(a.) Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique has proved extremely useful in our hands and we suggest that it is a useful alternative in the management of coexistent lenticular and corneal opacification.
(2) Volumes of caudate, lenticular, and diencephalic structures are estimated, as are grey matter volumes in eight separate cortical regions.
(3) Lenticular lesions were present in all but two of the 18 patients with detailed ocular examination, whereas corneal opacities were found more often in type II than type I disease.
(4) Theoretically, a circular and lenticular implant is the most appropriate for implantation in the capsular bag.
(5) An immunohistochemical and electron microscopic study of this rare, benign, congenital tumor of lenticular anlage was performed.
(6) The lenticular nucleus was gradually shifted to a posterior location.
(7) Thirty-five cases of congenital lenticular dislocation seen in our Center since 1985 have been studied and analyzed clinically.
(8) basilaris, but in senile dementia ANC were much fewer in the thalamus and lenticular nuclei.
(9) The position, displacement and phase angle of the rotation axis of the ossicles was calculated based on the displacement and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head and lenticular process.
(10) The magnitude of the lenticular abnormality, but not the temporal lobe abnormality, was associated with age at first psychiatric contact; earlier onset was associated with larger lenticular nuclei.
(11) The human lens enzyme, the most stable of the species, maintained nearly 100% of its original activity up to 65 degrees C. Lenticular glutathione reductase activity did not reach zero levels in any of the seven species until a temperature of at least 80 degrees C was attained.
(12) The second had a scleral laceration without corneal or lenticular involvement.
(13) Here we show that the pattern of protein 4.1 variants changes during the terminal differentiation of erythroid and lenticular cells, with novel variants appearing in postmitotic cells.
(14) We studied the changes in central lenticular thickness in 40 porcine corneal specimens subjected to refractive modification on the "Hamburg Refractive Bench."
(15) The calculated deformation of brain presented a hematoma cavity elongated from anterior to posterior direction at the lenticular nucleus.
(16) A high incidence of lenticular and retinal degeneration was associated with megaloglobus.
(17) Adventitious effects, purposeful lenticular changes and adaptations in response to environmental forces are reviewed as possible sources of this astigmatic variability.
(18) Specific antigens were detected in the lens of the eyeball by immunofluorescence test with sera from mice in which ophthalmitis had been induced and the antigens were lenticular proteins with molecular weights (MW) of 15,000 (15K) to 25K, and 45K.
(19) A patient with a retained intra-ocular foreign body had a lens extraction for lenticular chalcosis.
(20) In general, the manufacturers' claims made in favour of the blended lenticular lenses were supported.
Lentil
Definition:
(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is used for food on the continent.
Example Sentences:
(1) The purification entails cell lysis and solubilization of gpL115 with the detergent Nonidet P-40, sequential affinity chromatography on lentil lectin-Sepharose, wheat germ lectin-Sepharose, and, after treatment with sialidase, on peanut lectin-Sepharose.
(2) The AFP of this case was characterized by relative increases of concanavalin A-nonreactive AFP-C1 (60.4%), erythroagglutinating phytohemagglutinin-reactive AFP-P4 (37.8%) and AFP-P5 (46.3%) and Allomyrina dichotoma lectin-nonreactive AFP-A1s (66.7%), and by the total absence of lentil lectin-reactive components, AFP-L2 and AFP-L3.
(3) From Pakistan to Bangladesh, from Sri Lanka to the West Indies, red lentils, green lentils, split peas, mung beans, kidney beans, chick peas and others are being turned into dhals.
(4) With regard to Net Protein Ratio (NPR), chick peas had a value of 4.03, followed by Tórtola beans (3.29), Coscorrón (3.09) and lentils (2.61).
(5) When parent T cells were propagated with crude IL 2, which contained glycosylation enhancing factor (GEF), IgE binding factors formed by all of the five hybridomas had affinity for Con A, but only a fraction of the factors bound to lentil lectin.
(6) The plasma membrane components of five human B-cell lines and three human T-cell lines were separated by dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, incubated with the radioactive labeled lectins from lentil, castor bean, wheat germ, Phaseolus bean, peanut, gorse and the Roman snail and the molecular weights of the binding sites determined.
(7) Serum AFP did not bind to Con A or Lentil-lectin by affinity chromatography.
(8) Modi Mwatsama, UK Health Forum Rather than upping our chicken consumption, Mwatsama advises people to switch to healthier sources of protein with low or no saturated fats, such as pulses, beans, lentils, chickpeas and buckwheat, which also provide a good source of fibre.
(9) Three differently glycosylated forms of renin (renin A, B-1, and B-2) were highly purified from rat kidneys by pepstatin-aminohexyl-Sepharose affinity chromatography and by serial lectin affinity chromatography on concanavalin A (con A) and lentil lectin-Sepharose, and the role of glycosylation of renin was investigated.
(10) Growth factors contained in Con A(concanavalin A)-conditioned media (CM) maintain exponential growth in T cell blasts derived from mitogen stimulation of spleen cells with Con A, phytohemagglutinin, lentil lectin and pokeweed mitogen (PWM), as well as from mixed lymphocyte reactions to H-2D or I-C-encoded determinants and from non-H-2 Mls locus-controlled reactions.
(11) Conformation and conformational transitions of phytohemagglutinins (lectins) from Arachis hypogaea (peanut), Lens culinaris (lentil), Glycine max (soybean), and Ricinus communis (castor bean) were studied by the circular dichroism probe.
(12) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(13) Lentil lectins had a greater inhibitory effect than pea lectins.
(14) Synergism was also observed between PMA and suboptimum concentrations of phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), pokeweed mitogen (PWM) and Bandeiraea simplicifolia seed extract (BSS), but not with concanavalin A (Con A), lentil lectin (LL) or Helix pomatia lectin (HP).
(15) Wheat germ, alfalfa seeds and plant protein mixture resulted in an intermediate incidence of diabetes of 33%; the incidence was lower for Brewer's yeast and lentils (20% and 13%).
(16) We report a technique for the isolation of plasma membranes from gel-filtered platelets exposed to thrombin, using 125I-labeled lentil lectin as an external marker.
(17) The net protein utilization of whole lentils and chick peas were 38 and 53, respectively.
(18) A statistically significant inverse relationship was found between the risk of skin cancer and a high intake of fish (p = 0.05); vegetables in general (p < 0.001); beans, lentils, or peas (p < 0.001), carrots, silverbeet (Swiss chard), or pumpkin (p < 0.001); cruciferous vegetables (cabbage, brussel sprouts, or broccoli) (p < 0.001); and beta-carotene- and vitamin C-containing foods (p = 0.004).
(19) The protein can be radioiodinated, however, it does not appear to blind to lentil lectin.
(20) The rEC-SOD produced is type C, since its affinity for heparin-Sepharose was identical to that of nEC-SOD type C. Both enzymes bound to concanavalin A, lentil lectin, and wheat germ lectin and are thus glycoproteins.