(v. i.) To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
(v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.
(n.) A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.
(n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.
(n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.
(v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.
Example Sentences:
(1) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(2) Of these 30-45% were of high affinity with a mean Kd value of 0.3 and 0.7 nM for GRO alpha and NAP-2, respectively, and 55-70% of low affinity (Kd = 30 nM).
(3) Stage REM frequently appeared within 10 min of stage 1 onset and the normal sequence of stages REM and 4 were altered, demonstrating that the organization of sleep within a nap is quite different from that in monophasic nocturnal sleep.
(4) During subsequent time off, napping and night sleep increased total sleep length above baseline levels.
(5) It is suggested that the modifier site is accessible to NAP-taurine only from the outside whereas the transport site may be accessible from either side.
(6) One service NAPS provides is a clip sheet of publication-ready newspaper columns complete with artwork which an editor can "clip" and use directly in a newspaper.
(7) Screening studies, from the most simple (night-time Holter monitor or ear oximetry) to either a carefully performed nap study or a home recording may aid in deciding which patients require a formal polysomnogram.
(8) Thus a large portion of Rp binding to NAP may represent nonspecific binding rather than binding to a finite number of Rp acceptor sites.
(9) By contrast, NAP did not affect these chondroformative processes.
(10) US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg admitted that her traditional State of the Union nap may have been induced by a glass or two of wine.
(11) Some new data are presented about the clinical pathology of glossitis on the base of clinical, paraclinical, microbiological and virological studies and reliable possibilities of affecting by nistatin-prednisolone emulsion (NAP).
(12) Napping did not affect subsequent nocturnal sleep in either group.
(13) These observations suggest that our method can represent high NAP activity more exactly than NAP score and may be a potential tool in differentiating polycythemia vera from essential thrombocythemia.
(14) The late nap was more efficient in reducing sleepiness during the last 5 h of the experiments (23.00-04.00).
(15) The probable structures of the inclusion compounds of NAP with natural cyclodextrins were constructed using a molecular graphics program.
(16) This paper describes the 200-fold enrichment of the native RBF-2 class of PR acceptor sites beginning with the DNase I digestion of NAP to obtain DNase-resistant fragment (NAPf) containing approximately 150 bp of DNA.
(17) In contrast to G-CSF, GM-CSF did not affect the NAP activity in PMN in spite of the enhanced incorporation of amino acids into PMN by GM-CSF.
(18) Although anti-NH2SPD and anti-NAPS antibodies were identified that appeared to bind 3H-SPD, 3H-DOMP or 125I-IBZM with high affinity, none of the populations of polyclonal antibodies or monoclonal antibodies bound all three ligands with high affinity.
(19) In the dark, this compound, 8-methoxy-2-(N-n-propyl,N-3-(2-nitro-4-azidophenyl)aminopropyl) aminotetralin or 8-methoxy-3'-NAP-amino-PAT, displaced [3H]8-OH-DPAT and [3H]5-HT bound to 5-HT1A and 5-HT1 sites in hippocampal membranes with IC50 values of 6.6 and 18.1 nM respectively.
(20) Using highly purified CTAP-III as the substrate we studied the generation of NAP-2 by several neutral tissue proteinases.
Nape
Definition:
(n.) The back part of the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Total length, nape-rump length and tail length were recorded for each embryo and hatchling.
(2) Cooling the nape of the neck is said to induce reflex constriction of the mucosal vessels of the nose, but there is no general agreement in the literature on the benefit of an ice pack as an adjuvant treatment of epistaxis.
(3) Down's syndrome diagnosis is presently evaluated by some more specific ultrasonographic signs such as fetal nape or femur length measurements and by new biological parameters such as hCG assay.
(4) A pinch to the nape of the neck of mice, by application of a noxious clip, produces analgesia and immobility.
(5) Thus, low analgesic doses of local anesthetics injected into the nape of the neck prevented noxious clip from inducing analgesia but immobility was still evident.
(6) There are typical arsenic melanisms on the forehad-temple-rim where the hair begins to grow, on the nape of the neck, on the shoulders, chest, arms, and on the back of the hands which pass into precanceroses and carcinomas.
(7) The following electrode arrays were evaluated (1) vertex-neck, (2) forehead-ear canal (Enhancer I), and (3) vertex-nape.
(8) A case is reported of a man with a deep nape stabwound completely severing the medulla of the spine.
(9) A heat-stable factor (HSF) purified from the spleen of a patient with Gaucher's disease significantly increased the sensitivity of the rat liver beta-glucosidase to all of the NAPE derivatives.
(10) Passing subcutaneously, the catheters then emerged at the nape of the neck and were sealed by heating.
(11) The binding of chlorophenoxyisobutyric (CPIB), tibric (TA) and nicotinic (NA) acids and CPIB ethyl ester (Clofibrate), TA and NA isopropyl esters (TAPE and NAPE) to human lipoproteins of low density of different classes (LDL2, LDL1 and VLDL) and high density (HDL) were studied by equilibrium dialysis and Sephadex gel filtration.
(12) Intraoperative unilateral occipital artery ligation, with extensive undermining to the nape of the neck on only one side, can minimize the risk of postoperative scalp necrosis or telogen effluvium.
(13) On CT scan a round low dense lesion with clear margin was found in the nape.
(14) However, the vertex-neck and vertex-nape combinations are best for estimating auditory sensitivity because they gave the largest wave V amplitudes and 10-dB lower electrophysiologic thresholds.
(15) An exaggerated unilateral foot-nape posture is held responsible for a complete obstacle to parturition.
(16) The second patient suffered avulsion of the entire scalp as well as the forehead skin and nape of the neck.
(17) Since his second year, the papulonodular lesions have gradually merged into large confluent plaques, particularly on the face, nape, and axillae.
(18) A morphologic abnormality was seen of the nape which could not be interpreted.
(19) The toxoid was injected subcutaneously at the nape of the neck at dose levels of 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 ml in Groups II, III, and IV, respectively.
(20) This study tested the generalizations that cutaneous pressure will elicit immobility, that there is a relationship between the intensity of cutaneous pressure and the duration of immobility, and that the localization or body surfaces, particularly the upper dorsal area or the nape of the neck, is more susceptible to immobility.