(a.) Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
(n.) A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
(n.) On newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(3) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(4) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
(5) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(6) This scintigraphic localization of osteomyelitis seldom has been reported.
(7) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(8) This computer is connected to a fileserver via a local area network and is used exclusively for data acquisition.
(9) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(10) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(11) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
(12) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(13) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(14) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(15) Angiopathic and traumatic influences conditioned by metabolism, apart from local peculiarities are taken into consideration.
(16) Immunofluorescence analysis of Pr-28 antigen showed that the antigen was localized mainly in perinuclear cytoplasm.
(17) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(18) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(19) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(20) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
Opalescence
Definition:
(n.) A reflection of a milky or pearly light from the interior of a mineral, as in the moonstone; the state or quality of being opalescent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among both exposed and non-exposed aged over 45, there were no significant differences with regard to the characteristics of lens opacities--prevalence (19 in the 21 exposed; 10 in the 16 non-exposed), distribution of the location, and importance and type (opalescence or discontinuous opacities).
(2) The severity of nuclear opalescence (NO), cortical (C) and posterior subcapular cataract (P) was graded in a masked fashion using the LOCS II standards.
(3) The rate of this reaction can be estimated roughly from the initial rate (Vo) of the accompanying turbidity increase ("super-opalescence") of the acto-S-1 solution.
(4) This may indicate that there is considerable variation in inheritance patterns for hereditary opalescent dentine and that this trait does not always exhibit 100 percent penetrance.
(5) Furthermore, selenite induced the gradual development of opalescence and the oxidation of sulfhydryl in the lens protein solution.
(6) At pH 1-7 the alpha-particles dissociated into their constituent beta-particles with a consequent decrease in the opalescence of the solution.
(7) A family is described in which two females are more severely affected by hereditary opalescent dentine than the males.
(8) Prednisolone-induced aggregates result in an opalescence in the crystallins solution which is reversed by the addition of dithiothreitol.
(9) Residual Triton X-100 was removed from the opalescent vesicle suspension by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and subsequent dialysis.
(10) Shortcomings in previous attempts have been corrected by objectively aligning a "blind" eye with the center of a translucent opalescent screen.
(11) A potential of 100 V was applied for 12 hours, then raised to 200 V for another 12 hours, and finally to 300 V until opalescence appeared at the bottom of the tube.
(12) Colonies of C. perfringens on LLA had typical opalescent zones, a distinctive feature that can aid in presumptive identification.
(13) The presence of the regulatory light chain did not affect hyper-opalescence (or super-opalescence), since there were no significant differences between papain S-1 and chymotryptic S-1 with respect to these phenomena.
(14) We conclude that the most likely mechanism responsible for the zones is a light-scattering effect caused by antibodies attached to the viral surface and that the quality of the opalescence to some extent seems to be dependent on the Fc-fragment.
(15) High activity of MPO was found for retina and lens of healthy men and elderly people with lens opalescence.
(16) The oviposition-stimulating factor was localized in the opalescent gland of the male accessory gland and was transferred to the female via the spermatophore during copulation.
(17) Adjacent filaments in the bundles had a distance of approximately 180 A. Hyper-opalescence occurred at r approximately equal to 1 when KCOOCH3 was used instead of KCl.
(18) Impairment of catalytic efficiency can only be documented in opalescent test solutions in which the insecticides are present in excess of their solubility limit.
(19) We have found that after the initial rise in scattering, there is a further gradual increase in scattering (we call it "super-opalescence").
(20) A fraction possibly corresponding to VHDL (very high density lipoproteins, 77% protein, 23% lipid) was also detected but appeared contaminated by a protein-rich opalescent material.