(n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
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Mester
Definition:
(n.) See Mister, a trade.
Example Sentences:
(1) Loretta Mester, president of the Fed’s bank in Cleveland, last week said the time to hike rates was “quickly approaching”.
(2) Gastric ulcer induced in rats by restraint were reduced by 40% (Mester et al.)
(3) Tamoxifen is a potent anti-estrogen in the chicken oviduct [Sutherland, R., Mester, J., & Baulieu, E.E.
(4) This observation is consistent with a previous report suggesting from specific activity determination, scanning of polyacrylamide gels, and cross-linking experiments that each purified nontransformed progesterone receptor molecule includes one progesterone binding unit per two 90-kDa protein molecules (Renoir, J. M., Buchou, T., Mester, J., Radanyi, C., and Baulieu, E. E. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 6016-6023).
(5) The nontransformed forms of the chick oviduct cytosol progesterone receptor of sedimentation coefficient approximately 8 S (8S-PR) are heterooligomers including one hormone binding molecule, either B, approximately 110,000, or A, approximately 79,000, and two non-hormone binding subunits recently identified as heat-shock protein Mr approximately 90,000 (hsp 90) [Renoir, J. M., Buchou, T., Mester, J., Radanyi, C., & Baulieu, E. E. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 6016-6023].
(6) Abortion case studies of two young women revealed that stress-inducing factors (e.g., sudden termination of a complex hormonal process, surgical aggression, frustration of maternal drive) caused by abortion can either contribute to personality growth and maturation and improved social adjustment (Mester, 1976), or to the development of overt psychopathology in sensitive subjects (Winnik, 1969).