(a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
(a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
(n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
(n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
(n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
(2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
(3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
(5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(7) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(10) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
(15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
(17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
(18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
(19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
(20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.
Mosaic
Definition:
(n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
(n.) A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(3) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(4) The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 5 million daltons.
(5) A stillborn girl, with external signs of trisomy 18 syndrome, was subsequently shown to have a mosaic pattern in both the lymphocytes and the placenta.
(6) Insights into how these seemingly disparate functions may be integrated have emerged from studies that have demonstrated that the mammalian striatum is composed of two compartments arranged as a mosaic, the patches and the matrix, which differ in their neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties.
(7) The majority of variants were found to be inherited; however, at least seven of the 99 variants were not present in either parent, and an additional seven differed from the parental variant by either a morphological change or the appearance of mosaicism.
(8) Microstructural rearrangements and nonhomologous recombination in nondisjunction of chromosomes during cell division are considered parallel with mosaicism as one of possible reasons of genetic predisposition.
(9) Endogenous interferon was produced in animals in response to the administration of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), tilorone and sodium nucleinate.
(10) The results indicate the beta-globin domain is a mosaic of aggregation-resistant and aggregation-prone regions with the latter being associated with H1 and H5.
(11) We report here the first case of a mosaic Down's syndrome in which both clones are trisomic for chromosome 21, one of them (90%) by a Robertsonian translocation (15;21) appearing de novo, and the other (10%) by an additional chromosome 21.
(12) Confined placental mosaicism may play a role in the intrauterine survival of some trisomy 22 conceptions.
(13) The P cytotype-like effects include suppression of snw germline hypermutability, snw somatic mosaicism, pupal lethality, and gonadal dysgenic sterility.
(14) Two patients had trisomy for G-group chromosome and one patient had mosaic trisomy.
(15) The cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35 S RNA is a full-length transcript of the viral genome.
(16) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(17) It is suggested that the protrusion of membrane proteins into the aqueous phase, the consequent expression of cell surface charge, and the temperature-dependent modulation of the latter may be related to the lateral mosaicism of membrane lipids and reflect the state of membrane fluidity.
(18) One of the precipitating MAbs recognized an epitope which appears to be common to AMV and cucumber mosaic virus.
(19) This delta pro mutant sequence, as well as the sequence of the wild-type sporamin cDNA, was placed downstream from the promoter of the 35S transcript from cauliflower mosaic virus and introduced into the genome of suspension-cultured tobacco cells by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.
(20) Two genes, uidA encoding beta-glucuronidase (GUS) from Escherichia coli and Luc, encoding firefly luciferase (LUC), were used to analyze the ability of a cap, polyadenylated tail, and the 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions (UTR) from tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) to regulate expression.