(n.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
(n.) A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
(n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
(n.) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(2) The mites were resistant to coumaphos and sensitive to lindane.
(3) A more regular distribution of these mites on the animals points to the mixing of the mites population that effects the dissemination of agents.
(4) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(5) According to the quantitative analysis between threshold titers of skin test and RAST titers using house dust and HD mites allergens, specific IgE production shall be decreased in the patients over 40 years old.
(6) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.
(7) Female Coquillettidia perturbans collected in northern Florida were commonly parasitized by 2 species of water mites.
(8) Fifty asthmatics, candidates for hyposensitization with the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), went through a series of allergy tests to evaluate the sensitivity of different organs to Dp.
(9) Mite size was only one of the determinants of intermediate host efficiency.
(10) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
(11) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
(12) Densities of mites were much higher in skin regions with severe dermatitis.
(13) The pathogenesis of the prolific mite population is unclear, but either a specific immunologic deficit or the inability to effectively eliminate the mites by scratching is a plausible possibility.
(14) Egg (embryo) production was normal for mites treated with 0.50 krad, but significantly curtailed by doses of 0.75 krad and greater.
(15) Serum was obtained from patients with nasal allergy receiving specific immunotherapy for housedust and mites.
(16) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
(17) The radioallergosorbent inhibition test, however, suggested that there may be no cross-reactivity or, if any, only very low cross-reactivity between midge allergens and mite, house dust (HD), silk, shrimp, or mosquito allergens.
(18) This impressive immunological effect was not associated with any changes in the radio-allergo-sorbent assay (RAST) to house dust mite, or symptom scores; peak expiratory flow rates or histamine induced bronchial reactivity.
(19) In addition to mesophilic species, xerophilic moulds appear to be common, often developing together with mites.
(20) Radioallergosorbent test (RAST) studies showed that IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house dust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus and bovine beta-lactoglobulin were significantly elevated in the sera of infants who died as a result of the sudden death in infancy syndrome (SDIS).
Mitre
Definition:
(n.) A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
(n.) The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
(n.) A sort of base money or coin.
(v. t.) To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.
(v. t.) To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.
(v. i.) To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
(n. & v.) See Miter.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are several new technical developments or plans at the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor (BMRR), the Power Burst Facility (PBF) at INEL, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reactor (MITR) and the Georgia Institute of Technology Research Reactor (GTRR).
(2) There is the superficial gold of the mitre, and then there is solid gold.
(3) Monte Carlo based dosimetry and computer-aided treatment planning for neutron capture therapy have been developed to provide the necessary link between physical dosimetric measurements performed on the MITR-II epithermal-neutron beams and the need of the radiation oncologist to synthesize large amounts of dosimetric data into a clinically meaningful treatment plan for each individual patient.
(4) In Truro (1973-81), full of firm Methodists and Atlantic storms, he might appear at an ordination attired in mitre, ceremonial gloves and gremial (a silk apron-like covering for the lap of bishops).
(5) Detailed models of the 5 MWt Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Reactor (MITR-II) together with a polyethylene head phantom have been used to characterize approximately 100 beam filter and moderator configurations.
(6) He then taught at the Sorbonne for four years, before moving to the position he was to occupy until 1984: mitre-assistant at the École Normale.
(7) In particular, with presently available compounds, the MIT reactor (MITR) therapy beam (a) is not inferior to a pure thermal neutron beam, (b) would be marginally improved if its gamma-ray contamination were eliminated, (c) is superior to a partially 10B-filtered MITR beam, and (d) produces a maximum useable depth which is strongly dependent upon the tumor-to-blood ratio of 10B concentrations and weakly dependent upon the absolute 10B concentration in tumor.
(8) The impressions were placed in a mitre box, stabilized with plaster, and sectioned in the molar, premolar, and incisor regions.
(9) A narrative has begun to be embroidered on the cardinal's magic mitre.
(10) These segments of artery were sectioned at precisely measured angles, using a specially designed mitre box, and the sections were stained to enhance birefringence of the smooth muscle.
(11) Several neutron beams that could be used for neutron capture therapy at MITR-II are dosimetrically characterized and their suitability for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme and other types of tumors are described.
(12) Further optimization work on the MITR-II epithermal beams is expected to improve the available beams.
(13) This tailored 252Cf source would have at least a 1.5 cm greater maximum useable depth than the MITR therapy beam for realistic 10B concentrations.
(14) What is it about a gold mitre, a flowing robe, a flash of cardinal red that so clouds our judgment?
(15) And, lest we miss the point that this is a clash between the individual conscience and an entrenched system, Hare even includes a scene lifted directly from Bertolt Brecht's Galileo: at a crucial point Lionel is confronted by the Bishop of Southwark who, as he dons his ecclesiastical robes and mitre, becomes progressively more authoritarian.
(16) One was able to evade justice, the other denied a mitre but otherwise allowed advancement in the Church.
(17) If the moderated 252Cf source is not 10B filtered, the resultant neutron beam has characteristics similar to those of the MITR beam with no gamma-ray contamination.
(18) Parasitological fauna of Lama guanicoe in the Peninsula Mitre, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, is analyzed in this paper.
(19) Finally, additional plans for further neutron beam development at MITR-II are discussed.
(20) Three consequent stages are involved in the process: the formation of a dilated portion of apical (supranuclear) cytoplasm with an increased amount of organelles; the formation of a temporary apical cytoplasmic mitre (cone); the development of the dendrite system occurring on the background of reduction of this temporary cytoplasmic formation.