(n.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.
(n.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus.
(v. i.) To celebrate Mass.
(n.) A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water.
(n.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.
(n.) A large quantity; a sum.
(n.) Bulk; magnitude; body; size.
(n.) The principal part; the main body.
(n.) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume.
(v. t.) To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) Blood samples were analysed by mass spectroscopy and gas chromatography.
(3) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(4) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(5) The clinically normotensive cases had greater left ventricular mass than the normotensive controls (p less than 0.02).
(6) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
(7) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(8) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(9) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
(10) Based on the deduced amino acid sequence, rpL8 has a mass of 28,605 Da, a pI of 11.97, and contains 9.6% Arg and 11.9% Lys.
(11) All masses had either histologic confirmation (n = 11) or confirmation with other imaging modalities (n = 4).
(12) A neonate without external malformation had undergone removal of a nasopharyngeal mass containing anterior and posterior pituitary tissue.
(13) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(14) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(15) This can be achieved by sincere, periodic information through the mass media.
(16) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
(17) Ether extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and various chlorinated and non-chlorinated compounds were detected, e.g.
(18) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
(19) Variability (CV = 0.7%) in body volume of a 45-year-old reference man measured by SH method was very similar to variation (CV = 0.6%) in mass volume of the 60-1 prototype.
(20) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
Milligram
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Milligramme
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
(2) A total of 90 Fletcher-Suit radium applications were analyzed to explore relationships between point A doses, milligram-hours, and the ICRU guidelines.
(3) The protein-deficient diet increased the nucleotide concentrations in the thymus and spleen lymphocytes on a per milligram DNA basis except those of thymic cAMP, which did not change.
(4) The method described offers a simple and successful preparative thin layer chromatographic strategy to obtain pure gangliosides in microgram and milligram quantities.
(5) The enzyme exhibited a purity of 70-80% and showed an exceptional high specific activity of 135 nmol incorporation of dTMP per milligram of protein in 1 h with poly(rA).oligo(dT) as template-primer (TP).
(6) At saturation, 38 to 50.2 micrograms of vWF bound per milligram of collagen.
(7) When DNA was included in the incubations, binding to this macromolecule was ten-fold less per milligram than binding to proteins.
(8) Long-term follow-up, averaging twenty months, failed to demonstrate the efficacy of a second injection of epidural steroids administered to the patients whose pain did not respond within twenty-four hours to an injection of either eighty milligrams of methylprednisolone acetate combined with five milliliters of 1 per cent procaine or two milliliters of sterile saline combined with five milliliters of 1 per cent procaine.
(9) The ten year over-all survival rate of 65.9 per cent was significantly better than that of 329 (23.6 per cent) patients with estrogen receptor negative (ER-) tumors (less than 3 femtomoles per milligram cytosol protein), who had a ten year over-all survival rate of 56.0 per cent (p = 0.0001).
(10) However, an increase in the wet weight of the tissue sample was accompanied by a reduced P, expressed as power per milligram wet weight.
(11) Overall, the yield of ATPase was 12-16 and 4-6 micrograms per milligram of microsomal protein in the stable and the transient expression systems, respectively.
(12) The maximal electrophysiologic effects of flecainide and S-24623 were approximately equivalent, but the metabolite was about one-half as potent on a milligram-permilligram basis, and lacked marked effects on infranodal (HV interval) conduction.
(13) As little as 50 pmol of alpha-ketoisovaleric was detected in assays using cell-free extracts from Escherichia coli, whose measured specific activity was 8 mumol of alpha-ketoisovaleric acid produced per hour per milligram protein.
(14) The results are described of a meta-analysis of seven randomized trials that compared the clinical effects of the standard solution of WHO oral rehydration salts (ORS), containing 20 milligrams of glucose, and experimental ORS solutions, containing glycine, on 643 children with acute noncholera diarrhoea.
(15) Although its total activity appeared to be reduced about 30 percent at the end of this time, the bound enzyme produced approximately 200 milligrams of porphobilinogen each day, and about 5 grams of the pyrrole were isolated.
(16) GGT-inducing ability (per milligram protein) ranked the 7 preparations in the same order as did their proliferative effect (number of colonies per milligram protein) in the standard mouse bone marrow agar culture system.
(17) Fifty milligrams atenolol had a greater effect than 80 mg propranolol and was as effective as 160 mg propranolol.
(18) The specific oxidase-activating potency of these partially purified fractions (activating potency per milligram of soluble protein) was 6-8-fold higher than that of crude cytosol; it was enhanced up to 75-fold by complementation with a minute amount of crude cytosol, which per se had a limited efficiency.
(19) The maximum amount of fibrinopeptide A released by exhaustive treatment with thrombin was similar (per milligram protein) for both the patient's and control fibrinogen.
(20) Samples of human serum obtained immediately after smoking also show decreased elastase inhibitory capacity per milligram of alpha 1-antitrypsin.