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Limped


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Limp

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
  • (2) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
  • (3) He limped around in the beginning but the injury worsened.
  • (4) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (5) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
  • (6) Armchair Paralympian (armchayer-parra-limp-iain) noun .
  • (7) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
  • (8) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
  • (9) More here: UK regulator urges banks to speed up swaps mis-selling compensation 8.40am GMT More reaction to the decision to send riot police to evict people from the offices of Greece's former state broadcaster this morning , starting with journalist Nick Malkoutzis: Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) 5 mths after flicking switch on public broadcaster ERT, gov't tries to settle issue by sending riot police to remove remaining staff #Greece November 7, 2013 Nick Malkoutzis (@NickMalkoutzis) While #ERT will be off air for good after police intervention, the stain of how its closure has been handled won't wash away easily #Greece November 7, 2013 Lady Mondegreen (@amaenad) Like a mean stupid dog appeasing a cruel master, the Greek government wants to lay ERT's limp body at the troika's feet.
  • (10) The girl's mother, who I learned later, had recently arrived in Danané with her daughter after escaping the fighting in Abidjan, lifted the limp body and carried it out of the house to where we were parked.
  • (11) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
  • (12) This team may have limped to the 50-point mark with their draw against the champions, but they have been pining for the end of this campaign for months.
  • (13) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
  • (14) If that happened, he could get up and limp across the street to the safety of the Indymedia centre, where he had spent the past three days filing reports on the G8 summit and on its violent policing.
  • (15) To determine whether limping is associated with decreased bone mineralization, the trabecular and integral bone densities (BDs) of 18 Caucasian children exhibiting computed tomographic evidence of tarsal coalition (14 boys, 4 girls, aged 9 years, 5 months to 16 years, 3 months) were compared with those of an age- and sex-matched control group.
  • (16) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
  • (17) Today, he suffers from partial paralysis on the left side of his body, and has a limp and limited use his left arm.
  • (18) An analysis of the incidence and significance of leg shortening, limping, and abductor lurch is presented and some observations made on trochanteric overgrowth and the effect of surgery on the rate of femoral head reconstitution.
  • (19) In cultured cells, the general immunostaining patterns observed in vivo were maintained during the duration of the primary cultures for all five LIMPs.
  • (20) For Manchester City, Yaya Toure will return to their starting line-up, having been suspended for their match against Bayern Munich, but Micah Richards will miss today's game after limping off against Bayern with a hamstring injury.

Limpet


Definition:

  • (n.) In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
  • (n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.
  • (n.) Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.
  • (n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This effect appeared to be related to dose, and was clearly demonstrable with antibody-forming spleen cells from mice that had been immunized either with sheep red blood cells or with penicillin G conjugated with Keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
  • (2) The control, uninfected rats make vigorous primary and secondary antibody responses when challenged with keyhole limpet haemocyanin (KLH), human immunoglobulin (HuIg) or sheep red blood cells (SRBC).
  • (3) BDF1 mice were immunized with a protein antigen, such as ovalbumin (OA) or keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), absorbed to aluminum hydroxide gel, and their spleen cells were stimulated by homologous antigen for the formation of glycosylation-enhancing factor (GEF).
  • (4) The antibody responses of animals immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA), diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) and aluminium hydroxide (alum) were compared with the response to antigen administered in the absence of adjuvants.
  • (5) In addition to this HIV-specific B cell activation, the number of lymphocytes reactive with nonviral antigens such as DNA, myosin, actin, trinitrophenylated keyhole limpet hemocyanin, and ovalbumin was increased by a mean of 17.9-fold.
  • (6) Synthetic 131-149 and 140-149 sequences afforded 50 to 80% protection, both in the free state and conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
  • (7) Feeding mice with OA or keyhole limpet haemocyanin in liposomes in a series of priming and boosting regimes failed to elicit any significant increase in serum or intestinal antibody response compared with feeding the free antigen.
  • (8) A tetrodotoxin-formaldehyde-keyhole limpet hemocyanin conjugate was used to immunize a rabbit for the production of anti-toxin antiserum.
  • (9) A panel of syngeneic monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibodies was prepared by immunizing A.SW mice with keyhole limpet hemocyanin-coupled A.SW monoclonal anti-myoglobin (HAL 19, IgG1) and screening the cloned hybridomas for production of IgG2 binding to idiotype but not to certain other anti-myoglobin antibodies of the same subclass in an ELISA.
  • (10) In admixture experiments, spleen cells from microfilaremic animals suppressed the proliferative responsiveness of cells from keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-immunized jirds to KLH by 38%, but had no effect on KLH-specific antibody production.
  • (11) B cells from these mice were transferred to irradiated recipients with T cells from keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-primed mice.
  • (12) In the absence of exogenous oleic acid (18:1), splenocytes responded to a T-dependent (TD) Ag (trinitrophenyl-keyhole limpet hemocyanin, TNP-KLH) at 37 degrees C but not at 27 degrees C. The addition of 150 microM 18:1 almost completely restored plaque-forming cell (PFC) responses to TNP-KLH at 27 degrees C but markedly suppressed PFC responses to the TD Ag at 37 degrees C. 3.
  • (13) Studying cellular immunocompetence we investigated the skin reactivity to various recall antigens (Candida, Trichophytin, Mumpsantigen, Streptokinase-Streptodornase, PPD), the primary immune response to Dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) and Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH), and the lymphocyte transformation induced by mitogens (Phytohemagglutinin, Concanavaline A, Pokeweed Mitogen) and specific antigens.
  • (14) The peptide-keyhole limpet hemocyanin conjugates were used to immunize rabbits.
  • (15) have reported that the keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-specific suppressor factor is coded for by the I-J subregion of the H-2 complex (11).
  • (16) It was found that 2-3% of splenic T cells from arsonate-immune mice specifically bound the hapten using immunofluorescent keyhole limpet hemocyanin as a carrier.
  • (17) However, in vivo depletion of L3T4+ or Lyt-2+ cells from 38C-Id-keyhole limpet hemocyanin-immunized mice resulted in diminished protection against a tumor challenge.
  • (18) A procedure is described for the in vitro enumeration of individual lymphoid cells producing antibody against Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH) by a modification of the hemolytic plaque technique.
  • (19) Antibody to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) has been detected in normal unimmunized subjects by means of a sensitive micropassive hemagglutination technique.
  • (20) It was shown that these B cells secrete anti-trinitrophenyl antibodies of different isotypes only in the presence of Th2 cells specific for keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) and the hapten-carrier conjugate TNP-KLH.

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