(n.) A light-producing vessel, instrument or apparatus; especially, a vessel with a wick used for the combustion of oil or other inflammable liquid, for the purpose of producing artificial light.
(n.) Figuratively, anything which enlightens intellectually or morally; anything regarded metaphorically a performing the uses of a lamp.
(n.) A device or mechanism for producing light by electricity. See Incandescent lamp, under Incandescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absence of linkage in a large group of families shows that lamp genes are not involved in Salla disease.
(2) There was no evidence for ocular trauma, disease, or vascular malformation by slit-lamp examination and gonioscopy.
(3) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
(4) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(5) Only 5 or 6 patients could be examined per hour with the 60D slit-lamp compared with 30-35 examined by reading retinal photographs.
(6) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(7) In the adult, LAMP-immunoreactive membrane patches are present exclusively postsynaptically on neuronal somata and dendrites.
(8) Optical differences between a mercury arc lamp and a laser-illuminated flow cytometer are compared.
(9) The use of a standard 35 mm camera with a spot metering system to take slit-lamp photographs is described.
(10) Microcirculation is clearly visible and can be observed on the conjunctival mucosa by means of any microscope and notably with the slit lamp microscope of ophtalmologists.
(11) LAMP-2 was closely related or identical to the macrophage antigen, MAC-3, as indicated by antibody adsorption and tryptic peptide mapping.
(12) As radiation sources, the following ones have proved useful: high-pressure mercury-vapour lamps, compound radiation systems consisting of high-pressure mercury-vapour burner, series coiled filament and reflector bulbs made of special glass as well as halogen metal-vapour lamps.
(13) In order to pursue this process the slit-lamp examination is recommended as necessary and useful method.
(14) We investigated the possibility of significant corneal trauma (as revealed by slit lamp observation of the fluorescein instilled eye), and massage effects following determination of intraocular pressure with the A. O. Non-Contact tonometer (NCT).
(15) Fluorometric studies have been made with modified slit-lamp microscopes.
(16) Treatment was administered with white light produced by a commercially available halogen-tungsten lamp.
(17) In view of the equivalence of these methods, we would advocate, for reasons of ease of application and cost, the use of a single-color slit-lamp photograph with a 30 degree slit angle for documenting nuclear opacities, and the use of black-and-white retroillumination photography with either the Neitz or Oxford cataract cameras for cortical and posterior subcapsular opacities.
(18) Bacterial corneal ulcer is a potentially blinding emergency which should ideally be treated by an ophthalmologist aided by slit lamp biomicroscopy, microbial stain and cultures, and then selected fortified topical antibiotics.
(19) Concert posters that play music when you touch them have been discussed, while an artist has mixed the paint with oil in a lamp so that when the lamp is tilted, the light dims.
(20) Body temperature was continuously monitored with a rectal thermistor and maintained by adjustment of a heating pad and lamp.
Pedestal
Definition:
(n.) The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. See Illust. of Column.
(n.) A casting secured to the frame of a truck and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
(n.) A pillow block; a low housing.
(n.) An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
Example Sentences:
(1) The visibility of a 1 degree, 200-msec flash on a large yellow field was measured as a function of the intensity of a coincident pedestal flash (a flash that was the same in both temporal intervals of a two-alternative forced-choice trial).
(2) The jnd's obtained with the continuous-pedestal method were smaller than those obtained with the gated-pedestal method for both groups of subjects.
(3) The stress effects of the cuff pedestal treatment were assessed in terms of adrenal weights in 12 rats.
(4) Effects of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation on meal size and feeding speed were investigated by means of the cuff pedestal technique in 9 male rats exposed to partial food restriction.
(5) Early on Sunday morning, Malcolm Turnbull looked out to the Australian electorate and expressed his own profound alienation from the lived experiences of the losers of globalisation – the people who had flocked to Nick Xenophon and Pauline Hanson and to Labor on the basis that the ALP had climbed down partially from the neoliberal pedestal constructed by Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.
(6) We used forced-choice procedures to measure contrast-increment thresholds as a function of pedestal contrast.
(7) We wished to determine whether a similar analysis could be applied to contrast discrimination and whether variation of the increment threshold with pedestal contrast is due to changes in internal noise or sampling efficiency.
(8) No such deterioration occurred in the continuous-pedestal condition.
(9) Reproducible ramp-and-hold stretches and releases of the ankle extensor muscles were produced by a servo-controlled motor that rotated the left rear pedestal about the ankle joint.
(10) Eight male rats were deprived of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep for 6 days by means of a cuff pedestal which makes it possible to use the animal as its own control.
(11) Both the falloff of sensitivity with disparity pedestal and the disparity range of quantitative stereo depth lead to the conclusion that different size-tuned channels process disparity differently.
(12) The adenohypophyseal levels of these hormones were decreased in the REMs-deprived rats and in the control rats kept on pedestals with the supporting cuff in the elevated position as compared with the home-cage control rats.
(13) That’s because he never did.” The statue reaches at least 15ft off the ground on a pedestal that comes with a good story, told by Harvey Marsolan, the owner of the hardware store across the street.
(14) Discrimination thresholds were also measured with a pedestal stimulus, of phase complementary to that of the test gratings.
(15) Eventually, large areas of brush border effacement occurred with close apposition between bacterial and enterocyte membranes, leading to cup and pedestal formation.
(16) Intimate associations between the bacterial and mucosal cell membranes, including cuplike invaginations and adherence pedestals, were present and were accompanied by alterations to microvilli and cell membrane morphology.
(17) Rapid eye movement sleep deprivation for 3 to 4 days by the platform pedestal procedure produced an increase in sexual behaviour of male rats.
(18) In both masking conditions, presenting a notched noise simultaneously with the pedestal reduced the magnitude of the midlevel elevation.
(19) The system has manual controls for gain and pedestal (black level) which permit expansion of low contrast images to the full white-to-black video range.
(20) Research suggests that the US has been knocked off its pedestal as having the world’s richest middle class.