(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.
Tripos
Definition:
(n.) A tripod.
(n.) A university examination of questionists, for honors; also, a tripos paper; one who prepares a tripos paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sybyl Tripos structure optimization indicates only minor structural changes of the folded synthetic protein compared to the similar residue positions in the native protein.
(2) Changes in conformation and molecular stability of the multi-ubiquitinated structures were determined by energy-minimization procedures using the SYBYL program developed by Tripos Associates.
(3) On the basis of experimental data and of computer calculations using the Tripos 5.3 force field in order to examine the three-dimensional structures which are sterically feasible and the conformations which are energetically the most favourable, we have designed a program of molecular modelling of biantennary glycans of the N-acetyllactosaminic type (complex type).
(4) Monoclonal antibodies were raised against F. Two of them, FCH-F8-1 and 4, were able to neutralize the infectivity of bloodstream forms, to mediate lysis by complement of cell culture derived[trypomastigotes (Tripo) and to recognize the surface of Tripo and Epi.
(5) FCH-F8-4 recognized several proteins ranging from 50 to 150 kDa on Epi and two molecules of 15 and 48 kDa on Tripo.
(6) The conformations of a disialylated monofucosylated biantennary glycan of the N-acetyllactosamine type were analysed using the Tripos 5.3 force field from the Sybyl software currently used for molecular modelling.
(7) The molecular mechanics of cholic acid micelle formation were simulated using the Sybyl energy minimization program (MAXIMIN2), developed by Tripos Associates, interfaced with micro-Vax.
(8) First, a molecular mechanical force field capable of performing conformational analysis of oligosaccharides has been derived by the addition of new parameters to the Tripos force field; it is also compatible with the simulation of protein.
(9) These extra-mural activities inevitably affected his work, and, despite a first in part one of the English Tripos, he could only manage a 2.1 in his finals.
(10) FCH-F8-1 reacted with a 85 kDa protein from Tripo (assayed by immunoprecipitation) and with peptides of 43 kDa on Epi and Tripo (tested by immunoblotting).
(11) The mechanism of retraction of the longitudinal flagellum of Ceratium tripos was studied by making extracted models of the flagellum.
(12) The computer program SYBYL 5.3 and the Tripos force field (version 5.2) were used for all the calculations.