(n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.
(n.) A woody valley; also, a deep pool.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spindles of the slow SOL and fast EDL muscles had similar features, whereas differences were observed in the organization of the proximal (SOL and EDL) and distal (LUM) muscles.
(2) 2 In all the species studied, enkephalins appeared to be highly concentrated in the striatum and hypothalamus while very low amounts were found in the cerebe-lum and hippocampus.
(3) The Barkandji elders before us fought against the removal of people from our country Glyniss Church Dr Ken Lum, an anthropologist and research manager with NTSCORP, told Guardian Australia he had conducted hundreds of interviews with Barkandji people, tracing their genealogies back to 1850.
(4) With uncrossed conditions (Lum tests on Lum pedestals or Chr tests on Chr pedestals), we obtained the conventional dipper function, that is, the function of threshold test intensity was highly asymmetric about zero pedestal intensity, and strong pedestals induced strong masking.
(5) A corresponding CCAAT-binding factor (CBF) of 999 amino acids has recently been cloned and shown to stimulate transcription selectively from the hsp70 promoter in a CCAAT element-dependent manner (L. Lum, L. Sultzman, R. Kaufman, D. Linzer, and B. Wu, Mol.
(6) Indications are given that LUM inhibits the oxidative metabolism of both cell types.
(7) Spindles in LUM muscles had fewer static intrafusal fibers, a higher ratio of dynamic to static gamma axons, and a higher incidence of skeletofusimotor (beta) innervation to intrafusal fibers than spindles in the SOL or EDL muscles.
(8) Comparative studies on the effects of the luminescence indicators 5-Amino-2,3-dihydro-1,4-phthalazinedione (Luminol, LUM) and 7-Dimethylamino-naphthalene-1,2-dicarbonic-acidhydracide (DMNH) in measuring the chemiluminescence of ingesting and non-ingesting polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) and monocytes (MOC) are described.
(9) The nucleotide sequence was found to differ in several aspects from the previously published sequence (B. Wallace, Y. Yang, J. Hong, and D. Lum, J. Bacteriol.
(10) No statistically significant differences were seen between superficial and deep thirds (UI: 45% vs. 43%; DI: 33% vs. 32%; LUM: 22% vs. 24%; IC: 3% vs. 3% of points counted, p greater than .1, paired t-test).
(11) During this hyperactivation stage, spleen and peritoneal cells from infected mice showed a "spontaneous" CL-Lum response (without any stimulus added in vitro) absent in noninfected mice.
(12) The inhibitory effect of LPS on the LUM-CL of phagocytosing cord blood PMN has been much more pronounced than on the LUM-CL of adult PMN.
(13) Of 2,786 sera screened, 262 (9.5%) had antibody to one or more viruses Twenty-two sera, selected to represent different species of origin and reaction profiles, were titrated against nine CAL viruses: LUM, SSH, TVT, Tahyna (TAH), California encephalitis (CE), La Crosse (LAC), Inkoo (INK), Melao (MEL), and Guaroa (GRO).
(14) When used with high-dose CsA, etoposide doses should be reduced by approximately 50% to compensate for the pharmacokinetic effects of CsA on etoposide (Lum et al, J Clin Oncol, 10:1635-1642, 1992).
(15) The various flashes were incremental (+Lum) or decremental (-Lum) yellow luminance flashes or green (+Chr) or red (-Chr) isoluminant chromatic flashes.
(16) One group of monoclonal antibodies, designated LUM, reacts with the luminal surface of the epithelium.
(17) In previous studies (Yang, F., Naylor, S., Lum, J., Cutshaw, S., McCombs, J., Naberhaus, K., McGill, J., Adrian, G., Moore, C., Barnett, D., and Bowman, B.
(18) Moreover, spleen cells from acutely infected mice displayed a hyperactivity in the CL-Lum response when recombinant interferon-gamma was added in vitro.
(19) L-3s maintained in water or in Lum's solution for 3 hours retained infectivity when tested in orally or subcutaneously exposed jirds; furthermore, L-3s recovered from mosquitoes dead for 24 to 48 hours were also infective by either portal of entry in jirds.
(20) Both, "spontaneous" and zymosan stimulated CL-Lum responses were inhibited by 100 microM azide and by 0.8 microM superoxide dismutase, suggesting the involvement of hemoproteins and superoxide anion in the measured responses.
Mum
Definition:
(a.) Silent; not speaking.
(interj.) Be silent! Hush!
(n.) Silence.
(n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.
Example Sentences:
(1) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(2) The outstanding morphologic feature of cortical cells exposed to microunit ACTH concentrations for 40 min was the abundance of electron-dense granules (0.2-0.4 mum).
(3) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
(4) Saturation kinetics typical of a carrier-mediated transport system (Kt = 870 muM)were observed, and concentration of fatty acids against a gradient was achieved.
(5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(6) Km values for each substrate were: pregnenolone 10 muM, 17alpha-hydroxypregnenolone and dehydroepiandrosterone 2.5 muM and androstenediol 3.0 muM.
(7) It will make entering the market more difficult still for new buyers, further highlighting the importance of the right timing, advice, support and financial planning; and not just having a mum and dad who bought a house, but a grandparent, too.” Average UK house price reaches £288,000 Read more The average property price in the UK, currently £283,565, is expected to double by 2030, breaking through the £500,000 mark to £557,444.
(8) I met a mum there who said to me – this is what I’ve dreamed of for my child... ...proper uniforms, high standards... ...this is going to give my child a good start in life.
(9) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(10) The type I neurons (27 X 43 mum) with four to seven primary dendrites were located mainly in the rostral and ventral areas of the LH.
(11) Heavy tracks have LET values in excess of 4 keV mum-1 in water.
(12) sp., from Chalcophaps i. indica, has three or four testes, and a cirrus pouch 93 to 108 mum long, 28 to 45 mum wide, and its egg capsules are 10 to 12 mum long, seven to nine mum wide, each containing four to six eggs.
(13) You’d be staggered by the number of dimwitted debutantes who stand for photos next to cakes iced with the famous double-C. You know how you wanted a Spider-Man cake when you were little, and your mum made you Spider-Man cake, and it was the happiest birthday of your life?
(14) If the ionophore (10 muM) is perifused for 5 min at low extracellular calcium and magnesium, and physiologic calcium is then added, a sudden spike of insulin release occurs in the absence of cyclic AMP generation.
(15) This week, after much soul-searching, she is packing up her house to move to Shropshire so that “my mum can look after me”.
(16) I'm having a civil partnership ceremony in six weeks and don't know whether to invite my mum.
(17) He is Taurus and I'm Pisces; my dad was Pisces and my mum was Taurus.
(18) When deformability was measured by filtration through 3-mum polycarbonate sieves, marked decreases in deformability were found in complement-coated erythrocytes.
(19) Short segments of portions of taenia coli of the guinea-pig averaging 54 mum X 219 mum X ca.
(20) Smooth muscle cells of taeniae fixed under 1 gram load were about 515 mum long.