(n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
(n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
(n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
(n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(3) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(6) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(7) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(8) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(9) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(10) The effect of 4,4'-methylene bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA) and 4,4'-sulphonyldianiline (Dapsone) in vivo on xenobiotic biotransformation in male rat liver was studied.
(11) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(14) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
(15) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(16) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(17) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(18) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(19) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(20) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
Liverwort
Definition:
(n.) A ranunculaceous plant (Anemone Hepatica) with pretty white or bluish flowers and a three-lobed leaf; -- called also squirrel cups.
(n.) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical features, botany, phytochemistry, patch testing and ecology of Compositae and Frullania (liverwort) allergic contact phytodermatitis are discussed.
(2) Even the best nurseries will have a few plants with liverworts growing on their surface, because liverworts love damp, bare ground.
(3) Perrottetianal A and B, known substances from liverworts were isolated and characterized by spectroscopic methods as well as alpha-(-)-santonin.
(4) The nucleotide sequence (25,320 base-pairs) of a part of the large single-copy region of chloroplast DNA from the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha was determined.
(5) Comparison of the rice rpo genes with those from tobacco, spinach and liverwort revealed unique features of the rice genes; the lack of an intron in rpoC1 and the presence of an extra sequence of 381 bp in rpoC2.
(6) The entire nucleotide sequences of the rice, tobacco and liverwort chloroplast genomes have been determined.
(7) The plasmalemma of thallus cells of the aquatic liverwort, Riccia fluitans, is reversibly depolarized by L- and D-serine.
(8) Using a probe of liverwort chloroplast DNA, a 10.1-kb region containing a gene cluster consisting of open reading frames (ORF278-frxC-ORF469-ORF248) was isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803.
(9) This ORF is highly homologous to ORF513 found in the corresponding region of liverwort chloroplast DNA and ORF563 located downstream from trnT in Chlamydomonas moewusii chloroplast DNA.
(10) It is hoped the animals will recolonise the tarn and its surrounding streams, and play an important part in the ecosystem, grazing and burrowing into areas of the riverbank and allowing rare plants to grow, including mosses and liverworts that need patches of open habitat.
(11) The gene order around rpl16, 5' rpl22-rps3-rpl16, is identical to that detected in the chloroplast DNA of liverwort, tobacco and maize.
(12) The direction of transcription of both gene copies in rye is toward SSC; that in tobacco and liverwort is toward IR-II.
(13) The gene coding for tRNA(UAALeu) is split by a 232-bp intron which has a secondary structure typical for class-I structured introns and which is closely related to the intron located in the corresponding gene from liverwort and higher plant chloroplasts.
(14) Comparison of this sequence with the sequences of the S18 proteins from tobacco and liverwort chloroplasts and E. coli shows a relatively high similarity, ranging from 42 to 55% identical residues with the B. stearothermophilus S18 protein.
(15) The ORF43 gene was actively transcribed in liverwort chloroplasts.
(16) Notable features of the nucleotide sequence are the loss of an intron in rpoC1 and an insertion of approximately 450 bp in rpoC2 compared to the dicotyledons tobacco, spinach and liverwort.
(17) In contrast, rps2 and rps4 genes were located separately in the liverwort mitochondrial genome (the latter was part of the alpha operon in E. coli).
(18) In addition, a gene for the chloroplast ribosomal protein CL5 was found that is not encoded by the plastome in either higher plants or a liverwort, but has recently been identified in Euglena chloroplast DNA.
(19) Upstream of the gidA sequence, we found a trnN(GUU) gene and an open reading frame of 291 codons which was 78% identical to the frxC gene of liverwort.
(20) ORFx shares a high sequence homology with the long reading frames of tobacco (ORF1708), spinach (ORF2131), and liverwort (ORF2136), while ORF48 shares sequence homology with ORF69 of liverwort and ORF55 of tobacco.