(a.) Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(2) Sedimentation-velocity experiments indicate the M. elsdenii enzyme (s20,w = 4.95 S) to be essentially globular, while the D. vulgaris enzyme (s20,w = 4.1 S) has a less symmetric shape.
(3) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
(4) The native mass of factor a was estimated to be 240-260 kDa by gel filtration, but its sedimentation rate in a glycerol gradient was similar to that of a much smaller globular protein, suggesting an extended conformation.
(5) In particular, nitration of Tyr-51 provoked a structural perturbation in the globular region.
(6) The globular cells appeared to receive numerous afferents with GABA- or glycine-like immunoreactivity on their somata.
(7) Although the globular bushy cell axons were not completely filled from the soma of origin to terminal fields in the contralateral brainstem, a number of consistent anatomical features were distinguished in the population.
(8) Sera reactive with this protein identify a distinctive globular nuclear antigen.
(9) Cells with demarcated borders showed rearrangement of microvilli into globular chains or ridges which lined up with the branching membrane.
(10) It is suggested that the neoplastic cells produced the fibronectin, which accumulated in globular form.
(11) 88, 543--555] have shown that these derivatives act as partial agonists at the platelet ADP receptor inducing only the transition from discoid to globular morphology ('shape change').
(12) Thereafter, 27S species adsorbed avidly to it and collapsed into characteristic configurations containing four globular domains, each linked to the others by three approximately 33-nm struts.
(13) Extensive surgical resections of neocortical cerebral tissue (including hemispherectomies) from 13 infants and children with infantile spasms showed that 12 of 13 specimens contained either malformative and dysplastic lesions of the cortex and white matter (sometimes with associated hamartomatous proliferation of globular cells), or destructive lesions possibly acquired as a result of anoxic-ischemic injury, or a combination of the two.
(14) In this more nearly globular shape, CAM reveals to the environment two interior pockets that contain a number of hydrophobic residues, in agreement with NMR data suggesting involvement of such residues in the binding of inhibitors and proteins to CAM.
(15) The abdomen was tender with guarding and a palpable globular mass in the same region.
(16) Examination of the SnF2-treated dentin surfaces showed a dense layer of globular particles and in addition some larger particles.
(17) They are calibrated or tested against a large body of experimental data, including extended basis set ab initio, quantum mechanical calculations, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic data and dipole moment data for di- and oligopeptides, characteristic ratio data for random coil homopolypeptides, extensive data from peptide solubility studies, and experimental structures of polyalanine fibres and globular proteins.
(18) We have found that mycoplasma virus L172 is an enveloped globular virion containing circular, single-stranded DNA of 14.0 kilobases.
(19) Overlapping cDNA clones that span the entire length of the corresponding 7.2-kb mRNA reveal an encoded polypeptide of 236,278 D that is predicted to contain two globular domains separated by a discontinuous alpha-helix with characteristics for adopting a coiled-coil structure.
(20) The shape of the protein is approximately globular (S20.w = 4.18 S).
Unit
Definition:
(n.) A single thing or person.
(n.) The least whole number; one.
(n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
(n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.
(n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(4) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
(5) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(6) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
(7) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
(8) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
(9) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(10) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
(11) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
(12) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
(13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(14) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
(15) the class- and specificity-restricted antigen-sensitive units.
(16) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(17) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(18) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(19) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(20) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.