(n.) Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
(n.) A part showing the figure or quality of the whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
(n.) Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.
(n.) Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
(n.) Something made after a model; a copy.
(n.) Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.
(n.) A full-sized model around which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from the mold without injuring it.
(v. t.) To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
(v. t.) To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) A change in the pattern of care of children with IDDM, led to a pronounced decrease in hospital use by this patient group.
(4) These eight large plasmids had indistinguishable EcoRI restriction patterns.
(5) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
(6) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(7) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
(8) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(9) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
(10) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
(11) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(12) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(13) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(14) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(15) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
(16) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(17) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(18) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
(19) The pattern and intensity were followed up for up to 15 days.
(20) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.
Spectrometer
Definition:
(n.) A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.
Example Sentences:
(1) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
(2) The pyrolytic conversion of N-protected peptide dimethyltrideuteromethyl anilinium salts to their methyl esters in the direct insertion probe of a mass spectrometer was found to be most suitable for the derivatization of such dipeptide mixtures.
(3) Features of this spectrometer which make it more suitable than the previously employed scintillation spectrometers for the observation of granulocyte and other chemiluminescent systems include; (1) the ability to measure CL immediately upon reaction initiation; (2) simplicity of photomultiplier tube exchange; and (3) built-in optical filter holders for spectral analysis.
(4) The persistency of elution over long time after subsequent transfer to fresh water was calculated at 210 nm absorbance with ultra violet spectrometer.
(5) This investigation was designed to determine the accuracy of a clinical system, which included 12 ICU bedside stations monitored by a medical mass spectrometer (Perkin-Elmer RMS III, Pomona, CA).
(6) It uses neutron irradiation and subsequent measurements of helium 3 and helium 4 in a static mass spectrometer.
(7) The aim of this study is to employ an energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDS) in developing a computer software system for the quantitative analysis of elemental concentrations in biological specimens.
(8) The mixture is lyophilized, converted into the penta-trimethylsilyl-methyloxime derivative and subjected to analysis with a combined gas chromatograph - mass spectrometer equipped with a MID-unit (multiple ion detector).
(9) The isotope effects are measured by the remote label method, using an isotope ratio mass spectrometer for analysis.
(10) The conversions to benzodiazepines were confirmed by a comparison of retention times on a gas chromatograph as well as through the use of a GC-mass spectrometer.
(11) However, there is evidence using urinary drop spectrometer data which makes one suspect that megestrol does have a positive effect.
(12) Muscle pO2, pCO2, and pAr were measured using a Teflon membrane catheter-mass spectrometer system.
(13) A small bolus of each of the tracer gases was injected within 1 ms into a constant airflow at the inlet of the model, and the bolus dispersion curve was measured at the outlet by means of a mass spectrometer.
(14) Prior to termination of incubation, cultures were labeled with 1 muCi of [3H]thymidine and, after harvesting, assayed for [3H]thymidine incorporation in DNA by a liquid scintillation spectrometer.
(15) A grand-scale mass spectrometer with high mass resolution and high transmission was employed for the analysis of haemoglobin variant.
(16) The ion content of heart tissue was measured with flame spectrometer after the decomposition of myocardium by Lumatom tissue solubizer.
(17) An atomic emission detector, consisting of a microwave-induced helium plasma and atomic emission spectrometer, has been used for the gas chromatographic analysis of pesticides.
(18) Scanning mass spectrometers suffer from the disadvantage of monitoring only one mass at any particular time in contrast to mass spectrographs which allow the simultaneous detection of an extended mass range.
(19) Oxygenation in the tibialis anterior muscle was measured using a medical mass spectrometer.
(20) The enrichment of labeled phenylalanine was analyzed by using a gas-chromatograph mass spectrometer, following a primed infusion of the isotope for 6 h. The whole-body protein synthesis of laying hens fed diets deficient in amino acids was significantly lower than that of control hens.