(n.) The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
(n.) A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
Example Sentences:
(1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
(2) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(3) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(4) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(5) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(6) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(7) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
(8) By combined histologic and cytologic examinations, the overall diagnostic rate was raised to 87.7%.
(9) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
(10) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(11) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
(12) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(13) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(14) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(15) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(16) Four cytotoxic antibiotics, bikaverin, duclauxine, PSX-1 and vermiculine, were examined with respect to their interference with glycolysis and respiration and their possible ionophoric or cytolytic activity.
(17) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(18) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(19) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(20) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
Recross
Definition:
(v. t.) To cross a second time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Negligible numbers of aberrant optic fibers recrossed the midline elsewhere.
(2) The autoradiographs indicated that optic fibres whose tectal target was destroyed recrossed to the ipsilateral tectum and basal optic nucleus via the posterior and pretectal commissures.
(3) The ipsilateral PrV-SC projection appeared to arise mainly from axons that recrossed the midline at the level of the SC commissure.
(4) Axons from the remaining olive recross the cerebellar midline and partially innervate the deprived hemicortex.
(5) The excitatory projection probably leads from the eye to the contralateral tectum opticum, then recrosses back to the nucleus rotundus of the ipsilateral side where it reaches the ectostriatum.
(6) The trajectory, developmental time course, and origin of callosal fibres that recross through the anterior commissure were studied in developing hamsters, using carbocyanines in fixed brains on different ages.
(7) Retinotectal topography observed in this recrossing projection was predominantly mirror-symmetric to the normal contralateral projection; however, some distortions in retinotopic order were observed, including misplaced fields and local inversions of the mirror-symmetric topography, and distortions of local magnification factor.
(8) Additional experiments in which one optic tract was sectioned a week prior to the eye injection showed that the reorganization was primarily due to axons which recrossed the midline at the level of the midbrain.
(9) Substantial numbers of fibers left this neuroma to enter two or more of five commissures, through which they recrossed the midline.
(10) However, more labelled cells were observed in the nasal than in the temporal half of the retina, and very few cells contributing to the recrossed projection were located in the lower temporal retinal crescent where cells of the uncrossed retinotectal fibers were heavily concentrated.
(11) The terminal fields at sacral and coccygeal levels were radically different in that large numbers of fibers recrossed to the ipsilateral side and ended in laminae V through IX; the functional significance of this strong bilateral termination was discussed.
(12) Ipsilateral fibers follow unusual pathways by recrossing at the rostral diencephalon.
(13) As in the first case, axonal branches also recrossed the midline and terminated in identical motoneuron pools on the ipsilateral side.
(14) In neurons which terminated bilaterally, major collaterals recrossed the midline within the oculomotor nucleus to reach the ipsilateral superior rectus motoneuron pool.
(15) Such recrossing axons thus represent one new possible mechanism, among other previously reported ones, contributing to the increase of ipsilateral corticospinal projections in rats subjected to neonatal cortical lesion.
(16) The monorail technique allows monitoring of all steps of the coronary angioplasty procedure by high quality coronary angiography; easy, rapid, and safe recrossing and redilatation of the lesion if necessary; and stepwise dilatation of a stenosis with sequential increase of size of balloons.
(17) In addition, the functional competence of the abnormal recrossing retinotectal projection has been demonstrated by both electrophysiological and behavioral methods.
(18) In addition, sparse numbers of labeled cerebellar fibers recross in the hypothalamus to distribute to homologous areas ipsilateral to the injection site.
(19) This paper draws on empirical and theoretical studies to argue that popular and professional conceptions of mental illness share specific traits with ethnic stereotypes: (1) they are exaggerated and serve to erect a qualitative boundary where none objectively exists: (2) they are maintained through selective perception, rationalization, and sanctions; (3) they help to erect the "thresholds,' i.e., the criteria, for crossing or recrossing the boundary; (4) they serve to define relations, including those of power, between groups; (5) because they perform these important cognitive and conative functions, they persist despite a flow of personnel across them and despite repeated demonstrations of their inaccuracy.
(20) However, it appears that as the density of the recrossing axons increases they displace the axons originating in the other eye from the medial wall of the left SC.