(n.) A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
(n.) An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
(n.) A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
(n.) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; -- sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
(n.) To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
Example Sentences:
(1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(4) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(5) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(6) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(8) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
(9) The second group only with Haloperidol (same dose).
(10) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(11) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(12) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(13) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
(14) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(15) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(16) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(17) The intrauterine mean active pressure (MAP) in the nulliparous group was 1.51 kPa (SD 0.45) in the first stage and 2.71 kPa (SD 0.77) in the second stage.
(18) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(19) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(20) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
Sig
Definition:
(v. t.) Urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of tumor cells in all lymphosarcoma cases were of the centroblastic type, and in two cases in which the presence of SIg was assayed, the majority of tumor cells were SIg-positive.
(2) The proportion of SIg carrying cells within the population forming EA-rosettes was between 11 and 26-4%.
(3) Nylon-adherent cells were highly enriched for surface immunoglobulin (SIg) bearing B lymphocytes (95.5%) and nonadherent cells for SIg negative non-B cells, presumably T lymphocytes (96.3%).
(4) We have investigated the possible physical interactions between CR, receptors for the Fc gamma R and surface Ig (sIg) on the surface membrane of murine B lymphocytes.
(5) A subpopulation of appendix sIg-negative, RTLA-negative cells has a relatively high concentration of RT2.
(6) SIg-positive lymphocytes (B cells) and T lymphocytes were not effective in mediating ADCC against either CRBC or Chang cell targets.
(7) Modulation of surface immunoglobulin (sIg) with anti-mu, an early membrane activation event, occurred normally on B cells from the spleens of PC-mice.
(8) Those TIL expressing activation antigens were CD2+, SIg-.
(9) This treatment did not affect the proportions of Lyt-2+, L3T4+, or sIg+ cells in the population, however, indicating that the augmentation in PFC was not due to changes in the ratio of T to B cells.
(10) The results of lymphocyte subpopulation studies revealed a decrease of CD4+ cells and a decrease of surface immunoglobulin (sIg)-positive B lymphocytes.
(11) In SLL, 55 were M-rosette positive (67.07%) and 72 SIg positive (87.8%), with weak fluorescence in 63 and strong fluorescence in 9 cases.
(12) The expression of kappa and lambda light chains in surface immunoglobulin (sIg) molecules on B lymphocytes differentiating from murine pre-B cell clones in vitro was analyzed.
(13) With CRBC targets MICC was mediated by polymorphonuclear leukocytes, macrophages, sIg-positive lymphocytes (B cells), and sIg-negative lymphocytes.
(14) Among the B-CLL, cells with high SIg content were either T1+ or T1- and more likely FMC7+.
(15) Antibody N297 (DQ specific), previously shown to react with an epitope expressed on human B cells but not on mitogen-induced T cells, reacted only with sIg+ cells in 42 of 53 horses tested.
(16) At this time, the proportions of low mobility (LM) and SIG-bearing lymphocytes (B cells) were reduced respectively to 28% (control 54%) and 20% (control 45%).
(17) A sudden increase in the number of mitogen-reactive, sIg+ B lineage cells occurs within 24 h between days 16 and 17.
(18) The significance of this spontaneous appearance of fetal sIg cells is discussed.
(19) The finding of sIg light chain in pre-B cell leukemias and in the REH cell line, suggests that these leukemic cells are further differentiated along the B-cell lineage than was previously believed.
(20) The malignant cells of WM patients differed from those of MM in the reactivity with FMC7, being positive in 10 out of 11 cases, and in their high expression of B1, Ia and SIg with a predominant mu+ phenotype.