(n.) A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
(n.) Same as Plasma.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with abnormal glucose tolerance showed significantly lower plasms immunoreactive insulin concentrations at 30 min and 60 min after the glucose load compared with patients with normal glucose tolerance.
(2) Long-term storage and utilization of cryopreserved germ plasm could extend the population's generation length and allow higher levels of genetic variation to be maintained in smaller populations.
(3) The present research was carried out for the purpose of collecting part of the germ plasm of grain amaranth in Guatemala, as well as to evaluate it in terms of yield, chemical composition and nutritive value.
(4) A correlation analysis was undertaken of the relation of plasma peak level and the dose of lithium to a number of lithium induced changes: Increase in urine volume, weight gain, decrease in plasm phosphate, increase in plasma magnesium, decrease in plasma urea, increase in plasma alkaline phosphatase, increase in urinary pH.
(5) Human and animal blood plasm precallikrein was studied as activated by the high-dispersed preparations of silica (aerosils) which carry on their surface various chemically grafted organic radicals.
(6) Repeat examination of blood from the three fallow deer for 30 days postexposure failed to reveal observable piro-plasms.
(7) Thus the oocyte nucleus is required as late as stage 9 for dorsoventral patterning within the follicle cells and for polar plasm assembly in the oocyte.
(8) The amount of germ plasm was related positively to the number of GPCCs at the 8-cell stage and to the resulting number of PGCs; embryos which contained larger amounts of germ plasm developed larger numbers of PGCs at stage 47.
(9) Occasionally pole cells were formed outside the area of the originally irradiated pole plasm.
(10) It is shown that on polymeric substrates containing no trypsin, the growth character and dynamics of the fibroblastic elements are similar on the whole to these indices for cultures grown in the plasm clot without the substrate.
(11) Repeated plasm exchanges were performed in a 44-year-old man with Goodpasture syndrome, also treated with cyclophosphamide and prednisone.
(12) Measurements of the volume of germ plasm suggest that there is no change through cleavage.
(13) Against a background of vitamin C deficiency administration of ACTH does not cause any deviations in the level of catecholamines in tissues, of 11-oxycorticosteroids in the adrenals tissue and increase insignificantly the content of the latter in blood plasm.
(14) CRF erythroblasts incubated with normal, homologous plasma, showed significant increase in the uptake of the radioactive precursors, compared to the activity of these cells incubated in autologous plasms, the only exception being the incorporation of 3H-leucine in the proerythroblasts, in which the increase was not statistically significant.
(15) Frozen semen is a practical means of preserving valuable germ plasm.
(16) Indications for electrolytic solutions are given, including blood, platelets, plasms, albumin, dextran and manitol.
(17) The TRF induced rise in plasm cortisol and ACTH concentrations in patients with Cushing's disease and Nelson's syndrome suggests the possibility of altered hypothalamic or pituitary receptors in such patients.
(18) There was no correlation between vaginal smears and the plasms hormone levels and there was no evidence to suggest that progesterone supplements influenced clinical outcome.
(19) The relative costs and benefits of genetic stock collections and germ plasm collections are discussed.
(20) These findings show that hyperglucagonaemia is a physiological consequence of a surgical operation and that the relationship of plasms glucagon to plasma insulin is complex.
Shape
Definition:
(n.) To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
(n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
(n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
(n.) To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
(v. i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(n.) Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
(n.) That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
(n.) A model; a pattern; a mold.
(n.) Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
(n.) Dress for disguise; guise.
(n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(n.) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) 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.
(3) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
(4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(5) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(6) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(7) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(8) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
(9) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(10) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(11) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(12) The drop in endosome pH increased and the shape of the distribution changed when the time between FITC-dextran infusion and kidney removal was increased from 5 to 20 min.
(13) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(14) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(16) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(17) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
(18) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(19) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(20) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.