(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.
Semicircle
Definition:
(n.) The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.
(n.) A semicircumference.
(n.) A body in the form of half of a circle, or half of a circumference.
(n.) An instrument for measuring angles.
Example Sentences:
(1) The form of the hard palate is similar to a semicircle in the frontal cut.
(2) The loudspeakers, 15 deg apart, were arranged in a semicircle (0-270-180 deg, azimuth).
(3) In the other pattern, the inducing semicircles were shifted in phase along their diameter and their endpoints were aligned along the contour.
(4) Within the whole target volume yD remains nearly constant when irradiated with all 60 beams, whereas considerable changes were found for irradiations with 31 beams coming from a semicircle.
(5) In targeting Hindus, Sikhs, Jews and those of Tamil ethnicity, the Tories are once again courting a suburban semicircle of boroughs in north London that traditionally are more likely to vote Conservative.
(6) Reducing the salience of the illusory contour, whether by scrambling the contour, or by decreasing the number or the contrast of inducing semicircles, systematically increased discrimination thresholds.
(7) Osteoperiosteal corticocancellous grafts are harvested from the iliac wing, then bent into a semicircle with the periosteum on the inside and inserted between the resected vertebral pedicles where they act as a base for further grafting.
(8) A useful method of treatment in these cases is the marginal, lamellar keratoplasty, which, according to the type of involvement, can take the shape of a sector, ring, horseshoe, or semicircle.
(9) There was a characteristic pattern of activity consisting of small, medium-size, or large distinct granules often distributed in a semicircle in the cytoplasm, but sparing the nucleus of hairy cells.
(10) We report a case of relatively diffuse nontransmural infarction demonstrated by a semicircle of 99mTc-PYP activity which significantly overlapped 201Tl uptake on the SPECT study.
(11) The algorithm developed here is to reduce interactively a multidimensional symptom space to sectorial regions representing each disease in a semicircle using the modified constellation graph method.
(12) This method enables us to classify patients using the angle in the semicircle as a single classifying parameter with an accuracy of about 90%, that is, with little overlapping between disease sectors.
(13) Its transitional stage is a curved semicircle having a form of a distended spiral coil; that reflects an uneven growth of the organ in the human embryogenesis.
(14) The cupboard door came open, Martensen was dragged out and beaten by a dozen officers standing in a semicircle around him.
(15) They are situated in the subserous tela along the anterior and posterior semicircles of the organ.
(16) The CGL of the buffalo was convex, swung in a semicircle around the thalamus and was covered by the fibres of the optic tract.
(17) The hypothesis is presented that a sheet of internal scar is primarily responsible for raising the skin inside the semicircle.
(18) The tube-camera-unit rotates in a semicircle in 5 to 6 seconds around a skull placed in the isocentrum.
(19) The posterior semicircle of the sphincter is located higher than the anterior one.
(20) The anterior capsular tear has a smooth circular edge at the intersection of the two semicircles of the capsulorhexis, while a triangular flap directed towards the center of the pupil is often formed at 12 o'clock.