(n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
(n.) An army; a number of men gathered for war.
(n.) Any great number or multitude; a throng.
(n.) One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
(v. t.) To give entertainment to.
(v. i.) To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The snail host was a tetraploid form of Bulinus (n = 36).
(2) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
(3) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(4) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(5) Degradation of both viral and host DNA with micrococcal nuclease and spleen phosphodiesterase indicated that CdG was incorporated primarily into internal positions in both DNAs.
(6) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(7) None of the compounds proved active against the replication of retroviruses (human immunodeficiency virus, murine sarcoma virus) at concentrations that were not toxic to the host cells.
(8) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(9) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(10) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
(11) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(12) The v-erb A oncogene of avian erythroblastosis virus is a mutated and virally transduced copy of a host cell gene encoding a thyroid hormone receptor.
(13) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
(14) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
(15) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
(16) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(17) Mu does not grow lytically in or kill him bacteria but can lysogenize such hosts.
(18) The organisms were predominantly associated with host deposits of erythrocytes, phagocytes, platelets, and fibrinous-appearing material, which collectively appeared on the valve surface in response to trauma.
(19) The governing body said then that Russia’s hosting of the 2018 tournament was not in jeopardy.
(20) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.
Ost
Definition:
(n.) See Oast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immediately prior to the OST, there were no differences in heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, mean arterial pressure and total peripheral resistance for HDT and HUT.
(2) Ost claims that patients cannot make informed rational decisions without full information and that, therefore, the right to waive information also involves the right to waive one's responsibility to act as an autonomous moral agent.
(3) "It is hard to predict how quickly the increased scope for tax planning will be exploited; again this could be quantitatively significant as a quarter of the costing already arises from tax planning," the c osting document said .
(4) The materials used were an established line of human osteosarcoma cells (OST strain) and twelve surgically resected or biopsied specimens.
(5) The number of cases was reduced from 18 to 4 when the OST was carried out.
(6) The information was obtained of the Gc frequencies in two population units of Buryats of Aginsky and Ost-Ordynsky Autonomous Districts of Chita and Irkutsk Regions, including the Olkhon island (on the lake Baikal), in totality, 593 individuals and 13 local groups.
(7) With the use of human LDH as a marker, growth and remission of four human osteosarcomas (KOS-1, KOS-2, KOS-3, OST) and a malignant fibrous histiocytoma (KMF) transplanted into nude mice were monitored during chemotherapies (Adriamycin [doxorubicin], cisplatin, mitomycin C, cyclophosphamide and vincristine).
(8) High-OST scoring male students compared to Low-OST scoring male students showed reduced P200 latency.
(9) Over the full 10-min period of OST, the mean arterial pressure was not different between groups.
(10) Speaking before the publication of Osted’s annual report, Sir Michael Wilshaw said it made no difference whether schools were free or academies, the key factor was leadership.
(11) A correlation was assessed between c-erbB-2 positive tumours and histological grade, liver metastases as first site of metastases, disease free survival time (DFS) in the second and third year after diagnosis and overall survival time (OST) in the third and fourth year after diagnosis.
(12) MSPMs included non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (four patients), hematologic malignancies (HM) (three patients), and 12 with other solid tumors (OST).
(13) The human osteosarcoma cell line (OST-1-PF) can grow in protein-free Coon's modified Ham's F12 medium.
(14) Fifteen asymptomatic subjects were recruited from 18 to 33-yr-old male users of OST.
(15) The median survival times after the diagnosis of MSPM was 33 months, 10 months, and 1 month, respectively, for those with NSCLC, OST, and HM.
(16) Carcass lipid accretion rate decreased 22% to 30% (P less than .001), and carcass protein accretion rate increased 30% to 36% (P less than .001) with hGRF and oST treatment, respectively.
(17) The sensitivity, cross-sensitivity, acquired resistance and restoration of sensitivity to adriamycin (ADR) in cultured human osteosarcoma (OST) cells were studied from the viewpoints of cell proliferation and cell cycle pattern by flow cytometry.
(18) The objectives of this study were 1) to compare intermittent subcutaneous administration of human growth hormone-releasing factor (hGRF) at two doses with a similar regimen of ovine somatotropin (oST) for effects on growth and composition of gain in growing lambs and 2) to determine whether increasing the dietary amino acid availability enhances response to oST or hGRF.
(19) The lights went up on the popular musical Nord-Ost on Wednesday evening in the 1,000-seat theatre.
(20) The largest increase has been in deaths related to the misuse of opioid substances; 2,677 opioid-related deaths were registered in the UK in 2015.” He added: “The most important recommendation in this report is that government ensures that investment in OST of optimal dosage and duration is, at least, maintained.” However, drug treatment experts leapt on the report’s recommendations for the introduction of heroin-assisted treatment – where users are prescribed heroin to allow them to safely maintain their habit – and medically supervised injecting rooms.