(n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.
(n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both materials elicited a surrounding inflammatory reaction containing macrophages which transgressed the interstices of only the PGA prostheses.
(2) The acellular vesicles are formed from excess nuclear and plasma membranes produced during spermatid condensation, and the ECM is topologically restricted to the interstices between acellular vesicles and sperm heads, being absent from the flagellar surface.
(3) The effluent water and solutes appear in the form of lymph in the interstices between cells.
(4) The influence on healing of three materials for closure of interstices in a macroporous Dacron arterial prosthesis were evaluated by 56-day implantation in the canine descending thoracic aorta.
(5) The potential consequences of vascular damage are described as well as the importance of pancreatic lymphatics in the transport of the escaped enzymes from the interstices.
(6) It was also suggested that the interstices of the collagen fibers in the myocardial wall constituted the lymphatic ducts outside the blood vessels and that the MAO activity in serum determined by the method in which tryptamine hydrochloride was used as substrate might indicate the grade of fibrosis of the myocardial tissue in the infarcted areas.
(7) Mesh interstices epithelialized over the surface of the full-thickness wound (control sites) or over the surface of Dermagraft (experimental sites).
(8) The interstices G1, G3 and G4 seem to contain glycoproteins, whereas interstice G3 seems to contain some type of carbohydrate.
(9) Liquid in these interstices could amplify the degree of luminal compromise due to muscular contraction in at least two distinct ways.
(10) Finally, most frequently in 10- to 12-cell embryos, typical nucleolar structure is established as a result of intranucleolar differentiation giving rise to distinct fibrillar and granular components as well as to nucleolar interstices.
(11) Examination of the posterior or inner wall of this canal, represented by the sclerocorneal trabecula, in 15 species of primates and 5 adult humans, has enabled us to observe the existence of some small orifices or stomata that are the outermost part of the so-called Sondermann's canals, which in our opinion are made by the successive confluence of the interstices worked in the interior of the sclerocorneal trabecula by means of contraction of the longitudinal portion of the ciliary muscle.
(12) Small pockets of gas, known as gas nuclei, are trapped within surface interstices.
(13) The unproven hypothesis that ankle pain may result from compression of the marrow contents into the bone interstices is presented for consideration.
(14) In grade 1 injury the testicular parenchyma shows edema of interstice, slight blood extravasation and a desquamation of the germ cells.
(15) In the entorhinal area, the superficial cortical layers (I-III) contained most enzyme activity in the superficial two-thirds of layer I, the interstices between the stellate cell bodies in layer II, and the superficial part of layer III.
(16) "Fronds," characterized by contrast within the interstices of the lesion, were seen in three malignant lesions.
(17) The alveolar subepithelial basement membrane were markedly thickened and bundles of collagen fibres were formed in the interstice.
(18) Evidence of continuous basement membrane formation at the epithelial-Dermagraft junction, which was identified by immunohistochemical staining for laminin and type IV collagen, was seen by day 14 beneath the healed epithelium in the skin graft interstices.
(19) Deposition and activation of these enzymes in the interstices presumably is associated with the transformation of lamellar body-derived lipids from a relatively polar to a non-polar mixture, as well as the degradation of other non-lipid intercellular substrates.
(20) This morphological maturation involved the gradual transformation from relatively compact nucleoli to reticulate ones which exhibited a typical nucleolonemal configuration with numerous nucleolar interstices and fibrillar centers.
Time
Definition:
(n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
(n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
(n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
(n.) The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
(n.) A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
(n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
(n.) Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.
(n.) The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
(n.) Tense.
(n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
(v. t.) To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
(v. t.) To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
(v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
(v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony.
(v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
(v. i.) To pass time; to delay.
Example Sentences:
(1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
(2) Neuromedin B (C50 6 x 10(-12) M) was 3 times less potent than bombesin-14.
(3) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(5) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(6) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(7) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(8) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
(9) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(10) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(11) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(12) 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.
(13) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(14) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(15) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(16) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
(17) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(18) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
(19) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
(20) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.