(a.) Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.
(a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.
(a.) Proliferous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) Research efforts in the Swedish schools are of high quality and are remarkably prolific.
(3) The effect of mycobacterial phenolic glycolipids from Mycobacterium leprae, M. bovis BCG, and M. kansasii on in vitro proliferative responses by human blood mononuclear cells from healthy BCG vaccinees was investigated.
(4) In the fimbria a significantly higher concentration (P less than 0.01) was observed in the proliferative phase.
(5) Confirming a low proliferative activity in CN and a high activity in melanomas (MIS, IM, MM), the results showed that dysplastic nevi (NAA, NCAA) had a proliferative activity intermediate between common nevi and melanomas.
(6) The mixed leukocyte reaction proliferative response against the B7 transfectant is inhibited by either anti-CD28 or B7 mAb.
(7) Following BHT administration, the alveolar stem cells (type II pneumocytes) proliferate and differentiate according to a biphasic pattern, with proliferative peaks at d 3 and 7.
(8) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(9) There was no significant difference in sialic acid concentration in the uterus during the proliferative and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle.
(10) To find out whether the deeper inhibition of replicative activity in ventricular myocytes influences fibroblasts and endothelial cells from ventricles, the proliferative activity of non-muscle cells was studied.
(11) We infer from these results that endotoxin ameliorates the cyclical changes in blood cell counts by regulating hematopoietic proliferative activity at the stem cell level.
(12) In diabetic patients with proliferative retinopathy, K was lower (P less than 0.05) than in diabetic patients without retinopathy.
(13) We suggest that radiation-induced specific chromosome 2 rearrangement associated with IL-1 beta deregulation may initiate murine leukemogenesis through the uncoupling of normal proliferative control mechanisms in multipotential hemopoietic cells.
(14) However, cytophotometric DNA analysis disclosed that significant increases in proliferative activity of mucosa had occurred 4 weeks before the appearance of histopathological dysplasia, and 8 weeks prior to development of grossly visible tumors.
(15) Proliferative responses to env were seen in 9% of control children compared with 27% of infected children (p less than 0.02).
(16) The relationship between interphase cytogenetics and tumor grade, stage, and proliferative activity was investigated in 27 transitional cell carcinomas of the urinary bladder.
(17) Although T cells exposed to antigen in B-depleted LN of mu sm and irradiated mice gave negligible T proliferative responses in vitro, low but significant levels of primed T helper function were detected in a sensitive T helper assay in vivo.
(18) These results suggest that HGF may act as a proliferative factor during fetal liver growth.
(19) Proliferative and cytollytical activity of lymphocytes was compared in lymphocyte alloimmunization of the spleen and intact thymus.
(20) The high proteolytic activity of BCC demonstrated in this study may be an important factor in the proliferative, invasive and destructive behaviour of this tumour.
Teem
Definition:
(v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
(v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
(a.) To think fit.
(v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
(v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
(v. t.) To produce; to bring forth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impressive views take in West Angle Bay, Rat Island and the whole length of Milford Haven and Man of War Roads, a 15km ship-teeming passage leading from Dale all the way to Pembroke Dock.
(2) Some of the cultures teemed with rounded microorganisms arranged in chains; Billroth chose to call them streptococci.
(3) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
(4) The story begins with the park open to visitors, teeming with them in fact, and wouldn’t you know it, on the very day we drop in, one of the big beasties breaks out, precipitating catastrophe.
(5) The native grasslands that teemed with marsupials and birds are now an endangered plant community.
(6) KP's government, backed by UN agencies, is currently on a war footing against polio in particular because Peshawar, the province's teeming capital, has become a global health problem.
(7) A few weeks ago this cafe and the square teemed with smugglers conducting their illicit trade in the open, and refugees negotiating prices.
(8) The vast construction site is like something out of Mordor – an immense wall of stone, steel and concrete that towers above a blasted plain teeming with trucks, bulldozers and cranes.
(9) Rooms are available on site, and the nearby town is teeming with guesthouses.
(10) Two possibilities of application of TEEM-test for immunological investigation in multiple sclerosis are discussed: detection of lymphocyte sensitization against a soluble antigen (3 M KCl extracted) derived from a normal brain and measurement of mixed lymphocyte reactin (MLR) after a short-time lymphocyte culture.
(11) The vistas that greet travellers are quite the opposite: Robinson Crusoe islands of swaying palms and snow-soft sand, shimmering azure waters and coral reefs teeming with tropical life.
(12) In recent years, of course, the gathering has teemed with stars, observers reporting even finance ministers stalking them with cameraphones and generally acting like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert.
(13) In The Economy of Cities (1969), Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (1984), Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1994) and The Nature of Economies (2000), Jacobs proposed that the natural habitat for inventive, ingenious humanity was a teeming city, arguing that livestock had been domesticated and arable farming devised in archaic trading and manufacturing cities.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
(15) Nobody knows, for sure, very much about them - how many there are, where they are, how many are needed for a viable population, how they cope with modern life, or, in a country teeming with foxes and badgers, their natural predators.
(16) You take it for granted when you live there, but Wales is teeming with history wherever you go.
(17) Motion pictures were not born in religious practice, but instead are a totally profane offspring of capitalism and technology,” writes Paul Schrader in his landmark book, Transcendental Style in Film, in which he isolates two strains of religious film-making: the epics of Cecil B DeMille, presenting religion as spectacle, with teeming hordes, VistaVision, shafts of light, and strangely subdued orgies.
(18) The capital has become the most cosmopolitan city in the world, from top to bottom, teeming with Americans, Europeans, Australians, Asians, Africans and Arabs.
(19) In practice, the corridors of the parliament often teem with individuals, who meet MEPs in their offices or in open spaces such as the "Mickey Mouse bar" (nicknamed so because of the shape of its seats) inside the parliament.
(20) People have no concept of allowing others to pass beside them on the footpath – assuming you can find a spare inch on the footpath amongst the teeming hordes; traffic is rampant, the MRT always overcrowded, nobody looks where they’re going because they are too busy reading phones, noise of traffic and strange food smells, stifling heat and commercial pressure from advertising everywhere.