(a.) Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.
(a.) Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender; affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.
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.
Parietal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; hence, pertaining to buildings or the care of them.
(a.) Resident within the walls or buildings of a college.
(a.) Of pertaining to the parietes.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the parietal bones, which form the upper and middle part of the cranium, between the frontals and occipitals.
(a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta.
(n.) One of the parietal bones.
(n.) One of the special scales, or plates, covering the back of the head in certain reptiles and fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(2) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(3) Beta 1 activity increased during the first 10 min of KB in occipital and to a lesser degree in parietal regions.
(4) The present study was planned in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the PTFE surgical membrane as a parietal peritoneal substitute.
(5) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
(6) This dye is concentrated and secreted by the parietal cells.
(7) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
(8) The distribution of cells at the stage of DNA synthesis and mitosis in all the parietal peritoneum speaks of the absence of special proliferation zones.
(9) The pineal of certain lizards possesses a finger-like projection that extends toward the parietal eye.
(10) There were no differences in brain metabolic rates in lateral cortical areas (frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes).
(11) 5-Bromo-indoxyl acetate esterase was likewise absent from the parietal vascular cells of the central artery.
(12) Duodenal ulcer patients also exhibit an increase in the number of parietal cells, which results in an increase in maximum acid output.
(13) Moderately higher GLUT3 mRNA levels were detected in the parietal lobe of the cerebrum, hippocampus, and cerebellum than the levels of GLUT1 transcripts.
(14) And the maxima of the alpha-power and of the alpha-peak-power are mostly located parietal instead of occipital.
(15) Anosognosia is a well-known manifestation of non-dominant parietal lobe lesions and typically lasts a few days.
(16) This exogenous protein tracer could be seen in apical vacuoles and phagosomes in the cuboidal parietal epithelium.
(17) Fewer labeled cells appeared after parietal, temporal or occipital cortex injections.
(18) In 18 of the 118 stomachs the focal concentration of the parietal cells near the duodenum was greater than the other part of the antrum, reaching more than 50% of the parietal cells of the average fundic gland.
(19) Histological verification revealed a group with consistent parietal damage but also a subgroup with relatively small lesions to dorsal or lateral hippocampus in addition to parietal damage (PC + HIP).
(20) Cellular mechanisms underlying the actions of antisecretory agents were studied with dispersed canine fundic cells; aminopyrine accumulation monitored parietal cell (PC) function.