(prep.) By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.
(n.) Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
(n.) Equality of condition or circumstances.
Example Sentences:
(1) While the heaviest anterogradely labeled ascending projections were observed to the contralateral ventral posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus, pars oralis (VPLo), efferent projections were also observed to the contralateral ventrolateral thalamic nucleus (VLc) and central lateral (CL) nucleus of the thalamic intralaminar complex, magnocellular (and to a lesser extent parvicellular) red nucleus, nucleus of Darkschewitsch, zona incerta, nucleus of the posterior commissure, lateral intermediate layer and deep layer of the superior colliculus, dorsolateral periaqueductal gray, contralateral nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and basilar pontine nuclei (especially dorsal and peduncular), and dorsal (DAO) and medial (MAO) accessory olivary nuclei, ipsilateral lateral (external) cuneate nucleus (LCN) and lateral reticular nucleus (LRN), and to a lesser extent the caudal medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) and caudal nucleus prepositus hypoglossi (NPH), and dorsal medullary raphe.
(2) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(3) A block of tissue bounded by the ostium of the coronary sinus, the pars membranacea, the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve and the atrial and ventricular septa is removed.
(4) Ultrasonic fragmentation through the pars plana is a quick and easy method for relieving the condition.
(5) These results indicate that the pars tuberalis forms and secretes LH via the hypophyseal portal circulation.
(6) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
(7) A 70-year-old man, a 59-year-old woman, and a 57-year-old woman underwent pars plana vitrectomy.
(8) It is concluded that Na+ channels are only present in pars recta of rabbit proximal tubule.
(9) A medium amount of degenerated terminals were observed in the nucleus pretectalis anterior (pars reticularis), the dorsal part of the periaqueductal grey at its most rostral levels, the caudolateral parts of the nucleus pretectalis posterior and the nucleus of optic tract, the H field of Forel, parts of the somatic cell columns of the oculomotor nucleus and the trochlear nucleus.
(10) Intracellular recordings were made from zebra finch hyperstriatum ventrale pars caudale (HVc) neurones in in vitro slice preparations.
(11) The observations of HRP-labelled neurons in the pars compacta region of substantia nigra following injection of HRP into the STN together with the DA responsiveness of STN neurons suggest the possibility of a dopaminergic nigro-subthalamic pathway.
(12) The ultrastructural study of nucleoli and ribonucleoprotein-containing structures in human seminiferous tubules revealed that the nucleoli of spermatogonia, spermatocytes and Sertoli cells exhibited a tripartite structure consisting of: a fibrillar center, a compact granular portion, and a reticular portion containing both pars fibrosa and pars granulosa.
(13) The elopiform teleost Engraulis japonica was used for a light and electron microscopical study of the follicle epithelium in the rostral pars distalis of the pituitary.
(14) Special attention was given to the portal vascular system of the median eminence and the pars distalis.
(15) Tubular damage was confined to the medullary pars recta of the proximal tubule and only in the most severe cases did injury involve the cortical pars recta and pars convoluta.
(16) With increasing age, ir-5HT first appears in perikarya of the nucleus preopticus (18 months) and in gonadotropes of the caudal pars distalis.
(17) That is par for the course,” Obama said, repeating his argument that he was abiding by a “basic principle” that the US would not abandon its military personnel.
(18) The tonic EMG activity induced by intrastriatal injection of bethanechol (1.0 microgram) was abolished by a subsequent injection of the GABAmimetic drug muscimol (25 ng) into the posterior part of the substantia nigra pars reticulata suggesting that bethanechol-induced limb rigidity is mediated via impairment of GABAergic transmission within the substantia nigra pars reticulata.
(19) Experiences with surgical treatment of chronic endogenous uveitis in human patients have shown that vision-impairing axial opacities in the vitreous body can be removed by pars plana vitrectomy, and that a considerable decrease in the frequency and severity of uveitic relapses results.
(20) These studies clearly show that extensive necrosis of the medullary pars recta can be dissociated from the development of acute renal failure.
Pard
Definition:
(n.) A leopard; a panther.
Example Sentences:
(1) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(2) In contrast to CcdB, the Kid protein of the ParD system induces RecA-dependent cleavage of the cI repressor of bacteriophage lambda very inefficiently or not at all.
(3) The rate of admissions to psychiatric hospitals of patients with primary alcohol-related diagnoses (PARD) has increased from 1971 to 1983 and they now account for 19.7% of all admissions.
(4) Since the parDE operon requires the presence of the parCBA operon for efficient stabilization under certain growth conditions, the potential role of multimer resolution in plasmid stabilization was tested by substituting the ColE1 cer site for the parCBA operon.
(5) The system, which we have called ParD, maps inside the 1.45-kb PstI-EcoRI fragment that is adjacent to the origin of replication of the plasmid.
(6) And then I read another article recently that I am coming and watch over your shoulder Pards.
(7) Both of these promoters are repressed by their own gene products in the same manner in all three bacteria tested, with ParA functioning as the primary repressor of p-parCBA and ParD functioning as the repressor of p-parD.
(8) The ParD protein appears to bind to one inverted repeat sequence, located between the -35 and -10 boxes of p-parD.
(9) In vitro mutagenesis with hydroxylamine of a ParD- miniderivative of R1, pAB174, yielded mutants that were less stable in the cell than pAB174.
(10) The deletion analysis further allowed a redefinition of the minimal functional region as 790 bp in length, consisting of the parD gene (243 bp) and its promoter as well as sequences downstream of parD.
(11) When I speak with Pards tomorrow he may see some other position that he wants to look better of or get a better player for that area.
(12) Determination of the 5' ends of ParD transcripts, revealed that the genes coding for these proteins are transcribed from a single promoter.
(13) While the cer site did function to resolve plasmid multimers, it was not sufficient to restore stabilization activity to the parDE operon under growth conditions that require the parCBA operon for plasmid stability.
(14) The phenotype of a recently-described mutant (OV6), conditionally defective in chromosome partitioning and septal positioning, was originally thought to be due to a new gene (parD) mapping at 88.4 min.
(15) Transcriptional fusions were used to show that parA, parB, and parC are combined in an operon, while parD constitutes a separate transcription unit.
(16) The stability determined by the systems ParD of plasmid R1 and Ccd of plasmid F is due to the concerted action of two proteins, a cytotoxin and an antagonist of this function.
(17) In this paper we report that CcdA and Kis proteins, the antagonists of the Ccd and ParD systems respectively, share significant sequence homologies at both ends.
(18) The proteins P10 and P12 have been shown to be gene products of a new stability system, ParD, of plasmid R1.
(19) We have now shown that, in addition to the parD mutation, OV6 carries a gyrAam mutation and that this mutation is probably responsible for the gross phenotype of the mutant.
(20) Two divergently arranged promoters located in the intercistronic region between parC and parD mediate transcription of these genes.