(a.) Having colors like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) We demonstrate in this paper that two viruses: iridescent (CIV) and herpetic (Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis) can enter by viropexis and be uncoated in several lines of mosquito cells.
(2) The iridescence from the cornea of the sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus) occurs because of thin layer interference from the platelet-like cells in the stroma.
(3) The eye is well camouflaged by an iridescent cornea and a differentially coloured spectacle.
(4) One strain had mucoid colonies, fermented few carbohydrates and was serotype A:5, whereas, the other strain had smooth iridescent colonies, non-typeable capsular antigen, type 3 somatic antigen and fermented more than twice as many carbohydrates.
(5) Objective evidence of lens abnormality (opacities, vacuoles, or posterior subcapsular iridescence) was recorded and a comparison made between the two groups on the basis of that evidence.
(6) Salmon patches (6.4%), iridescent spots (10.3%), mottled brown areas (16.7%) and black sunbursts (7.7%) were seen as early as 10 years of age but showed an upward trend with age.
(7) The pathognomonic ocular manifestations of cystinosis are the presence of distinctive iridescent crystals within ocular tissue and a pigmentary retinopathy.
(8) Evidence of base-sequence homology between nucleic acids of different viruses was found within, but not between, the poxvirus and iridescent virus groups.
(9) The sensitivities of bilateral iridescent lens opacities, posterior cortical lens opacities, orbicularis oculi weakness, low intraocular pressure, ptosis, and ocular myotonia were 46.7, 50.0, 60.6, 59.3, 51.5, and 3.0%, while their specificities were 100.0, 100.0, 98.0, 94.1, 96.1, and 100.0%, respectively.
(10) Don't expect sandy beaches, do expect iridescent turquoise seas (especially in the Blue Grotto sea cave), fresh seafood, and a laid-back, unhurried lifestyle that would seduce even the nerviest banker into blissful lethargy.
(11) In addition to the widely recognized iridescent, blue, and watery mucoid (circular) colonies, punctiform colonies were observed.
(12) The origins of DNA replication of the genome (209 kbp) of Chilo iridescent virus (CIV), which is circularly permuted and terminally redundant, were identified.
(13) The genome was found to hybridize with the genome of another iridescent virus, type 9 (WIV), in DNA-DNA hybridization experiments.
(14) The iridescence was also found to be sensitive to pH, and the buffer HEPES was detrimental to the cornea compared to controls.
(15) Encapsulated strain forming iridescent colony type of both serotypes 1 and 2 had at least three antigens: heat-labile and trypsin-sensitive (L), heat-labile and trypsin-resistant (HL), and heat-stable and trypsin-resistant (HS).
(16) In vivo observations indicate the expression of iridescence to be linked to agonistic or reproductive behavior.
(17) Pili were found on the capsulated iridescent type, P-1059I, and on two non-capsulated variants, the blue, P-1059B, and the gray, P-1059G.
(18) In Gobius fluviatilis (Pallas), Gobius (Proterorhinus) marmoratus (Pallas), glossa Platichthys flesus (L) the cornea is double and there is an iridescent layer.
(19) An iridovirus, Apis iridescent virus (AIV), isolated from sick adult specimens of Apis cerana (Hymenoptera) from Kashmir, closely resembles iridescent viruses from Tipula and Sericesthis spp.
(20) The capsule was identified by precipitation against hexadecyl trimethylammonium bromide (Cetavlon), by demonstration of iridescence, and by means of a capsule-staining method.
Iridize
Definition:
(v. t.) To point or tip with iridium, as a gold pen.
(v. t.) To make iridescent; as, to iridize glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Changes in pupil size indicated a substantial cholinergic effect on the iridal sphincter musculature.
(2) Pigmentations are significantly related to the colour of the iris (visible in 8% of blue irides, against in 40% of brown).
(3) In subjects with light or hazel irides, phenylephrine caused maximal dilatation in 60 to 75 min, mean values being 5.6 mm with 1 drop of 2%, 6.0 mm with 2 drops of 2.5%, and 7.1 mm with 1 drop of 10%.
(4) The effect of desipramine, clonidine, phentolamine, phenoxybenzamine and GD131 on uptake of [(3)H]-NA in isolated irides was determined.3.
(5) The effect in the eye was small at 2 minutes, but at 10 minutes local blood flows in the choroid and the ciliary body were decreased by 50% and the iridal blood flow by 30%.
(6) Furthermore, an uneven distribution of fluorescent nerve fibers was observed within individual irides.
(7) 5HT-positive fibers also penetrated into the irides forming dense networks in the walls of blood vessels and elsewhere in the irides.
(8) In the patients with other types of iridal disorder the endothelial cells were normal in form.
(9) Patients with darker, thicker irides are more prone to have subacute angle-closure glaucoma, which requires gonioscopy and the recognition of subtle details that may be difficult to interpret.
(10) Dogs affected with chronic superficial keratitis (CSK) and clinically normal dogs were tested for cellular hypersensitivity, using the leukocyte migration-inhibition (LMI) technique to 3 ocular antigens (Staphylococcus aureus and corneal and iridal proteins).
(11) The ocular examination reveals a small anterior chamber, sectorial iridic atrophies, a mydriatic pupil, the camerular angle closed.
(12) Surprisingly, a large variation in the amount of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-positive nerves was seen among irides.
(13) These lesions were most often found in blue irides at the 12 o'clock region.
(14) Isolated rat irides were incubated with [(3)H]-noradrenaline [(3)H-NA] (10(-7)M), superfused with buffer and then stimulated by an electrical field.
(15) At fluorescein angiography (FAG) at a mean of 8 months post-operatively, 9 showed leaking from the iridal vessels, and 3 were normal: Three cases were excluded because of factors affecting the iris FAG.
(16) Eleven pigmented rabbit irides were irradiated with the argon laser and were examined electron-microscopically at several intervals between 15 minutes and 256 days after exposure.
(17) A Thy-1-positive fibre plexus reappeared in intraocular iris transplants after 4 weeks, strongly indicating that Thy-1-immunoreactive fibres in adult mouse irides are associated with the nerve fibres and not with their supportive tissue.
(18) These results indicate that S-Ag and its mRNA accumulate in the irides of some uveitic patients.
(19) Irides of neonates showed scattered, smooth fibres in a sparse plexus, without visible axon bundles.
(20) Obliteration of the ciliary cleft by diffuse iridal melanoma (38 eyes), or other neoplasms (14 eyes), or by the presence of idiopathic lymphocytic-plasmacytic anterior uveitis (53 eyes) were the most frequent lesions likely to explain the development of glaucoma.