(1) The finfish livers and entrails were macerated in a Duall tissue grinder containing acetonitrile followed by partitioning of the Kepone into benzene.
(2) Weights of the different commercial parts of the animal such as head, ducts, bacon, skin and main organs (entrails) were taken from sacrificed hogs (carcass).
(3) And in a pointed a slap back at Brandis, he said: “Lawyers will always have a lot of views on a lot of things going into the entrails on these sorts of things.
(4) Indeed, he said, there would be “very few Australians” who would not be proud to stand next to such shoulders, but alas “the entrails of his schedule” meant his time spent in proximity to Hastie’s shoulders was limited.
(5) I’m still faithful to Hannibal , but there are only so many times you can watch someone cook a nice brunch with human entrails before it gets a tad repetitive.
(6) She gets nothing but sycophancy from her privy counsellors, so why not ask those paid to watch the entrails of the sacred geese, the economists?
(7) It tasted as you might imagine licking the slime off a fish that has been left to fester in a warm room for three days might taste; it had the tang of bilge and entrail.
(8) The farmer and his children crowd around; a girl of seven or eight stirs a pot on an open fire and, in the dust, chickens fight over the entrails of a ram left over from Eid, its head still lolling in the dirt.
(9) Scratch tests with different fish products (fish juice from fillets, meat (fillet), skin, slime, juice from fish boxes and hold in the fishing boats, and entrails) were performed in 145 volunteers.
(10) The corpses, meanwhile, had bloated and burst in the heat, their entrails seeping out, tongues oozing from faces.
(11) But the entrails of the leak are less important than the issue it raises.
(12) Nowhere in the new advert do we see the blood and entrails, the vomit and faeces, the rats feasting on body parts.
(13) Under optimal conditions, the degrees of tyrosine-desulfation of [35S]sulfate-labeled fibronectin by arylsulfatases from Helix pomatia (Type H-1), Patalle vulgata (Type V) and Abalone entrails (Type VIII) were determined to be 55.7%, 54.9% and 76.4%.
(14) The nation examines the entrails of heirs to the throne, actors and London mayors.
(15) So those of us engaged in this strange spectator-sport are driven to reading stock-market analysts' reports and other ephemera, which is the technological equivalent of consulting the entrails of recently beheaded chickens.
(16) The formation of the above mentioned organic compounds is associated with volcanic processes--with abiogenous synthesis taking place in ash-gas clouds and, possibly, in the entrails of the Earth (hydrocarbons and their heteroatomic derivatives have also been found in volcanic bombs).
(17) Sulphatase preparations from Abalone entrails, the limpet Patella vulgata and ox liver, as well as artificial substrates for these enzymes, were used in the hamster in vitro fertilization system to study the possible roles of sperm sulphatases in sperm-zona pellucida interactions.
(18) No hydrolysis of the sulphate metabolite occurred on treatment with aryl sulphatase from (a) Helix pomatia, (b) limpets and (c) Aerobacter aerogenes, while treatment with aryl sulphatase from abalone entrails led to very slow hydrolysis.
(19) Mr Justice Macpherson, the trial judge, said after yesterday's verdicts: "It seems to me that maybe the public and certainly those involved on the legal side would not wish to gaze at the entrails of the case further."
(20) He seems in later life to have found some sort of serenity, underpinned by the Stoic philosophy which, superbly stated, ends Satire X : Still, if you must pray for something, if at every shrine you offer The entrails and holy chitterlings of a white piglet Then ask for a healthy mind in a healthy body, Demand a valiant heart for which death holds no terrors, That reckons length of life as the least among the gifts Of nature, that's strong to endure every kind of sorrow, That's anger free, lusts for nothing, and prefers The sorrows and labours of Hercules to all Sardanapulus' downy cushions and women and junketings.
Fold
Definition:
(v. t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
(v. t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
(v. t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
(v. t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
(v. i.) To become folded, plaited, or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
(v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.
(v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
(v.) That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
(n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
(n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
(n.) A boundary; a limit.
(v. t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
(v. i.) To confine sheep in a fold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(4) The enzyme was solubilized by Triton X-100 and purified approximately 480-fold by gel filtration and affinity chromatography on alanine methyl ketone-AH-Sepharose 4B.
(5) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(6) IP3 increased 1.7-fold and IP2 1.6-fold after 20 and 40 s, respectively.
(7) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(8) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(9) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(10) The estimated DNA compaction ratio (approximately 3-fold) is consistent with a significant degree of nucleosome unfolding in the hyperstimulated BR genes.
(11) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
(12) Transfection of the treated DNA into SOS-induced spheroplasts results in an increase in mutagenesis as great as 50-fold.
(13) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
(14) In strains completely deleted for galR, the gene which encodes the Gal repressor, the operon is derepressed by only 10-fold without an inducer.
(15) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(16) TNBS reacts to an extremely small extend with hemoglobin over the concentration range 0.4 to 4 mM whereas FDNB reacts with hemoglobin to a very large extent (50 fold more than TNBS).
(17) Rates of PC in vitro metabolism by liver and kidney cytosolic cysteine conjugate beta-lyases (beta-lyases) were similar, but metabolism by renal mitochondrial beta-lyase occurred at a 3-fold higher rate than the rate obtained with hepatic mitochondrial beta-lyase.
(18) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(19) On the other hand, if we correct for the population of HMM with degraded light chain 2, the difference in the binding constants in the presence and absence of Ca2+ may be as great as 5-fold.
(20) The gene, which is located at chromosome XIII, is transcribed as a mRNA of about 2.7 kilobases, and the amount of message has been found to increase 3- to 4-fold during the culture.