(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.
Nill
Definition:
(v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject.
(v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act.
(n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
(n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge.
Example Sentences:
(1) His father Giorgios hails from Greece and Nill Kyrgios was born in Malaysia.
(2) Osteoid formation in the osteotomy region was almost nill in all cases.
(3) The relation was positive in schizophrenia and mania, was nill in melancholia, and probably reversed U relation in other psychotics and neurotics.
(4) His mother, Nill Kyrgios, said on Twitter that Fraser’s attack was “out of line”.
(5) The first final I played in I got injured, and having been nilled in 2013 whilst at Hull FC I know how it feels to lose here.
(6) The responsiveness of these THC, PBMNC, NK, NULL, and NILL cells in vitro to graded levels of phytohemagglutinin (PHA), Concanavalin A (Con A), and recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) was examined.
(7) NULL cells from healthy adults responding to interleukin-2 (IL-2) and NILL cells from patients with metastatic breast carcinoma nonresponsive to IL-2 were also isolated by the standard antibodies-pinning technique.
(8) It is suggested that lymphocyte maturation involves alloantigenic changes in a circulating stem cell-drived nill cell, leading to a cell bearing markers for both T- and B-cells.
(9) The mortality is nill for this technique, which is simple and which, for a low morbidity, provides good functional and esthetic results in 87% of cases.
(10) (Green, K. J., Parry, D. A. D., Steinert, P. S., Virata, L. A., Wagner, R. M., Angst, B. D., and Nilles, L. A.
(11) He’s still playing tennis.” Nill and Christos will watch Kyrgios play overnight on Wednesday, Australian time, and if his success continues the pair will likely be getting on a plane to England to potentially watch him play in the final.
(12) The experiments described in this study examined responsiveness of peripheral blood lymphocyte mononuclear (MNC) cells, natural killer (NK) cells, T-helper (THC) cells, and NILL (cells obtained from patients with advanced breast cancer) cells from 10 of each age-matched subjects from 10 healthy adults and patients, 10 with benign breast diseases (BBD), and 10 from patients from each of the breast carcinoma pathological stage BCa PS I, BCa PS II, BCa PS III, and BCa PS IV.
(13) In cases with a preoperative visual acuity of 0.01 or more, significant improvement was obtained in 80% of the patients, and when the preoperative visual acuity was not nill but less than 0.01, 38% of patients showed significant improvement.
(14) Kyrgios is already a star in his hometown which is why his mother, Nill, was only too willing to throw open the doors of her home to the media as her son took on Nadal.
(15) When only clearly defined cases were considered, the mortality was nill in early invasion and merely 1.2% in microcarcinomas with a fictitious volume of up to 500 cmm.
(16) Nill said her son excelled in tennis and basketball as a child before it was time to pick which sport he was going to focus on.
(17) nill kyrgios (@nillkyrgios) I have no comments on Dawn Frasers nasty racist attack...but she is out of line.
(18) The plectin sequence has several marked similarities to that of desmoplakin (Green, K. J., D. A. D. Parry, P. M. Steinert, M. L. A. Virata, R. M. Wagner, B. D. Angst, and L.A. Nilles.