(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.
Rost
Definition:
(n.) See Roust.
Example Sentences:
(1) By means of luminescent-histochemical method of Cross, Even, Rost histamine is revealed in all uterine structures.
(2) "Their whole ethos is about work; they don't want to end up on benefits or the dole," says Bruno Rost of Experian, the data company that carried out the detailed analysis of in-work poverty for the Guardian, including in-depth surveys of attitudes and behaviours, coupled with a wide range of quantitative data.
(3) Ewen and E. W. D. Rost [9] in the premedullary zone of the thymus lobule cortex histamine-containing cells have been found; they have different form, size, luminescent colour.
(4) In the experiments performed on ovariectomized rats, using luminescent-histochemical method for revealing histamine after Cross, Ewen and Rost, it has been demonstrated that estradiol facilitates increasing histamine content in the uterine structures, as well as its redistribution--histamine content increases in the glandular and tegmental epithelia, in stromal cells, smooth myocytes and it decreases in macrophages.
(5) After removing from the research households in the "most deprived" categories, Rost's team focused on those working but are nevertheless suffering high levels of financial stress.
(6) This group are "traditionally proud, self-reliant, working people", said Bruno Rost, head of Experian Public Sector, who used more than 400 variables from Experian's database and government research to identify those belonging to At-Risk Britain.
(7) Maria Rost Rublee, an expert on the history of Egyptian nuclear programme, said she was told by three well-informed sources – a former Egyptian diplomat, military officer, and nuclear scientist - that "non-state actors" from an unnamed former Soviet republic had tried to sell fissile material and technology to Egypt.
(8) Lobules V and IV project to rostrodorsal and rost-ocentral NM respectively and into the dorsal LVN.
(9) Estradiol levels were radioimmunoassayed and histamine levels histochemically measured by Cross', Ewen's, and Rost's methods in intact rats.
(10) Studies on rape-seed oil have shown that the determination of oxypolymers by means of the method according to Rost (determination of fatty acids insoluble in petroleum ether) yields unsatisfactory results.
(11) Histochemical reactions of Falk-Hillarp (catecholamines, serotonin) have been performed on nonfixed cryostat slices of the uterus, those of Cross, Even, Rost (histamine) against non-specific esterase and acid phosphatase.
(12) "These are the new working class – except the work they do no longer pays," Rost added.