(a.) Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.
(a.) Exhibited at divers times or in various ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number.
(n.) A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
(n.) A cylindrical pipe fitting, having a number of lateral outlets, for connecting one pipe with several others.
(n.) The third stomach of a ruminant animal.
(v. t.) To take copies of by the process of manifold writing; as, to manifold a letter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combined hypertension treatment with inhibitors of the converting enzyme (ICE) and diuretocs gives manifold advantages, the most important of them is a synergistic action of both drugs resulting in blood pressure decrease and prevention of hypokaliaemia.
(2) It is stressed that the exact anatomical diagnosis requires the examination of every segment which can be performed only by using manifold planes.
(3) An anaerobic sampling manifold withdrew 19 samples of blood during the rest-to-exercise transition; sampling interval was usually 4 s. Blood gas analysis showed that, on average, from rest-to-steady-state exercise, O2 saturation (Svo2) fell from 71 to 41% and mixed venous PCO2 (PvCO2) rose from 42 to 59 Torr.
(4) These induction periods are regarded as the time needed by far-from-equilibrium fluctuations to drive the system into the center manifold.
(5) The apparent Km of the modified enzyme for soluble starch increased manifold, thus implicating the sensitive tryptophan residue in the substrate binding region of the enzyme.
(6) All image vectors were orthonormalized to span a linear manifold.
(7) A manifold for rapid determination of fluoride has been designed that uses a single coil for complex formation and extraction.
(8) Impinger samples were collected from the sampling manifold and analyzed accordingly.
(9) This manifold can be used to validate or calibrate various industrial hygiene analyses such as charcoal and detector tube technology, impinger techniques, respirator cartridge testing, and various survey instruments.
(10) The presentation of SAS may be manifold, and the primary health care teams play a crucial role in the detection of their basic symptoms.
(11) The modification can be made in less than 4 h without the need for any additional parts; the modified manifold requires one-third fewer pump lines and fewer reagents, thus reducing operating costs and simplifying instrument maintenance, while retaining the same precision, speed, low carryover, and linearity of the production model.
(12) The low-field temperature dependence of the MCD of oxidized FdI, which originates in the paramagnetic oxidized [3Fe-4S]1+ cluster, establishes the absence of a significant population of excited electronic states of this cluster up to 60 K. The low-field temperature dependence of the MCD of reduced FdI establishes that the ground-state manifold of the reduced [3Fe-4S]0 cluster possesses S greater than or equal to 2 at both pH 6.0 and 8.3.
(13) The appearance of this disease as generalized vasculitis is conditioned by the manifold clinical symptomatology and thus renders the diagnostics extraordinarily difficult.
(14) After certain modifications had been made in the manifold, satisfactory degrees of accuracy were also obtained for the erythrocyte counts.
(15) Among the manifold immunologic events which take place during parasitic invasions, production of autoantibodies and immune complexes can play a serious role during infections with African and American trypanosomes.
(16) There are manifold specific causes of death characterized by conditions manifest in middle and late life.
(17) It is now customary practice to couple separately metered infusions via a manifold to a common catheter that enters the patient.
(18) The differential diagnoses was manifold because of the traveling habits, the clinical symptomatic and the course of the disease.
(19) Their information must be transduced through binding to membrane receptors, so as to elicit the appropriate biological response from the manifold repertoire of a cell.
(20) The enzyme can be seen as strategically located to play a role in regenerating ATP required for the manifold activities of the synaptic membrane.
Omasum
Definition:
(n.) The third division of the stomach of ruminants. See Manyplies, and Illust. under Ruminant.
Example Sentences:
(1) One square centimetre samples were taken from equivalent areas in each case of the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum of 38 embalmed Karakul lambs.
(2) One square centimetre samples were taken from analogous areas of the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum of 38 embalmed Karakul lambs.
(3) The effects of starvation on fluid balance seem to become as severe in goats as in monogastric species despite food reservoirs in the reticulo-rumen and omasum at the onset of food deprivation.
(4) Although protozoan concentrations in omasal contents were approximately 80% lower than those in ruminal contents, the omasum harbored relatively high numbers of ciliated protozoa.
(5) The characteristic cyclic motility of the omasum was slightly reduced in sheep fasted for 48 hr and in those fed on pelleted food, and it persisted after vagotomy.3.
(6) The omasum has more than 70 laminae which are papillated on the reticular end.
(7) In vitro pentagastrin (10(-18) to 10(-4) M) stimulated quiescent and intrinsically active longitudinal and circular muscles of the body of the omasum and the body and antrum of the abomasum and potentiated contractile responses of antral muscle to electrical stimulation of intramural cholinergic nerves.
(8) It had no effect upon digesta-free weight of the rumen and omasum but consistently decreased the weight of all post-ruminal segments of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
(9) The weight of the omasum and area of the internal laminae appeared to be smaller in Brahman cattle than the buffalo and British cattle.
(10) The Mg infused to either the abomasum or omasum was completely recovered at the duodenum, indicating a lack of net absorption of Mg from these stomach compartments.
(11) Eating was associated with an increase in flow of the fluid and dry matter fractions of digesta passing from the omasum but efflux was unaffected by rumination.
(12) The omasum and reticulum presented desquamation of the cutaneous mucosal membrane, and the abomasum--necrotic foci, edema, and leukocyte infiltrations.
(13) Cell bodies of VIP-IR nerves decreased in number through the omasum, reticulo-omasal orifice, and omasal pillar.
(14) Samples of the following parts of the gastrointestinal tract were collected from 20 slaughter cattle: - oesophagus, reticulum, omasum, rumen, abomasum, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, colon (beginning and end).
(15) Specimens were obtained from the lung, omasum and Peyer's patches of the ileum and corresponding lymph nodes.
(16) Four ruminating bull calves were provided with cannulas in the rumen and abomasum and a sleeve sutured at the omosal-abomasal orifice that permitted digesta flowing from the omasum to be diverted and collected.
(17) Calves were slaughtered, and samples of the contents of the reticulo-rumen, omasum, abomasum, small intestine, cecum, and large intestine were analyzed for chromic oxide, copper, and manganese.
(18) The data concerning the transport of sodium and chloride in the omasum are very limited.
(19) The curves were analysed on the assumption that the stomach of the sheep could be represented as two mixing compartments (reticulo-rumen and abomasum) and a time delay (omasum).
(20) The following activities of GDH and GS were found out in trials with lambs at the age of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 90 days, as to the different parts of digestive tract: in the tissues of rumen, omasum, reticulum, spleen, duodenum, jejunum, ileum, int.