(a.) Moving in a circle, or spirally; revolving; whirling around.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty two kinds of strains and substrains of mammalian cells were cultivated on a gyratory shaker to obtain cell aggregates.
(2) To eliminate germ cells, the dissociated cells were cultured for 14 h, and then somatic cells attached to culture dishes were harvested and aggregated by gyratory culture for 24 h. The aggregates were then transplanted into ovarian bursa in ovary-ectomized nude mice.
(3) PLA801-95D cells from monolayer cultures were suspended and allowed to form spheroid aggregates for 3 d on a gyratory shaker.
(4) The course of growth and LPS production of two strains of type cultures of Escherichia coli (ATCC 11229, ATCC 25922), one E. coli mutant strain P400 and one type strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (ATCC 15442), grown partly by repeated cultures in BHI and partly also in minimal medium or in 1:10 diluted PC broth in a gyratory shaker (60 rpm) at 30 degrees C, was monitored respectively by counting the cfu and by simultaneous determination of LPS by means of the three miniaturized LAL-tests, i.e.
(5) Gyratory epilepsy is relatively uncommon and may either represent a benign form of primary generalized epilepsy or occur secondary to a focal cortical lesion.
(6) Cell suspensions obtained by the dissociation of unincubated chick embryo blastoderms were allowed to reaggregate on a gyratory shaker for 24-48 hours.
(7) Neural retina cells, recovered from the dissociation procedure, were cultured on a gyratory shaker and the aggregate dimaeters formed in the presence of DMA or DMA-serum dialysate, following DMA-pretreatment, or in appropriate control cultures measured.
(8) In organ culture, PLA801-95D (0.2 mm in diameter) were confronted with 0.4 mm round precultured heart fragments (PHF), then co-cultured on a gyratory shaker.
(9) A series of modified gyratory bayonets instruments is described.
(10) The Norman Foster-led scheme was set to transform London’s iconic square from a heavily trafficked and dangerous gyratory into a more enjoyable and accessible space, closely linked to its prominent cultural neighbours.
(11) The effects of normal and malignant cells on the aggregation of embryonic cells in gyratory shaker cultures were compared.
(12) Prominent proliferation of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum in shaken cells may be due to the consumption of glycogen for energy release as a result of gyratory rotation.
(13) Fragments of endometrium consisting of epithelium and stroma were obtained during early pseudopregnancy and cultured on a gyratory shaker.
(14) Mouse lung adenocarcinoma cell line (LA795) cells were allowed to form tumor cell aggregates after 3 days in a gyratory shaker culture system.
(15) The gyratory shaker method was employed to produce heterotypic aggregates from mixed suspensions of muscle, liver, and neural retina cells and the tissue-specific positioning of cells after 24 h in culture was determined from histological and autoradiograph sections.
(16) Slightly more visible are the removal of the gyratory systems at Piccadilly Circus and elsewhere, and the X-shaped pedestrian crossing at Oxford Circus, devices that rebalance the relationship of pedestrians to vehicles in favour of the former.
(17) To overcome this, we cultured chick embryo myoblasts as a suspension of single cells in gyratory rotation in medium without added Ca2+.
(18) The rate and extent of tranylcypromine biotransformation was affected by whether incubation was on either 30 degrees or flat brackets with a gyratory shaker.
(19) The stereological technique was used to quantify glycogen areas and endoplasmic reticulum in fetal rat hepatocytes cultured for 24 hr in monolayer (monolayer cells) or following shaking by gyratory rotation (shaken cells).
(20) The spermatozoa provide both forward and gyratory motions of the bundle, and the corkscrew complements bundle propulsion by converting part of the rotation into forward movement.
Island
Definition:
(n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
(n.) Anything regarded as resembling an island; as, an island of ice.
(n.) See Isle, n., 2.
(v. t.) To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.
(v. t.) To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(3) 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.
(4) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(5) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(6) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
(7) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(8) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
(9) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
(10) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
(11) Features of barrier island physiography and ecology were studied relative to selective bait deployment and site biosecurity.
(12) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
(13) Hospital discharge summary data were used to identify and study all 2,870 Rhode Island residents hospitalized in-state with head injuries during 1979 and 1980.
(14) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(15) A fortnight ago the two countries signed a US$27 million deal to tackle deforestation on the island of Sumatra - a key problem in Indonesia where 80 per cent of emissions come from deforestation, both by legal and illegal loggers.
(16) There was an upstream "HTF" island (Hpa II tiny fragments) followed by four direct repeats of the "chorion box" enhancer.
(17) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(18) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
(19) Nicholas Shaxson – the author of Treasure Islands, a book about the world of tax evasion – described the demands as "incredibly powerful".
(20) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.