(n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
(n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later alveolar septa between adjacent bronchioles became progressively thickened to produce lesions with similarities to human honeycombing.
(2) Honeycombing was seen in seven patients (30%), while parenchymal bands were seen in six patients (26%).
(3) In all cases the Papanicolaou stained lavage fluid presented a distinctive appearance and contained abundant, often biphasic, staining, "honeycomb" debris, and few alveolar macrophages.
(4) Chest x-ray revealed a honeycombed reticulonodular pattern consistent with pulmonary histiocytosis-X.
(5) Human rotavirus has a characteristic icosahedral structure which has a honeycomb-like appearance on the surface of the smooth particles and 42 polygonal capsomeres in the rough particles.
(6) We found significant differences in grading scores of the following parameters: follicular adenomas showed greater cellularity, greater follicle formation, larger nuclei, and more nuclear pleomorphism and overlap; adenomatous nodules showed more colloid and honeycomb arrangements.
(7) The histological features were similar in all the cases--most strikingly the basket weave pattern of the thickened pleura and a dense subpleural parenchymal interstitial fibrosis with fine honeycombing, extending up to 1 cm into the underlying lung.
(8) Chest X-ray films revealed bilateral diffuse nodular shadows, honeycombing in the lower lung fields and pleural thickening suggestive of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia.
(9) Parenchymal and vascular changes were closely related: Average medial thickness rose from nearly normal values (4.9%) in cases with low area portions of honeycombing and bleeding to the double (11.1%) of normal values in cases with area portions of honeycombing and bleeding greater than 40%.
(10) The specimen showed a honeycomb appearance with mucoid content.
(11) In the lacunae, honeycomb-like structures were found.
(12) Focal honeycombing was the major parenchymal abnormality after 4 weeks.
(13) The branched capillaries from the afferent filament arteriole formed two plates of respiratory capillary networks with irregular honeycomb-shaped meshes.
(14) Granular pial cells usually contained large honeycomb bodies and were a prominent feature of the ageing leptomeninx but in contrast leptomeningeal macrophages showed no evidence of phagocytic activity suggesting that cell death or degeneration was not a feature of cells of the leptomeninx even in extremely old mice.
(15) A characteristic "honeycomb" pattern of the subcutaneous compartment was seen in 10 of these patients.
(16) In the outer part of the enamel the interprismatic substance exhibited a honeycomb appearance.
(17) Post-eruptive lesions that resulted from mechanical stress on hypomineralized enamel during mastication were characterized by steep walls and a typical honeycomb structure on their bottom, a result of fracture of enamel rods; holes left by fractured rods were surrounded by interrod enamel.
(18) Patients with bronchial asthma often develop acute attack in kitchen while burning honeycomb briquet which is widely used for cooking in southern China.
(19) In freeze-fracture, the zonulae occludentes are of variable apicobasal depth and consist of honeycomb-like meshworks of fibrils.
(20) In two lungs with honeycombing, cysts lined by fibrosis were easily seen on high-resolution CT scans.
Sandwich
Definition:
(n.) Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat, cheese, or the like, between them.
(v. t.) To make into a sandwich; also, figuratively, to insert between portions of something dissimilar; to form of alternate parts or things, or alternating layers of a different nature; to interlard.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
(2) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(3) Unlike Baker, a courtly Texan, Lew is a low-key figure, an observant Orthodox Jew and native New Yorker, of whom the New York Times once revealed: "He brings his own lunch (a cheese sandwich and an apple) and eats at his desk."
(4) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
(5) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
(6) Therefore, a modified sandwich ELISA was developed to measure IL-1ra protein concentration in synovial fluids.
(7) We used a "sandwich"-type immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure antibody against the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in serum from individuals with myasthenia gravis, with markedly different results for certain specimens, as measured by the two techniques.
(8) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(9) Monoclonal antibodies specific for two unique converting enzyme epitopes were utilized to develop a two-site sandwich enzyme immunoassay.
(10) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
(11) A sandwich was formed with proinsulin by using a monoclonal antibody against C-peptide labeled with alkaline phosphatase.
(12) A $4 supermarket sandwich has to be pretty damn good for two adults to start fighting over it.
(13) In this paper we describe a new assay for diphtheria toxin in bacterial cultures, based on a sandwich-dot immunobinding method.
(14) Soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) in serum of cancer patients was measured by a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and the effect of sTfR for natural killer cytotoxicity was also studied.
(15) Patients with C2 disease are being controlled locally with the "sandwich" regimen, but it is not clear whether pre-op RT alone may be adequate in this group as well.
(16) The sandwiches served in selected Subway stores have contained halal meat since 2007, while all Pizza Express chicken is halal.
(17) One was a culture of isolated cells between floating double layers of collagen gel, designated the "floating sandwich method."
(18) Yet sandwiched between these states are tax havens bleeding them of cash for no other reason than to avoid paying a fair share of that welfare burden.
(19) A sandwich enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) for pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) using a microtiter plate was developed.
(20) The environmental changes are explained consistently by a movement of the Met-105 side chain sandwiched by two indole rings of Trp-28 and 111 in the direction from Trp-111 to Trp-28.