(n.) Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.
(n.) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
(n.) A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.
(n.) Gesture; bearing; deportment.
(n.) A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.
(n.) A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.
Example Sentences:
(1) EE2 was exclusively bound to albumin, whereas GEST and KDG were also bound to sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG).
(2) The dystonia began 1 to 4 days after the trauma and differed clinically from idiopathic torticollis by marked limitation of range of motion, lack of improvement after sleep ("honeymoon period"), and absence of geste antagonistique.
(3) These data demonstrate that the three contraceptive steroids EE2, GEST and KDG were all bound extensively to serum proteins, however, with pronounced differences concerning their distribution over the various binding proteins.
(4) The results showed that there was a gradual decrease in serum trough levels of GEST during the cycle, due to a concomitant and equally high decrease in SHBG concentrations in the serum of about 26%.
(5) An examination of the free GEST concentrations revealed the same time course of GEST trough levels during the cycle as the simulated curve.
(6) Sows injected with GRF during GEST (P = .05) and(or) LACT (P less than .01) were lighter than CTL sows at weaning; in addition, sows treated during lactation had less backfat (P less than .01).
(7) GEST was mainly bound to SHBG, while KDG was predominantly bound to albumin.
(8) Results of NET, LN and GEST were compared with published in vivo experiments.
(9) SHBG concentrations were correlated with the total concentration of GEST and its free fraction and a positive (r=0.395) and negative (r=0.491) correlation respectively was found.
(10) GEST and KDG were analyzed in individual serum pools whereas EE2 was repeatedly measured in two serum pools, each one representing one treatment group.
(11) SHBG concentrations were correlated with the total concentration of GEST and its free fraction and a positive (r = 0.395) and negative (r = -0.491) correlation respectively was found.
(12) EE2 was exclusively bound to albumin, whereas GEST and KDG were also bound to sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG).
(13) Thus, the present study showed that the pharmacokinetics of GEST can be fully explained on the basis of single dose pharmacokinetics and the changes in serum protein binding which were caused by a reduction of SHBG levels in the serum during chronic treatment with GEST.
(14) Drug level decreases (NET, LN, GEST) and prodrug conversions (NETO, NGM) were followed by radiochromatography (HPLC) for 60 min.
(15) The clearance of unbound GEST, however, remained unchanged.
(16) We su-gest that such mixtures may serve as calibrating standards for ion-selective electrodes in clinical analysis.
(17) The above abservations su;gest that sodium deprivation raises ASR by a mechanism or mechanisms unrelated to plasma volume.
(18) Fifty-two Yorkshire x Landrace gilts were equally allotted to four treatments: 1) controls, saline injections (CTL); 2) injections of 12 mg of growth hormone-releasing factor (GRF) (1-29)NH2 thrice daily (0700, 1500, and 2300) from d 100 of gestation until parturition (GEST); 3) injections of GRF thrice daily from d 3 to 29 of lactation (LACT); and 4) injections of GRF thrice daily during gestation (d 100 to parturition) and lactation (d 3 to 29) (GEST-LACT).
(19) GEST AND KDG were analyzed in individual serum pools whereas EE2 was repeatedly measured in 2 serum pools, each representing a treatment group.
(20) The protein binding of ethinyl estradiol (EE2), gestodene (GEST), and 3- keto-desogestrel (KDG) has been determined by ultrafiltration in the serum of women who had either taken a gestodene (n=37) or desogestrel (n=28) containing oral contraceptives for a time period of at least 3 months.
Nest
Definition:
(n.) The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.
(n.) Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared.
(n.) A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.
(n.) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
(n.) A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
(n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
(v. i.) To build and occupy a nest.
(v. t.) To put into a nest; to form a nest for.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike most birds of prey, which are territorial and fight each other over nesting and hunting grounds, the hen harrier nests close to other harriers.
(2) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(3) The nested gene is oriented in a direction opposite to that of factor VIII and contains no intervening sequences.
(4) The experiment had a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with two nest holding times and two storage methods.
(5) Hens of the same breed and age reared together on deep litter showed no differences in nest site selection and nesting behaviour regardless of whether they had previously been housed in a deep litter house or in cages.
(6) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
(7) We conclude that both proprioceptive feedback and audio-feedback must be involved to yield maximal stimulation of follicular growth by the female's nest-coo display.
(8) Prolactin secretion was stimulated less in incubating hens deprived of their nests for 24 h (nest-deprived) than in laying hens after administration of the 5-HT receptor agonist quipazine, or precursor 5-hydroxytryptophan.
(9) Four mechanisms for the formation of ectopic meningioma have been suggested: (a) direct extension of an intracranial lesion; (b) distant metastasis from an intracranial meningioma; (c) origin from arachnoid cells within the sheaths of cranial nerves; and (d) origin from embryonic nests of arachnoid cells.
(10) After the relatively abrupt start of intensive nest-building, the seasonal course of a pair's behavior becomes more regular, an indication that this transition in the female's state is critical in pacing the pair's breeding activities.
(11) These centers will collaborate in a nested-case control study based on the pooled cases and a sample of the non-diseased respondents.
(12) Spencer has now heard that Andy, who got the boat remember, has been cracking on to Louise, even though Jamie warned him it would be like jumping into a polar bear's nest.
(13) Hens from both strains performed vacuum nest-building behaviour before laying.
(14) These are collected in her pollen baskets which she takes back to the nest to feed the young after fertilising the flowers.
(15) The marked differences in the lipolytic activities of adipose tissue emphasize the distinct influence of the post-natal nutrition on metabolic functions in the later life and lead to the conclusion that the metabolism of adipose tissue of animals from small nests is directed towards a long-term increased storage of lipids.
(16) The most consistently sensational evidence from Icac has been around former Labor member Eddie Obeid and the influence he wielded in the NSW Labor government to feather his own nest.
(17) After 48 h of nest deprivation, the hens resumed nesting within 5 min of being returned to the pen although the plasma levels of Prl were low.
(18) Although distortion by competing risks is well-recognized in follow-up studies, the problem has not been as widely appreciated in nested case-control studies.
(19) We test first for confounded effects by examining socioeconomic effects while excluding and then including reproductive variables in nested multivariate models.
(20) The bird's nest inferior vena cava filter, in clinical trial since 1982, has been placed in 568 patients at risk for pulmonary embolism.