(n.) A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
(n.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
(n.) The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.
(n.) One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.
(v. t.) To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.
Example Sentences:
(1) GL-AIa reacted strongly with beta-glucosyl-Yariv antigen, GL-NIa reacted weakly, whereas GL-NIb and GL-AIb showed no reaction with the antigen.
(2) Barbitone and NIB raised the concentration of noradrenaline in two of the regions examined whereas the O2-substituted derivative had a smaller effect; the dopamine concentration was slightly raised by NIB and O2IB.
(3) One of the best staining methods to demonstrate NIB, for example, is to exhibit it as a reddish body stained by Luna, with a contrast of HBsAg counterstained purple in color by aldehyde fuchsin after thiosulfation.
(4) Earlier manuscripts are written with different ink and wooden nibs.
(5) Recall antigen skin testing indicated anergy in the IB group, while the NIB group showed moderately diminished reaction (p less than 0.001).
(6) There were 40 nucleotides different in the coding region, which resulted in four amino acid changes in the NIb gene and six in the CP gene, and seven nucleotides different in the 3'-untranslated region.
(7) In contrast with the high efficiency of proteolytic processing at the NIb-capsid protein cleavage site, processing at the ends of the PPV protease was not complete, suggesting that the PPV polyprotein, like that of other potyviruses, contains cleavage sites with different properties.
(8) The nib 1 allele of yeast confers a sensitivity to an endogenous plasmid, 2 mu DNA, in that nib 1 strains bearing 2 mu DNA (cir+) exhibit a reduction in division potential.
(9) Experimental solubilities are reported for anthracene and carbazole in binary dibutyl ether plus n-hexadecane and dibutyl ether plus squalane solvent mixtures at 25 degrees C. Results of these measurements, used in conjunction with the extended nearly ideal binary solvent (NIBS) model, enabled calculation of the carbazole-dibutyl ether association constant.
(10) Amino acid sequences of the cytoplasmic cylindrical inclusion protein (CIP), large nuclear inclusion protein (NIb), and coat protein (CP) of potyviruses were re-examined in light of reported serological relationships, and correlated with known and deduced biological functions.
(11) Two napins (nIa and nIb), isolated from Brassica napus (rapeseed) seeds, have been sequenced.
(12) Furthermore, in nib 1 strains, an uncharacterized extrachromosomal element can cause a less severe reduction of division potential in the absence of intact 2 mu DNA.
(13) The genetic organization of PRSV RNA is tentatively proposed to be VPg-5' leader-63K NT-52K HC-Pro-46K-72K CI-6K-48K NIa-59K NIb-35K coat protein-3' non-coding region-poly(A) tract.
(14) 2-Phenylethylamine was extracted from cocoa nibs and chocolates and analysed by coupled gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy.
(15) A close relation between NIB and NANBV is highly suspected because of much similarities in histology, histochemistry, age distribution, and electron microscopy.
(16) The sequences of cDNA clones encoding most of the NIb protein, the coat protein and the 3' untranslated region of papaya ringspot virus (PRV) strains W and P have been determined.
(17) During the finishing period, there were no differences in C concentrations between NIB and IB; however, IS had lower levels (P less than .05) than both bull treatments.
(18) NWY-NIBS: Origin: A strain III of New zealand white rabbits imported from the Jakson Laboratory in USA.
(19) These results are consistent with the view that NIB are a good marker for type II pneumocytes in so-called sclerosing hemangioma, and that the two characteristic types of spaces were formed in different ways, thus favoring the theory that S cells are an immature form of type II pneumocytes.
(20) Four anti-complementary neutral (GL-NIa and GL-NIb) and acidic (GL-AIa and GL-AIb) polysaccharides were purified from the leaves of Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer.
Nim
Definition:
(v. t.) To take; to steal; to filch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ver or Nim iv induced significant reduction of MAP and CVR.
(2) Overall, the NIM group showed a significantly better local-regional control rate than the placebo group (46% vs 32%).
(3) A multiple growth factor-producing tumor cell line (NIM-1) was newly established from a patient with thyroid cancer and remarkable neutrophilia.
(4) The National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project aggregated data provided by 53 vital statistics reporting areas--50 States, New York City, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (subsequently called States)--from their files of linked birth and death certificates and compared individual States' total infant mortality experiences for the 1980 birth cohort by age at death, race, birth weight, and plurality.
(5) A detailed mappage of vascular and neuronal NIM binding sites was allowed by silver-intensification of the NIM-gold complex bound to the nervous tissue.
(6) Interestingly, the principle larval antigenic components recognized by pigs were those recognized by the monoclonal anti-sera NIM-M1.
(7) A high-field 1H NMR investigation of Glp-His-cHyp-OH and its diastereomer Glp-His-Hyp-OH, obtained by Nim-detritylation of the key tripeptide, showed that the configuration at C-4 of the prolyl residues is critical for the determination of the preferred three-dimensional structure of the molecules.
(8) Two of these appear to correspond to the NIm-IA and NIm-II sites described for HRV-type 14, although there are also substantial differences.
(9) Nim, likewise, features old footage of a real chimp, spliced with that of a furred-up actor employed to re-enact crucial scenes not recorded at the time.
(10) The effect of NIM and CTX alone or in combination without radiation was assessed by tumor growth delay measured by tumor growth time (TGT).
(11) That conclusion, however, was invalidated by videotape analyses, which showed that most of Nim's utterances were prompted by his teacher's prior utterance, and that Nim interrupted his teachers to a much larger extent than a child interrupts an adult's speech.
(12) However, applying NIM 30 min before radiation and CTX 3.5 hrs after radiation, the ER increased to 1.6.
(13) By comparing its sequence with that of the nonamyloid kappa II Nim, a different distribution of some polar and apolar amino acid residues through the molecule is evidenced.
(14) MABP was slightly reduced, by 8 mmHg (7-9), and 9 mmHg (4-11) after infusion of NIM for 2 and 4 hours, respectively.
(15) Initial alignment of HRV2 with HRV14 based on the primary sequence and the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of HRV14 showed that the most probable position of the majority of insertions and deletions occurred in the vicinity of the neutralizing immunogenic sites (NIm).
(16) The facilitative effect was equal in four cases: (i) making no response (NR), (ii) finger abduction (FA), (iii) noninvolved muscle (NIM), and (iv) involved muscle during treadle pressing (IM).
(17) These results suggest that the relaxant effect of Nim on rat aorta may be closely related to the blockade of Ca2+ entry through both potential-dependent calcium channels (PDC) and receptor-operated calcium channels (ROC), while the action on PDC seems to play a more important role than that on ROC.
(18) No reversal of the previously noted LCGU depression caused by the freezing lesion (Pappius, 1981) was detected following treatment with either PY-108-068 (PY) or nimodipine (NIM).
(19) The effects of anesthetic doses of ketamine (iv bolus of 3 mg X kg-1 followed by a continuous infusion of 20 micrograms X kg-1 X min-1) on functional residual capacity (FRC) measured by the helium dilution method and on the breathing pattern recorded by a noninvasive method (NIM) based on chest wall circumference changes were studied in 14 ASA P.S.
(20) NIM was bridged to colloidal gold sols by a suitable amphophilic detergent, and used according to autoradiographic procedures.