(n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house.
(n.) A species of gibbon (Hylobates lar), found in Burmah. Called also white-handed gibbon.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(2) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(3) Substitutes: Andoni Zubizarreta (Spain), Lajos Detari (Hungary), Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia), Igor Belanov (USSR), Preben Elkjær Larsen (Denmark), Lars Larsson (Sweden), Alexandre Zavarov (USSR).
(4) The concentration of the eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in their sputum did not change significantly in IAR and LAR compared with that before antigen challenge.
(5) Antonio Conte Vicente del Bosque Lars Lagerbäck Didier Deschamps Conte's Italy lost to Deschamps's France in the Euro 2000 final.
(6) Employing an animal model of the LAR in rabbits developed in our laboratory (Am Rev Respir Dis 1982; 126:493-498), we examined changes in airway reactivity and pulmonary inflammation in rabbits having a late asthmatic response.
(7) The late asthmatic response (LAR) is of special interest because it lasts for hours, is prevented by corticosteroids and not adrenergic agents, and is associated with more severe asthma as well as increases in airways responsiveness.
(8) A study of the effects of monthly administration of bromocriptine LAR is currently under progress to assess the long-term efficacy of this drug.
(9) By including the gamma 1- and gamma 2-globin gene sequences from the common gibbon, Hylobates lar, the present work expands the gamma-globin data set to represent all major groups of hominoid primates.
(10) Another group of investigators assume that non-specific hyperreactivity could contribute to the development of the LAR.
(11) All eight temperature-sensitive mutations are confined within a short segment of the LAR domain I sequence between amino acid positions 1329 and 1407.
(12) Spotify has been courting established artists for some time, with Metallica’s Lars Ulrich famously buddying up with Spotify investor Sean Parker on-stage at the announcement of his band’s exclusive deal in December 2012.
(13) Each individual was pretreated with either placebo or four inhalant anti-asthmatic drugs at random and blind in order to modulate the late asthmatic reaction (LAR).
(14) They adhered to and, when capacitated, penetrated the vestments of the oocyte of an ape--the gibbon, Hylobates lar--both in vivo and in vitro.
(15) In order to investigate the mechanism of late asthmatic response (LAR), inhibitory effects of various drugs for LAR were examined in two wheat flour-sensitive asthmatic subjects who showed immediate and late responses in the allergen provocation test and skin test.
(16) These results suggest that anti-IgE antibody is deeply involved in the elicitation of LAR, stressing the importance of eosinophilic infiltration.
(17) We have now examined whether exogenously applied PAF causes LAR in these models in vivo.
(18) After removal of the rectal lesion [eight abdominoperineal resections (APRs), nine Hartmann's procedures, and one low anterior resection (LAR)] in 18 patients with rectal cancer, this new surgical procedure was performed.
(19) LAR to Parietaria occurred in only one of 12 patients in winter, in six of 11 in summer, and in one of six patients in autumn.
(20) Although these alterations in reactivity have been proposed to be associated with inflammation, no clinical study of the LAR has shown both increased airway reactivity and evidence of pulmonary inflammation.
Laurel
Definition:
(n.) An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
(n.) A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.
(n.) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The detection rate for female carriers of haemophilia A was investigated by comparing the one-step method of Hardisty and Macpherson for biological activity of factor VIII with quantitative immunoelectrophoresis (after Laurell) for factor VIII-associated antigen.
(2) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
(3) CH50 was titred accordingly to a modification of the Kabat and Mayer method, C1q, C1s, C3, C4, C5, INHC1, C3A and properdin were determined with specific antisera by Manani and Laurell's techniques.
(4) Plasma from these animals, when injected into 10 recipients, specifically raised Factor X levels when measured by four different assay: one-stage assay with bovine VII- and X-deficient plasma and Russell's viper venom; one-stage assay with human X-deficient plasma and thromboplastin; chromogenic substrate assay with Russell's viper venom; and an immunologic assay (Laurell technique).
(5) In England, Chelmsford won the laurels awarded in 2012 to mark Queen Elizabeth’s own diamond jubilee.
(6) Using Laurell's method of immunoelectrophoresis for levels of alpha 2 M high levels of this are shown contrasting with progressively lowered antithrombitic action.
(7) So today is a cause for celebration for those of us trying to improve access to higher education, but we must not rest on our laurels – there is still more to be done.
(8) But, having last year decried the dearth of Scottish comedy on the fringe , I’d better give this year’s pre-Edinburgh sketch laurels to Burnistoun (Robert Florence and Iain Connell), the well-loved BBC Scotland sketch show now following up a sell-out Glasgow run with a first appearance at the fringe.
(9) On the basis of common bile duct pressure measurement (CBDP) in 18 patients of severe acute cholangitis, plasma endotoxin (ET) was determined by modified synthetic chromogenic limulus amebocyte lysate assay and plasma fibronectin (FN) was detected with Laurell's rocket immunoelectrophoresis.
(10) Fifty-five hybrids were isolated and analyzed for the expression of serum proteins by Ouchterlony double diffusion and Laurell immunoelectrophoresis.
(11) During clinical treatment of 25 patients with bronchial carcinoma alpha-2 PAG was measured by the electroimmuno-diffusion method according to Laurell.
(12) The cross-reaction between laurel and Frullania, found in man, also occurs in guinea-pigs.
(13) The point is,” says Cruz, “we’ve gone from hyper-collectivity to hyper-privatisation, and nothing in between.” One of the challenges of a place like Los Laureles is that shift from a public to a private ownership of the land.
(14) Technics of Laurell, latex and electroimmunodiffusion are compared.
(15) alpha 1-antitrypsin phenotypes were determined in cord sera of 1,010 healthy term infants of black, white and Hispanic background, by the crossed immunoelectrophoresis technique of Fagerhol and Laurell.
(16) An assay method, involving electroimmunodiffusion according to Laurell, was developed for the measurement of the alpha 2 component of the antigen.
(17) It's a very weird phrase, isn't it, "claiming laurels"?
(18) Laurel Fisher reviews the combined anatomical, pharmacological and physiological evidence that supports a role for corticotropin-releasing factor in mediating the integrated endocrine, autonomic and cardiovascular responses to stress.
(19) The technique of reversed intermediate gel has been worked out and employed for the identification of the Laurell peaks and their localization in the pherogram.
(20) Several compounds containing the alpha-methylene-gamma-butyrolactone moiety have been tested on human volunteers and on guinea-pigs; the animals were experimentally sensitized by alantolactone, isoalantolactone and laurel oil.