(n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.
(n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
(n.) A twin crystal.
Example Sentences:
(1) These measures were compared with a well-documented generic questionnaire, the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), and a similarly well-documented mood scale, the Mood Adjective Check List (MACL).
(2) Self-rated pain sensation differed 36% between responders and nonresponders, and the pain measures of all pain patients correlated with total mood disturbance on the MACL and with its dimensions for depression and fatigue.
(3) GFS, STAI-Trait, and MACL discriminated levels of general fearfulness, anxiety and mood fluctuations that can impact on dental fear.
(4) Small changes in subjective mood (MACL) were found.
(5) A modified form of the Nowlis Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL, Nowlis, 1965, 1970) and a discomfort measure were used in assessing through recall the affective course predicted by the theory.
(6) The Mood Adjective Check List (MACL), consisting of 71 mood-associated adjectives and measuring 6 bipolar aspects of mood, was used.
(7) Two self-assessment questionnaires: the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP part 1) and the Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL) were answered by the patients 6 and 12 months after fracture and compared with functional status (ADL, and walking ability) 4 months after fracture.
(8) The Corah Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and a general Geer Fear Scale (GFS) were filled out by all subjects, while 80 patients with highest dental fear scores were also tested before and after dental fear treatment with the following scales; a Getz Dental Belief Survey (DBS), Dental Fear Survey (DFS), and a Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL).
(9) These concerned disease activity (C-reactive protein, Lansbury articular index), physical joint function (Keitel index), mood (Mood Adjective Check List, MACL), and overall health (Sickness Impact Profile).
(10) John MacL (@Celticsleftwing) @ianmccourt "anyone out there ?"
(11) Pre-operatively, patients were given a neuropsychological screening evaluation, the Mood Adjective Checklist (MACL), the Zung Depression Scale, the Anxiety Inventory Scale, and the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ).
(12) Participants responded twice to a Mood Adjective Check List (MACL) and the Stroop Color-Word Test.
(13) The lowest value of explained variance was noted for MACL, and the highest for C-reactive protein.
(14) Both responder (n = 23) and nonresponder (n = 31) pain patients demonstrated extensively worse physical and psychosocial function on the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) and worse self-rated mood disturbance on the Mood Adjective Check List (MACL) than a control population sample.
(15) Normotensives and hypertensives on drug or placebo did not differ on MACL and Stroop scores.
Maple
Definition:
(n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
Example Sentences:
(1) Branched-chain keto acid decarboxylase activity in skin fibroblasts from control subjects and from patients with classical and variant forms of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) was measured with leucine and alpha-ketoisocaproic acid.
(2) During dietary treatment of a case of maple syrup urine disease, it was found that abnormal EEGs were observed when serum levels of leucine were abnormally high while those of valine and isoleucine were normal, and also when serum levels of valine and isoleucine were abnormally high while serum leucine levels were normal.
(3) Intermittend maple-syrup-urine disease was excluded by oral loading tests with the branched-chain amino acids and with an isocaloric, high-protein diet.
(4) Screening for tyrosinaemia, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, maple syrup urine disease and histidinaemia has been discontinued.
(5) As he was detained, the gunman, wearing a balaclava and a bathrobe, allegedly repeated twice in French with an English accent: "The Anglophones are waking up," an apparent reference to the "maple spring" of student protests against the government that contributed to the snap election being called.
(6) The progress of nine maple syrup urine disease patients (eight classical, one possible variant) was reviewed to look for similarities in developmental patterns.
(7) He now sells over 2,000 litres of milk each week on doorsteps, in restaurants and it’s sold at the local shops for £1.20 a litre under the label Maple Field Milk .
(8) • carteblanchefoodcart.com Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian This folksy cart dishes out Southern comfort food: freshly made mac 'n' cheese, pumpkin-spiced waffles with maple butter, meatloaf and succotash .
(9) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(10) Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) results from an inborn metabolic error caused by a deficiency of the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex (BCKDC).
(11) Branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKDH) deficiency results in maple syrup urine disease (MSUD).
(12) Cultured cells of normal individuals and nine patients with different clinical pictures of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) are studied with both alpha-ketoisocaproic acid (2-oxo-4-methylpentanoic acid (KIC)) and alpha-ketoisovaleric acid (2-oxo-3-methylbutanoic acid (KIVA)) as substrates.
(13) The activity of the branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase complex is deficient in patients with the inherited maple syrup urine disease (MSUD).
(14) A case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis is presented which was associated with exposure to Cryptostroma corticale from non-maple bark chips used to grow orchids.
(15) The rats produced IgE antibodies to each of the allergens used (maple, willow, poplar, ash, oak, sycamore, hickory, walnut, birch, and elm), yet the allergens had extremely limited cross-reactivity.
(16) CAVH allowed good compensation of azotemia in critically ill children with acute renal failure, rapid correction of severe hypervolemia, interstitial pulmonary edema, electrolyte disorders, and metabolic crisis in maple syrup urine disease.
(17) Branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKAD) deficiency, or maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), can be categorized as classical, intermediate, intermittent or thiamine responsive, based on generally concordant in vitro BCKAD activity and severity of phenotype.
(18) On what was to become a hot and nearly cloudless day Canadians trudged towards the site, most wearing the national colours, many carrying maple leaf flags in their hair or on their baseball caps or T-shirts.
(19) The molecular basis of one maple syrup urine disease family has been determined for the first time.
(20) Deciduous trees growing in a natural forest on the hillsides downslope from the site were sampled for the presence of tritiated water in sap of maple trees and in leaf water extracted from oak and hickory trees.