(n.) A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(2) Their contour lengths varied from 0.28 to 51 micron, but unlike in the case of maize, a large difference was not observed in the distribution of molecular classes greater than 1.0 micron between N and S cytoplasms of sugar beet.
(3) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(4) Within the capillary-perfused mucosa and muscularis (between 50 and 2000 microns from the urothelial surface), concentrations decreased by 50% for each 500-microns distance.
(5) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
(6) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(7) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(8) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.
(9) The sticking probability decreased as the cell receptor concentration was lowered from approximately 10(4) to 10(2) receptors per 4-microns diam liposome and as the shear rate increased from 5 to 22 s-1.
(10) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
(11) Of 533 myelinated sensory fibers, the size range was 2 micron.
(12) These extracts were used to purify transcriptionally active 2-microns minichromosomes in a sucrose gradient.
(13) The overall effect achieved with LTS was less than that with LTP, but it is possible to reduce IOP by selecting more reasonable parameters, e.g., a laser setting of 200mW, a 50 microns spot size and a 0.5 to 1-sec duration.
(14) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
(15) We find that the labelled cell has a myelinated axon, but that the axon loses its myelin within 50 microns of the soma and has not yet been traced further.
(16) As early as E-28 many growth cones have lamellipodia that extend outward from the core region as far as 10 microns.
(17) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
(18) In four of them an endothrix type of parasitism with arthrospores 4 to 8 microns in diameter was observed.
(19) The most suitable condition for mucosalplasty revealed the size of the diamond particle to be 200 microns, and rotational speed to be between 12,000-20,000 rpm.
(20) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
Thousandth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.
(a.) Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.
(a.) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.
Example Sentences:
(1) Administration of diet containing MeIQx at 0.4, 4 or 40 p.p.m., representing one-thousandth, one-hundredth and one-tenth of the dose proved to induce hepatocellular carcinomas (400 p.p.m.
(2) One microgram of DNA extracted from formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue was applied as the 'first PCR' template and one ten-thousandth of the first PCR product was used as the 'second PCR' template.
(3) One hundredth ... no, sorry, one thousandth of the budget of a Star Trek.
(4) The inhibitory concentration of BV-araU for DNA synthesis in VZV-infected cells was one-thousandth of that of acyclovir.
(5) With a thickness of less than one thousandth of a millimetre, the “glass” (it’s really a film) transmits light visible to the human eye, while selectively capturing and converting ultraviolet and near-infrared light into electricity to power a mobile device and extend its battery life.
(6) At birth, a panda cub is pink, with sparse white hair, and minute, weighing around 150g or just one thousandth of its mother's weight – the birth itself can take just minutes.
(7) However, the affinity of TRH-A (pD2, 4.70) toward isolated duodenum was one thousandth that of TRH (pD2, 7.74).
(8) Soon the spare room of his south London flat was choked with fridges, cheese presses built from scrap metal, a terrarium pond fogger ("the kind you put in a lizard enclosure"), a bain-marie, and a set of diamond scales accurate to one-thousandth of a gram.
(9) Volumes of individual mitochondria ranged from as small as a few thousandths of a micron3 up to several micron3 for the incompletely reconstructed portions of the largest mitochondria.
(10) There’s tactics, strategy but I understand football as something unpredictable, because you have to decide in a thousandth of a second.
(11) They are tiny lozenge-shaped structures, a few thousandths of a millimetre long, and some human cells contain thousands of them.
(12) If top commanders already feel the war is lost, then the question must be asked for the thousandth time: why are we still fighting?
(13) They cover about one thousandth of the mammalian genome and include two major sets of cell surface products with different but related functions in the control of immune interactions, as well as genes for complement components and 21-hydroxylase.
(14) I hope that they will point out to the treasury that for much less than one thousandth part of total government expenditure, they create not just well-being but jobs; that for the pittance saved by cutting a few percentage points from our budget, the damage caused would be disproportionately savage.
(15) In contrast, the number of possible V region combinations in T-cell receptors is one hundredth to one thousandth that of immunoglobulins.
(16) CO was less than one thousandth as potent as NO as a relaxant.
(17) Agency: 72andSunny Director: Michael Downing BT Sport: 'Chelsea 6 v 0 Arsenal' (starts at 05:38) - UK Chelsea fans will not forget Arsene Wenger's thousandth game in charge of Arsenal in a hurry as they thrashed their North London rivals 6-0.
(18) Maximum permissible concentrations of 125I are one thousandth lower than 51Cr.
(19) Richard Herring is also back for what must be approaching his thousandth fringe, with a revival of his engrossing todger-based spectacular Talking Cock.
(20) It bound to cytosolic oestrogen receptors with only one thousandth the affinity of 4-hydroxytamoxifen and gave a correspondingly very weak inhibition of growth of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line.