(v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
(v. t.) To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
(v. i.) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
(n.) That which is swallowed.
(n.) Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.
(n.) Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
(n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
(n.) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
(n.) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
(n.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.
(n.) A block used for a fulcrum.
(n.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attempts to correlate GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression to beta-cell function glucose uptake and glucose-stimulated insulin release in fresh and cultured islets were measured.
(2) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
(3) Thus, pretranslational suppression of GLUT 4 transporter gene expression may be an important mechanism that produces and maintains cellular insulin resistance in NIDDM.
(4) Following micropressure application of glutamate (500 microM) in stratum lacunosum-moleculare (L-M), inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (glut-IPSPs) were recorded in CA1 pyramidal cells.
(5) The GLUT 7 sequence is six amino acids longer than rat liver GLUT 2, and the extra six amino acids at the C-terminal end contain a consensus motif for retention of membrane-spanning proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum.
(6) The results indicate that the embryonic heart is rich in GLUT-1 mRNA; whereas the adult heart contains predominantly GLUT-4 mRNA.
(7) In the ZDF rat, a model of NIDDM that closely resembles the human syndrome, we have previously reported profound underexpression of GLUT-2, the high-Km facilitative glucose transporter expressed by beta cells of normal animals.
(8) GLUT 2 occurred in all hepatocytes as a basolateral membrane protein with a gradient of high expression in the periportal area and a lower one in the perivenous part.
(9) In heart, GLUT-4 mRNA decreased to a greater extent than GLUT-4 protein in response to diabetes and fasting.
(10) Both GLUT-1 and GLUT-4 isoform content were greater in red than white muscle.
(11) No change in the level of GLUT-4 mRNA was detected in the plantaris muscle although increases were observed in the soleus muscle from the obese rats.
(12) AspT mRNA is widely distributed in the brain, but is present at high levels in GABAergic neuronal populations, some that may be glutamatergic, and in a subset of neurons which do not contain significant levels of either GAD or GluT mRNA.
(13) At higher doses (0.1-0.4 M), Glut induced hypotension with bradycardia in 23 out of 40 injections in both pons and MMRF.
(14) Western blot assay of GLUT-4 (a major isoform of glucose transporter in adipocytes) indicated that FITC (a) partially blocked insulin-dependent translocation of GLUT-4 from the intracellular site to the plasma membrane while it (b) induced a mild "insulin-like" effect.
(15) The increase of the GLUT-4 mRNA and the decrease in the GLUT-4 protein correlated with the rate of glucose uptake [correlation coefficient (r) = -0.55, P less than 0.01, and r = -0.44, P less than 0.05, respectively].
(16) In addition, both D-galactose and D-mannose are transported by GLUTs 1-3 at significant rates; furthermore, GLUT 2 is capable of transporting D-fructose.
(17) The amount or activity and the mRNA concentrations of Glut 4, fatty acid synthase (FAS) and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) were measured before and after weaning in white adipose tissue of obese and lean Zucker rats.
(18) In contrast, chronic insulin infusion into nondiabetic rats does not affect the number of hepatocytes expressing GLUT-1.
(19) Local application of glutamate (GLUT) reliably excited cells of the supraoptic nucleus.
(20) ASP and GLUT depolarized reversibly the cell membrane and increased its conductance.
Plethora
Definition:
(n.) Overfullness; especially, excessive fullness of the blood vessels; repletion; that state of the blood vessels or of the system when the blood exceeds a healthy standard in quantity; hyperaemia; -- opposed to anaemia.
(n.) State of being overfull; excess; superabundance.
Example Sentences:
(1) By univariate analysis, each echocardiographic sign was associated with both cardiac tamponade and the combined end point (p less than or equal to 0.01 for comparisons with size and right-sided chamber collapse; p less than or equal to 0.07 for comparisons with IVC plethora).
(2) Brown will argue that the digital revolution will be especially vital in job centres, schools, hospital records and ensuring that, when people move home, they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(3) Histopathological rearrangement in the small intestine wall is demonstrated as edema of the mucous membrane, as plethora of the vessels, as lymphoid infiltration and as changes of the villi forms.
(4) The work analyzes macroscopical (weight, volume, specific gravity) and microscopical (qualitative -- plethora, content of lipids, foci of cytolysis, mosaity etc.
(5) Peptic ulcer is a common and chronic problem with a plethora of drug treatments available that accelerate healing in the short term.
(6) The widespread usage of ventriculoperitoneal shunts has been followed by a plethora of complications.
(7) Childs also oversaw the launch of a plethora of new BBC Worldwide channels in 2006, such as BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Knowledge, which are now available on several continents, including Asia, Europe and South America.
(8) Vascular changes were expressed as congestive plethora, perivascular edema and microfocal hemorrhages.
(9) There is a plethora of receptions at conference and Corbyn is expected to drop in on most of them.
(10) Despite the plethora of models and strategies for addressing issues that surround the chronically mentally ill, there remains a paucity of literature that addresses the specific implications of deinstitutionalization on racial minorities.
(11) "The plethora of indigenous highly pathogenic and virulent agents naturally occurring in India and the large Indian industrial base – combined with weak controls – also make India as much a source of bioterrorism material as a target," diplomats warned.
(12) The plethora of beta blockers that subsequently became available for study led to considerable improvement in both the design and implementation of large clinical trials.
(13) In the control, after ischemia (without radiation) in 45 days venous plethora of the vessels in the intermuscular plexus of the intestinal wall is kept.
(14) More recently, physiological findings have directed investigation toward a plethora of humoral substances and their possible role in disturbances of the secretory processes in CF.
(15) Despite the plethora of information provided by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging that allows differentiation of some substances that are indistinguishable at computed tomography (CT), there are diagnostic problems.
(16) Since 2001, when the Bush administration bluntly told Islamabad it must take sides, be either "for us or agin us" in the newly declared "war on terror", Pakistan has struggled under a plethora of imperious American demands, démarches and impositions that are at once politically indefensible and contrary to the perceived national interest.
(17) I would suggest that we must be innovative in dealing with the plethora of health legislation.
(18) Brown argued that the digital revolution will be especially vital in jobcentres, schools, hospital records and to ensure that when people move home they need only inform one website rather than a plethora of government agencies.
(19) Its target is not just celebrity intrusion but bias, unfairness and gossip in the style of Private Eye and the "off Fleet Street" plethora of news-and-comment websites.
(20) Obama will unveil a plethora of new legislative proposals, together with 19 executive actions that he can introduce without congressional approval, at a White House event on Wednesday morning.