(n.) That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.
(n.) See Mean.
(n.) The mean or middle term of a syllogism; that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
(n.) A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnetism, spiritualism, etc., a person through whom the action of another being is said to be manifested and transmitted.
(n.) An average.
(n.) A trade name for printing and writing paper of certain sizes. See Paper.
(n.) The liquid vehicle with which dry colors are ground and prepared for application.
(a.) Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthesis of choline esterase on the medium with acetylcholine at a concentration of 1% was increased more than twofold upon addition of glucose at a concentration of 0.1%.
(2) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(3) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(4) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
(5) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
(6) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(7) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(8) Systolic blood pressure dropped following clonidine, showing a significantly greater drop for the medium and high doses than for the low dose.
(9) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(10) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
(11) 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).
(12) Resistant mutants can be isolated only at concentrations of 1 M allylalcohol in the medium.
(13) The medium time of admission (8.98 vs 9.5 days) and mortality rate (6.3% vs 7.1%) did not change.
(14) In fact, the addition of conditioned medium obtained by 48 hr preincubation of isolated monocytes with 10% PF-382 supernatant (M-CM2) or the concomitant addition of supernatant from PF-382 cells (PF-382-CM) and from unstimulated monocytes (M-CM1) are capable of fully replacing the presence of monocytes in the BFU-E assay.
(15) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(16) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(17) Finally, it could be observed that elevated osmotic pressures reduced the lysis of isolated secretory granules when bicarbonate ions were present in the incubation medium.
(18) The study of cellular cyclic AMP level in response to extracellular adenosine stimulation in dividing cells and quiescent cells showed that cells in defined medium had a lower extent of response to adenosine compared to cells cultured in serum-containing medium.
(19) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(20) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
Spiritualist
Definition:
(n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
(n.) One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
(n.) One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.
(a.) Spiritualistic.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rural area of Bangladesh with a population of 191,000 had 643 health care providers, of whom 324 (50%) practiced allopathic (Western) medicine, 152 (24%) were spiritualists, 109 (17%) were herbalists, and 58 (9%) were homeopaths.
(2) The discussion brings into bold relief the contradictions embedded in Spiritualist healing techniques and rituals when studied from micro and macro perspectives.
(3) Last week I spent 40 minutes with a telephone spiritualist who passed on messages from four dead people.
(4) The early spiritualists believed they were shedding light on the transition of the human spirit from the physical body to the afterlife.
(5) Using field data from Mexican Spiritualist healing, this article focuses on the relationship between treatment outcomes at the individual and social levels.
(6) The use of other resources such as clergy or spiritualists do not substitute the use of health services.
(7) There the aristocratic owners, Lord and Lady Mount Temple, assembled an eclectic crowd of Pre-Raphalites, spiritualist mediums and emancipated slaves – thereby confirming to Marx and Engels' surprisingly modern-sounding critique of conservative or bourgeois socialism as "philanthropists, humanitarians, improvers of the condition of the working class, organisers of charity, members of societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, temperance fanatics, hole-and-corner reformers … desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois society".
(8) Possible psychodynamic mechanisms are involved in the production of the phenomenon and factors in the successful 'therapeutic'interventions of spiritualist rather than psychiatric or religious healers.
(9) As predicted, the numbers of left-ear suppressions (right temporal-lobe function) but not of right-ear suppressions were specifically and moderately (rho = 0.64) correlated with the intensity of Tobacyk's spiritualistic beliefs and a history of sensed presences and ego-alien intrusions.
(10) These ideas fall into five categories: relationship rescue, will power, vindication, bromide, and spiritualistic theories.
(11) In contrast to the more hereditarian and materialistic assumptions embraced by most academic psychologists, Bruce's promotion of the importance of the environmentalistic and spiritualistic to psychology lent popular scientific credibility to a Progressive ideology and foreshadowed psychology's shift in the 1920s towards a greater emphasis on the environment and interest in the unconscious.
(12) Seeking help from other sources such as clergymen or spiritualists does not substitute the use of health services.
(13) The data were drawn from a 6-year collaborative undertaking between the Lincoln Community Mental Health Center and two local spiritualistic centers in the Southeast Bronx, New York.
(14) wondered the owner of a guest-house in neighbouring Rennes-les-Bains, a spa-town known for its own esoterists, hippies and spiritualists, quick to add that she didn't believe for a second that Bugarach's mountain was an intergalactic Noah's ark.
(15) This claim is then examined with respect to polygraphy, which appears to have particularly strong spiritualistic tendencies.
(16) Research has shown that factors such as migration experiences, low socioeconomic status, and Hispanic values conflicting with Anglo culture (e.g., familism, spiritualistic and folk beliefs, orientation to time) are associated with higher rates of psychiatric symptomatology in the Hispanic population.
(17) The son of a dentist and a chiropractor, Hall became a famous spiritualist and lecturer, and filled his book with ideas about tarot readings , alchemy and Shakespeare trutherism .
(18) It is suggested that purportedly scientific positions and technologies are actually spiritualistic or superstitious to the extent that specific effects are not identified and evaluated.
(19) After having excluded, by this statement, attitudes tending to deny explicitly or implicitly the specificity of Thought and having rejected spiritualist hypotheses as not conforming to scientific data, only two possible interpretations remain: that of the identity of Thought and Matter-Energy treats Thought as the other face of Energy, that of creation makes it necessary to admit a transformation from Energy to Thought (E = KP).
(20) Apocalypse around the world • Hundreds of spiritualists, some in white clothes and bearing incense, descended on the city of Merida in Mexico, near the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, to usher in a new age.