(a.) Deviating from ordinary forms or rules; irregular; anomalous; abnormal.
(n.) A word which is irregular or anomalous either in declension or conjugation, or which deviates from ordinary forms of inflection in words of a like kind; especially, a noun which is irregular in declension.
(n.) Any thing or person deviating from the common rule, or from common forms.
Example Sentences:
(1) The first concerns precursor cells that give rise to lambda-bearing NP-specific antibodies with heteroclitic fine specificity.
(2) The data suggest that the humoral response to different epitopes of a protein antigen during the maturation of the immune response is a stochastic process leading to transient humoral immunodominance, enhancing Ab populations and heterocliticity, depending upon individual characteristics, either in outbred or inbred populations.
(3) The goal of these experiments has been to capitalize on the functionally distinct responses of heteroclitic CTL to cross-reactive Ag to explore the role of Ag in regulating CTL proliferation and lytic function.
(4) It is predicted that a combination of solid-phase competition assay with high epitope density and direct binding assay with low epitope density would result in optimal detection of heteroclitic antibodies and small differences in antibody affinity for cross-reactive antigens.
(5) By contrast, the heteroclitic Abs to eGH developed by hypopituitary patients therapeutically injected with human growth hormone failed to react with any eGH-derived fragment.
(6) m ABs 8 to 14 and 16 to 20 demonstrated heteroclitic behavior, that is, they bound CTT IIIa better than the immunogen CTT III.
(7) One assay method failed to detect heteroclitic activity of 1 antibody which was clearly evident in the other 3 assays.
(8) Moreover, some anti-BP mAbs and anti-Cop 1 mAbs reacted in a heteroclitic manner and favored the cross-reactive antigen over the immunogen.
(9) However, immunization with the heterologous peptide resulted in a response strictly directed to rat CII and the immunogen while immunization with the autologous peptide elicited T cells which reacted in a heteroclitic fashion, with a stronger response to the heterologous peptide than to the autologous peptide, and did respond to rat CII but not to mouse CII.
(10) Polypeptides (Lys-Ser-Glu)n induced cross-reacting or heteroclitic antibodies.
(11) Monoclonal and anti-dinitrophenyl and anti-trinitrophenyl IgE antibodies were used to measure heterocliticity using competitive inhibition assays with homologous and heterologous haptens.
(12) To our knowledge, this is the first description of a T cell clone that is specific for a class I antigen and cross-reacts heteroclitically with a class II antigen.
(13) A number of antibodies showed heteroclitic binding to particular insulin variants.
(14) Med., 146 (1977) 1323-1331), by comparing the encephalitogenic guinea pig sequence to a less potent analog, had also previously observed what now would be termed a heteroclitic phenomenon at the T cell level in Lewis rats.
(15) In this report, we employ a competition assay to confirm that this alloresponse involves a groove-binding peptide, demonstrate that this peptide derives from or depends on fetal calf serum and exploit a panel of antigen-presenting cell lines--each displaying an Ak complex with a different position 69 substitution--to establish that the alloresponse is not just a heteroclitic response to ribonuclease, itself.
(16) The results indicated temporal and individual variations in the titers of each class of Ab as well as the existence of enhancer and heteroclitic Ab.
(17) Products of both genes had an exotic (heteroclitic) fine-specificity.
(18) Although most of the animals showed cross-reacting Ab, two out of 12 mice, chronically injected, developed heteroclitic Ab.
(19) Heterocliticity towards non-human GH was also detected.
(20) Some of the antibodies could be inhibited to a greater degree with the cross-reacting haptens than with the haptens homologous to the immunizing antigen, therefore these antibodies were heteroclitic.
Maverick
Definition:
(n.) In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(2) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(3) And it's the same story across Europe: the populist right is on the march , along with a hotch-potch of anti-Brussels mavericks such as Italy's Beppe Grillo – and, in a handful of states, growing parties of the radical left.
(4) As for her outspoken nature and self-styled "maverick" persona: "We didn't know that when we picked her."
(5) The Kings won their second straight on Monday, beating the Dallas Mavericks 112-97, despite having only 10 players available after the seven-player trade with Toronto was finalized.
(6) It is a world away from untrammelled narcissism, of which the maverick finance minister has been accused.
(7) At the end of the year, Maury Maverick, a New Deal congressman from Texas, worried that "we have pulled all of the rabbits out of the hat.
(8) Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who had earlier expressed reservations about forcing Sterling to sell the Clippers , said he supported Silver's actions "100%" and posted a photo of the NBA's constitution on Instagram with the caption: "It exists for a reason."
(9) Monta Ellis had 21 points for the Mavericks, who had won three straight, including the last two on the road.
(10) He dresses in the familiar single-piece olive green uniform worn by Tom Cruise in Top Gun, and like Cruise’s character, Maverick, he flies missions over war zones with multi-million dollar aircraft.
(11) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(12) We present what is known about the problems of mavericks for estimating odds ratios and clarify the interpretation of odds ratios.
(13) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
(14) But it observes: "As a maverick of Chinese society, [Ai] likes 'surprising speech' and 'surprising behaviour'.
(15) As panic spread, and Britain's own financial institutions came under massive pressure, the man who had for 12 consecutive months been warning of just this sort of crisis turned overnight from lonely maverick into sage with the crystal ball.
(16) The Spurs led by 20 points in the third quarter before the Mavericks pulled even midway through the fourth quarter.
(17) • Speaking of Mark Cuban and the Mavericks, no they did not draft Brittney Griner, like Cuban said they might, earlier this year .
(18) Armitage declined to comment on the possible switch, beyond: "Radio 2 tends to be where genius and the mavericks turn up."
(19) The prime minister also reinforced his reputation as the EU’s main maverick with a powerful anti-immigration manifesto that equates migrants with terrorists, says immigrants are taking Hungarians’ jobs, recommends internment camps for illegal immigrants and states they should be forced to work.
(20) "New Hampshire Republicans see themselves as mavericks in the Republican party," Scala said.