(n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.
(n.) A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(3) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(4) The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 5 million daltons.
(5) A stillborn girl, with external signs of trisomy 18 syndrome, was subsequently shown to have a mosaic pattern in both the lymphocytes and the placenta.
(6) Insights into how these seemingly disparate functions may be integrated have emerged from studies that have demonstrated that the mammalian striatum is composed of two compartments arranged as a mosaic, the patches and the matrix, which differ in their neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties.
(7) The majority of variants were found to be inherited; however, at least seven of the 99 variants were not present in either parent, and an additional seven differed from the parental variant by either a morphological change or the appearance of mosaicism.
(8) Microstructural rearrangements and nonhomologous recombination in nondisjunction of chromosomes during cell division are considered parallel with mosaicism as one of possible reasons of genetic predisposition.
(9) Endogenous interferon was produced in animals in response to the administration of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), tilorone and sodium nucleinate.
(10) The results indicate the beta-globin domain is a mosaic of aggregation-resistant and aggregation-prone regions with the latter being associated with H1 and H5.
(11) We report here the first case of a mosaic Down's syndrome in which both clones are trisomic for chromosome 21, one of them (90%) by a Robertsonian translocation (15;21) appearing de novo, and the other (10%) by an additional chromosome 21.
(12) Confined placental mosaicism may play a role in the intrauterine survival of some trisomy 22 conceptions.
(13) The P cytotype-like effects include suppression of snw germline hypermutability, snw somatic mosaicism, pupal lethality, and gonadal dysgenic sterility.
(14) Two patients had trisomy for G-group chromosome and one patient had mosaic trisomy.
(15) The cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35 S RNA is a full-length transcript of the viral genome.
(16) Although only a small section of the site has been excavated, there are baths, luxurious houses, an amphitheatre, a forum, shops, gardens with working fountains and city walls to explore, with many wonderful mosaics still in situ.
(17) It is suggested that the protrusion of membrane proteins into the aqueous phase, the consequent expression of cell surface charge, and the temperature-dependent modulation of the latter may be related to the lateral mosaicism of membrane lipids and reflect the state of membrane fluidity.
(18) One of the precipitating MAbs recognized an epitope which appears to be common to AMV and cucumber mosaic virus.
(19) This delta pro mutant sequence, as well as the sequence of the wild-type sporamin cDNA, was placed downstream from the promoter of the 35S transcript from cauliflower mosaic virus and introduced into the genome of suspension-cultured tobacco cells by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.
(20) Two genes, uidA encoding beta-glucuronidase (GUS) from Escherichia coli and Luc, encoding firefly luciferase (LUC), were used to analyze the ability of a cap, polyadenylated tail, and the 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions (UTR) from tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) to regulate expression.
Tessera
Definition:
(n.) A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transmission electron microscopy shows calcification in close association with coarse collagen fibrils on the outer side of a tessera, but such fibrils are absent from the cartilaginous matrix along the under side of tesserae.
(2) If so, the cap could be considered a thin veneer of bone atop the calcified cartilage of the body of a tessera.
(3) The outer zone of tesserae, the cap, is composed of calcified tissue which appears to be produced by perichondrial fibroblasts more directly, i.e., without first differentiating as chondroblasts.
(4) Individual tesserae develop peripherally at the boundary between cartilage and perichondrium.
(5) Calcospherites and hydroxyapatite crystals similar to those commonly seen on the surface of bone are present on the outer surface of the tessera adjacent to the perichondrium.
(6) By scanning electron microscopy it was observed that outer and inner surfaces of tesserae differ in appearance.