(n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
(n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
(n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
(n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
(a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
(n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
(n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
(n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
(n.) To spike, as a cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
(2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
(3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
(5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
(6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
(7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
(8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
(9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
(10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
(11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
(13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
(15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
(16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
(17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
(19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
(20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
Nil
Definition:
(v. t.) Will not.
(n. & a.) Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have examined the presence of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin; 5-HT) in the intermediate lobe of the frog pituitary and investigated the effect of exogenous 5-HT on alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) release from the perifused neurointermediate lobe (NIL).
(2) Two injections of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor blocker prazosin 45 and 90 min before sacrifice, alone or together with the beta-blocker propranolol, prevented the increase in plasma AVP found in SCGx rats 6 h after surgery, and the decrease in plasma AVP and the increase of NIL-AVP found 16 h after SCGx.
(3) The incidence of G-6-PD varied from nil to 17.3%, while that of Hb-S varied from nil to 22.3%.
(4) The basal release of beta-END from NIL was 180% of that from HNC (p less than 0.01), which provides further support for the presence of hypothalamic factors that inhibit beta-END release from the intermediate pituitary.
(5) Hamster (nil) cells maintained overnight in culture medium containing cyclohemiximide and either glucose or fructose exhibit strikingly different rates of hexose transport and metabolism (i.e.
(6) Regardless of the sort of driving force, ATP synthesis was optimum at the intravesicular pH of around 6.5 and almost nil at 8, where ATP syntheses by F0F1 type ATPases in other organisms are most active.
(7) Only the private bank is willing to accept personal guarantees.” Deutsche Bank's $630m Russian fine reflects badly on banking | Nils Pratley Read more In the years since then, Deutsche Bank has been hit by scandal after scandal.
(8) He will not have to buy the shares – they are what are termed in the City "nil cost options" – but they will be awarded depending on the firm's financial performance.
(9) The amount of apo TC II produced by six lines of cultured human cells ranged from abundant to nil.
(10) 14C galactose incorporation into the TCA-precipitable material of cultures of fibroblasts deficient in galactokinase (GALK-) was nil.
(11) There were 8 black patients and 5 white; 10 had a biopsy diagnosis of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and 3 nil lesion.
(12) Between December 1981 and December 1988 we treated 160 patients in this way, the mortality in the series being nil.
(13) The opiate receptor antagonist naloxone (1 microM) had no effect on the evoked release of 5-HT from the NIL or NL.
(14) The distribution of the gestagen given with EE revealed by the whole body autoradiography in normal mice were essentially consistent with the radiometric results in rats and that in the pregnant mice showed that the gestagen in fetus was virtually nil under the present conditions.
(15) 5-HT release evoked by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk from the NIL, but not from the isolated neural lobe (NL) was enhanced in the presence of the dopamine receptor antagonist sulpiride (1 microM).
(16) Fertility (fertile eggs per 100 set) and hatchability (live chicks per 100 fertile eggs) were both nil in the borate-treated hens, compared with 57 and 95 and 59 and 100 for the control and aluminate-treated hens, respectively.
(17) In all three cases, jejunal secretion rate of immunoglobulin A was nil and secretion rates of albumin and immunoglobulin G were increased as compared to controls.
(18) Oxytocin levels increased in the paraventricular nucleus and median eminence following NIL-X, whereas vasopressin concentrations were relatively unaffected by NIL-X.
(19) Severe undernourishment was not as effective as diabetes to reduce beta-END stores in the hypothalamus and NIL.
(20) Measurement of anterior and neurointermediate (NIL) pituitary BE-LI, alpha-MSH and ACTH and plasma corticosterone confirmed earlier results showing NIL depletion of all 3 peptides at 24 h and increased plasma corticosterone concentrations at 72 h in ethanol-exposed mice.