(v. t.) To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contradictions; as, to be entrapped by the devices of evil men.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although alum adsorbed allergen could induce IgE synthesis in mice primed with liposome entrapped allergen the increase in serum specific IgE levels was lower than the animals primed and challenged with alum adsorbed allergen.
(2) While acromioclavicular joint injury is not uncommon, a complete posterior dislocation in which the distal clavicle penetrates and is entrapped by the trapezius muscle is among the most rare.
(3) DNA is entrapped in polyacrylamide gel particles which can then be used in standard column chromatographic procedures.
(4) Urate oxidase from hog liver (urate: oxygen oxidoreductase, EC 1.7.33) has been entrapped in a crosslinked 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate gel with a 47% retention of activity.
(5) A case of entrapment in the right ventricle after repair of a ventricular septal defect is presented and a method for percutaneous removal described.
(6) Entrapment of the ring finger flexor digitorum in the ulna following fracture of both forearm bones is very rare.
(7) Early complications included disc entrapment against the ventricular wall in three cases, wedging of chorda between disc and valve rim in two and posterior perforation of the left ventricle in three patients.
(8) Renal excretion of 3H from liposome-entrapped [3H]methotrexate was considerably less than that of 3H from free [3H]methotrexate.
(9) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(10) When a supercoiled substrate bearing two FLP target sequences in inverse orientation is treated with FLP, the products are multiply knotted structures that arise as a result of random entrapment of interdomainal supercoils.
(11) Accelerating test at a constant temperature indicates that liposome-entrapped Ara-A has certain chemical stability.
(12) One patient was submitted to surgical exploration, and 'entrapment neuropathy' was found to be the cause.
(13) Liver microsomes from phenobarbital induced rats are entrapped in capsules prepared from polyelectrolytes.
(14) To assess the immunomodulating effect of allergen entrapped in liposomes, Swiss strain mice (made IgE responders) were injected with either free allergen or liposome-entrapped allergen (LEA) and their immune response was measured in terms of specific IgG and specific IgE levels.
(15) The results of double-label staining suggest the formation of LDL-DNA-IgG complexes which seem to be entrapped in cells more actively than free LDL.
(16) The damning comments by Judge Alistair McCreath both vindicated Contostavlos – who insisted she was entrapped by the reporter into promising to arrange a cocaine deal – and potentially brought down the curtain on the long and controversial career of Mahmood, better known as the "fake sheikh" after one of his common disguises.
(17) The effect of stabilization temperature, protein concentration and stabilization time on the entrapment and recovery of adriamycin in microspheres have been investigated using a 2 x 4 x 4 factorial design.
(18) The popliteal artery entrapment syndrome can be diagnosed by computer tomography with a greater degree of certainty than by angiography.
(19) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(20) That pulmonary entrapment had taken place was shown by a 3-fold increase in lung specific radioactivity.
Morass
Definition:
(n.) A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was a man who publicly stated: ‘No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical, or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party.’ In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear of alienating a part of the electorate; where under the excuse of trying to appear electable, all parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality; and the real deals, the real values we suspect, are kept behind closed doors – is it any wonder that people feel there is very little to choose between?
(2) But Osborne’s opponents are forced to deploy a morass of statistics to demonstrate how, in fact, despite the welcome increase in the minimum wage, the hammering of in-work benefits will drive millions of workers further into hardship.
(3) And into this glorious morass, a new contradiction has recently announced itself: the white people, the privileged Americans, the ones who had the least to fear from the powers that be, the ones with the surest paths to brighter futures, the ones who are by every metric one of the most fortunate groups in the history of the world, were starting to die off in shocking numbers.
(4) Certain that they cannot get out of this morass alone, the two sides look outside.
(5) As one woman with metastatic colon cancer said on a retreat I attended, ‘Maybe I haven’t laughed enough.’” Talking at someone with cancer about what they should do, rather than being with them in a morass with no easy answers, is not you helping them.
(6) I can only see independence as backwards-looking, leading to a needless morass of complications which will leave all parts of the UK diminished.
(7) He said: “In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear ... all political parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality and the real values we suspect are kept behind closed doors.
(8) The new show will not be able to use the Top Gear name, which is owned by the BBC, and there is a morass of legal complications around which features from the BBC2 show they can take with them.
(9) A case is described in which a multitude of consultants presented the court with a morass of parent-oriented conflicting testimony.
(10) Recently, the DOJ has been embarrassed mightily by an acidly damning PBS Frontline special that criticized it – among others – for not finding anyone worthy of prosecution in the morass of casual fraud and wrongdoing that was the credit crisis.
(11) It has taken defense secretary Chuck Hagel four months to fill the envoy position, a tacit reflection of how even the most minor aspects of shuttering Guantánamo – a position that had broad bipartisan support before Obama – have proven to be a morass.
(12) No matter that the stadium deal in Flushing, once seen as a prerequisite for a franchise to be awarded, would soon stall in the morass of New York politics, a "Mission Accomplished" banner of sorts could now be hung above the New York project and the talk could again turn to expansion.
(13) The Times and Post also ran detailed stories looking at the inescapable morass into which this war will quickly turn, along with how “success” will likely be impossible given the myriad complexities at play – including the precarious Iraqi government coalition, our supposed enemy Bashir al-Assad in Syria and the double dealing and disinterest of many of the US’s so-called allies in the region.
(14) The Institute of Public Policy’s Condition of Britain report suggests replacing some ill-understood cash benefits with public services, particularly in childcare, where – it says – state nurseries would not only be more loved, but also more efficient than under today’s morass of subsidies.
(15) Yet, despite this, the likeliest outcome remains a much messier hung parliament than in 2010, and an easier path out of the morass for Labour than the Conservatives .
(16) In Eric Kennie’s case, there is no clear way out of the morass.
(17) Gastrointestinal hemorrhage of obscure origin remains a difficult clinical problem, but newer methods of study, particularly endoscopy and angiography, have made inroads into this morass of diagnostic dilemmas.
(18) The head of Bar UK, which represents more than 80 airlines including Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, said the airport security regime had become a morass of regulations.
(19) She played Sammy, the kind, religious single mother, orphaned as a child, trying to pull her younger brother out of his emotional morass.
(20) As they sink into this economic morass, Greeks are being advised to make sure New Democracy, which wants to renegotiate the loan terms, beats leftist Syriza, which intends to discard the austerity measures .