(v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
(n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
(n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
(a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
(adv.) In a pat manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis (CMV-associated, 2 pats.
(2) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
(4) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
(5) Both paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT) and left ventricular dysfunction were reversed with administration of digoxin and propranolol hydrochloride.
(6) "It's ludicrous that Caroline should be Pat's boss", a rival agent tells me.
(7) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(8) ), Botryodiplodia theobromae, Pat., Rhizopus arrhizus Fischer., Phomopsis psidii Nag Raj and Ponnappa apud Ponnappa and Nag Raj, and Pestalotiopsis versicolor (Speg.)
(9) In this photometric platelet aggregation test (PAT III) a small amount (0.6 ml) of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is being rotated in a disc-shaped cuvette at 20 rpm, at 37% C. Changes in optical density of PRP which are induced by the formation of platelet aggregates are continuously registered using a chart recorder.
(10) At that time the herbage larval infectivity around inoculated cow pats deposited in May, June and July was subject to a reduction of 48%, 89% and 46%, respectively, compared with fungus-free control cow pats.
(11) The efficiency of NEA (norethisteronacetate) as an adjuvant hormone therapy in 196 pat.
(12) Anyone who can make one of these games deserves a pat on the back – or to be locked up.
(13) The Pat smear was introduced to clinical medicine 35 years ago.
(14) Crucially, the commonest wild bees are the most important, which gives us the ‘win-win’ situation where relatively cheap and easy conservation measures can support these and give maximum benefit for the crops,” said Pat Willmer, a professor of biology at Scotland’s University of St Andrews.
(15) Pat McSweeney – content manager, Movember UK @PatMcSw3ney @MovemberUK Pat curates content for Movember.com, specifically the news section and homepage.
(16) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
(17) A slightly lower but statistically significant rate of repeated tests was found among patients who performed PAT by AMHTS compared with those who performed the tests via the conventional ambulatory system.
(18) Development in faeces and transmission to grass of C. oncophora larvae were disturbed by the disintegration of cow pats.
(19) The direction group also includes the heads of the BBC in the nations as well as BBC North director Peter Salmon, creative director Alan Yentob, chief creative officer Pat Younge and director of communications Paul Mylrea.
(20) We conclude that extrathoracic tracheal external pressure is not Pat because this pressure is probably affected by transmission of pleural pressure to the cervical interstitial tissue as well as by the contraction of cervical accessory inspiratory muscles.
Pax
Definition:
(n.) The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
(n.) A tablet or board, on which is a representation of Christ, of the Virgin Mary, or of some saint and which, in the Mass, was kissed by the priest and then by the people, in mediaeval times; an osculatory. It is still used in communities, confraternities, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) By radioactive in situ hybridization (ISH) using a fragment from the murine Pax-1 paired box that is almost identical to the respective sequences from the cognate human gene HuP48 and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using a complete mouse Pax-1 cDNA, we have assigned the human homologue of murine Pax-1, the PAX1 locus, to chromosome 20p.
(2) Concurrent research has recently characterized Sp2H, a radiation induced mutation at the splotch (Sp) locus, and found alterations in the murine paired box gene, Pax-3, in homozygous Sp2H DNA.
(3) The chromosomal location of all novel Pax genes and of Pax-3 and Pax-7 has been determined and reveals that they are not clustered.
(4) Here we describe the paired boxes of three novel Pax genes, Pax-4, Pax-5, and Pax-6.
(5) Zebrafish pax[b](pax[zf-b]) is a member of the Pax gene family that is expressed in the presumptive posterior midbrain from the end of gastrulation and, at later stages, in other localized regions of the developing embryo.
(6) However, there are some differences in Pax-2 expression between the two species.
(7) These results support the Pax-6 homologue as a strong candidate for the AN2 gene.
(8) The chromosomal location and the mutation in the paired box of un mice in conjunction with Pax 1 gene expression in wild-type mice implicate a causative role of Pax 1 in generation of the vertebral column.
(9) Pax-3 encodes a 479 amino acid protein with an Mr of 56 kd containing both a paired domain and a paired-type homeodomain.
(10) The murine paired-box-containing gene 5, Pax-5, is highly homologous to two other Pax genes, Pax-2 and Pax-8.
(11) The Pax-2 expression domain in the prospective brain of E8 mouse embryos has not been described previously.
(12) Here we describe a zebrafish (Brachydanio rerio) paired box-containing clone, pax[zf-a], which is clearly distinct from reported vertebrate Pax genes.
(13) pax-6 expression appears during processes when cell-to-cell signalling is thought to be important, for example during induction of the eye and regionalization of the spinal cord and brain, suggesting that it may be one component mediating the response to inductive interactions.
(14) We describe the isolation and characterization of Pax-3, a novel murine paired box gene expressed exclusively during embryogenesis.
(15) Among the genes thought to be involved in patterning the nervous system are a family of developmentally regulated paired box-containing (Pax) genes.
(16) However, normal v-Myb- and c-Myb-expressing CNR cells all express the pax-QNR gene, a newly described paired and homeobox-containing gene specifically expressed in the neuroretina.
(17) The brain, the optic stalk, the auditory vesicle, the pronephros, and single cells in the spinal cord and the hindbrain express Pax-2 in both species.
(18) Mutations in Pax-6 have been described previously in Small eye, the proposed mouse model for aniridia.
(19) To date five murine paired box-containing genes (Pax genes) have been described and one, Pax-1, has been associated with the developmental mutant phenotype undulated.
(20) However, a region of homology to the N-terminal half of paired-type homeoboxes is detected C-terminal to the pax[zf-b] paired domain.