(n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
(pl. ) of Malum
Example Sentences:
(1) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
(2) The inhabitants of Mala Kladusa are mostly refugees from Cetingrad and Dreznik, and between 1790 and 1878 they had chances to cure more than 1200 wounded and a few thousand ill people in barber's shops in Gornja and Donja Baraka.
(3) The insensitivity of wild-type Shigella flexneri 2a to coliphage lambda is a consequence of its native genetic defect in the malA gene cluster.
(4) The OB reaction of the TLMs could be partially inhibited by anti-LFA-I or anti-MALA-2 antibodies, and was completely inhibited by anti-CR3 antibodies.
(5) Because cases of intracistronic complementation have been found, the active lamB product may be an oligomeric protein.-Previously all lambda resistant mutations in the malA region have been shown to map in the malT cistron.
(6) Active disease episodes (acute and relapse) were associated with the up-regulation of MALA-2, the murine homologue of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), on CNS endothelia and the infiltration of ICAM-1-positive mononuclear cells.
(7) We have previously reported a murine lymphocyte surface antigen MALA-2 of approximately 95,000 Mr which is expressed mainly on activated lymphocytes.
(8) Although the fibroblasts did not express the ligand Mala-2, the murine homologue of human ICAM-1, a monoclonal antibody against LFA-1, its cognate receptor on the lymphocytes, nevertheless effectively inhibited binding.
(9) Esterase D polymorphism was investigated in six endogamous Brahmin sub-sects and in the Mala and Madiga castes of Andrah Pradesh.
(10) Most mutations rendering E. coli K12 resistant to phage lambda, map in two genetic regions malA and malB.-The malB region contains a gene lamB specifically involved in the lambda receptor synthesis.
(11) The frequency of 0.3565 found in the Mala is the highest recorded on the Indian subcontinent.
(12) The division of lesion in strain JS10 is cotransducible with malA, aroB, and glpD and maps within min 72 to 75 on the E. coli chromosome.
(13) The genetic lesions responsible for tryptophan auxotrophy in these strains map between str and malA.
(14) Lambda propagated on a malA(+) rough S. flexneri host was restricted by Escherichia coli K-12 and E. coli B, but not by E. coli C. This S. flexneri host did not restrict lambda grown on these E. coli strains.
(15) Spokesman Captain Farhad Hama Ali said fighting was going on in two areas immediately south of the city: the subdistrict of Mala Abdulla, which has a mixed population of Arabs and Turkmen, and the contested village of Besir.
(16) Therefore, we consider MALA-2 to be the murine homolog of human ICAM-1.
(17) malT is believed to be a positive regulatory gene necessary for the induction of the "maltose operons" in the malA region and in the malB region of the E. coli K12 genetic map.
(18) To assess interrelationships between consanguineous marriage and fertility, 3 caste groups in Andhra Pradesh--the Desuri Kapu, an affluent agricultural caste; the Devanga, an artisan caste in the middle range of the hierarchy; and the Mala, a scheduled caste at the bottom--were selected for field study.
(19) The mapping data indicate that the genetic distance between malA and xyl is greater than that now allowed.
(20) The function, cellular distribution and molecular properties of MALA-2 are indistinguishable from those of human ICAM-1.
Surface
Definition:
(n.) The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
(n.) Hence, outward or external appearance.
(n.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface.
(n.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.
(v. t.) To give a surface to; especially, to cause to have a smooth or plain surface; to make smooth or plain.
(v. t.) To work over the surface or soil of, as ground, in hunting for gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The resulting dose distribution is displayed using traditional 2-dimensional displays or as an isodose surface composited with underlying anatomy and the target volume.
(2) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(3) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(4) Using monoclonal antibodies directed against the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells, we demonstrated previously that a glycoprotein with an Mr = 23,000 (gp23) had a non-polarized cell surface distribution and was observed on both the apical and basolateral membranes (Ojakian, G. K., Romain, R. E., and Herz, R. E. (1987) Am.
(5) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(6) Such an increase in antibody binding occurred simultaneously with an increase in the fluidity of surface lipid regions, as monitored by fluorescence depolarization of 1-(trimethylammoniophenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene.
(7) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(8) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(9) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
(10) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(11) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(12) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
(13) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(14) Our Ph1-positive ALL revealed B-cell lineage leukemia, since their surface phenotype were Ia+ and CD10+ and they have rearranged immunoglobulin JH genes.
(15) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell surface protein antigen (SpaA) of Streptococcus sobrinus MT3791 (serotype g) was determined.
(16) To investigate the mechanism of enhanced responsiveness of cholesterol-enriched human platelets, we compared stimulation by surface-membrane-receptor (thrombin) and post-receptor (AlF4-) G-protein-directed pathways.
(17) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
(18) After either 5 or 10 days of culture with both cytokines, intense immunofluorescent staining for Ia could be identified on the surface of greater than 80-90% of the viable islet cells.
(19) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
(20) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.