(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.
Paten
Definition:
(n.) A plate.
(n.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover.
Example Sentences:
(1) The best results were obtained from Hamelia patens.
(2) The enzymes were extracted from the moss Physcomitrella patens and were purified to homogeneity.
(3) In root hairs of higher plants and in apical cells of the filamentous stage of moss Physcomitrella patens, microtubules (MT) are detected at the apices and it is suggested from this that fragmentation of microtubules and absence of MTs from the tip are preparation artefacts.
(4) We report the stable transformation of Physcomitrella patens to either G418 or hygromycin B resistance following polyethylene glycol-mediated direct DNA uptake by protoplasts.
(5) Heterologous genes involved in the control of transcription and of the cell cycle are being used to probe the P. patens genome to identify possible homologues involved in developmental regulation.
(6) The chronic myeloid leukaemia responded dramatically to myeleran therapy, whilst the Legg-Calve-Perthes' disease was treated by bed rest in hospital followed by weight-relieving paten-ended calliper.
(7) Monoclonal antibodies to yeast tubulin have been used to visualize the distribution of microtubules in the intact filamentous protonemata of the moss Physcomitrella patens.
(8) Similar results were obtained for P. patens, N. tabacum, and C. reinhardi extracts, except that dehydroshikimate reductase and dehydroquinase were not separable by this method.
(9) Plastid DNA of the moss Physcomitrella patens has been sequenced.
(10) Aqueous, alcoholic and ketonic extracts were prepared from five species, and it was found that the best inhibitions corresponded to the species Hamelia patens, Nephrolepis acuminata, Calocarpum sapota and Colocasia antiquorum.
(11) The development of the haploid gametophyte stage of Physcomitrella patens presents excellent opportunities for the detailed study of plant morphogenesis at the cellular level.
(12) The cox3 gene of P. patens contains no introns and reveals a G + C-content of 41.3%.
(13) Among 22 adult ermines, 41% were infected by one or more of five species (Taenia mustelae, Alaria mustelae, Molineus patens, M. mustelae and Trichinella spiralis).
(14) Phaeanthine, a bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloid which occurs naturally in Triclisia species, was extracted from Triclisia patens (Menispermaceae) obtained from Sierra Leone (West Africa).
(15) Genetic analysis by means of somatic hybridization, achieved through protoplast fusion, revealed that, of 15 independently isolated gametophore and cytokinin over-producing (OVE) mutants in the model system, Physcomitrella patens, 14 carry recessive mutations responsible for this abnormal phenotype.
(16) Sucrose density gradient centrifugation was used to estimate the molecular weights and determine possible physical aggregation of the enzymes catalyzing steps 2 to 6 in pre-chorismic acid polyaromatic biosynthesis in Anabaena variabilis, Chlamydomonas reinhardi, Euglena gracilis, Nicotiana tabacum, and Physcomitrella patens.
(17) In the moss Physcomitrella patens, single-cell protonemata and multicellular gametophores respond to reorientation relative to the gravity vector by growing negatively gravitropically.
(18) The cytochrome oxidase III gene (cox3) of the moss Physcomitrella patens consists of a 618 bp open reading frame with high homology (around 72%) to known cox3 sequences of higher plants.
(19) Two clones have been isolated from a genomic library of the moss Physcomitrella patens and a cDNA library of the halotolerant green alga Dunaliella salina.
(20) This is the first report of the isolation of liriodenine (compound III) from the root bark of C. patens.