(n.) One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
(n.) One who furnishes incentives; an encourager.
(n.) One who eats or feeds; specifically, an animal to be fed or fattened.
(n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
(n.) A stream that flows into another body of water; a tributary; specifically (Hydraulic Engin.), a water course which supplies a canal or reservoir by gravitation or natural flow.
(n.) A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.
(n.) A small lateral lode falling into the main lode or mineral vein.
(n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.
(n.) An auxiliary part of a machine which supplies or leads along the material operated upon.
(n.) A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(2) In cultures of medium ML-15 containing a feeder layer of Dog Sarcoma (DS) cells larvae successfully moulted and showed a small but significant increase in length.
(3) Type II cells cultured on floating feeder layers in medium containing 1% CS-rat serum and 10(-5) M hydrocortisone plus 0.5 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP exhibited significantly increased incorporation of [14C]acetate into total lipids (238% of control).
(4) Dopamine, 5-hydroxydopamine (5-OHDA), 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA), 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), 5,6-dihydroxytryptamine (5,6-DHT) and 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT) killed the parasites in vitro, using a fibroblast feeder layer cell culture system, in four to 48 hours at concentrations of 10(-5)-10(-7) M. The 5-OHDA, 6-OHDA, 5,6-DHT and 5,7-DHT were also effective in vivo when tested by intraperitoneal injection of infected mice.
(5) This feeder cell system is proposed as an in vitro model for epithelial wound healing.
(6) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
(7) This feeder layer technique is very simple and flexible and could have wide applicability.
(8) It turned out to require additional stimulation by hemopoietic feeder cells: by irradiated marrow cells and spleen cells if they possess megakaryocytes and platelets or by platelets from the blood.
(9) Keratinocytes were plated onto tissue culture dishes using one of three basic serum-free media protocols; a) with no feeder layer in keratinocyte growth medium (KGM); b) onto mitomycin C-treated 3T3 mouse embryo fibroblasts; or c) onto mitomycin C-treated dermal human fibroblasts.
(10) The alginate matrix permits efficient cloning in limited incubator space, without the use of a feeder layer, and with minimal amount of medium.
(11) Obliteration of the AVM was accomplished by therapeutic embolization with placement of coils or balloons in the feeder vessels.
(12) MCBFV in MCA on the feeder side was statistically significant higher in those patients with large AVM (greater than 4 cm) size (p less than 0.01).
(13) Usually it is not possible to cure DAVMs by embolization alone: the approach now used for the main feeders arising from branches of the internal carotid and vertebral arteries is inadequate.
(14) One hundred fifty feeder steers (mean body weight, 195 kg) were assigned to 1 of 3 transport groups and were deprived of feed and water (fasted) for 24 hours.
(15) The day of the experiment a microdialysis probe was inserted in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of the rats and dialysates were collected every 20 minutes while the light and the feeder were off.
(16) The application of argon blue-green laser treatment at 0.1 watt for 60 seconds at two adjacent points on a feeder vessel was found to give rise to permanent vascular occlusion without causing complications.
(17) Whereas the cells from one patient formed colonies in the absence of exogenous stimuli, the cells from others were dependent on the addition of feeder leukocytes plus IL 2.
(18) Control CFU-GMs were also inhibited when they were cultured over feeder layers containing patients' BM cells (P less than .001).
(19) Such are the employability benefits associated with a Cambridge education that increasing numbers are sending their children to the various “ feeder schools ” around the city to boost their chances of a successful application.
(20) In the flocks included in the necropsy survey, annual mortality among adult and feeder sheep was estimated to be three percent.
Tributary
Definition:
(a.) Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
(a.) Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
(a.) Paid in tribute.
(a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
(n.) A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(2) Their tortuous or irregular outline did not usually correspond in position or appearance to normal tributaries of the vein.
(3) Meningeal tributaries are relatively large in humans, and drain principally into the cranio-orbital sinus or sphenoparietal sinus.
(4) Already at the stage of anlage the intestinal trunk is not included in the ThD root system, but serves as the RLS anterior tributary, or its lumbar, preaortic tributary.
(5) This was due to reductions of hepatic arterial and portal venous tributaries.
(6) The occurrence of cell-infiltrated intimal lesions at the confluence of many small tributaries with canine jugular and femoral veins suggested that these areas (confluences) might 1) differ structurally from the rest of the receiving vein and 2) serve as initiation sites for thrombi.
(7) This study shows that somatostatin analogue decreases portal pressure principally by reducing portal tributary blood flow.
(8) Multiplanar CDI can image flow in the circle of Willis and its tributaries and branches.
(9) Factors evaluated included technical success of the examination; visualization of the portal vein, splenic vein, and other tributaries; contrast medium density, portal blood flow direction; presence and type of collaterals and varices; and liver size and configuration.
(10) Obstruction of a major temporal branch vein, or one of its macular tributaries, presents a significant threat to vision.
(11) Twelve variants of ways of spreading vertical reflux of blood along the pelvic veins have been established and two ways of its transmission to the lower extremity veins: a direct way of reflux from the iliac to femoral vein and an indirect ways of reflux--from tributaries of the iliac vein to those of the femoral vein.
(12) Mortality of pelyad (Coregonus peled) caused by Tetraonchus alaskensis took place in winter 1973 in the Voikara and Syn rivers (the Ural tributaries of the Lower Ob) during anadromous and catadromous migrations.
(13) Between the gestational ages of 3 and 4 months, the middle cerebral artery and its tributaries run radially on the sylvian fossa and over the convexity.
(14) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
(15) It is proposed that the vein of Galen aneurysm represents a venous ectasia secondary to an increased flow (usually caused by a deep-seated arteriovenous shunt draining either directly into the vein of Galen aneurysm or into a tributary of the vein of Galen) associated with obstruction of a dural sinus distal to the aneurysm.
(16) Eleven stents were placed successfully in pulmonary arteries (out of thirteen attempted), and 11 of 14 were installed in tributaries of the precava or postcava.
(17) The scintillation camer superior venacavogram provides a quick, safe, and accurate method of evaluating the patency of the SVC and its tributaries.
(18) All of these patients had tumor thrombi in their large tributary veins in addition to the primary tumors.
(19) This paper outlines an objective and reproducible method of mapping hepatic lesions into territories defined solely by the major hepatic veins and their tributaries.
(20) Testicular vein cast--right and left--was prepared in autopsy specimens to identify the course, tributaries and communications of the testicular vein.