(superl.) Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.
(superl.) Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.
(superl.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, // 10, 11.
(n.) Middle.
(prep.) See Amid.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
(2) Basal 20 alpha DHP levels remained low until a sharp rise at mid pro-oestrus.
(3) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(4) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
(5) Patients with MID, but not those with DAT, exhibited correlations between enlargement of the third and lateral ventricles and severity of cognitive impairment.
(6) Meanwhile, Hunt has been accused of backtracking on a key recommendation in the official report into Mid Staffs.
(7) Hatching commenced in early October (after 23 wk), when air and water temperatures decreased to 20 and 15 degrees C, respectively, and continued until mid-December (32 wk) in the field.
(8) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(9) Heptathletes peak in their mid-to-late twenties – two Olympic cycles away yet for Johnson-Thompson – so what would she like to achieve in London?
(10) Robert Francis QC's official report in February on the Mid Staffordshire care scandal, in which an estimated 400 to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily at Stafford hospital between 2005 and 2008, called for the NHS to make "zero harm" its objective.
(11) It was found that within the dorsal part of the well known pressor area there is a narrow strip, 2.5 mm lateral from the mid line, starting ventral to the inferior colliculus and ending in the medulla close to the floor of the IV ventricle, from which vasodilatation in skeletal muscles is selectively obtained.
(12) But for the mid Atlantic, the models showed that only human-driven global warming could explain the increase in saltiness – the first time such an explicit link has been made between climate change and salinity.
(13) Another 300-350 civilians had been killed and 600-650 injured from late January to mid-April.
(14) A Teflon cylinder was placed in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery to create a 33% stenosis.
(15) Recombination activity was found to be low in G1 and to rise 10- to 15-fold, peaking in early to mid-S phase.
(16) His bundle recordings and premature atrial stimulation from coronary sinus, mid-right atrium and high-right atrium were performed in a patient with repetitive supraventricular tachycardias.
(17) But when in mid-October two of the artists received death threats, the menaces were widely reported and rekindled debate, prompting vicious, anti-Muslim comments on Danish talk shows.
(18) The plans would eventually double the numbers of passengers at the Sussex airport, which believes its current capacity to grow from 34 million to 45 million with a single runway will see it through until the mid-2020s.
(19) In proliferative retinopathy, the mid-vitreous fluorophotometry readings were abnormally increased, correlating well with the extent of the peripheral angiographic changes (neovascularization).
(20) The 0.3 M NaCl intake of the high NaCl-exposed rats was also significantly greater than the intake of the mid and low NaCl-exposed rats.
Mil
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A variety of homobifunctional crosslinking agents have been used to gain insight into the nature of the murine interleukin 3 (mIL-3) receptor.
(2) We have previously shown that a spontaneous mutant of MH2 (PA200-MH2), expressing only the v-mil oncogene, is able to induce proliferation of quiescent neuroretina cells.
(3) Recombinant mIL 1 beta, administered as a single i.v.
(4) In contrast, after induction of tumors in quail with mil-deficient MH2 viral stocks, a majority of the tumor DNAs contained mil+ proviruses, suggesting that there is selection for retention of the v-mil gene in vivo and that the mil protein may play a role in the oncogenicity of MH2 virus.
(5) The prevalence of myasthenia gravis (MG) in Finland was 264 patients per 4.7 mil.
(6) By phase separation and analysis, tie-lines for the constituent phase in the two-phase zone demonstrated that the mixed micelles were saturated with MIL and Ch and the coexisting vesicles were saturated with MBS, but not with Ch.
(7) Both rheologically effective substances show side effects, but they lie in the per-mil-range.
(8) There are differences, however, between MIL and MIB in the sequence organization of their unconventional C-terminal domains.
(9) TA-2 also inhibited adhesion to EC activated with mIL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and LPS, and the adhesion of spleen T cells to activated EC.
(10) Single subcutaneous injections of a mineral oil adjuvant vaccine containing 20 mg dry weight of Campylobacter fetus subsp fetus biotype venerealis cells and 20 mg dry weight of C. fetus subsp fetus biotype intermedius cells per 5 mil dose protected 2- and 3-year-old heifers and 3- and 4-year-old cows against genital infection with either organism.
(11) The inhibition of mIL-1 expression was noted in response to both autoreactive T-cell lines specific for class I or class II MHC determinants as well as bacterial endotoxin.
(12) Intracellular processing studies carried out in the presence and absence of methylamine suggested that mIL-3 is cleaved at two specific sites before its complete digestion within lysosomes.
(13) Ternary lipid systems were composed of a physiological mixture of bile salts (BS), mixed intestinal lipids (MIL), principally partially ionized fatty (oleic) acid (FA) plus racemic monooleylglycerol (MG), and cholesterol (Ch), all at fixed aqueous-electrolyte concentrations, pH, temperature, and pressure.
(14) Murine interleukin-3 (mIL-3) is a lymphokine that stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of both pluripotent hemopoietic stem cells and their committed progeny.
(15) In dogs pretreated with total spinal anesthesia or phenoxybenzamine, MIL significantly decreased both MCP and TPR.
(16) MIL shifted the right ventricular output curve to the left and upward and shifted the venous return curve to the left and rotated it clockwise.
(17) In a totally serum-free culture condition, mIL-7 produced a similar cellular proliferation, whereas hIL-7 was much less effective.
(18) The hemodynamic response to Mil was also examined in rats treated with the ACE inhibitor.
(19) Using albumin as a molecular clock, we estimated B. bombina and B. variegata diverged within the last million years, whereas the B. orientalis lineage diverged roughly 10-12 mil yr ago.
(20) Two distinct c-mil-related cDNA clones have been isolated from a chicken embryo cDNA library.