(v. t.) Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity.
(v. t.) To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.
(v. t.) To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.
(v. i.) To leap or jump.
(v. i.) To behave with insolence; to exult.
Example Sentences:
(1) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(2) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
(3) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
(4) Combined with histological analysis, these results suggest a more rapid recovery of normal spermatogenesis after physical insult with LAC treatment.
(5) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
(6) Among the various physiological factors involved in the development of a nephrotoxic insult, certain renal transport systems may be important.
(7) In addition, PROM is the result of direct bacterial insults or host-mediated autodestruction in response to bacterial presence or challenge.
(8) Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult.
(9) This toxic effect, although not seen in intact nigrostriatal systems, may indicate L-dopa toxicity on transplanted DA cells, or on DA cells maximally activated to recover from insult.
(10) Under the conditions employed in these studies, repeated occlusions give rise to progressively more prolonged deficits in brain protein synthesis activity, which may thus provide a useful index of the severity of the accumulated ischemic insult.
(11) The loss of coronary reserve was less than that previously observed after a 15-min occlusion, suggesting that the magnitude of the postischemic vascular abnormalities increases with the duration of the ischemic insult.
(12) We also observed a difference in the pattern and severity of alterations between repeated ischemic insults and single ischemia.
(13) Unconsciousness was associated with a brief period of hypotension, so brief that in itself it caused no apparent insult.
(14) These findings suggest that NB-818 may be useful for clinical treatment of neurological deficit after an ischemic insult.
(15) For example, patients suffering from transfusion-related acute lung injury (TRALI) experience onset of insult within 6 hours of a transfusion and have the presence of leukoagglutinins in their serum.
(16) This review article discusses the clinical manifestations and the diagnostic workup of insults to the kidney in patients with cancer.
(17) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
(18) It is hypothesized that transmission failure of interneuronal systems in the initial period following insult may be a general response occurring in wide areas of the central nervous system, and not restricted to areas to which mechanical stress is directly applied.
(19) These shape changes may become irreversible and, in fact, they may be encountered in different types of haemolytic disease, suggesting that the echinocytic and stomatocytic shape changes represent two fundamental ways in which red cells react to intrinsic and extrinsic insults.
(20) The Labour party erupted into open civil war as Ed Miliband loyalists and supporters of Johann Lamont, the Scottish Labour leader who resigned this weekend, exchanged accusations and insults.
Ouch
Definition:
(n.) A socket or bezel holding a precious stone; hence, a jewel or ornament worn on the person.
Example Sentences:
(1) The next day she came online to write the word "ouch" underneath a picture of a leg injury I had posted deliberately to make her say something girlfriendy.
(2) Amidases (acylamide amidohydrolase EC 3.5.1.4) from mutant strains (i.e., B6, AI3, AIU1N, OUCH 4 and L10) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were purified in one-step by ligand affinity chromatography using Epoxy-activated Sepharose 4B-acetamide.
(3) A case of Itai-itai (ouch-ouch) disease with reduced urinary kallikrein excretion and slightly enhanced renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is described.
(4) So perhaps it's all the snow's fault... Lorcan Roche Kelly (@LorcanRK) Ouch.
(5) Association of resistance to hydroxyurea inhibition with a mutation in the amidase structural gene of strain OUCH 4 was confirmed by transduction.
(6) Two down for Carlos Gomez, who is hit in the hand, ouch.
(7) ‘It’s heartbreaking to see their little faces with no hope,’ said Jose, aged six.” Ouch.
(8) The secretary of state in Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry, Ouch Borith, told the ABC a government working group had completed studying a draft resettlement proposal from the Australian government and was hoping to sign a deal “as soon as possible”.
(9) Adam Smith: Ouch, you're twisting my arm … Junt: I would like to draw a line under this sorry tale of confusion by announcing that my dear, dear friend Adam sadly and unexpectedly defenestrated himself an hour a go.
(10) Jones gets completely anihilated by Walker on the kickoff, ouch!
(11) Altered amidases from mutant strains AIU 1N and OUCH 4, selected for their resistance to inhibition of growth by urea and hydroxyurea respectively, had altered kinetic constants for inhibition indicating reduced binding capacity for the inhibitors.
(12) In 2003, the term was voted third most offensive that could be used relating to disability in a poll run for the BBC's Ouch!
(13) 1.45am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, top of 1st Ouch!
(14) Asa Bennett of Huffington Post tweets the details, including veteran Labour MP Austin Mitchell apparently comparing Wheatley to Admiral Horatio Nelson ( of "I see no ships" fame ) Asa Bennett (@asabenn) Ouch.
(15) It would be an historic mistake if on these issues Britain were to continue to alienate its natural allies in central and eastern Europe ,” he said in a speech at Chatham House on Monday, “when you were one of the strongest advocates for their accession.” Ouch.
(16) The Sunday Herald's Iain Macwhirter even dismissed me as " the BBC Question Time's favourite tame lefty " (ouch).
(17) There was the first-choice left-back Jetro Willems going and getting himself ruled out of the tournament with ligament-ouch suffered in PSV's Eredivisie match against Feyenoord last weekend.
(18) By way of contrast Brown had positioned himself on the “compromise everything left” and “looks set to be a weak if extended interlude between you and Cameron.” Ouch.
(19) Worries about China, the endless drop in oil prices and even new geopolitical tensions pounded the markets, punishing risk assets with a flight to quality that was in full swing,” they wrote in a research note entitled “What’s the Chinese for ‘ouch’?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest China shares slipped again this week despite Beijing’s previous attempts to calm markets.
(20) Sixty-two autopsy cases with "itai-itai" or "ouch-ouch" (in English) disease and 50 control subjects were examined by static quantitative bone histopathology.