(n.) The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
(n.) Festive decoration of houses or buildings with lights.
(n.) Adornment of books and manuscripts with colored illustrations. See Illuminate, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) That which is illuminated, as a house; also, an ornamented book or manuscript.
(v. t.) That which illuminates or gives light; brightness; splendor; especially, intellectual light or knowledge.
(v. t.) The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
(5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
(6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
(12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
(13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
(15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
(18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
(20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.
Lamp
Definition:
(n.) A thin plate or lamina.
(n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
(n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absence of linkage in a large group of families shows that lamp genes are not involved in Salla disease.
(2) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(3) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(7) In the adult, LAMP-immunoreactive membrane patches are present exclusively postsynaptically on neuronal somata and dendrites.
(8) Optical differences between a mercury arc lamp and a laser-illuminated flow cytometer are compared.
(9) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(10) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(11) LAMP-2 was closely related or identical to the macrophage antigen, MAC-3, as indicated by antibody adsorption and tryptic peptide mapping.
(12) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(13) In order to pursue this process the slit-lamp examination is recommended as necessary and useful method.
(14) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
(15) Fluorometric studies have been made with modified slit-lamp microscopes.
(16) Treatment was administered with white light produced by a commercially available halogen-tungsten lamp.
(17) In view of the equivalence of these methods, we would advocate, for reasons of ease of application and cost, the use of a single-color slit-lamp photograph with a 30 degree slit angle for documenting nuclear opacities, and the use of black-and-white retroillumination photography with either the Neitz or Oxford cataract cameras for cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities.
(18) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
(19) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(20) Body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal thermistor and maintained by adjustment of a heating pad and lamp.