(n.) One of the Insecta; esp., one of the Hexapoda. See Insecta.
(n.) Any air-breathing arthropod, as a spider or scorpion.
(n.) Any small crustacean. In a wider sense, the word is often loosely applied to various small invertebrates.
(n.) Fig.: Any small, trivial, or contemptible person or thing.
(a.) Of or pertaining to an insect or insects.
(a.) Like an insect; small; mean; ephemeral.
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(3) After treatment of larvae of instar 1 at preimago stages about 77% of the insects died.
(4) The presence of potential insect vectors and the occurrence of clinical signs are indications of active transmissions.
(5) Spectrophotometric tests for the presence of a lysozyme-like principle in the serum also revealed similar trends with a significant loss of enzyme activity in 2,4,5-T-treated insects.
(6) Radiation inactivation and simple target theory were employed to determine the molecular weight of an insect CNS alpha-bungarotoxin binding component in the presence and absence of a cross-linking reagent, dimethyl suberimate.
(7) Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies kurstaki (Btk) and subspecies berliner (Btb) both produce lepidopteran-specific larvicidal protoxins with different activities against the same insect species.
(8) Phyla as diverse as insects, birds, and mammals possess distinct HRAS and KRAS sequences, suggesting that these genes are essential to metazoa.
(9) Compounds identified as sex attractant pheromones in a number of phytophagous insects were found in a variety of host plants.
(10) casseliflavus from 43.5% of members of the 37 taxa of insects.
(11) This is the first demonstration of a 2-hydroxylated carotenoid in an insect.
(12) Among the most highly expressing transformed plants for each gene, the plants with the partially modified cryIA(b) gene had a 10-fold higher level of insect control protein and plants with the fully modified cryIA(b) had a 100-fold higher level of CryIA(b) protein compared with the wild-type gene.
(13) Expression of these two cDNAs in insect cells by recombinant baculovirus revealed that the alpha 1 subunit, after noncovalent association with the beta subunit, has the same potency as the native alpha subunit purified from the pituitary.
(14) We have examined the organization of the repeated and single copy DNA sequences in the genomes of two insects, the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the housefly (Musca domestica).
(15) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of 147 residues was determined automatically for a major dimeric component (CTT VI) of the insect larva Chironomus thummi thummi (Diptera).
(17) Peptides B and C are isoforms of a 43-residue peptide which contains 6 cysteines and shows significant sequence homology to insect defensins, initially reported from dipteran insects.
(18) The results suggested that allergenic cross-reactivity between some fly species exists, and may extend to taxonomically unrelated insect species.
(19) The species studied were Triatoma infestans, Triatoma brasiliensis, Triatoma vitticeps, Triatoma pseudomaculata, Rhodnius prolixus and Panstrongylus megistus, and 34 to 348 insects were studied in each group (average, 190).
(20) There is evidence that they might predate on our native shrimps, on our insect larvae, possibly fish eggs.
Kell
Definition:
(n.) A kiln.
(n.) A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2.
(n.) The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
(n.) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) These four antigens consisted of S of MNSs blood group, Lua of Lutheran blood group, and K and Kpa of Kell-Cellano blood group.
(2) If Henry VIII belonged to the rare Kell positive blood group , he would have found difficulty in fathering more than one child with any Kell-negative woman.
(3) A distribution rate of the leukocytic histocompatibility antigens of HLA loci, A, B, C and basic erythrocytic blood groups of the ABO system, rhesus, P, Duffy, Kell was investigated among people of Azerbaijani nationality suffering from the familial forms of urolithiasis.
(4) Amniocentesis is indicated in only a few circumstances: previous child with erythroblastosis fetalis, significant increase in maternal Coombs titer, presence of Kell antigen in the father, and after comparison of the relative risks of hemolytic disease and amniocentesis in each patient.
(5) The Kell cDNA sequence predicts a 732-amino acid protein.
(6) One of six boys chronic granulomatous disease was shown to have the rare Kell phenotype, McLeod, by both manual and Auto Analyzer techniques.
(7) The results of the present study did not show any indication of linkage between dermatoglyphic patterns on fingertips (ulnar loops, radial loops, whorls and arches) and the ABO, MN, Rh, Kell and Xg blood groups.
(8) Serological studies of the McLeod type suggest that the weak Kell antigens that are present differ qualitatively and quantitatively from those on red cells of common Kell type.
(9) Eddie Hearn on Friday handed Amir Khan and Kell Brook the ultimate incentive to bring one of British boxing’s most frustrating rivalries to a dramatic conclusion: a Wembley date in high summer.
(10) In contrast, the M and Pra antigens of glycophorin A, the Kell system antigens, and the P1 antigen became detectable only after hemin induction.
(11) The present study confirms previous findings on the ABO, MNSs, Kell, Duffy, erythrocyte acid phosphatase, adenosine deaminase and adenylate kinase systems, and contributes the first account of the peptidase A, B, C and D, first and second locus phosphoglucomutase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, esterase D, haptoglobin, transferrin, Gm and Inv systems in the Njinga.
(12) Kell Brook keeps focus to beat Canada’s Kevin Bizier in two rounds Read more Eubank Jr appeared as if he was tiring but he did enough in the early rounds to have won on points had it gone the distance.
(13) Fetal hematocrit values of blood obtained by percutaneous umbilical blood sampling were correlated with ultrasound findings in 35 samples from 15 pregnancies undergoing evaluation for Rh or Kell sensitization.
(14) It is suggested that either non-specific adsorption of the anti-K may have occurred due to the Matuhasi-Ogata phenomenon; or, the antibody was an auto "minicking anti-K" capable of reacting with a broader specificity within the Kell system.
(15) I have no interest in fighting Kell Brook at the moment because there are so many other, bigger fights out there for me,” said Khan.
(16) Mouse hybridoma clones have produced monoclonal antibodies directed against the K:14 and K:2 high-incidence antigens of the Kell blood group system.
(17) Screening for Kell antigen before transfusing premenopausal women would be a means of avoiding erythroblastosis, but the rarity of severe disease does not justify this approach.
(18) At this concentration of DTT, only the Jsa and Jsb antigens are completely denatured; all other Kell system antigens tested (K, k, Kpb, Ku) are essentially unaffected.
(19) An 84-year-old woman with intestinal bleeding had marked reduction of red blood cell antigenicity in the Kell system, and a positive direct antiglobulin test caused by auto-anti-Kpb.
(20) In 239 German patients with atopic conditions (atopic dermatitis, hay fever, allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma, and acute urticaria) the phenotype and gene distribution of 15 genetic blood polymorphisms (ABO, MNSs, rhesus, P, Kell, Duffy, Kidd, Hp, Gc, Gm, Inv, aP, PGM1, EsD, and 6-PGD) were analyzed and compared with those in 151 selected controls (individuals clinically free of allergic conditions and without allergy in the family history).