(v. t.) To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
(v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat.
(v. t.) To deprive of concealment; to discover; to lay open to public inspection, or bring to public notice, as a thing that shuns publicity, something criminal, shameful, or the like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor.
(v. t.) To disclose the faults or reprehensible practices of; to lay open to general condemnation or contempt by making public the character or arts of; as, to expose a cheat, liar, or hypocrite.
(v. t.) A formal recital or exposition of facts; exposure, or revelation, of something which some one wished to keep concealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(2) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(3) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(4) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(5) The effects of phenoxyacetic acid herbicides were investigated on the induction of chromosome aberrations in human peripheral lymphocyte cultures in vitro and in lymphocytes of exposed workers in vivo.
(6) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(7) Lung sections of rats exposed to quartz particles were significantly different.
(8) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
(9) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(10) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(11) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(12) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(13) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(14) Three subcohorts were defined: 3212 men whose only exposure to asbestos was to amosite; 3430 exposed to crocidolite; and 675 to both amphiboles.
(15) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(16) These O2-exposed cells were resistant to 4HNE, requiring 2.6 times as long in 80 microM 4HNE to reach 30% survival as compared to density-matched normoxia control.
(17) Since alkaline phosphatase, a glycoprotein, is not affected, the destruction is selective and presumably involves only the most exposed membrane components.
(18) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(19) II, the visual and auditory stimuli were exposed conversely over the habituation- (either stimulus) and the test-periods (both stimuli).
(20) Further work is required to determine whether such a risk exists but caution should be exercised by those exposed to aerosols generated during procedures on HIV-1 infected patients.
Unmask
Definition:
(v. t.) To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
(v. i.) To put off a mask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
(2) These data indicate that Ba2+ blocked the major K+ conductance(s) of the RPE apical membrane and unmasked a slowing of the normally hyperpolarizing electrogenic Na+-K+ pump caused by lowering [K+]o.
(3) These data indicate that ACE inhibitors are able to unmask a release of bradykinin from cultured human endothelial cells.
(4) These antibodies recognized only this epitope when unmasked from the entire precursor, allowing the detection of the [1-72] domain which was isolated from pancreatic islets extracts.
(5) Finally, three mechanisms are discussed that contribute to the absence of unmasking by masker fluctuations in hearing-impaired listeners.
(6) Intravenous dipyridamole-thallium imaging unmasks ischemia in patients unable to exercise adequately.
(7) In this experiment, observers were asked to match the loudness of partially masked test-tone bursts in one ear by adjusting the level of unmasked bursts presented to the other ear.
(8) Fractionation by Percoll density centrifugation of peripheral blood leucocyte cells, from atopic subjects with seasonal hay fever, unmasked IgE-B cell populations whose individual capacities to synthesize IgE in vitro were obscured in cultures of unfractionated B cells.
(9) Pb also appeared to unmask an afterdischarge in some neurons following noxious mechanical stimulation.
(10) Since LOH is supposed to unmask the recessive mutation of tumor suppressor gene in the remaining allele, these results may imply that at least six genetic alterations are necessary to convert a normal cell into a fully malignant cancer cell in SCLC.
(11) Simultaneous addition of vasopressin or cyclic AMP (+ theophylline) and NTCB resulted in marked synergism, presumably as a result of unmasking of SH groups by the the hormone (or the intermediate).
(12) Sialidase-induced desialylation of these natural substrates unmasks saccharides that are specifically recognized by the peanut agglutinin lectin (PNA).
(13) This treatment also decreased the amount of herpes-specific IgG and IgM detected by radioimmunoassay, whereas it increased and even unmasked the amount of herpes-specific IgA detected.
(14) Therefore, the effect of BHQ appears to involve unmasking of passive Ca(2+)-permeation pathways in the plasma and intracellular membranes that do not respond to cholecystokinin octapeptide, following its described inhibition of the internal-store Ca2+ pumps responsible for accumulating Ca2+ in these pools.
(15) Lastly this investigation was conducted both in normal and endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli) treated HI and LI mice in an attempt to unmask the hypothesized difference by increasing the macrophage oxidative response capacity.
(16) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
(17) We investigated which components of the cytosol mimicking medium are important for latency of DHAP-AT and unmasking of latent DHAP-AT activity by ATP.
(18) L-NOARG (10(-5) M) abolished all relaxation, and unmasked a contractile component; D-NOARG had no effect.
(19) Ashley probably hasn’t had any sleep this week, so hopefully he’s left the spooky eyebags unmasked.
(20) Interruption of vagal reflexes by cervical vagotomy prevents these inhibitory responses but does not unmask expected increases in either renal SNA or HR.