(v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
(v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
(v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
(n.) A looseness; diarrhea.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
(2) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
(3) The universal credit scheme has been overseen by "alarmingly weak" management, with systems so lax that a secretary was allowed to authorise purchase orders worth £23m , according to the public accounts committee.
(4) Approximately 27% of the individuals had 1 lax joint, whereas only 3% possessed all 5 features.
(5) Traders, enabled by lax futures regulations, are perhaps the only people to see the bright side of the beating sun.
(6) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
(7) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
(8) Although only flights to Sharm have been suspended, there is worry about Egyptian airports in general over alleged lax screening amid heightened fears over terrorism, a security source said.
(9) The coroner cited "inadequate" training and "lax" supervision as factors in the tragedies.
(10) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
(12) Obama administration officials had promised to toughen the lax environmental regulations of the George Bush era.
(13) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
(14) The apparently lax oversight of the company's financial regime by the energy regulator was heavily criticised last week by Tim Yeo, the former chairman of parliament's energy and climate change committee.
(15) The examination of parental attitude in dealing with the possibility of accidents (instructive, lax or repressive) did not allow us to demonstrate in any significant way the influence of these attitudes on accidental morbidity.
(16) To date, they have been too lax, and moved too slowly, allowing racists a free rein.” Cooper called on “companies like Twitter to take stronger action against hate crimes on their platforms”.
(17) All emergency department, LAX first-aid station, and paramedic records were examined.
(18) Why so tough on skilled migrants and so lax on boat arrivals?
(19) Analysts have for years been complaining about what they believe to be lax accounting standards in Britain's travel industry, where one-off write-offs are not uncommon.
(20) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.
Lex
Definition:
(n.) Law; as, lex talionis, the law of retaliation; lex terrae, the law of the land; lex fori, the law of the forum or court; lex loci, the law of the place; lex mercatoria, the law or custom of merchants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Lex antigen was present in the void volume fraction of the majority (85%) of sera from adenocarcinoma patients.
(2) Murine liver extract (LEx) purified by ammonium sulfate (45-70% saturation) possesses a strong inhibitory effect on human lymphocyte proliferation.
(3) However, lesions with epithelial dysplasia showed H antigen on all spinous cells, and often also on basal cells, with expression of Lex and Ley restricted to the most superficial part of the epithelium above the H-positive cell layers.
(4) Expression of 4C9, a Lex[Gal beta 1----4(Fuc alpha 1----3)GlcNAc] antigen, during mouse embryogenesis was studied by immunohistochemical methods.
(5) A soluble alpha(1-3)-L-fucosyltransferase, which accepts carbohydrates of the general structure NeuAc alpha(2-3)Gal beta(1-4)GlcNAc beta-R as substrates and which is involved in the biosynthesis of the tumor-associated sialyl-LeX determinant, was purified about 125-fold from human amniotic fluid by a one-step affinity chromatography on fetuin-agarose.
(6) Cell surface expression of stage specific embryonic antigen 1 (SSEA-1), or Lex (III3 FucnLC4), was induced in differentiated human teratocarcinoma cells and in human diploid fibroblasts 3-6 d after infection with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV).
(7) In APs, staining with the four MoAbs recognizing extended LeX antigens correlated with the premalignant parameters of larger polyp size, more severe dysplasia, and increased villose component.
(8) Lex glycolipids were eluted from Protein A-silica columns over which plasma from patients with adenocarcinoma had previously been perfused.
(9) The oxygen affinity of human hemoglobin was determined from measurements of oxygen concentrations in equilibrated samples using a Lex-O2-Con apparatus (Lexington Instruments, Waltham, Mass.).
(10) It is suggested that in human pancreas, haptens T, Lex and Sialo-Lex, the oncodevelopmental cancer-associated antigens, are highly specific markers for malignancy and likely helpful in the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
(11) We noted a linear relationship between the distance measured between two fixed points in excised bundles (Lex) and at the muscles' Lo.
(12) Hyperplastic ducts and ductules associated with pancreatic cancer expressed Lex-related antigens more frequently than morphologically similar lesions associated with chronic pancreatitis.
(13) In conclusion, extended LeX antigens and their sialylated derivatives are cancer-associated antigens that are expressed preferentially in premalignant colon polyps, that tend to correlate with malignant potential in these polyps, and that may eventually help to define mechanisms involved in the polyp-to-cancer sequence.
(14) Isolated polylactosaminylceramides exhibit I-, i-, H- and Lex antigenic activities which suggest that the polylactosaminylceramides are derived from both erythrocytes and granulocytes.
(15) The results have been analyzed in order to find out any possible association of cold autoanti-I antibodies, or cold alloantibodies, mainly anti-P1, anti-Leb, anti-Lea and anti-Lex, with certain diseases.
(16) Strains carrying lex, recA, or certain other combinations of mutations do not show any detectable phage-induced radioresistance.
(17) Immunohistochemical expression of blood group-related antigens (BGRAs), A, B, H, Leb, Lex and Ley was observed both in the cells in the culture, and in tumor transplanted into the pancreas.
(18) The hip-hop world has become dominated by styles such as drill and trap, and their preoccupation with drug dealing and womanising, with the purists' calls for a return to hip-hop's golden era drowned out by Lex Luger's snares and Gucci Mane 's endless chants of "burrrrr".
(19) We examined the distribution of blood group-related antigens using an indirect immunoperoxidase method with monoclonal antibodies (MAb) directed to A, B, H, Lewis a (Lea), Lewis b (Leb), Lewis x (Lex), and Lewis y (Ley) antigens and Type 1 precursor chain in human pancreas.
(20) The short- and the long-chain Lex antigens are significantly enhanced in colonic carcinoma.