(a.) In a dying state; dying; at the point of death.
(n.) A dying person.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the genius of the High Line was to revive and repurpose a decaying piece of legacy infrastructure, and by doing so to revitalise several moribund districts of Manhattan, whereas the garden bridge would be new-build in an already vibrant part of London.
(2) Moribund animals exhibited a suppurative necrotizing bronchopneumonia and necrotizing tracheitis.
(3) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
(4) Twenty-two patients with advanced metastatic carcinoid disease, most of whom were moribund were subjected to oral administration of 200 mg of 5-fluorotryptophan three times daily.
(5) One of the 2 pigs given 10(5) oocysts became moribund because of toxoplasmosis and was euthanatized 9 days after inoculation.
(6) Homozygous animals died at 3 to 4 weeks of age, while heterozygous males were severely ill or moribund within about 6 months.
(7) None of these changes was seen in the RBCs, spleens and livers from moribund and dead hamsters suffering from non-haemoglobinaemic disease resulting from infection with Leptospira interrogans serovar pomona.
(8) With the recent push for improvement in emergency medical services and specialized trauma centers for this age group, more moribund patients can be expected to reach these centers.
(9) Docherty, the Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife, told Radio 4’s World at One: “We have a moribund party in Scotland that seems to think that infighting is more important than campaigning.
(10) Groups of rats were sacrificed at 20, 33, and 52 weeks, while some were sacrificed while moribund.
(11) The detection of PGL-I in the plasma samples collected from moribund armadillos suggested that high concentrations of PGL-I in the plasma may have contributed to a drop in absorbance values by the formation of non-lattice-type immune complexes in vivo.
(12) All five seronegative calves died or were euthanized in a moribund state between days 5 and 7 of the trial, whereas all five seropositive animals remained healthy throughout the study.
(13) On admission, all appeared moribund, presenting with deep coma, pupils bilaterally dilated and fixed, decerebrate posture, and markedly abnormal respiratory patterns.
(14) Twenty-nine were bleeding too rapidly to resuscitate adequately and required emergency operation while in a moribund state.
(15) In the liver of C3H mice, virus multiplied exponentially after inoculation, attaining 10(6) PFU at moribund stage, while virus multiplication in DDD mice was much less prominent decreasing remarkably at day 5 or later.
(16) Autoradiography showed that uninfected Kupffer cells and splenic macrophages of moribund mice could still phagocytose Listeria, suggesting that MLM infection did not affect the capacity of Listeria to localize to macrophages but interfered in some way with subsequent killing of such bacteria.
(17) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
(18) A moribund newborn infant with propionic acidaemia and severe hyperammonaemia was successfully treated by peritoneal dialysis.
(19) Consumer confidence has bounced back; the long-moribund housing market has been coaxed back to life even outside the capital; and retail sales are rising, helped by all the carpets and kitchens homebuyers need to kit out their new nests.
(20) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
Nascent
Definition:
(a.) Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
(a.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
Example Sentences:
(1) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
(2) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(3) In this study we have compared purified C4A and C4B with regard to their ability to prevent immune complex precipitation and to enhance the binding of both preformed and nascent immune complexes to the receptor CR1 on red cells.
(4) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
(5) The translocation of nascent PtdSer to the mitochondria was unaffected by 45-fold dilution of the standard reaction thus indicating that the translocation intermediate was unlikely to be a freely diffusible complex.
(6) Treatment with 0.3 microM or 0.7 microM BPDE-I, which are doses that interfere with DNA synthesis in operating replicons in asynchronous cells, also inhibited the growth of nascent DNA strands in synchronized cells by 22 and 64%, respectively.
(7) Some characteristics of the termination process and release of nascent polypeptides from yeast ribosomes are discussed.
(8) By fractionating [3H]methionine-labeled nascent catalase according to chain length, it was found that peptides of shorter chain length contained more N-terminal methionine relative to total methionine incorporated.
(9) This intermediate compartment contained only small amounts of cathepsin L in comparison to lysosomes and was bound by a double membrane, typical of nascent vacuoles.
(10) Acta 910, 149-156) occurred preferentially in nascent chromatin as indicated by a retarded solubilization of nascent chromatin and generation of a fast-sedimenting material (above 45 S) in the sedimentation profiles of drug-released nascent chromatin.
(11) His formal entry into the contest marks a key moment in the nascent race for the Republican nomination, which is set to be the most congested presidential primary either party has held since 1976.
(12) A 37 kDa nascent polypeptide (37 LRP), predicted by a full length cDNA clone and obtained by in vitro translation of hybrid-selected laminin receptor mRNA, has been immunologically identified in cancer cell extracts as the putative precursor of the 67 LR.
(13) The material responsible for nascent adsorbability seems to be a fragment of the host's cell wall, for nascent adsorbability is destroyed by lysozyme.
(14) If I’m the bad guy because I’m not the guy they want me to be, then so be it.” Over the last year he resolved his promotional woes in court and has since signed with Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports – along with Miguel Cotto the nascent sports agency’s highest-profile signing in boxing.
(15) In transfected COS cells, antibody to fibrinogen co-immunoprecipitated B beta chain and 78 kDa immunoglobulin-binding protein (BiP) and antibody to BiP immunoprecipitated BiP and nascent B beta chains.
(16) It was found that SRP can still bring about an arrest as late as when an average of two-thirds of nascent IgG light chain was completed.
(17) This resulted in proportionate increases in the content of these lipid constituents compared with that of triacylglycerol in the nascent VLDL.
(18) Thus, the interaction of purified SII with an elongation complex containing only the polymerase, the template, and the nascent transcript can change the termination properties of RNA polymerase II and can effect read-through of a region that blocks elongation in the cell.
(19) The results indicate that sialic acid is incorporated only in nascent thyroglobulin and not in thyroglobulin molecules already secreted into the follicular lumen.
(20) The evidence suggests that nascent catalase contains less heme than the completed molecule; further addition of heme to this intermediate seems to occur in the cytosol, and possibly also in peroxisomes.