(n.) An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers, etc., are organs of government.
(n.) A natural part or structure in an animal or a plant, capable of performing some special action (termed its function), which is essential to the life or well-being of the whole; as, the heart, lungs, etc., are organs of animals; the root, stem, foliage, etc., are organs of plants.
(n.) A component part performing an essential office in the working of any complex machine; as, the cylinder, valves, crank, etc., are organs of the steam engine.
(n.) A medium of communication between one person or body and another; as, the secretary of state is the organ of communication between the government and a foreign power; a newspaper is the organ of its editor, or of a party, sect, etc.
(n.) A wind instrument containing numerous pipes of various dimensions and kinds, which are filled with wind from a bellows, and played upon by means of keys similar to those of a piano, and sometimes by foot keys or pedals; -- formerly used in the plural, each pipe being considired an organ.
(v. t.) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs; to organize.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(5) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
(6) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
(7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(8) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(9) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(10) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(11) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(12) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(13) The causative organisms included viruses, fungi, and bacteria of both high and low pathogenicity.
(14) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(15) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(16) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(17) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(18) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(19) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(20) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
Organist
Definition:
(n.) One who plays on the organ.
(n.) One of the priests who organized or sung in parts.
Example Sentences:
(1) To recap, Beach House formed in 2004 when French-born Victoria, a theatre graduate, vocalist and organist, finished her studies and moved to Baltimore to pursue a music project with an old friend.
(2) 1.17am BST Seventh Inning Stretch Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Boston Red Sox organist Josh Kantor is great and he takes requests during games.
(3) Also there was Roger “The Organist Entertains” Sterling who, in a couple of wonderful little scenes, connected with Peggy for the first time over a glasses of Cinzano.
(4) • Before the service starts at 11am, Richard Moore, organ scholar, and Timothy Wakerell, sub-organist, will play a selection of works by British composers including Edward Elgar, Thomas Tallis, Hubert Parry and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
(5) The inquiry will look at "the extent of unlawful or improper conduct within News International and other newspaper organistions", the way the police first investigated the phone-hacking scandal and whether police officers received corrupt payments.
(6) So we started a second magazine called Home Organist.
(7) The Congress party, which ruled Delhi for 15 years until 2013, did not retain a single seat, a crushing blow for an organistion which appears increasingly marginal to Indian politics.
(8) Formistic and mechanistic research designs, characterized by single-category, single-cause, single-effect models, gradually are being replaced by contextual and organistic research designs that feature multi-category, multi-cause, and multi-effect interactional models.
(9) He had learned to read and write language as well as read and write music in braille, ultimately becoming a famous organist and composer.
(10) Head Royal College of Organists Academy Organ School.
(11) He had music lessons from the age of seven and later studied under Clifford Hartley, the organist and choirmaster of Bishopwearmouth church.
(12) Organist and director of Music St. Mary’s Church, Tenby.
(13) If there is any organistation out there interested in joining Insecurity Insight, please get in touch .
(14) Hemostatic regulation is employed to illustrate the applications of organistic concepts to biological research.
(15) The UK’s stance towards domestic workers was criticised when it became one of eight countries, including El Salvador and Sudan, not to vote in favour of a new International Labour Organistion (ILO) convention giving domestic workers the same legal protection afforded to other workers.
(16) He was a passionate photographer, an expert ultra-light airplane pilot, and a good organist.
(17) She remembers her fiancé, David Lepine, the young organist at Coventry Cathedral, as "a genius".
(18) Professional organist Nigel Allcoat, a magistrate for 15 years, said he was despairing at the mounting fines and costs being accrued by an asylum seeker at Leicester magistrates court.