(n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whereas the native CryIC toxin is completely protease resistant, the CryIA(b) toxin, earlier described as consisting of two structural domains [Convents, D., Houssier, C., Lasters, I.
(2) Etidocaine hydrochloride 1% plain caused a slower onset of block, laster longer and produced more profound analgesia over the caudal dermatomes than did 2% lignocaine hydrochloride.
(3) On histologic examination, the excimer laster created a single round lumen or multiple lumens ("Swiss-cheese" like appearance) with no evidence of thermal injury at the perimeter of the lumen.
(4) We didn’t even see them coming,” said Laster, the clinic’s administrator.
(5) The effect of nicotine laster 3-5 hr, while the effect of carbachol lasted up to 6 hr.
(6) On the other hand, the increments concerning SS-PS episodes occurred earlier, were more pronounced and laster longer in L rats.
(7) The local stimulation and inhibition of haemostatic plug formation was studied by local infusion and superfusion of different agents - ADP, thrombin, adenosine, heparin, prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and laster injury.
Latter
Definition:
(a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
(a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second.
(a.) Recent; modern.
(a.) Last; latest; final.
Example Sentences:
(1) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
(2) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(3) The latter result indicates that the dexamethasone block is upstream from release of esterified arachidonic acid.
(4) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(5) Uptake could be supported either by substrate oxidation or by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and was inhibited in the former case by antimycin or cyanide, in the latter case by oligomycin, and in both cases by 2,4-dinitrophenol.
(6) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
(7) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
(8) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
(9) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(10) The authors consider the latter mechanism preferable.
(11) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
(12) In the latter case, a sensitivity of 0.2 pCi l-1 is obtainable for 24-hr exposures.
(13) The corticotectal cells in the motor cortex differed from those in the premotor cortex in their size distribution; the former being small, the latter both small and large.
(14) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
(15) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
(16) TLC showed that the latter contained 2 components which had characteristics similar to TBOH and its metabolites, and thus were at least partly drug-related metabolites.
(17) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
(18) However, our theory differs in several important respects from the latter efforts.
(19) These two latter techniques were developed in an attempt to restore normal left ventricular geometry.
(20) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.