(a.) Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy.
(a.) In mass; not necessarily without a crystalline structure, but having no regular form; as, a mineral occurs massive.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(3) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(5) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
(6) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
(7) Two patients presented in addition to intestinal manifestations massive extraintestinal symptoms, both with septicemia and meningitis.
(8) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(9) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(10) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
(11) The talent base in the UK – not just producers and actors but camera and sound – is unparalleled, so I think creativity will continue unabated.” Lee does recognise “massive” cultural differences between the US and UK.
(12) There's a massive police station there, and they couldn't do anything.
(13) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(14) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(15) Por the treatment of L.A., adjunction of dialysis and furosemide improved the efficacy of early and massive sodium bicarbonate infusion.
(16) Unlike previous studies where constitutive expression of exogenous IL-6 genes resulted in lymphoproliferative disorders characterized by massive plasmacytosis, minimal plasma cell expansion occurred in the MSCV-IL-6 mice during the observation period.
(17) One patient had massive fibrosis and severe glomerulonephropathy, an association that has also been previously noted.
(18) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(19) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
(20) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
Microscopic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Microscopical
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(2) Light microscopic studies of pancreata from mice sacrificed at this time demonstrated insulitis and beta cell necrosis.
(3) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
(4) It is concluded that the present method for demonstration of aryl sulphatase activity is not well suited for microscopical identification of lysosomes in rat liver parenchymal cells.
(5) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(6) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(7) Electron microscopic immunohistochemistry revealed histamine-immunostaining in granules in a small number of nerve fibers and varicosities.
(8) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(9) Electron microscopic observations of the masseter nerve in the aged cats revealed a disruption of the myelin sheaths and a pronounced increase in collagen fibers in the endoneurium and perineurium.
(10) Widely varying numbers of endocrine cells were identified in 12 out of 64 cases of uterine cancer in the course of histochemical and electron microscopic examination.
(11) Significantly better survival was found in patients with T2 tumors in comparison with patients with T3 and T4 tumors, in patients with infrastructural localization in comparison with patients with suprastructural localization and in patients with microscopic residual tumor in comparison with MRT patients.
(12) At the light-microscopic level, adrenergic fibres were identified due to their formaldehyde-induced fluorescence.
(13) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(14) Histochemical and electron microscopic examinations confirmed that this biochemical lesion was associated with abnormal intracellular accumulation of unesterified cholesterol in mutant lymphocytes.
(15) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(16) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
(17) Total excisional biopsy is necessary to properly assess an adenoma microscopically.
(18) Examination was by means of counter immunoelectrophoresis, radioimmunoassay and electron microscope with negative staining.
(19) Twenty-seven human septums were removed at post mortem, examined macroscopically, sectioned coronally and examined microscopically.
(20) A television camera scans the spread through microscope optics; computer and special purpose electronics process the video signals to generate run length histograms.