(v. t.) To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
(v. t.) To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).
(v. t.) To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.
(v. t.) Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tissue imprints of rabbit liver and spleen and smears of human venous blood were stained and controlled microscopically.
(2) The novel directions in the study of the brain molecular genetic apparatus can be examinations of chromosomal behavior in the cells in various brain regions and genome imprinting.
(3) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
(4) Steroid hormone receptors were studied in 45 patients with primary, recurrent, or metastatic ovarian cancer in cryostat-frozen sections and imprint preparations.
(5) Recent studies have attempted to test predictions from an interpretation of filial imprinting as a form of associative learning.
(6) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(7) In addition, the phenotype of proportional dwarfism in the proband suggests imprinting of one or more growth-related genes on chromosome 7.
(8) Such characteristics are reminiscent of the behavior of variegating position-effects in Drosophila and the application of this paradigm to human disease phenotypes provides both a mechanism by which differential genome imprinting may be accomplished as well as genetic models that may explain the clinical association of syntenic diseases, the association between tumor progression and specific chromosomal aneuploidy and the unusual inheritance characteristics of many diseases.
(9) These same areas were previously reported to increase metabolic activity in imprinted Guinea fowl chicks, when they heared the imprinting stimulus during the 2-deoxyglucose experiment.
(10) Furthermore, individual AgNOR dots were much more readily discerned in cell imprints than in sections, and this appears to be the method of choice if pathologists wish to at least approach absolute rather than relative AgNOR counts.
(11) It has been found that the UV radiation-induced extreme state of the cells in a radiant culture produces distantly in an intact detector culture, which has only an optic contact with it, the cytopathic effect (CPE) as a repercussion of a specificity of morphological manifestations imprinted in the affected culture.
(12) Fine needle aspirates and touch imprints of 36 hyperplastic (reactive) lymph nodes were tested for the presence of keratin and desmin.
(13) The intensity of hormonal imprinting depends on the phase of the cell cycle in which the primary exposure has taken place.
(14) alpha-Bungarotoxin showed no effect on either imprinting or locomotor activity.
(15) To determine the usefulness of imprint preparation for detecting hormone receptors, 214 examples of primary, recurrent, and metastatic breast cancers were studied.
(16) Changes in testosterone hydroxylase activities indicative of permanent damage (or imprinting) in androgen metabolism, i.e.
(17) Bush outdid all previous presidents in his efforts to leave a permanent imprint on government regulations long after his term had come to an end.
(18) Cytological smears were obtained by the imprint method.
(19) For a few, the psychological imprint is only now beginning to appear.
(20) The male-specific occurrence of P450IIIA2 subject to testosterone imprinting and maintenance has been proposed.
Superimpose
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
(2) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(3) When one pig was housed in a hut with a small outside yard a nychthemeral rhythm was sometimes superimposed on that imposed by feeding.
(4) Iontophoretic application of quisqualate produced a membrane depolarization with superimposed action potentials, whereas NMDA depolarized the membrane potential and evoked bursts of action potentials.
(5) In the case of H1 horizontal cells, which are known to be GABAergic, the neurotransmitter can also be demonstrated by superimposed immunocytochemistry.
(6) It is proposed that relaxation consists of (1) a generalized reduction to multiple physiological systems (termed the relaxation response by Benson) and (2) a more specific pattern of changes superimposed upon this general reduction, which is elicited by the particular techniques employed.
(7) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.
(8) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(9) The variation of total Hb in the study population was due, as far as could be defined, only to beta-th-t and a superimposed iron deficiency anaemia (IDA).
(10) The former is frequently superimposed on the latter.
(11) Modulation in relation to tremor was superimposed on the bidirectional pattern related to ramps.
(12) Diabetic glomerulosclerosis was present in all 13 patients, but 9 patients had a non-diabetic renal disease superimposed (mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis (n = 5), membranous glomerulonephritis (n = 3) and sarcoidosis (n = 1).
(13) End-diastolic and end-systolic outlines were superimposed after correcting for motion during the cardiac cycle to demonstrate wall motion.
(14) Even in an area nonendemic for hepatitis D, this agent contributed to 20 to 30% of chronic hepatitis B and acute hepatitis superimposed on chronic hepatitis B infection.
(15) In young people the basic histological pattern of clusters, composed of cores of chief cells with surrounding rims of sustentacular cells, has commonly superimposed on it prominence of the dark variant of chief cells.
(16) The severity of pre-existing cardiopulmonary disease largely determines prognosis regardless of the severity of the superimposed acute occlusion.
(17) If the square arrays are superimposed spatially one sees random incoherent motion.
(18) The results show that there is tissue-specificity of glycosylation and that superimposed on this is a significant degree of site-specificity.
(19) Plain CT was capable of demonstrating subtle bony change (cortical reaction and calcification) and medullary tumour extension without interference from other superimposed bones.
(20) Various iterative algorithms for separation of superimposed event sequences were designed, and their efficiency examined through simulation studies.