(a.) Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
(a.) A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.
(a.) Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recent studies, including those presented in this manuscript, indicate that 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 and, perhaps, increases of the serum calcium concentration inhibit transcription of the calcitonin gene resulting in decreased production of calcitonin.
(2) In this manuscript the epidemiologic, clinical, histopathologic, immunologic and etiologic aspects as well as possible therapeutic modalities for the management of hormone-mediated desquamative gingivitis are examined.
(3) Exhibits donated by his family include the manuscript of the 1928 novel Años y Leguas (Years and Leagues), Miró’s love letter to the Alicante province.
(4) Therefore, the acronym NAALADase seems to be incorrect, and peptidase activity against NAAG will be used throughout this manuscript when referring to the enzyme that cleaves NAAG and whose activity is inhibited by quisqualate and beta-NAAG.
(5) She sent the finished manuscript to Elaine Greene , a London literary agent.
(6) The precise fate of the manuscripts was difficult to verify.
(7) The following, therefore, is not just another detailed manuscript regarding the skin of primates.
(8) 7 and D. Page, M.R.G., K. Fahey, L. Matsuuchi and A.L.D., manuscript submitted for publication), but may not be sufficient, as agents that elevate calcium and activate protein kinase C cause only partial growth arrest.
(9) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
(10) The second episode, that of Dean Vaughan, has been reconstructed for the first time using the Broadlands Manuscripts of Lord Palmerston.
(11) I also lost 650 unpublished manuscripts which are pieces that had been written especially for me.
(12) A manuscript's abstract may be the determining factor in the article's acceptance for publication or presentation.
(13) This manuscript will focus on the computer program and the data base designed for the oncology department and its impact on nurses and patients.
(14) In this manuscript the pathology of human arterial disease, including diseases of the aorta, coronary arteries, and peripheral arteries, is reviewed.
(15) The primary purpose of this manuscript is to demonstrate the qualitative and quantitative radiologic signs indicative of the diagnosis and the surgical management resulting therefrom.
(16) This manuscript summarizes the preclinical and clinical findings on the metabolic modulation of FUra activity by dThd and folinic acid.
(17) But Labour and Lib Dem sources said they would be tabling manuscript amendments to the crime and courts bill in the Lords to remove the threat.
(18) Each note is like a little illuminated manuscript in your wallet.
(19) To illustrate the extent of time lags from manuscript submission to journal publication certain "core" journals in neurology and general medicine have been surveyed.
(20) Brownlee and E.M. Cartwright (manuscript in preparation).
Umbilicus
Definition:
(n.) The depression, or mark, in the median line of the abdomen, which indicates the point where the umbilical cord separated from the fetus; the navel.
(n.) An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
(n.) The hilum.
(n.) A depression or opening in the center of the base of many spiral shells.
(n.) Either one of the two apertures in the calamus of a feather.
(n.) One of foci of an ellipse, or other curve.
(n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chemically isolated separate preparations of the non-aggregating protein-chondroitin-keratin sulphate (PCKS) fraction from the hyaline cartilage and hyaluronic acid (HUA) of the vitreous body and of the umbilicus were investigated by electron microscopy.
(2) Cultures were collected from the external ear, throat and umbilicus of all infants within 5 minutes of birth and at day 4 of life.
(3) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(4) Faecal specimens were cultured daily for E. coli as were swabs from the rectum, groin, umbilicus, head, hands und mouth.
(5) The only consistent pattern distribution was that mff were recovered from all 10 hides at four sample sites along the ventral midline near the umbilicus.
(6) A lace used in obstetrics for ligation of umbilicus served as the tourniquet.
(7) Cultures were taken from the catheter tips and from the umbilicus at the time of withdrawal of the catheter.
(8) Plasma arginine vasopressin was more than 5 times greater 15 min following birth than immediately prior to clamping the umbilicus, and it fell progressively over the ensuing 2-5 h to levels not significantly different from before birth.
(9) The masculinisation of the external genitalia begins as early as day 47 by a rapid increase of the anogenital distance: on day 60, the penis opens under the umbilicus and the scrotum is well differentiated.
(10) A pooling of contrast medium (8 X 2.5 cm) under the umbilicus was detected by a fistelography from the umbilicus, and a low density mass was detected under the abdominal wall between the umbilicus and the dome of bladder on a CT scan.
(11) Complete removal of the skin and fat between the umbilicus and the pubis is always possible if the operating table is put in a proper position for closure.
(12) Two additional trocars were inserted at the level of the umbilicus at the anterior axillary lines.
(13) Massive hepatomegaly (below the umbilicus) was demonstrated in 18 patients.
(14) In one case a mass was localized to the bladder wall and immediate juxtavesical region; in the other case an advanced locally invasive lesion was seen to engulf and fisulize loops of small bowel and extend through the umbilicus.
(15) The defect concerned the lateral thoracoabdominal area, on both sides of the umbilicus, jointed with a fine linear communication, and have the classical butterfly wind-like shape.
(16) The ligamentum teres hepatis connects the umbilicus to the left lobe of the liver, and thus a hepatic lesion can spread through the ligament to the umbilicus and the anterior abdominal wall.
(17) The skin at the bottom of the umbilicus and the abdominal fascia under the umbilicus were excised round.
(18) Our procedure uses a single flap or brings two flaps together, to form a three-dimensional structure with a single or double suture line, so that the umbilicus will retain its depth over a long period of time.
(19) The umbilicus was not reconstructed because of the danger of recurrence.
(20) Necropsy of the fetuses revealed serogelatinous edema in the SC connective tissue of the ventral abdominal region (especially around the umbilicus), exaggerated amounts of serohemorrhagic fluid in the abdominal, pleural, and pericardial cavities, and hemorrhagic kidneys, with diminished consistency.