(n.) A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
(n.) Specif.: A lodging place; an inn.
(n.) The mansion of a heavenly body.
(n.) A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.
(n.) A mixing box materials.
(n.) To afford lodging to; to enter as guest; to receive; to give a refuge to; indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought).
(v. i.) To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
(2) One week after initiation is 1-2 months before the appearance of benign papillomas that harbor activated Ha-ras oncogenes when the initiated mice are promoted with the tumor promoter phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate.
(3) In confirmation and extension of observations by Carp and his associates, brain tissue and sera from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) were found to harbor an agent which induces a transitory depression in polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in mice as well as in rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs.
(4) The present findings imply that patients in whom an apparent cure has been brought about by conservative treatment may harbor latent malignancy.
(5) The defective hybrid genome thus harbors two origins for SV40 DNA replication in addition to the leftward operator and the N gene of lambda.
(6) It is concluded that the precursor cells for various modes of nonspecific and antigen-specific cytotoxicity are related and appear to be harbored in the NK-9-positive pool in the bone marrow.
(7) One patient harbored a basilar trunk aneurysm, 1 an aneurysm of the proximal posterior cerebral artery, 3 an aneurysm of the superior cerebellar artery, and 10 an aneurysm at the basilar tip.
(8) The mutant larvae are apparently normal, but they harbor serious defects in the organs containing proliferating cells of both somatic and germ line origins.
(9) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
(10) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
(11) In contrast, lymphomas harboring EBV in only proportions of the tumor cells (such as cases of peripheral T cell lymphoma and some B cell lymphoma types) argue against an etiologic role in the primary process of malignant transformation for the virus in these instances.
(12) A total of 2,208 male subjects, enrolled as merchant marine seamen at the Civitavecchia (Italy) harbor from 1936 to 1975 were followed up through 1989 in order to evaluate their mortality experience.
(13) Despite the great capacity for the pediatric brain to recover from stroke, the morbidity and mortality in children who harbor an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) remains high.
(14) Our multiplex gene regulatory system (MGR) allows the establishment of transgenic lines that harbor inducible potentially lethal transgenes.
(15) The agglutination test combined with oral penicillin yielded the lowest expected loss (.50) of QALD for a typical child with a risk of harboring streptococci of .60.
(16) A polypeptide with an apparent M(r) of 35,000, corresponding to that predicted from the nucleotide sequence, was observed by maxicell analysis of whole-cell extracts of E. coli harboring the clostridial gene.
(17) The concentrations of several acidic and neutral amino acids of brain, liver, and skeletal muscle were determined in field voles, Microtus montanus, and compared to values obtained from voles harboring a chronic infection of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense.
(18) Conversely, MS patients, especially those in AF, appear to be at high risk of harboring an LAT.
(19) In our study we demonstrate that human rTNF-alpha specifically blocks growth of SK-v keratinocyte cell line harboring and expressing human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) sequences.
(20) It was confirmed that E. coli CSH2, harboring the mutant plasmid, produces a temperature-sensitive beta-lactamase and is resistant only at low temperatures (below 33 degrees C), but not at 42 degrees C, to ampicillin, sulbenicillin, and carbenicillin simultaneously.
Persistently
Definition:
(adv.) In a persistent manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) 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.
(3) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
(4) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(5) The difference in HDL and HDL2 cholesterol concentrations between the MI+ and MI- groups or between the MI+ and CHD- groups persisted after adjustment by analysis of covariance for the effect of physical activity, alcohol intake, obesity, duration of diabetes, and glycemic control.
(6) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(7) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
(8) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(9) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(10) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(11) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(12) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(13) Channel activation persists through the process of platelet isolation and washing and is manifested in higher measured values of [Ca2+]cyt and [Ca2+]dt in the "resting state."
(14) Gastro-intestinal surgery is only indicated if haemorrhage persists after a period of observation.
(15) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(16) A newborn presenting with persistent umbilical stump bleeding should be screened for factor XIII deficiency when routine coagulation tests prove normal.
(17) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
(18) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
(19) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(20) persisted and was more abnormal in 23% of the cases including specific tracings in 37%.