(v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
(v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
(v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
(v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
(v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
(n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
(n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
(n.) Leaf of lard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Regarding psoriasis, emotional factors have a strong correlation with onset and flare-ups.
(2) A definite dose-response relationship was demonstrated between the weal and flare areas and the three active treatments.
(3) Pretreatment with terfenadine 60 mg orally significantly inhibited the flare response to both the lower dose of antigen and to saline (P less than 0.05).
(4) Although the area of flare increased with each increase in dose from 0.1 to 10 micrograms, the areas of flare produced by 10 and 100 micrograms of histamine did not differ.
(5) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
(6) There was no clinically relevant difference between the effects of the two routes of administration on flare area.
(7) Cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist slightly reduced the effect of clonidine on the wheal and flare reaction.
(8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
(9) Pretreatment of skin with capsaicin dramatically inhibited the histamine-induced flare response but had no effect on nicotine-induced axon reflex sweating.
(10) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
(11) Aqueous cells and flare of both eyes were measured by a laser flare-cell meter (KOWA FC 100).
(12) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
(13) Both patients with previous infection of the bone had flare up of the infection which was controlled medically.
(14) After prednisone was started the total serum IgE sharply declined to a plateau and remained at this level until a flare of allergic aspergillosis occurred.
(15) The test result correlated with the activity of the disease when repeated during a flare in the 1st case, and during remission in both.
(16) Formation of both weals and flares was significantly inhibited by cetirizine administered by either route; weals were inhibited as early as 20 min after oral intake but not clearly inhibited until 90 min after sublingual intake.
(17) Hydroxychloroquine has now clearly been shown to prevent flares, and ancrod has been shown to improve renal disease in patients with glomerular thrombosis.
(18) The flare response to SP following capsaicin- or bradykinin-induced desensitization gradually returned to normal after 5-8 weeks.
(19) Vladimir Putin claims Ebola virus vaccine has been developed by Russia Read more The tests reinforce concerns about flare-ups of the virus that has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013, almost all of which were in Sierra Leone , Guinea and Liberia.
(20) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.
Illuminate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
(v. t.) To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
(v. t.) To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
(v. t.) To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.
(v. i.) To light up in token or rejoicing.
(a.) Enlightened.
(n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
(5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
(6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
(12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
(13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
(15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
(18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
(20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.