thought to have a role in photoreception.
(10) We examine geographic and language patterning by grouping tribes by culture area and language phylum.
(11) We sequenced the 3'-terminal part of the COX3 gene encoding cytochrome c oxidase subunit 3 from mitochondria of Phytophthora parasitica (phylum Oomycota, kingdom Protoctista).
(12) It differs from other species in the phylum in that each secondary cell produces a single spore composed of two concentric cells, one within a vacuole of the other.
(13) They, along with the more numerous micronemes and dense granules, constitute the apical complex in Plasmodium and other members of the phylum Apicomplexa.
(14) If so, the Archamoebae are the most primitive extant phylum of eukaryotes; if molecular phylogenetic studies confirm this idea, Archamoebae will deserve intensive study, which could reveal much about the origin of the eukaryote condition and also establish what is truly universal among eukaryotes.
(15) The immunoreactivity of this paraprotein with apo B and apo E raises the interesting possibility that it may be binding to a site on these apolipoproteins which is reactive with the apo B, E receptor of the plasma membrane, a site which is conserved throughout the vertebrate phylum.
(16) Twenty-two sterols were identified in the starfish Asterias rubens (Phylum, Echinodermata; Class, Asteroidea).
(17) There are protozoans having simultaneously no flagelles, mitochondria and chloroplasts (all the representatives of phylum Microspora, amoeba Pelomyxa palustris, and others).
(18) The results suggest that C. reinhardtii diverged from higher plants approximately 700-750 million years ago; they also are not easy to reconcile with the current attribution of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Enteromorpha intestinalis to a unique phylum, because these two species probably diverged from one another at about the same time as they diverged from the line leading to higher plants.
(19) Prostaglandin A2 and its ester derivatives comprise as much as 8% of the wet tissue weight of some octocoral species such as Plexaura homomalla (phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, subclass Octocorallia).
(20) Two different waves of migration settled in the Highlands of New Guinea between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, and it is possible that the Watut, an Angan speaking group, represents the remnants of the first migration into the interior, whereas the Asaro, members of the Eastern Central family of the Trans-New Guinea phylum, arrived at a later date.