(n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
(n.) A barren or rocky hill.
(n.) A wild field; a moor.
(v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
(n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
(v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
(n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
(n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
(4) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(5) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
(6) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
(7) Acute and chronic experiments were performed and, in both, the hepatic concentration of GSH fell during the first 6 h after haemorrhage; this fall was followed by a significant rebound elevation at 24 h. In the chronic haemorrhage experiment the hepatic GSH level was normal at 1 week after haemorrhage.
(8) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
(9) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
(10) In the remaining 60 patients (35 with atherosclerotic stenosis and 25 with fibromuscular dysplasia), both mean systolic and diastolic pressure fell immediately after percutaneous transluminal dilatation and remained significantly lower for a period of up to five years.
(11) TRH levels in serum fell and then returned to initial levels after L-DOPA administration in primary or pituitary hypothyroidism.
(12) The patients with phrynoderma fell into two groups.
(13) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
(14) Urinary excretion of hydroxyproline fell significantly in patients receiving ND, whereas the biochemical indices of bone formation did not change (alkaline phosphatase) or increased (osteocalcin; P less than 0.01).
(15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
(16) By all 50 O sera we found that 71.08%, strains was serotype however, they fell into 42 O ser-types.
(17) In gastric ulcer patients DNA loss or turnover was significantly (p less than 0-01) higher than normal, and fell significantly (p less than 0-01) after four weeks' treatment with carbenoxolone when 16 of the 17 ulcers had healed.
(18) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
(19) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
(20) The absolute number of monocytes and B-lymphocytes fell significantly (p less than 0.01) on the first and second day after exercise.
Pleat
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) See Plait.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
(2) A central eight-stranded beta-pleated sheet is the main feature of the polypeptide backbone folding in dihydrofolate reductase.
(3) The resulting tertiary structures are extremely Ig-like consisting of two superposed beta-pleated sheets.
(4) Important secondary structure elements that can be derived from the observed nuclear Overhauser effects are a large antiparallel beta-pleated sheet consisting of four strands, A, B, C, D, a segment SAB consisting of an extended region around the active-center histidine (His-15) and an alpha-helix, a half-turn between strands B and C, a segment SCD which shows no typical secondary structure, and the alpha-helical, C-terminal segment S(term).
(5) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
(6) Then, the skin strips were glued on alternate folds of a pleated sheet of paper, each fold of which was 0.3 cm or 0.5 cm in width.
(7) Both pleated septate and gap junctions were found in the immature state; their intramembranous particle (IMP) distribution was characteristic of junctions in the process of assembly, since the IMPs were irregularly and loosely arrayed in contrast with the parallel septate junctional IMP rows and gap junctional plaques found in the fully regenerated or control tissues.
(8) In Rhinolasius, one receptor possesses a short bulbous cilium without a rootlet, with a septate desmosome of the pleated sheet (comb) type and a weakly developed electron-dense band beneath it.
(9) Its secondary structure is mostly beta-structure, part of which can be visualized by electron microscopy to form a single beta-pleated sheet near the protein-lipid interface of the trimer.
(10) It possesses an alternating motif of hydrophilic sequences that can potentially be folded into alpha-helices and hydrophobic sequences that can potentially be folded into beta-pleated sheets.
(11) In addition, most of the autoreactive hybridomas also demonstrated inhibition of reactivity to mutations in the amino half of the first domain of the I-A alpha- and beta-chains, which encodes the beta-pleated sheet of the floor of the Ag-binding groove.
(12) 25.4 cm) fiberglass depth cartridge and a 10-inch pleated epoxy-fiberglass filter in a series at flow rates of up to 37.8 liters (10 gallons) per min.
(13) In the absence of Ca2+ and in the presence of [ethylenebis(oxoethylenenitrilo)]tetraacetic acid (EGTA), the protein contains 30-35% alpha helix, 50% random coil, and 15-20% beta-pleated sheat.
(14) analyses of the single domains and the scTCR indicate that they are folded into beta-pleated sheet structures similar to those of immunoglobulin variable domains.
(15) The rules predict the absence of alpha helix and beta pleated sheets in the structure of this peptide.
(16) Early myotube retraction was accompanied by accentuation of the longitudinally oriented surface pleats and appearance of "blebs" followed by cell-rounding.
(17) In the case of the apolipoproteins, the knowledge of their primary structure has facilitated the study of their physicochemical properties in solution and at the air-water interface and has also permitted realistic predictions of the two dimensional organization, not only of their alpha-helical segments but also of the beta-pleated sheets, random coil and beta-turns, all of which have amphipathic properties.
(18) Its first 120 amino acids form a central five-stranded, beta-pleated sheet surrounded by five alpha helices.
(19) The antiparallel peptide strands are distorted from a regularly pleated sheet, caused mainly by the L-Ala residue in which phi = -155 degrees and psi = 162 degrees.
(20) The ledges of some pleats partly grow toward each other as ring like diaphragms, leaving openings whose boundary is composed of alveolar epithelium separated by a basal lamina from a connective tissue sheath with capillaries.