(a.) Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The structure of the most abundant invected transcript was defined by obtaining the full-length cDNA sequence and by S1 nuclease sensitivity and primer extension studies; a partial sequence of the invected gene was determined; and the developmental profile of invected expression was characterized by Northern analysis and by in situ localization.
(2) The shared region contains a homeo domain and is within the region of engrailed shared with the Drosophila invected gene and the mouse En-1 and En-2 genes.
(3) Speaking to a class of college students in January 2012, he used hateful invective against Jewish people and called Jewish students derogatory names, according to Buzzfeed, which spoke to the professor who invited Cross to his class to teach students about hate groups.
(4) The emails reveal that the researchers shared tactics, encouraged each other and competed for the rudest invective against McIntyre.
(5) But I will not alter them if I am faced with invective rather than debate; in fact, they will become more entrenched.
(6) The invected gene, like the engrailed gene, is expressed in the embryonic and larval cells of the posterior developmental compartments and in the embryonic hindgut, clypeolabrum, and nervous system.
(7) The collision of protests about cuts to legal aid and foreign dignitaries eager to learn from England’s judicial heritage produced contrasting legal blasts of invective and appreciation in Westminster.
(8) Updated at 8.03am BST 5.06am BST Question Time The invective hour opens with condolences.
(9) Wilshere had been fortunate in the first half to avoid what by modern-day standards could easily have been a red-card offence, taking exception to one of Mike Dean’s decisions, aiming a mouthful of invective at the referee and then responding to Marouane Fellaini’s indignation by jutting his forehead into his opponent’s chin.
(10) His purpose is not to change, but to punish, which makes the invective so deeply gratifying.
(11) Like the engrailed gene, the invected gene can encode a protein of approximately 60 kD that contains a homeo box near its carboxyl terminus; indeed, a sequence of 117 amino acids in the carboxy-terminal region of both proteins is almost identical.
(12) Chinese commentators unleashed a stream of nationalist invective on the internet while travel agencies cancelled package tours to Japan.
(13) Two mouse genes, En-1 and En-2, have sequence homology to the engrailed (en) and invected (inv) genes of Drosophila (Joyner et al.
(14) The vgW allele is also the result of a chromosomal inversion, in this case resulting in a gene fusion between vg and the homeobox-containing invected (inv) gene.
(15) When their anti-nationalist invective outweighs their pro-union adulation, you realise that they are not convinced either.
(16) More effectively, every Nazi utterance is in subtitled, guttural, invective-heavy German, which produces the movie's one truly chilling sequence, a mass choir of pretty little Aryan schoolgirls singing a real Nazi hymn that's all racial chauvinism, down with the Jews and death to the untermenschen , as Kristallnacht unfolds in cross-cuts.
(17) The row over foreign secretary David Miliband's attack on the Conservative party chairman, Eric Pickles, for suggesting that Latvians who had joined the Waffen SS volunteer legion were only "conscripts" – following orders – has drawn inevitable invective from Conservatives .
(18) An eagle-eyed spectator caught her blast of invective on camera and it was soon doing the rounds on Twitter.
(19) Whatever else you made of him, when it came to delivering sustained barrages of political invective, you had to salute his indefatigability.
(20) And contemporaries, infuriated by her single-minded and relentless pursuit of her objectives in government, recalled in the cosy glow of nostalgia her huge appetite both for life and for the fight, a woman who delighted in dancing with the enemy at night before spearing him with her invective the next day.
Scalloped
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Scallop
(a.) Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.
(a.) Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2.
(n.) Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultrastructural examination of noncartilaginous regions of the tumor demonstrated mesenchymal cells with features suggestive of cartilaginous differentiation, viz, scalloped cell membranes, sac-like distension of abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, and a matrix containing fibrillary and finely granular material.
(2) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
(3) The ultrasonic root planing however showed a more discrete scalloped surface with very small tears and having a hammered appearance.
(4) I choose the halibut fillet with scallops, dauphinoise potatoes, veg melange and pesto tapenade.
(5) Composition of neurons, their structure and neuromediatory specialization in the Japanese scallop ganglia have been studied by means of morphological, morphometrical and histochemical methods.
(6) In addition, the cells receive synapses from numerous nonimmunoreactive terminals including a wide range of different dome-shaped terminals and various scalloped or glomerular terminals.
(7) By using these proteins from the scallop, Pecten maximus, the existence of two distinct tryptophan-containing domains was established, which respond independently to ATP and Ca2+-specific binding.
(8) Two classes of myosin light chains can be distinguished functionally: those that restore calcium regulation to "desensitized" scallop myofibrils, and those that do not (Kendrick-Jones, J., et al.
(9) Labeled axon terminals were both scallop-shaped and smooth in profile.
(10) An additional previously unreported finding was a 'scalloped' contour in a majority of hairs.
(11) 98, 141-148 (1985) was prepared by chymotryptic digestion of the scallop myosin in the presence of EDTA, and was assigned as the carboxyl-terminal 106-residue peptide of the SHLC.
(12) In vitro production of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) by the amoebocytes of the scallop, Patinopecten yessoensis, was studied.
(13) Myosin filaments isolated from scallop striated muscle have been activated by calcium-containing solutions, and their structure has been examined by electron microscopy after negative staining.
(14) Mussels and scallops were very rapidly contaminated showing high toxin accumulation rates, whereas rates for oysters and clams were low.
(15) Native myosin filaments from scallop striated muscle that have been rapidly frozen in relaxing solutions appear to be well preserved in vitreous ice.
(16) Immunolabeling is in small dome-shaped and in large scalloped synaptic terminals.
(17) The important aggressive X-ray signs of central (primary) chondrosarcoma include: Infiltrating, notching and scalloping of the endosteal cortical surface; irregular and ill-defined margin between tumor and bone, transition zone widened or 'moth-eaten' in appearance; soft tissue tumor mass may grow eccentrically or concentrically around the bone; various patterns of calcification within the tumor and localized laminated periosteal reaction.
(18) At one point, dissatisfied with their taste – she is an enthusiastic rather than a merely dutiful taster – she tipped seven plated servings of scallops back in a basin and began seasoning them all over again.
(19) In the myosin-linked regulatory mechanism typified by the molluscan scallop adductor muscle, contraction is controlled by Ca2+ binding to sites on the thick filament protein, myosin.
(20) The hybrid complexes reconstituted with molluscan E-LC and R-LC regained the specific Ca2(+)-binding site, whereas the hybrid complex formed with rabbit skeletal E-LC [alkali LC 2 (A2-LC)] and scallop R-LC did not.