(n.) A rounded, nipplelike hill or peak; anything resembling a nipple in shape; a mamelon.
(n.) A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.
(n.) Nourishment or support from official patronage; as, treasury pap.
(n.) The pulp of fruit.
(v. t.) To feed with pap.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
(2) At 1 month after the start of the treatment, normalization of PAP or gamma-Sm was not reflected in the following course.
(3) The activity of GP sulfotransferase was mainly distributed in the microsomal fraction, and was proportional to the incubation time, substrate (mucous GP) concentration and [35S]-PAPS concentration.
(4) The K5 polysaccharide was N-deacetylated (by hydrazinolysis) and N-sulphated, and was then incubated with detergent-solubilized enzymes from a heparin-producing mouse mastocytoma, in the presence of adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-phospho[35S] sulphate ([35S]PAPS).
(5) We propose to call the pokeweed antiviral protein isolated from pokeweed cells PAP-C. 3.
(6) ATP sulfurylases from Penicillium chrysogenum, Penicillium duponti, Aspergillus nidulans, and Neurospora crassa are strongly inhibited by 3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS), the product of the second (adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate kinase-catalyzed) reaction in the two-step activation of inorganic sulfate.
(7) The relationship between mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and alveolar pressures, at varying tidal volumes and opposing variable pressure to expiratory flow, was studied in 14 healthy dogs at the end of inspiration and at the end of expiration.
(8) There was significant correlation between PAP and PRA (r = 0.5643 P less than 0.01).
(9) A large number of immunogold stained GABAergic axon terminals were found to be presynaptic to strongly PAP immunostained serotonergic perikarya and dendrites.
(10) BPH alone leads to significant rises in PAP concentrations.
(11) Fourteen (9.6 percent) had a positive Pap test and 13 (9 percent) carried a cervical HPV infection as determined by the commercially available ViraPap and ViraType nucleic acid tests.
(12) We assayed prostatic specific antigen (PSA) and prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) serum levels in 1305 subjects without malignant prostatic pathology by double antibody RIA I125 to evaluate their specificity.
(13) This study showed that B43-PAP can effectively eradicate leukemic progenitor cells freshly obtained from patients with common B-lineage ALL.
(14) Despite its dominance, the PAP continues to fiercely restrict freedom of assembly and speech.
(15) During the acute phase, it decreased more for trypsinogen I and chymotrypsinogen B than for amylase and lipase, whereas synthesis of the PAP increased dramatically.
(16) However, with severe hypovolemia, marked reductions in PAP may occur with discontinuance of mechanical ventilation.
(17) Ultrastructural investigations involved a novel method whereby thick sections of gluteraldehyde-fixed material were cut on a vibratome and then labelled using slight modifications of a standard unlabelled antibody-enzyme (PAP) technique, before further processing.
(18) The true Km and Kia values for PAPS were both 0.35 microM, while the true Km value for phenol was 2.8 microM.
(19) Short and long term administration of vasodilator drugs to patients with pulmonary artery hypertension (PAP) effects small falls of PAP and larger reductions of pulmonary vascular resistance due to increases of cardiac output.
(20) The distribution of Pap smears during the year shows that the numbers diminished during the summer and rose during autumn.
Porcupine
Definition:
(n.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
(n.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is apparent that seasonal acclimatization of the Cape porcupine is also reflected by these parameters.
(2) The parasites in these and eight cases previously reported from the northern United States and Canada are classified as resembling Dirofilaria ursi, a primarily subcutaneous parasite of bears, or D. subdermata of porcupines, in the same region.
(3) Overall minimal thermal conductance was calculated for newborn and paired adult porcupines.
(4) Trypanosoma cruzi-like parasites were found in 13 different species, and were particularly common in a variety of marsupials (Didelphidae), porcupines (Coendou spp.
(5) The woodchuck had a higher threshold and significantly smaller slope to its CO2 ventilatory response compared to the porcupine, but showed no difference in its hypoxic ventilatory response.
(6) It is suggested therefore that the Caviomorpha (guinea pig-like rodents) and possibly the Hystricomorpha (porcupine-like rodents) should be elevated in taxonomic rank and conferred an ordinal status distinct from the Rodentia.
(7) Aureobasidium pullulans was repeatedly isolated from a cutaneous infection of a porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum).
(8) The Quill Location: Southwark | Floors: 31 | Height: 109m | Architect: SPARRC | Status: approved | Use: student accommodation The Quill What would a building look like if it had a fight with a gigantic porcupine, and the porcupine won?
(9) The results indicate that plasma progesterone-binding proteins in Cape porcupines (Old World hystricomorph) are similar in composition to those in guinea-pigs (New World hystricomorph).
(10) The reproductive tract of the male Cape porcupine is morphologically and histologically similar to that of New World hystricomorph rodents.
(11) The constituent cell types of the ovary of the porcupine were similar to those of New World hystricomorph rodents and accessory corpora lutea and luteal bodies were formed through the luteinization of the membrana granulosa or theca interna of antral follicles.
(12) The woodchuck P50 of 27.8 was hardly different from the porcupine value of 30.7, but the Bohr factor, -0.72, was greater than the porcupine's, -0.413.
(13) This is the first report of notoedric acariasis in the porcupine.
(14) Sled dogs from five native villages on the range of the Artic caribou herd, but not from two villages on the the range of the Porcupine caribou herd, are commonly infected.
(15) Methods used to produce wounds included insertion of porcupine quills, application of constrictive rubber bands, mascara injections and excoriation of healing wounds.
(16) Mass-specific food and water intake of control and lactating porcupines was examined throughout the 68-78 days of lactation.
(17) Sexually mature female Cape porcupines kept under natural conditions of illumination and temperature did not conceive while housed within their natal groups.
(18) The reproductive pattern of porcupines is associated with low juvenile mortality and long adult lifespan (both of which reflect the porcupine's protective morphology), and may be related to the quality of winter diets.
(19) Six of 16 porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) live-trapped in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania were infested with the mite Notoedres douglasi.
(20) To assess the effect of huddling, these parameters were also measured in adult pairs of porcupines (Ta = 15 and 25 degrees C) kept together in the metabolic chamber and the values were compared with those obtained from single porcupines.