(n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.
(n.) The cover of the eye; an eyelid.
(n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.
(n.) A calyx which separates from the flower, and falls off in a single piece, as in the Australian Eucalypti.
(n.) The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
(2) It appears that the effects of monocular lid suture upon MIN are in most respects similar to the effects of monocular lid suture previously reported for the A laminae.
(3) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(4) Lateral upper and lower lid lysis allows the needed extended period of healing.
(5) Aponeurotic ptosis repair may be performed under local anesthesia, and past reports have suggested that operative lid position may be used to predict the final result.
(6) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(7) In fact, in some patients the lower-lid wrinkling appears far worse after fat removal.
(8) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(9) The lid is fiddly to fit on to the cup, and smells so strongly of silicone it almost entirely ruins the taste of the coffee if you don’t remove it.
(10) In neurological diseases the hyposensitivity could include the cornea, conjunctiva and lid margin.
(11) The advances in lid and orbital surgery are due to the improvements made in diagnostic equipment and to technical refinements.
(12) Maybe there was a wish to go for these stronger story formulations, more extreme situations to try to get the energy up to comfortably blow the lid off.” Miller pointed out to Franzen that he has developed something of a reputation as a misanthrope.
(13) The volumetric determination of all those tissues relevant for Opthalmodynamography (ODG) showed the lids to contribute about a quarter to the total volume; another quarter each was due to the optic bulb including optic fascicel, external bulbar musculature and orbital fat.
(14) The occurrence of squamous cell carcinoma of the lid is reviewed with emphasis upon the incidence, clinical presentation, pathophysiology and methods of treatment.
(15) Surgical techniques are based upon removal of fat from each of the two or three so-called compartments within the upper or lower lid.
(16) Several procedures have been developed to restore closure of the paralyzed upper eyelid (implantation of gold weights or open wire springs) or to correct lower lid lagophthalmos and ectropion (lower lid tightening with a Bick procedure or insertion of a closed eyelid spring).
(17) Signs include lid edema, periauricular lymphadenopathy, conjunctival injection, follicular reaction, and typically subconjunctival hemorrhages.
(18) The German journalist whose documentary lifted the lid on claims of systematic doping in Russian athletics has said he is prepared to make a follow-up after receiving more evidence.
(19) She will outline her case in a speech at the Oxford media conference, which will be the first time Labour has lifted the lid on the all-party talks on Leveson.
(20) By any measure Poland’s recent history is one of triumph It was a war that was as much personal as it was political, with enmities that had been stewing for a decade erupting as the lid of communist rule was lifted.
Lig
Definition:
(v. i.) To recline; to lie still.
Example Sentences:
(1) Discontinuities of T4 DNA which are caused by excision of UV-damaged areas, by decay of (32)P atoms, or which are present in DNA from rII(-)lig(am) (-) phage produced in a host nonpermissive for amber mutants are all repaired by bacterial enzymes after infection in the presence of chloramphenicol.
(2) The other inconstant supports of the digital sheaths are systematically recorded indeed (C1 to C3), but only in exceptional cases they exist of cruciform fibers (Lig.
(3) The former Liverpool player spent three seasons in Istanbul winning the Super Lig, the Turkish Cup and Turkish Super Cup during his time.
(4) LIG treatment was also beneficial in 4 out of 5 GvHD patients.
(5) Comparing the antibody solutions obtained with MC insulin (MC-lig-sol) or Cr insulin (Cr-lig-sol), the content of IBA in Cr-lig-sol was higher than in MC-lig-sol, but the content of proinsulin-binding antibody (PBA) in MC-lig-sol was very small and statistically lower than that in Cr-lig-sol (P less than 0.01).
(6) The Manchester United striker Robin Van Persie is edging closer to a move to Fenerbahce after reaching an agreement in principle with the Super Lig side.
(7) The Zymomonas mobilis lig gene that encodes DNA ligase was cloned from a cosmid library and identified by genetic complementation of a conditional-lethal Escherichia coli DNA ligase mutant.
(8) In 5 patients intestinal cryptosporidiosis disappeared following oral LIG treatment.
(9) Fenerbahce finished the Super Lig in second place last season and booked a place in the Champions League play-off round.
(10) In contrast, N4 DNA replication requires the products of the dnaF, (ribonucleotide reductase) and lig (DNA ligase) genes of E. coli.
(11) Galatasaray, Besiktas, Fenerbahce and Trabzonspor were the only previous teams to have won the Turkish Super Lig but Bursa's victory draws Turkey level in the fewest champions stakes with Portugal, where Porto, Benfica, Sporting, Belenenses and Boavista are the only champions.
(12) Up to 24 h after the three modes of administration distinctly detectable concentrations were to be located in the lig.
(13) The lig-4 and lig-ts7 alleles are known to reside in the structural gene for DNA ligase, in which lig-321 may also be located.
(14) The results of the examinations demonstrate that the function of the lacrimal system is more quickly normalized if the lig.
(15) Fetal liver retinol concentrations were much lower than those reported for healthy Thai subjects by Montreewasuwat & Olson (1979) in early pregnancy but showed complete 'catch up' in late pregnancy for HIG and to a considerable extent for LIG.
(16) Escherichia coli strains containing mutations in lexA, rep, uvrA, uvrD, uvrE, lig, polA, dam, or xthA were constructed and tested for conjugation and transduction proficiencies and ability to form Lac+ recombinants in an assay system utilizing a nontandem duplication of two partially deleted lactose operons (lacMS286phi80dIIlacBK1).
(17) LIG 2 and LIG 4 reacted with 15 per cent of cells from the peripheral blood lymphocyte population, 20.2 per cent of spleen cells and 20 per cent of lymph node cells, but did not react with pig erythrocytes, granulocytes or cells isolated from thymus, or with the lymphocytes of other species.
(18) As assessed by solution hybridization, UA-lig fetuses exhibited significantly higher hepatic IGFBP-1, IGFBP-2, and IGF-II transcript abundance than UA-nonlig controls (increased 110, 50, and 31%, respectively).
(19) The patello-femoral joint is balanced by 2 tension forces of opposite direction, which are represented by the geometrical position of M. quadriceps femoris and Lig.
(20) A case of an 8 years old and symptomless perforation of a Graefenberg ring into the lig.