(a.) Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Correction of structure mottle helps enhance the image clarity.
(2) Middle component particles of bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) containing small protein subunits with a cleaved C terminus were used to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs).
(3) From the children examined (n = 83; 49 boys and 34 girls; mean age, 13 years and 5 months), 74% exhibited mottled enamel in a slight to moderate degree.
(4) It is known that the copper concentration and copper-containing enzyme activity are low in cerebrum of mottled mice as well as of patients with Menkes' disease.
(5) A 2-year-old boy had intermittent pain and mottling of the left thigh.
(6) The remaining white patterning factor, mottled white (Mo), is sex linked and is assumed to be genetically unrelated to pinto.
(7) The other patient showed patchy choroidal ischemia with subsequent development of wedge-shaped areas of pigmentary atrophy and mottling in the midperiphery.
(8) A family is reported in which 11 members presented epidermolysis bullosa simplex with some unusual features, and 10 of whom had congenital mottled hyper- and hypopigmentation of the skin.
(9) It usually presents as a destructive lesion with diffuse mottled calcification.
(10) The outer wall layer showed a mottled appearance between two electron-dense boundaries of different thickness.
(11) New information is presented on the analysis of bean yellow mosaic virus amino terminal epitopes as well as on the identification of amino terminal antigenic determinants shared between strains of bean yellow mosaic virus and pepper mottle virus.
(12) The brindled mottled mutant mouse, a model of Menkes' disease, has alterations in copper homeostasis which cause, among other sequelae, neuronal degeneration in selected areas of brain.
(13) The chest X-ray film of a girl with cystic fibrosis (CF) showed slowly increasing mottled densities during the 6th and 7th year of her life.
(14) The fried and cooked meat of the most culinary portions of the Tagil variety undergo a more complete hydrolysis by comparison with black-mottled cattle meat.
(15) In hormone-free cells the receptor distributes in a mottled pattern throughout all planes of the nucleus.
(16) These included retrograde hepatic venous opacification on the early bolus scans and a diffusely mottled pattern of hepatic enhancement seen only during the vascular phase of contrast administration.
(17) An inflammatory blush, slow emptying of vessels and a mottled nephrogram with loss of cortical definition are highly suggestive signs of renal inflammation.
(18) The entire fundus showed a mottled appearance characterized by mixture of fine granular pigmentation and depigmentation associated with patchy depigmentation in the periphery.
(19) Disseminated, non homogenous bronchial lines and mottled shadows often with swollen hilar lymphnodes in 46% of all patients.--2.
(20) Another possibility is that the fibrotic matrix in which the surviving cells in the mottled infarct are distributed may contribute to an increase in extracellular resistance as compared to normal myocardium.
Tortoiseshell
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A review of the chromosome findings in 25 male tortoiseshell or calico (T-C) cats showed a variety of aneuploidy, polyploidy, mosaicism, and chimerism.
(2) Throughout the centuries, tongue scrapers have been constructed of thin, flexible strips of wood, various meals, ivory, mother-of-pearl, whalebone, celluloid, tortoiseshell, and plastic.
(3) When they settle on garden flowers they are as striking as their less adventurous relatives, the red admiral and the small tortoiseshell.
(4) The yellow-nonyellow pattern of the tortoiseshell guinea pig is presented as a model for the distribution of mutant and nonmutant neural-crest cells in von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF-1).
(5) The old quarry has been reclaimed back to its natural habitat by Mother Nature.” As he speaks I spot more butterflies, mainly whites and browns and red admirals as well as a small tortoiseshell.
(6) There has been some more cheerful news, such as the comeback of the large tortoiseshell butterfly, which was thought to be extinct in the UK but bred successfully on Trust land in south Devon in March and was spotted elsewhere along the south coast.
(7) When passengers arrive at Kishi station in western Japan they are greeted by a tortoiseshell cat named Tama, whose feline charms are bringing the sleepy Kishigawa line back to life.
(8) The trust has previously sent squirrels to Anglesey, including several offspring of one red squirrel known as Tortoiseshell, who gave birth to 50 kittens before she died aged nine this year.