(n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
(n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(2) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(3) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(4) Loratadine has one main metabolite, descarbethoxyloratadine, which is four times more active than the parent drug.
(5) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
(6) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
(7) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(8) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(9) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
(10) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(11) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(12) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
(13) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
(14) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(15) Pharmacokinetics of the parent drug followed a two-compartment model.
(16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(17) Bile flow was stimulated significantly by VPA and MCCA, but not by CCA; changes in bile flow correlated with the biliary excretion rate of base-labile conjugates rather than with excretion of the parent compounds themselves.
(18) In both cases a small marker chromosome was observed which proved de novo in origin, since parental chromosomes were normal.
(19) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(20) The majority of the recombinants had received all the other gene segments from the sensitive parent strain.
Placentation
Definition:
(n.) The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals.
(n.) The mode in which the placenta is arranged or composed; as, axile placentation; parietal placentation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
(2) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(3) Under the same conditions, no radioactive estrogen could be identified in adrenal and placental incubations.
(4) Intravenous injection of Cd2+ to the pregnant rat on day 12 causes a dose-dependent inhibition of placental Zn2+ transport.
(5) Stimulation of placental growth by fetal insulin may be an important component of the fetal growth stimulatory effect of endogenous insulin.
(6) Significantly more PP12 (P less than 0.001) was released into the medium from decidual explants than from chorion and amnion explants throughout the experimental period of 24 h. When incubated under identical conditions, placental explants released no detectable PP12.
(7) We suggest trans-placental sensitization as one of several possible interpretations of this finding.
(8) Anti-synthetic HIRP(957-980) serum HIR-27 was proved to cross-react with HIRP-related proteins in solubilized human placental membranes.
(9) Human placental uracil DNA glycosylase was purified 3700-fold to apparent homogeneity as defined by SDS gel analysis.
(10) Affinity-purified human placental ribonuclease inhibitor (PRI) was digested by trypsin.
(11) Evaluation of the roles of prolactin and placental lactogen in pregnancy in primates has revealed mammotropic, fetal osmoregulatory, metabolic, and steroidogenic roles, which appear to protect the uterine contents during late pregnancy and prepare the fetus for the changes in nutrition at the time of delivery.
(12) The intravenous administration of ovine placental lactogen to pregnant and non-pregnant sheep produced significant acute decreases in plasma free fatty acid, glucose and amino nitrogen concentrations.
(13) The following examinations could be proposed: in high risk cases determined before pregnancy, a chorionic villus sampling should be done between the 9th and 11th weeks of gestation; in low risk cases such as advanced maternal age, a first trimester chorionic villus sampling or a second trimester amniocentesis could be chosen; in the case of Down's syndrome, warning signs, for example ultrasonographic or biological parameters, a second trimester placental biopsy to relieve the parents' anxiety; in high risk cases such as ultrasonographic malformations, late placental biopsy or cordocentesis.
(14) Thermostability of placental catalase increases with prenatal development, while the enzyme from fetal liver remains moderately heat-stable throughout the gestation.
(15) Due to placental insufficiency a cesarean section had to be performed in the 31st week of gestation.
(16) The most remarkable finding is that activation by N-ethylaminoethanol is much more pronounced, in the case of the intestinal and placental isoenzymes, than is activation by diethanolamine.
(17) Significant correlations were observed between m-AFP and fetal weight and PAMP-2 and placental weight.
(18) In contrast to many eutherian (placental) species, this marsupial was found to lack histamine in blood leukocytes and platelets.
(19) Polymorphism of PGM1 and PGM3 types was investigated in placental extracts from 127 unrelated Japanese parturients living in Yamanashi Prefecture.
(20) Rabbit antiserum against highly purified high-molecular-weight B-variant of human placental alkaline phosphatase (M.W.