(n.) Any trifling ornament for a woman's dress or bonnet.
(n.) A tuft or ball of wool, or the like, sometimes worn by soldiers on the front of the hat, instead of a feather.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Pompon" transformation is not associated with a change in the relative intensity of RNA synthesis: the ratio of silver grain number over the male X-chromosome to that over regions 61A-63F is the same in pompon-like l(3)tl chromosomes and in the male and female X-chromosomes of the normal lines.
(2) Cytochrome P-450 isozyme 4-catalyzed aminopyrine demethylation and aniline p-hydroxylation are not stimulated by b5, as predicted from a model based on stopped flow kinetic measurements [Pompon and Coon: J. Biol.
(3) Human liver P450 NF25 (CYP3A4) had been previously expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using the inducible GAL10-CYC1 promoter and the phosphoglycerate kinase gene terminator [Renaud, J. P., Cullin, C., Pompon, D., Beaune, P. and Mansuy, D. (1990) Eur.