(v. i.) To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
(v. i.) To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.
(v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.
(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.
(v. i.) To become attached of fixed; to adhere.
(v. t.) To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(2) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(3) Thus, B cells that grow spontaneously from the peripheral blood of SS patients spontaneously produce a B-cell growth factor.
(4) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
(5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(6) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
(7) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(8) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(9) The move to an alliance model is not only to achieve greater scale and reach, although growing from 15 partner organisations to 50 members is not to be sniffed at.
(10) The rate of nuclei stained by Pr-122 is different from that of Pr-192 in both growing and quiescent cultures.
(11) "We presently are involved in a number of intellectual property lawsuits, and as we face increasing competition and gain an increasingly high profile, we expect the number of patent and other intellectual property claims against us to grow," the company said.
(12) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(13) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
(14) This receptor and a growing family of related cytokine receptors share homologous extracellular features, including a well-conserved WSXWS motif.
(15) In the DAUDI cell system, the acquired capability of tumor cell variants to grow in the presence of a relatively high concentration of vinblastine (VBL) is associated with a marked increase to NK and LAK susceptibility.
(16) In our work with bacteriophage T4, we observed that several T4 am mutants could grow on JM105.
(17) This will help nursing grow as a profession, particularly through entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial efforts.
(18) In WI-38, a normal human fibroblast, the rates of degradation of short lived and long lived proteins are identical whether the cultures are growing exponentially or are density-inhibited.
(19) Mu does not grow lytically in or kill him bacteria but can lysogenize such hosts.
(20) However, growing accustomed to “this strange atmosphere”, the Observer man became dazzled by Burgess’s “brilliance and charm”.
Regrow
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To grow again.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finally, using a newly developed paradigm for examining the composition of regenerating axons by axonal transport, we determined that significant amounts of the 57 kDa neuronal IF protein were conveyed into the regrowing axonal sprouts of DRG neurons.
(2) These findings indicate that injured retinal ganglion cells in the adult rat are not only able to regrow lengthy axons, but may also form synapses in the SC.
(3) In 2013, the Western Australian native vegetation regulations were relaxed to allow up to five hectares of clearing at a time, without a permit, and the re-clearing of regrowing forests up to 20 years old.
(4) Likewise, a neoplasm may regrow locally or metastasize if a surgical border infiltrated with neoplastic cells is falsely assumed to be an artifactual trimming border.
(5) In crushed sciatic nerves, where axons were allowed to regrow into the distal stumps, the number of Schwann cells expressing immunohistochemically detectable quantities of galactocerebroside in the stump declined over the first 3 weeks, but by 9 weeks after crush the total percentage of galactocerebroside-positive cells in the nerve had risen to control levels.
(6) Advancing age affects the ability of motor neurons to regrow axons after the facial nerve is crushed.
(7) In order to determine whether this failure to regenerate axons is intrinsic to the neurons or is mediated by the environment, we asked whether ganglion cells possess an ability to regrow their injured axons in the absence of their natural environment, namely in vitro.
(8) She said companies need to be more transparent about the source of wood used in their products and decrease reliance on mature forests that might take hundreds of years to regrow, thereby undermining any potential emission mitigation.
(9) The estrogen-binding capacity of the regrowing tumors after endocrine ablation surgery was estimated in the rat and human breast cancer.
(10) On the contrary, patients with regrowing hair showed a significant increase of circulating OKT 8+ cells compared with controls (p less than 0.002).
(11) A deterioration of the ability to regrow is accompanied by increasing fat body polyploidy.
(12) Within a period of weeks, the injured sciatic nerve is able to regrow and successfully reinnervate the appropriate targets.
(13) In the present review, we examine several aspects of the outcome of the interaction between the microenvironment and regrowing neurones using the cockroach giant interneurones (GINs) as a model system.
(14) While heat-treated tumors always started to regrow within 2 days of treatment, regrowth if it occurred was delayed to 4-5 days after PDT and 6-7 days following combined treatments.
(15) Interestingly, an episodical alopecia totalis and subsequent regrow exhibiting different hair color was observable.
(16) At 14 days postirradiation, tumors were regrowing at a reduced rate relative to controls.
(17) The year before, in 1997, the first regenerative cell-therapy had been given the go ahead, where stem cells were used to regrow cartilage in the knee.
(18) First, get rid of the beard entirely, wait six months to a year for the tail end of this hipsterness "peak beard" nonsense to pass, then regrow it, safely beyond the boundaries of fashionability or otherwise.
(19) Nevertheless, although both individually measured alpha 0 and beta, Gompertzian parameters varied from one animal to another, in both free-growing and post-treatment regrowing tumours a strong linear correlation between alpha 0 and beta was found.
(20) Retention of estrogen receptor in regrowing tumors long after endocrine ablation in rat and human breast cancer is reported.