(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceae) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.
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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.
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(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.