(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.
Parsing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Parse
Example Sentences:
(1) No matter their age or their entertainments of choice, I see in those who place themselves in the urbanised and reurbanised parts of Los Angeles a certain skill set that allows them to parse and thus access the city in a way their suburban predecessors couldn't have.
(2) This article addresses 2 questions that arise from the finding that visual scenes are first parsed into visual features: (a) the accumulation of location information about objects during their recognition and (b) the mechanism for the binding of the visual features.
(3) These snippets will be contested and pored over and parsed in the days to come.
(4) A search of these formulas and symbols in the basic index is next to impossible because the terms in this field are usually parsed to all alphanumeric characters without sensitivity to case.
(5) Back then there wasn't a treaty that couldn't be violated, a principle waived or a definition parsed in the defence of American power and pursuit of popular revenge .
(6) The program uses a memory-based semantic parsing technique to 'understand' the text.
(7) As Fox News parsed every second of Trump’s accession in Cleveland, Fox PR people batted away reporters keen to ask star anchor Megyn Kelly whether she had been sexually harassed by Ailes .
(8) The entry process of RGSS-ID is made mainly by selecting items; our system allows a radiologist to compose a sentence which can be completely parsed by the computer.
(9) To provide a testing ground for some of these ideas we have undertaken the development of SPECIALIST, a prototype system for parsing and accessing biomedical text.
(10) With investors parsing every word that comes out of each meeting, some would rather the Fed said less.
(11) Possible models of how listeners process pitch and duration information independently in making a parsing decision are discussed.
(12) The study findings suggest directions for innovative nursing practice and support Parse's theory as a useful perspective for the investigation of health experiences.
(13) Xenophobia – no longer closeted, parsed or packaged, but naked, bold and brazen – was given free rein.
(14) This paper examines the locative inferences as well as the integration of temporal, locative, and conceptual issues in the clinical record understanding domain by presenting an application that utilizes two key concepts in its parsing strategy--a knowledge-based parsing strategy and a minimal lexicon.
(15) To account for these results a model was proposed in which an input string is first parsed into syllablelike units, which are then recorded into speech.
(16) Cumberbatch has reached that level of fame where even the most throwaway remark is parsed for hidden meaning and rebroadcast to the world as a statement of the utmost importance.
(17) But it doesn’t take much parsing of words to understand the dynamic that is at play.
(18) Second, the representation in VSSP is parsed and categorized just prior to recall in a process called recovery.
(19) While Donald Trump hosts Saturday Night Live and Ben Carson’s autobiography is parsed with Talmudic scrutiny, Paul, suffering from anemic poll numbers, only just escaped being bounced from Tuesday’s primetime Republican debate in Milwaukee.
(20) The purpose of this study was to uncover the structure of the lived experience of grieving a personal loss using Parse's research methodology.