(n.) The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(2) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.
(3) Whether FcR-mediated signaling and receptor-mediated signaling involved in NK activity share specific biochemical intermediates is not known, but the involvement of tyrosine kinase function in the latter means of cytotoxicity may provide novel avenues for understanding the biochemical basis of this perplexing cellular function.
(4) The arteriogram correctly localized the precise site of hemorrhage in this perplexing case, and a complex surgical problem was simplified.
(5) The trauma-ready practice must also be cognizant of the some-times perplexing legal and insurance issues with regard to preventing and treating sport-related injuries.
(6) According to Lukyanov, the Kremlin is “perplexed” by Trump because it’s not clear what his priorities are nor whether he can work with Congress to achieve them.
(7) While treatment of a young woman with a dysgerminoma of 1 ovary is a matter of perplexity, we believe that a unilateral operation should be limited to those women who desire above all earthly things to retain their childbearing capacity.
(8) The most perplexing issues in pediatric dentistry today are related to the management of patients.
(9) "It is perplexing and preposterous to hear human rights complaints from the US, where torture and kidnapping are legal in the 21st century."
(10) It was a wretched goal to concede and the unfortunate truth for Mignolet is that moment reminded us why many Liverpool supporters are perplexed he has been awarded a new five-year contract.
(11) Instead, when we meet her at the beginning of the series, Nyborg is more concerned with moving house – presumably supplying viewers with shots of a variety of stylish new light fittings and perplexing floor plans to obsess over – than a political party with which she is increasingly disillusioned.
(12) I was [looks perplexed]: ‘Where’s the fabulous Madonna ?’ But it was still deeply interesting just to shake this tiny little hand, and say ‘You’re real’, because in the 80s, these people lived on plinths, they never came down to Earth.” This encounter made Patterson realise that celebrity per se didn’t exist.
(13) The implementation of library orientation and bibliographic instruction in health sciences centers presents some interesting as well as perplexing problems.
(14) It is now shown that the perplexity may be due to the possibility that the coenzyme (NAD) required for UDPG-D activity, may be acting as a substrate for a second dehydrogenase, namely xanthine dehydrogenase, which may utilize NAD as its substrate.
(15) Management of the patient with tinnitus is an extremely perplexing problem.
(16) Paul Salveson, author of a new book on the future of the railways, Railpolitik , is equally perplexed.
(17) Prematurity is one of the most perplexing problems in perinatal care.
(18) If chemical weapons were used, the timing of the attack is perplexing, the inspector said.
(19) Perplexing findings of cortical somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP's) for determining the central sulcus during a craniotomy are reported in a case of brain tumor.
(20) As cellular and molecular approaches combine with physiologic techniques, new information will be available to address the clinical issues of luteal dysfunction which perplex us all.
Pucker
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.
(n.) A fold; a wrinkle; a collection of folds.
(n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) As in the protein sample, a tendency for the cis-proline residues to have the DOWN pucker was observed, but the effect was less pronounced.
(2) The ultrastructural findings of the macular pucker removed by vitreoretinal surgery are demonstrated.
(3) Sugar puckers and proton distances are very sensitive criteria to monitor molecular dynamics.
(4) Intranucleotide proton-proton distances combined with the knowledge of sugar puckers have been used to fix the glycosidic bond torsion angle (chi).
(5) High proliferative activities were found in 4 of 5 PVR membranes, in 9 of 14 PDR membranes, in 6 of 11 recurrent membranes after intraocular silicone oil tamponade, and in 2 of 6 macular pucker membranes.
(6) No "flips" to the opposite puckering for this ring were found in the simulations starting from the global minimum, although such a transition was observed for a trajectory initiated with one of the higher local minimum energy conformations.
(7) Thus, flexibility in psi as well as in omega and omega, and in the sugar pucker is indicated.
(8) These facts suggest that astrocytes play an important role in preretinal membrane formation in macular pucker.
(9) The free duplex adopts a regular right-handed B-type conformation in which all glycosidic bond angles are anti and all sugar puckers lie in the C2'-endo range.
(10) All cases occurred in eyes with existing retinal holes or tears, including eight cases of macular pucker after previous retinal detachment.
(11) The conformations of the terminal residues of helix I, which corresponds to bases (-1)-11 and 108-120 of native 5S RNA, are less well-determined, and their sugar puckers are intermediate between C2' and C3'-endo, on average.
(12) Different ester substituents affect 1,4-dihydropyridine ring puckering to a small extent in most cases.
(13) Scalar couplings from correlated experiments and interproton distances from NOESY experiments at short mixing times have been used to determine glycosidic angles, sugar puckers, and other conformational features.
(14) There appeared to be a possibility that this muscular thickening might give rise to the rectosigmoidal mucosal puckering often seen through a sigmoidoscope.
(15) Intranucleotide NOEs from the sugar protons H1', H2', and H3' to the base protons were used to determine the conformation of each nucleotide (puckers and glycosidic torsion angles).
(16) The most flexible conformational angles in the structure are the glycosidic angle and the sugar pucker.
(17) Of these, 89% of the cis-proline residues exhibit the DOWN pucker, while the trans-proline residues, on average, are about evenly distributed between the two forms.
(18) The folding of the polynucleotide chain is accomplished either solely by rotations around the P-O bonds or in concert with rotations around the nucleotide C4'-C5' bond with or without changes in the sugar ring pucker.
(19) Postoperative proliferative vitreoretinopathy occurred in six eyes (10%) and macular pucker in two (3%).
(20) The glycosidic torsional angle, chiCN = -28.4 degrees, is in the anti region; the sugar pucker is C(2')exo-C(3')endo in a nearly pure 32H twist; and the conformation of C(4')-C(5') is gauche-gauche.