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Mesa


Definition:

  • (/.) A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1971 the Fountain Valley (Calif.) High School established a program at Fairview State Hospital in Costa Mesa.
  • (2) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
  • (3) The classic Jedi response to subservience can be seen in the contrast between Luke’s first meeting with C-3PO – “I see, Sir”; “You can call me Luke”; “I see, Sir Luke,”; “No, just Luke” – and Qui-Gon Jinn meeting Jar Jar Binks: “Mesa your humble servant”; “That won’t be necessary”.
  • (4) A detailed morphologic and immunohistochemical study has been carried out on salivary glands excised from 20 cases in which the initial histologic diagnosis was either myoepithelial sialadenitis (MESA) or salivary gland lymphoma (SGL).
  • (5) Newborn mouse neocortical tissue was transplanted into the third ventricle of rat brain and the reconstruction and the origin of the blood vessels were investigated by using a monoclonal antibody against mouse endothelial surface antigen-1 (MESA-1).
  • (6) When MESA is precipitated with anti-MESA antibodies, another phosphoprotein of 80 kDa is co-precipitated.
  • (7) Because MESA is localized in the host cell membrane, we examined parasites with differing knob and cytoadherence phenotypes to determine whether MESA expression correlated with knob formation and cytoadherence.
  • (8) Fly to Salt Lake City airport Stay at One of the park campsites, from $10, or at Best Western Canyonlands Inn , from $160 Bob Gibbons and Siân Pritchard-Jones, authors, The Grand Canyon Guide (Cicerone, £14) Ancient dwellings of Mesa Verde NP , Colorado Mesa Verde (Spanish for green table), offers a spectacular look into the Pueblo people, who lived here from AD600 to AD1300.
  • (9) Park at the main overlook at Goosenecks and hike south and west along the old, increasingly rutted road for about a mile out to the tip of the mesa.
  • (10) The other fragrance, isoeugenol (ISOE), and fragrance mixtures, F-07 and F-22, were also found to be weak sensitizers in the MESA and vit A MESA.
  • (11) The mature-parasite-infected erythrocyte surface antigen (MESA) of Plasmodium falciparum is an antigenically variable, high molecular weight protein of trophozoites and schizonts that is located at the erythrocyte surface membrane.
  • (12) Intraerythrocytic Plasmodium falciparum parasites at the trophozoite and schizont stages synthesize a greater than 200-kDa protein, the mature erythrocyte surface antigen (MESA), that is localized at the membrane of infected red blood cells and manifests size polymorphism and antigenic diversity among parasite isolates.
  • (13) Colorado begins in the southern deserts around Mesa Verde national park ancestral home to the cliff-dwelling Anasazi, and climbs quickly into the soaring Rockies.
  • (14) In contrast, parasites from the same clone that were cultured without this selection lost the knobbed and cytoadherent phenotypes, but continued to express MESA.
  • (15) New this year are ranger-guided hikes to rarely visited cliff dwellings on Wetherill Mesa and to the Spring House site, a remote canyon where Pueblo multi-storey dwellings are built into the cliffside.
  • (16) The predicted secondary structure suggests that MESA is a fibrillar protein and it shows similarity to a number of cytoskeletal and neurofilament proteins, including myosin, a protein that itself binds to protein 4.1.
  • (17) It’s not just the landscape – those red cliffs, mesas rearing up against a crisp and empty sky, that inspired Hollywood producers of the 1930s and 40s to shoot westerns such as Broken Arrow and Stagecoach in the area.
  • (18) of Travenol Laboratories, Inc., Costa Mesa, Calif.), a macroscopically read, nontreponemal card test, was undertaken in order to further evaluate the validity of this procedure as an aid in the diagnosis of syphilis.
  • (19) We conclude that the MESA allowed identification of ACD potency for known sensitizers at very low concentrations which do not produce ACD with other techniques.
  • (20) Fluorosilicone-acrylate polymer lenses adsorb and release the most preservative, while polymethylmethacrylate lenses (Paragon Optical Inc, Mesa, Ariz) adsorb and release the least.

Plateau


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
  • (n.) An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
  • (2) The enzyme activity can be raised to a plateau by Se supplements, but there is no evidence that supplementation leads to better health.
  • (3) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
  • (4) The height of this plateau depended on the CS concentration.
  • (5) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
  • (6) An examination of the history of cytotoxic cancer drugs development suggests that this activity is now on a plateau.
  • (7) The kidneys with obstructive hydronephrosis demonstrated a plateau of signal enhancement without decrease (-0.7% within 40 minutes).
  • (8) For ACH reactions the area of inflammation continued to increase at dilutions where blood flux had reached a plateau.
  • (9) The effects of nine intra- and extracellular proteinases and six proteinase inhibitors on the repair of potentially lethal damage (PLDR) induced by gamma-rays in plateau-phase V79 cells were examined.
  • (10) At reoxygenation the contraction force increased with a first peak overshooting 50% of the initial aerobic value after 5-10 min, to decline during the following 10-15 min to a plateau slightly below the initial aerobic value.
  • (11) It is suggested that the measurement of functional residual capacity, closing volume, and the slope of the alveolar plateau (phase III in the single breath nitrogen washout technique) might give more valuable information.
  • (12) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.
  • (13) The PFV technique failed in five infants in whom no acceptable plateau of airway pressure during occlusion and no Trs could be obtained from a single breath.
  • (14) Pretreatment with wortmannin, a specific inhibitor of myosin light chain kinase, suppressed only the plateau phase and had no effect on the initial rapid increase in [Ca2+]i.
  • (15) After TD onset, ratings decreased for 4 years, then plateaued and rose during the 7th year.
  • (16) Free and total plasma carnitine levels reached a plateau corresponding to an average rise of 25% for both fractions, 9-10 days after the beginning of the L-carn diet.
  • (17) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
  • (18) At constant heart rate, nifedipine considerably depressed contractions, shortened the action potential duration and reduced the height of plateau.
  • (19) The prevalence increased rapidly with age and reached a plateau at 70-80% in adults.
  • (20) Further, from the plateau values of the ratios, it follows that the substrates dissociate very infrequently from the ternary complex and that at a low substrate concentration 72% of the reaction follows the pathway in which ATP adds first to the enzyme.