(n.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.
(n.) Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the moment we are, if anything, slightly lagging."
(2) Initiation of the alternative pathway by the cryptococcal capsule is characterized by a lag in C3 accumulation and the appearance of a limited number of focal initiation sites which resemble those observed when the alternative pathway is activated by zymosan and nonencapsulated cryptococci.
(3) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(4) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
(5) Supplementation of neuraminidase-treated Lp(a) with N-acetylneuraminic acid (NANA) at concentrations comparable to the naturally occurring amounts of NANA in the Lp(a) protein moiety led to an increase of the lag-phase yielding values which were comparable to those observed with native Lp(a).
(6) A more specific differentiation, as indicated by the sharp increase in GAD levels which was concurrent with an increase in interneuronal contacts, lagged behind the initial growth.
(7) It appears that the decline in plasma IGF-I lags considerably behind the sharp fall in plasma GH levels and expression of hepatic IGF-I mRNA.
(8) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
(9) The drug-induced effect changes lagged behind the plasma drug level changes.
(10) The first transient increase in conductance developed with very short time lag (2-10 s) after serum addition, while the period between successive transients was 30-90 s, being remarkably constant in each particular cell.
(11) The Bank of Spain estimates that GDP grew 0.1% in the first quarter of this year, ending seven consecutive quarters of contraction but lagging the rest of the euro area's recovery by six months.
(12) Lysine was unique in accelerating gluconeogenesis beyond the lag period.
(13) This pattern is still 2 months off from the actual birth distribution; however, the retrospective data probably underestimate the real pregnancy lag.
(14) For example, after imported mouse dihydrofolate reductase (a soluble monomeric enzyme) had been released from mhsp70, folding to a protease resistant conformation occurred only after a lag and was much slower than the release.
(15) The company lagged "far behind its major competitors, with zero reporting of its energy or environmental footprint to any source or stakeholder", the report said.
(16) The temporal lag varied inversely with the dose and was more pronounced with HA.
(17) This multistage schema would account for the lag between injury and restenosis and the failure of chronic antithrombotic therapy to prevent this process.
(18) The results are interpreted as follows: bleomycin induces chromosomal aberrations that in turn give rise to micronuclei by means of lagging chromatin, main and micronuclei eventually become asynchronous in their cell cycles and mitosing main nuclei induce PCC in the micronuclei.
(19) Furthermore, the rate of superoxide generation decreased after a prolonged lag period.
(20) The hypothesis that a measure of intellectual speed assessed at one point in time would predict intellectual achievement at a later point in time was evaluated with a time-lagged cross-correlational analysis, an application of causal modeling techniques.
Undeveloped
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the distinct dissimilarities of neural connections between rodents and primates indicate that the rodent's hippocampal formation might somehow have an undeveloped neural system of memory, or a different memory system from that of primates.
(2) Although the intellectual base of nursing is believed to be patient care, the role of clinical field studies in master of nursing programs is unstructured and undeveloped.
(3) Birds with undeveloped ovaries (immature), developed ovaries but not laying (mature), and after laying 3-8 eggs (laying), were used in the first series.
(4) The lower clearances in infant and young rats were considered to be caused by the undeveloped liver function to metabolize phenytoin.
(5) The FR 30 cells had irregular shapes and sizes; the amount of undeveloped rough endoplasmic reticulum and the number of lysosomes were increased.
(6) The result was not satisfactory in some cases with the undeveloped oval window.
(7) Further evaluation and more systematic studies are greatly needed in order to sensitize professionals and society at large to the undeveloped potential of the retarded and their response to this form of intervention.
(8) This is a case report of 2-month-old boy who had a peculiar physiognomy with a microcephalus and an undeveloped forehead.
(9) A population survey was therefore carried out to determine the prevalence of hypertension and cardiac murmurs in a random sample of people aged 25-64 years living in an undeveloped rural area.
(10) Survival of eggs of O. ostertagi and C. oncophora was evaluated by incubation for 24 hours at 20 degrees C of thoroughly washed, treated eggs followed by microscopic examination and differentiation into developed or undeveloped eggs.
(11) The present status of the undeveloped branch of high-performance immobilized-metal-ion affinity chromatography (HPIMAC) is reviewed.
(12) The developing nations, with all their differences, face strikingly similar problems in administration and nursing administration in particular: emphasis on tertiary hospitals, top-down hierarchies, undeveloped human resources, lack of high performance systems, lack of infrastructures for health service delivery, ineffective rural-urban links.
(13) These results suggest that lateral inhibitory processes may be relatively undeveloped or receptive fields do not develop to be as small as those of normal adults.
(14) In view of these results, partially fractionated reticulocyte lysates were tested for restoration of protein-synthetic activity in the undeveloped embryo lysate.
(15) Supranuclear gaze palsies characteristic of type 3 were noted from early childhood, although the major signs were undeveloped until early adult life.
(16) The purpose of the meeting was to explore the undeveloped research opportunities in the area of marine biology for the advancement of our understanding of human health problems and to provide information on the current status of marine biology laboratories.
(17) Since active inflammatory trachoma in childhood responds to tetracyclines, erythromycin, and sulphonamides the disease should be attacked in those undeveloped rural areas where it continues to lead to blindness.
(18) Abnormal findings such as deficits, undevelopment and metamorphosis, in the shape, size and configuration of nerve cells, myelin sheaths and vessels in consecutive transverse sections stained by Nissl and Klüver-Barrera method were not evident on examination under light microscope, and in cell bodies, dendrites, axons, myelin sheaths, synaptic complexes of nerve cell, neuroglia and vessels in the cerebral cortex, under electron microscope.
(19) Total mortality was 25.2%; in most of the fatal cases (90.6%) the fistulas were undeveloped.
(20) Sellar, it was widely assumed, would then sell the undeveloped site for a large profit.