(n.) A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
(2) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(3) Morphological alterations in the lungs of pheasants after prolonged high-dosage administration of bleomycin sulfate were studied by light and electron microscopy.
(4) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
(5) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(6) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(7) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
(8) This study examined both the effect of variations in optical fiber tip and in light wavelength on laser-induced hyperthermia in rat brain.
(9) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(10) A new type of Escherichia coli mutant which shows increased sensitivity to methyl methane sulfonate but not to UV light or to gamma rays was isolated after mutagenesis with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
(11) Approximately 90% of the patients have a lambda light chain myeloma protein and almost all patients excrete Bence-Jones protein.
(12) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(13) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(14) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(15) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
(16) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
(17) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(18) Three coyotes were operantly conditioned to depress one of two foot treadles, left or right, depending on the condition of the stimulus light.
(19) These results are discussed in the light of the mode of action of the substances used.
(20) The birds were maintained at a constant temperature in, dim green light.
Stormy
Definition:
(superl.) Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
(superl.) Proceeding from violent agitation or fury; as, a stormy sound; stormy shocks.
(1) Warning of more stormy weather to come he urged people to remain on alert in regions due for more heavy rain this Wednesday and Thursday.
(2) At first, nasogastric feeding was beneficial, but a stormy hospital course ensued.
(3) This suggests that rapid cycling affective disorder could be an underdiagnosed disorder, especially in patients with affective disorders who are receiving conventional antidepressant drugs who otherwise exhibit a stormy clinical course with numerous medication changes and hospitalizations.
(4) "Increased storminess, and increased extreme weather events generally, are likely to stress trees further, especially veteran trees.
(5) Libya's rebel leader Khalifa Haftar has played Iago to various Othellos through four decades of the country's stormy history, but his emergence at the head of forces storming parliament has finally cast him as the lead.
(6) Unscom had a stormy relationship with Iraq and was headed by a fiery individual, the Australian diplomat Richard Butler, and a former US marine, Scott Ritter.
(7) No further pre-morbid types were developed in the following years, if one discards the somewhat rare "stormy" character (Arieti, 1955).
(8) The patients showed stormy life-styles, some specific symptoms, personality abnormalities, presence of life events before the onset of depression, and a family history of alcoholism.
(9) Selectivity is based on an antibiotic system (polymyxin B sulfate and neomycin sulfate) incorporated into the medium, coupled with an incubation temprature of 46 to 48 degrees C for 24 h. Tubes were scored as positive if a stormy fermentation was observed.
(10) "A cold stormy rain set in" – unseasonal for July.
(11) Friday’s march in Acapulco took place under stormy skies, filling the boulevard that rings the resort’s famous bay.
(12) The remaining 14 cases, all of them with less than 3 factors each, survived the stormy attacks.
(13) The Index had a slow and stormy birth, with twenty-three years of hard work put in until the first volume was issued.
(14) Convalescence is stormy and morbidity higher when the placenta is not removed.
(15) Mourinho was fined £25,000 on Wednesday morning after the FA ruled he had overstepped the line with his remarks about the “campaign” against Chelsea and, later in the day, the governing body brought the charge against Costa, following Tuesday night’s stormy Capital One Cup semi-final against Liverpool, which Chelsea won.
(16) The disease had a stormy course and was characterized by moderate splenomegaly, persistently depressed WBC counts, extramedullary hemopoiesis and presence of a high percentage of atypical myeloblasts in the peripheral smear.
(17) The postoperative course was stormy in all patients, with a high incidence of complications and 70% died.
(18) Feige's mother, whose health was poor, did not have the strength for Palestine or the stormy crossing back across the Mediterranean.
(19) Although the coronary dissolution was obtained finally following aggressive cardiac massage, administration of spasmolytic agents, such as NTG, lidocaine, DBcAMP and the start of IABP, the resolution was stormy due to the hemodynamic derangement.
(20) A potentially stormy congressional hearing over the IRS scandal has been scheduled for Friday, as both Democrats and Republicans look for heads to roll over alleged targeting of conservative groups.