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Expanse


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is expanded or spread out; a wide extent of space or body; especially, the arch of the sky.
  • (v. t.) To expand.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
  • (2) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (3) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
  • (4) Plasma fibrinogen decreased by approximately 7% due to hemodilution caused by plasma volume expansion.
  • (5) To augment the in vitro expansion of LAK cells, we added highly purified human recombinant interleukin-2, phytohemagglutinin and accessory cells (Uc cells) to the LAK culture system, with which huge number of LAK cells (LAK-L) were generated from originally small number of peripheral blood lymphocytes of cancer patients.
  • (6) This was accompanied by a greater decrease in hematocrit in the continuous group, a finding that suggests that plasma volume expansion occurred during continuous GTN therapy.
  • (7) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
  • (8) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
  • (9) Unlike previous studies where constitutive expression of exogenous IL-6 genes resulted in lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by massive plasmacytosis, minimal plasma cell expansion occurred in the MSCV-IL-6 mice during the observation period.
  • (10) The hyperreninemia and hyperaldosteronism were both suppressible with volume expansion.
  • (11) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
  • (12) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (13) The former Arsenal and France star has signed a three-year contract to replace the sacked Jason Kreis at the helm of the second-year expansion club and will take over on 1 January, the team said.
  • (14) In order to delineate the critical blood flow pattern during the Cushing response in intracranial hypertension, regional cerebral blood flow was measured with radioactive microspheres in 12 anesthetized dogs at respiratory arrest caused either by expansion of an epidural supratentorial balloon or by cisternal infusion.
  • (15) This enhancement of laminin synthesis corresponds to the mesangial expansion and to the development of laminin-containing spike formations of the glomerular basement membrane at week 8.
  • (16) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
  • (17) It is spending £68m this year to help meet this target, including further investment in its China start-up, expansion of its main UK warehouse in Barnsley, and new facilities in Berlin and Shanghai, and expansion of a warehouse in Ohio.
  • (18) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
  • (19) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
  • (20) Subacute lead exposure has been observed to inhibit the natriuretic response to isotonic saline expansion in adult female rats.

Sea


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the larger bodies of salt water, less than an ocean, found on the earth's surface; a body of salt water of second rank, generally forming part of, or connecting with, an ocean or a larger sea; as, the Mediterranean Sea; the Sea of Marmora; the North Sea; the Carribean Sea.
  • (n.) An inland body of water, esp. if large or if salt or brackish; as, the Caspian Sea; the Sea of Aral; sometimes, a small fresh-water lake; as, the Sea of Galilee.
  • (n.) The ocean; the whole body of the salt water which covers a large part of the globe.
  • (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea.
  • (n.) A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so called from its size.
  • (n.) Fig.: Anything resembling the sea in vastness; as, a sea of glory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (2) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
  • (3) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
  • (4) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
  • (5) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
  • (6) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (7) It is shown that the combined effects of altitude and wind assistance yielded an increment in the length of the jump of about 31 cm, compared to a corresponding jump at sea level under still air conditions.
  • (8) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
  • (9) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
  • (10) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.
  • (11) In the present work by the method of molecular DNA hybridization there was shown a low degree of affinity of the standard museum strains of cholera vibrios to the respresentatives of the sea species V. parahaemolyticus and V. alginolyticus, and also halophilic vibrios identified earlier on the basis of phenotypical characteristics of the nucleotide DNA composition as Marinovibrio.
  • (12) A guide, £44pp, is compulsory ( rscn.org.jo ) 2 Discover the Nuweiba coast: Red Sea, Egypt Beach, Nuweiba, Sinai, Egypt.
  • (13) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
  • (14) The highest rates were observed where the inhabitants' activities were related to the sea.
  • (15) CyIIIa.CAT) expression simultaneously in embryos bearing excess competitor regulatory DNA, we developed, and here describe, a new procedure for generating transgenic sea urchin embryos in which all of the cells in many embryos, and most in others, bear the exogenous DNA.
  • (16) All have territorial disputes with Beijing over the South China Sea , a route for about $4.5tn (£3.4tn) in trade that the US is concerned China wants to fully control.
  • (17) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
  • (18) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
  • (19) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (20) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".

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