(v. t.) To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.
(v. t.) To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.
Example Sentences:
(1) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
(2) Thus, the numbers of ventral horn cells remaining after early amputation is a measure of the numbers of cells in the normal animal that are still independent of the limb (Phase I cells) and hence by subtraction, the other cells (post-Phase I cells) are those that only survive by virtue of having contacted the limn.
(3) With the development of new chemolitholytic substances and the crushing of the stone on endoscopic and extracorporal way new perspectives again begin to limn themselves in the conservative treatment of cholelithiasis.
(4) I think it is part of Dadd's predilection for double-speak and dangerous puns: "Elimination" contains the word "limn" which is a good word for painting, but also is part of Dadd's habit of decrying painting as pointless and worthless.
(5) The imposing limestone monument, crowned by a shiny copper dome and limned with John Steuart Curry’s luminous murals, has just undergone a $325m facelift.
(6) However, it limns oneself already that it is possible with its help to establish many endangered persons and patients and to subject them to the primary and secondary prevention.
(7) Some, such as a condition of detachment, reminiscent of the archetypal 'blissful indolence' of the lotus-eaters of Greek tradition as limned by the poet Homer, are obvious to the lay observer.
(8) There is less accord about whether the frames are pure structural configurations or limnings of meaning.
Limy
Definition:
(a.) Smeared with, or consisting of, lime; viscous.
(a.) Containing lime; as, a limy soil.
(a.) Resembling lime; having the qualities of lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequency of chromosome aberrations was measured in cultured Umbra limi heart (U1-H) and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells following exposure to the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) 3,4-benzopyrene (BP), 1,2,5,6-dibenzanthracene (DBA), 1,2-benzanthracene (BA), and pyrene (PY), activated using S9 prepared from rainbow trout liver.
(2) This is a report of a limy bile syndrome in a little girl aged 21 months, whose gall-bladder is spontaneously visible on the abdominal X Ray, with a biliary stone inside.
(3) Due to the very limited amount of knowledge available on the cytochemistry and architecture of fish chromosomes, an extensive banding study was carried out on chromosomes of the central mudminnow, Umbra limi.
(4) Limy bile, characterized by excessive precipitation of calcium carbonate, is an uncommon complication of gallstone disease, and is a condition that seems to follow gall-bladder obstruction.
(5) Spontaneous disappearance of "limy bile" was noted in three cases.
(6) It was concluded that the chromosomes of Umbra limi displayed typical responses to low level radiation exposure and that this fish would be an ideal cytogenetics model for this study of induced chromosome aberrations in fishes.
(7) Chemical analyses by atomic absorption spectrophotometry and crystallographic studies by the X-ray powder diffraction method and infrared spectrometry (KBr-disk method) were made on 33 cases of calcium carbonate gallstone or so-called limy bile.
(8) Incidence of "limy bile" is relatively rare and only 120 cases have been recorded in Japan so far.
(9) The limy bile syndrome is very rare in infancy and childhood and is found more exceptionally in new-born.
(10) Results of fluorescent staining with 33258 Hoechst and quinacrine HC1 raised some interesting questions concerning the cytochemistry of U. limi chromosomes, as well as the specificity of these stains.
(11) Pathological compact limy shadings of the soft parts of the extremities are possible because of numerous reasons.
(12) An in vivo system for the detection of sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in the central mudminnow, Umbra limi, is presented.
(13) Limy bile is a rare condition characterized by excessive precipitation of calcium carbonate in the gall-bladder.
(14) Discussion is provided on the polyandry found among villagers of Limi in the Highlands of Nepal and the Tre-ba of Central Tibet, where there is fraternal polyandry patriarchies, where fertility rates of these unions were not higher, and a sizeable fraction of women 20-49 were left without mates (31% in Limi and 29% in Dhinga).
(15) We report the case of a patient with limy bile located in both the gallbladder and common bile duct, and disappearing spontaneously.
(16) Unique findings are also available in emphysematous cholecystitis, xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis, stones with gas (Mercedez-Benz sign), limy bile, and enhancement in acute cholecystitis.
(17) SCE analysis in U. limi should be a useful tool for measuring the mutagenicity of water-borne chemicals.
(18) We report a case of an unusual compact limy shading of the soft part in the lower leg, obviously caused by unphysique material the origin of which even retrospectively could not be clarified.
(19) Complications of gallstone disease include pancreatitis, biliary-enteric fistulas, hydrops, limy bile, porcelain gallsbladder, and carcinoma of the gallbladder.
(20) The exact etiology of formation of limy bile in the gallbladder has not yet been understood completely.