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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.

Plateaus


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Plateau

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Open reduction and internal fixation with anterior compartment fasciotomy for fractures of both tibial plateaus in a 36-year-old woman was complicated by deep-vein thrombosis three days after surgery.
  • (2) With 50mM p-nitrophenyl phosphate as a substrate, enzymes II and III exhibit plateaus of activity over the pH range 3 - 5 and 3.5 - 6, respectively.
  • (3) Despite the freezing curve assayed, both the mini-straws and the bags depicted much shorter freezing point plateaus as compared to the maxi-straws.
  • (4) Sodium inactivation curves, normalized to I(pmax) values obtained at either the first or second plateaus, were significantly different in different [K(o)].
  • (5) Lp(a) levels are low at birth and rise significantly between 0 and 7 days post partum; in this newborn population, a continuous rise of the mean Lp(a) levels was observed until 180 days, in contrast with the apo B concentration that plateaus after 7 days.
  • (6) Nine had bilateral total hip arthroplasty and one had bilateral total knee arthroplasty for osteonecrosis of the tibial plateaus.
  • (7) For the relaxation reaction, maximum enzyme activity plateaus after 2.5 mM Mg2+.
  • (8) Histologically, corticosteroids significantly reduced the severity of OA structural changes of the cartilage on both medial and lateral femoral condyles and tibial plateaus in operated animals, with the exception of the lateral plateaus of those treated orally.
  • (9) Two binding plateaus were observed when increasing amounts of adriamycin were added to mitochondria.
  • (10) As the number of preventable trauma-related deaths plateaus as a result of trauma system development, new directions for quality improvement in trauma care must come from analyzing morbidity with standardized methods to establish thresholds for provider-related and disease-specific complications.
  • (11) Cartilage specimens from medial and lateral tibial plateaus were analyzed for DNA, proteoglycan content, and neutral proteoglycan degrading activity.
  • (12) The observations that the calculated permeation rate of the micelle should be extremely low, the rate of mucosal cell uptake plateaus at a constant value when the critical micelle concentration is reached at the aqueous-lipid interface, and the different components of a mixed micelle are taken up at different rates indicate that uptake of the intact micelle does not occur; rather, bile acid absorption must be explained in terms of monomers in equilibrium with the micelle.
  • (13) Repeated exponentially decreasing infusions have been used to administer theophylline and enprofylline to show whether it would be feasible to create consecutive plasma concentration plateaus within a few hours.
  • (14) Analysis of respiratory gases during maximal treadmill exercise testing has been used in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) to detect the lactate threshold, presumed to reflect the onset of skeletal muscle underperfusion, and maximal oxygen consumption (VO2), the point at which VO2 plateaus with increasing work due to exhaustion of peripheral oxygen delivery capacity.
  • (15) Intravenous infusion of rh-renin produced dose-dependent progressive increases in MBP during the first 40 min, reaching plateaus and thereafter MBP was maintained up to 120 min.
  • (16) A plot of the maximum percentage increase in the EPSP against the stimulus frequency described three "steps," with plateaus occurring at 0.3-10 Hz, 10-50 Hz, and over 80 Hz.
  • (17) Assuming a correlation between the two plateaus observed upon binding of adriamycin to the mitochondria and the penetration of the drug into the two leaflets of the inner membrane [Cheneval et al.
  • (18) In addition, humeral heads were affected in seven patients and the tibial plateaus, in three.
  • (19) The K+-nitrophenylphosphatase activity associated with mammalian brain (Na+ + K+)-ATPase displays K+ activation curves that have intermediary plateaus and maxima in the presence of less than saturating concentrations of Na+.
  • (20) In dispersed acini from guinea pig pancreas, natural and synthetic exendin-4 stimulate a monophasic increase in cAMP beginning at 100 pM that plateaus at 10 nM.

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