(v. t.) A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(2) In the second approach, attachment sites of DTPA groups were directed away from the active region of the molecule by having fragment E1,2 bound in complex, with its active sites protected during the derivatization.
(3) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
(4) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(5) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
(7) Comparative data for the fragments from RNAs 1, 2, and 3 show that they have nearly the same sequence as the RNA 4 fragment.
(8) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(9) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(10) Northern hybridization analysis of R. toruloides RNA with a restriction fragment encoding part of the PAL gene indicates that PAL mRNA is 2.5 kilobases in length.
(11) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
(12) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
(13) The 6.6-kb DNA Bam HI fragment containing the resistance gene was cloned with the plasmid vector pIJ699.
(14) It was found that these Hageman factor fragments promoted rapid proteolysis of one-chain factor VII to a more active two-chain form.
(15) Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were studied in a large Algerian family which includes 6 haemophiliacs and a previously described case of female haemophilia A.
(16) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
(17) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
(18) The method involves the use of a monoclonal antibody fragment mixture that binds to platelets.
(19) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(20) The coding sequence for Spirulina platensis acetohydroxy acid synthase (AHAS, EC 4.1.3.18) is shown to be contained within a 4.2 Kb ClaI fragment (ilvX) that has been cloned from a recombinant lambda library.
Piecemeal
Definition:
(adv.) In pieces; in parts or fragments.
(adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
(a.) Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.
(n.) A fragment; a scrap.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
(2) Would it best best to risk a Great Reform Bill (shades of 1832) - or would piecemeal reform be best, some wonder?
(3) A piecemeal approach simply won't deliver the right balance of affordability and quality."
(4) The scores for portal inflammation, piecemeal necrosis and fibrosis were essentially unchanged in all treated patients between biopsies taken at the end of treatment and 1 year later.
(5) He has since disavowed that approach and, for nearly two years, has advocated for a piecemeal approach to immigration reform that begins with enforcement at the border.
(6) Patients with PH showed significantly higher portal inflammation and piecemeal necrosis than patients without PH.
(7) Control of bleeding from the remaining gallbladder edge is greatly facilitated by the use of a running suture after each stage of piecemeal excision of the gallbladder.
(8) If the tumor has been removed in a piecemeal fashion, the radiation portals should be extended to include the thecal sac.
(9) In my book, the Handi approach to innovation, although piecemeal and informal, is more likely to change the culture of the NHS than Sir David's stately institutions for innovation.
(10) They guard their cashflow increasingly jealously, and one particular sticking point that led to the collapse of Phones 4u is understood to have been the chain's insistence that if it signed a customer up to a network, it should get the entire commission upfront, rather than piecemeal over the life of a 24-month contract.
(11) Cell-mediated immune attack induces apoptosis, not classical necrosis, and the occurrence of apoptosis in piecemeal necrosis links the observed morphological changes in chronic active hepatitis with the other evidence for an autoimmune pathogenesis.
(12) The terms acute and chronic should retain their clinical significance, the term aggressive should retain a histological significance and, insofar as the piecemeal necrosis which characterises it is seen in both types of hepatitis, it should be dissociated, in terms of classification, from chronic hepatitis.
(13) The managers' efforts to identify unmet need were often piecemeal and unco-ordinated, and this may have been, in part, because managers were facing difficulties in meeting existing demands for services.
(14) "The Dream Act was piecemeal; it was sort of saying: here's a little bit of the population that can go ahead, but we know that there are so many families that need this.
(15) In view of the similarity of values for p1 in chronic hepatitis and portal cirrhosis, the former is considered to give rise to the latter by continuous change in structure or through "piecemeal" progression of the periportal lesion.
(16) These data indicate that (1) serologic response is associated with a reduction in hepatic HBV replication and an improvement in hepatic histology, and (2) patients with severe periportal piecemeal necrosis respond more favorably to IFN alpha therapy.
(17) It was agreed by all involved that piecemeal publications of results during the period of the research would be inappropriate, but with other attempts to evaluate fund-holding now being reported elsewhere in the UK, it has been agreed that an outline of issues being explored and the methods being used would be in the general interest.
(18) So one religious group could opt out of this and another religious group could opt out of that, and everything would be piecemeal, and nothing would be uniform,” Kagan said.
(19) Instead, the government will put forward a white paper in the Queen's speech to bring together the "piecemeal and labyrinthine" social care system run by councils highlighted last year by a landmark Law Commission report , which would confer upon local authorities a duty – rather than, as at present, a power – to meet carers' eligible needs.
(20) The type of cirrhosis associated with hepatocellular carcinoma was classified into 4 groups according to the degree of inflammation and the piecemeal necrosis.