(n.) An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural.
(v. t.) To make melancholy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, hyp does not appear to affect metastable variation but does affect the level of transcription of the pilA gene in the ON (transcribed) mode.
(2) At the time of E2-capsule removal (0 h) large increases in nuclear estradiol receptor (NER) levels were seen in anterior pituitary, preoptic area, and hypothalamus (HYP).
(3) The peptides with X = N-Me-Ala, Sar and Ala as well as the standard substrate (X = Pro) were found to be good substrates, while those with X = alpha-aminobutyryl, Hyp, Ser and Gly were poor substrates, and those with X = pipecolyl, alpha-aminoisobutyryl, N-Me-Val, N-Me-Leu, Hyp(O-Bzl) and Ser(O-Bzl) were not cleaved at all.
(4) Moreover, multipoint analysis reveals a probable locus order of: Xtel-DXS315-DXS43-DXS257-HYP-DXS41-DXS4 51-Xcen.
(5) Adenosine (ADO) in low micromolar levels and hypoxanthine (HYP) in millimolar levels have been shown to inhibit maturation of cumulus-enclosed oocytes.
(6) Effects of the administration of phosphate on nuclear 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3] uptake by duodenal mucosal cells of Hyp mice were investigated.
(7) Trypsin cleaved a specific Lys-Pro bond in the chymotryptic peptide: Thr-Hyp-Ser-Hyp-Lys-Pro-Hyp-Thr-Pro-Lys-Pro-Thr-Hyp-Hyp-Thr-Tyr isolated from a Zea mays hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein (HRGP).
(8) Y is variable, but more often than not hydrophobic; and Z is frequently Pro or 4-trans-hydroxyproline (Hyp).
(9) The data also suggest that the expression of the renal phosphate transport defect in Hyp mice is independent of PTH status and alkaline phosphatase activity.
(10) Normal rats and three groups of clipped rats were studied: an untreated group (HYP), a group treated with captopril (CEI), and a group treated with DuP 753 (DuP) 5 days before micropuncture.
(11) However, between the ages of 13 and 40 weeks, the female Hyp mice have an increase in bone mineral content per centimeter length to the level of the normal mice.
(12) Genes specifying the oxidative utilization of hydroxyproline (Hyp) in P. aeruginosa PAO were located on the chromosome, around 19th minute by conjugation experiments.
(13) The levels of serum Hyp and Hyl were higher in patients with bilirubin concentration, and decreased during recovery.
(14) Initially, we discovered that inhibition of renal 25OHD-1 alpha-hydroxylase suppressed enzyme function in Hyp mice, but did not prevent expression of P-mediated activity in Gy mice.
(15) Spike-triggered averaging was used to identify 104 hypothalamic (HYP) neurons whose spontaneous or L-glutamate-induced action potentials were synchronized to inferior cardiac postganglionic-sympathetic nerve discharge (SND) in 39 pentobarbital sodium-anesthetized cats.
(16) The relative amount of hepatic 4-hyp in these rats exceeded significantly that in rats not administered CCl4 by the 4th week.
(17) Variations of this occur in peptides B with Hyp-3 and Dopa-5, C with Dopa-5, and D with Hyp-3, respectively.
(18) There were no differences in resting sarcomere length, percent of maximal shortening, time to peak shortening, and average sarcomere shortening velocity between Sham and Hyp cardiac cells.
(19) The contents of Hyp in NSC and ASC increased in the infarcted tissue 5 days after coronary ligation prior to its increase in ISC.
(20) These findings suggest that the abnormal bone mineralization in Hyp mice was mainly due to their abnormally low serum phosphorus level.
Melancholy
Definition:
(n.) Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
(n.) Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
(n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
(n.) Ill nature.
(a.) Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
(a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
(a.) Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
(a.) Favorable to meditation; somber.
Example Sentences:
(1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(2) And melancholy is not the only thing that links Haigh’s work.
(3) Melancholy originally had another meaning from the present one.
(4) the agitated type of involutional melancholy occurred twice as often in Canada as in Hungary, the apathetic cases were rarer in Canada, and the illness began earlier among Canadian women.
(5) Thus New Zealand, like other countries, may be entering an age of melancholy.
(6) English explanations stressed religious aspects and a relationship to melancholy.
(7) I too was attracted to the paintings of De Chirico and Delvaux, with their dreamplaces – empty, melancholy cities, abandoned temples, broken statues, shadows, exaggerated perspectives.
(8) Earlier this week in Janesville, where post-industrial melancholy is evident in a closed car plant and eerily quiet downtown, House speaker Paul Ryan crushed a Trump-style challenger in a congressional primary.
(9) There was always a rueful melancholy, stiffened by irony and leavened by humour about him.
(10) Song of the summer was Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks, with its odd blend of keening melancholy and positivism.
(11) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(12) "Oh, if one of Dostoevsky's novels, whose black melancholy is regarded with such indulgent admiration, were signed with the name of Goncourt, what a slating it would get all along the line."
(13) It's a melancholy fate for any writer to become an eponym for all that he despised, but that is what happened to George Orwell, whose memory is routinely abused in unthinking uses of the adjective "Orwellian".
(14) As the lead singer with the Walker Brothers, he enjoyed a number of melancholy hits with songs such as The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, My Ship Is Coming In, No Regrets.
(15) The leading role is infinitely variable: as Oscar Wilde said , "There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies."
(16) In the right light and with the right song playing on the radio, there is a certain melancholy charm to this bleak highway with its unfolding panorama of wind turbines and electricity pylons stretching to the horizon.
(17) On the contrary: Sørens incomparable melancholy, mental agony and anxiety (fear or anguish) forced the faith, existing independently of them, in a radical refining.
(18) There’s a magnificent melancholy about him, this shadowy figure performing an act of unrequited love.
(19) Closer is a melancholy piece but it is also laugh-out-loud funny, often, as in the very best drama, at moments of starkest pain.
(20) Research is needed to determine whether youth will be predisposed to further depressive episodes and, if so, will we be entering a new age of melancholy?