(n.) A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
(n.) A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
(n.) A meadow or sward land; a grassy field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, 75% of cases of intestinal metaplasia in gastric mucosa and 30% of tubular adenomas, 50% of villous adenomas and 70% of tubulovillous adenomas in the colon co-expressed Lea and Leb antigens.
(2) The Lea mRNAs belong to only two related groups of commonly regulated mRNAs.
(3) Immunoreactive neurons and terminals are scattered throughout all layers of LEA.
(4) Each of the Lea gene families probably contains two active homeologous genes (alloalleles), one in each of cotton's two subgenomes.
(5) Total cellular proteins from the livers of 4-, 16- and 52-week-old hepatitis- and hepatoma-predisposed Long-Evans Cinnamon (LEC) rats were compared to those from the livers of the corresponding control rats [Long-Evans Agouti (LEA) rats] by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis.
(6) In adenocarcinoma, Lea was expressed most remarkably.
(7) The frequencies of A, B, O, Lea, Jsa and K found in the children with severe malaria were similar to those previously reported for healthy adults in this population.
(8) This report provides detailed data on the expression of Lea and Leb in normal and neoplastic urothelium.
(9) UEA I showed a high affinity for the Lea glycolipid which has an alpha 1-4 linked fucose but not for the glycolipids with alpha 1-3 or alpha 1-2 linked fucose.
(10) To assess the immunomodulating effect of allergen entrapped in liposomes, Swiss strain mice (made IgE responders) were injected with either free allergen or liposome-entrapped allergen (LEA) and their immune response was measured in terms of specific IgG and specific IgE levels.
(11) The patients of the Lewis blood group phenotype of Lea (23%) had higher serum CA19-9, CA-50, and sialyl SSEA-1 than those of Leb (67%) and Le(-) (10%).
(12) and with lower affinity to the Lea blood group antigen itself.
(13) I have to say I think Iran are the poorest team I've seen so far – Nigeria were dreadful in that game but you got the sense that at leas they were a half-decent team playing badly.
(14) Since the Lewis substances show great structural similarity to the ABH blood group substances we compared the vWf concentration in individuals with and without the Lea antigen on the red cell surface.
(15) In addition, a minor component having the thin-layer chromatographic mobility of a ceramide nonasaccharide, which was reactive to anti-Lea antibody, was detected.
(16) The LEA had a sensitivity of 19%, a specificity of 86.7%, a positive predictive value (PPV) of 42.3% and a negative predictive value (NPV) of 67.6% in the prediction of a positive amniotic fluid culture (prevalence of positive cultures = 33.9%).
(17) This report summarizes an analysis of the incidence of LEAs during 1988 among Washington residents with and without diabetes.
(18) Thin-layer chromatography immunostaining of neutral glycolipids extracted from SLC cells reveals a 43-9F-reactive glycolipid whose carbohydrate structure, as determined by fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry, is identical with that of an Lea-active pentaglycosylceramide described previously: Gal beta 1-3[Fuc alpha 1-4]-GlcNAc beta 1-3Gal beta 1-4Glc-Cer.
(19) Thus, in the normal colon, the absence of monosialosyl Lea (CA 19-9) in the presence of disialosyl Lea suggests that an alpha 2,6 sialyltransferase is active, which results in the masking of CA 19-9 antigen expression.
(20) The red blood cells of the group A infant of a group O central African Negro woman of the Zezuru tribe with anti-Lea and anti-JSb in her serum were found to be strongly agglutinated by a commerical antiglobulin reagent six days after birth.
Meadow
Definition:
(n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
(n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
(2) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
(3) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(4) The effect of irrigation of meadows with the water of the river.
(5) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
(6) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
(7) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
(8) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(9) The site of the crash was in the marshy Ruhr meadows.
(10) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
(11) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
(12) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(13) He is thought to live in the Boreham Wood area, and featured in the match at Meadow Park, although he was unable to get on the scoresheet as the hosts lost 5-0.
(14) Do I think it gives the president a loss?” asked Mark Meadows, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
(15) Mycocarriers were most frequently found among small mammals living in corn fields (5.9%), less frequently in water meadows (0.9) and sporadically in forests and bushes (0.1%).
(16) Back in the meadow I followed a worn path that was most likely part of the badger’s nightly beat.
(17) The results of a serological survey of a free-living population of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in Pinawa, Manitoba (Canada) showed that these animals possessed antibodies to six of the eleven viruses tested for, namely: reovirus type 3, murine encephalomyelitis agent, ectromelia virus, murine adenovirus, murine hepatitis virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
(18) "Embarking on new projects, we sometimes encounter unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception," said Google spokesman Taj Meadows, adding that "Street View abides by Thailand's local laws and only features imagery taken on public property".
(19) A New Yorker cartoon portrays a woman in an elegant boutique asking whether they have something to, “Fill that dark empty space in my soul.” As Dana Meadows observed , we seek to meet non-material needs with things.
(20) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.