(1) We now present evidence for the existence of this disease in humans, characterized by skin fragility, altered polymers seen as hieroglyphic pictures with electron microscopy, accumulation of p-N-alpha 1 and p-N-alpha 2 collagen type I in the dermis and absence of processing of the p-N-I polypeptides in fibroblast cultures.
(2) Taylor hopes even more secrets will be revealed in years to come, including being able to read hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects inside the mummies.
(3) Excavation records and translation of hieroglyphics provide a positive identification.
(4) When there was no longer any rainfall to fill up their reservoirs, the springs had dried up too.” For centuries, the Maya at Tikal had been erecting stelae – upright stone slabs with hieroglyphs and depictions of gods and rulers.
(5) And some of her lyrics, even viewed coldly on a page, are impressive: "I carve lyrics into cubicle doors like they were pyramid walls and these were hieroglyphs, hold pen with an iron grip, my mind is the storm and the words are the eye in it," she raps on one track, and yet when she adds, "Evil in the world, stay peaceful in spite of it; 'cause snakes have never understood the way the lions live", you don't think, wow, amazing, you think – nice simile, but what on earth do you mean?
(6) They then deciphered his name from a section of hieroglyphics inside the tomb.
(7) The results are consistent with a model of collagen fibril formation in which the intact N-propeptides are located exclusively at the surface of the hieroglyphic fibrils.
(8) Electron microscopic examination of the skin shows collagen sheets rather than fibrils, and characteristic distortions resembling hieroglyphs.
(9) What we found is that NFL salaries are about as understandable as Egyptian hieroglyphics.
(10) Detailed tomb and temple hieroglyphics depict wound treatments of that era.
(11) Surgical Papyrus known as "The Edwin Smith Papyrus" was published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted in 1930.
(12) Worn away by these kinds of misinterpretations, the phrase became like an ancient hieroglyph, portentous but illegible.
(13) Photograph: Rex The Fifth Estate begins grandly with a montage of the history of media, from people chipping hieroglyphics on pyramids through the invention of the printing press to the televised announcement of John F Kennedy's assassination.
(14) Further incubation of the hieroglyphic fibrils with N-proteinase resulted in partial cleavage of the pNcollagen-ex6 in which the abnormal pN alpha 2(I) chains remained intact.
(15) I also loved watching ancient carved figures and hieroglyphs being restored by a specialist.
(16) People used to have to queue – the line would stretch to there.” There is a guilty, selfish pleasure in standing alone in the tomb of Tutankhamun, or having the stars and hieroglyphs in the tomb of Ramses IV almost to myself.
(17) Schafer (1954) advanced the "Psychoanalytic Interpretation in Rorschach Testing" and asserted that thoughtful interpretation involved more than translating hieroglyphics or scores.
(18) As a result, viewers have been treated to an Eminem-inspired pastiche about Charles II , a Victorian Dragons' Den, "Spartan School Musical" and a Jackson 5-style explainer on hieroglyphics .
(19) Whether graffiti or just straight-forward pixação – as we call our spiky hieroglyphic tags – you can find it anywhere.
(20) By electron microscopy these fibrils resembled the hieroglyphic fibrils seen in the N-proteinase-deficient skin of dermatosparactic animals and humans and were distinct from the near circular cross-section fibrils seen in the tissues of individuals with EDS type VII.
Primary
Definition:
(a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
(a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
(a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
(a.) Earliest formed; fundamental.
(a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
(n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
(n.) A primary meeting; a caucus.
(n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
(n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
(2) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(3) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(4) Two cases with primary Carcinoma in situ (Cis) were treated with the same protocol.
(5) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
(6) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(7) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(8) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
(9) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
(10) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
(11) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
(12) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(13) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(14) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
(15) Valvular stenoses of the bronchi and especially of the bronchioles in various types of primary pulmonary disease are of considerable importance etiologically.
(16) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(17) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(18) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(19) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.