(a.) That which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc.; residue.
(a.) A small portion; a slight trace; a fragment; a little bit; a scrap.
(a.) An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of these vacuoles had remnants of mitochondrial cristae or were enlarged endoplasmic reticulum.
(2) Average remnant diameters were 400-600 A and remnants were enriched in cholesteryl esters and in protein insoluble in tetramethylurea.
(3) Tumors were detected in the sutured or anastomosed region (especially the latter) of the remnant stomach in a great majority of the patients studied.
(4) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
(5) However, before an operation, it is difficult to predict the functional reserve in the remnant following massive resection.
(6) Six patients had miniplates used to repair the thyroid cartilage defect after type I thyroplasty to prevent lateralization of the Silastic implant; three patients had miniplates used after hemilaryngectomy to bridge the thyroid cartilage remnants, resulting in better deglutition after hemilaryngectomy; and three patients had miniplates used to repair laryngeal fractures.
(7) Total thyroidectomy removes all visible thyroid tissue although it is permissible to leave a very small remnant of tissue (less than a fraction of a gram) in the region of the ligament of Berry in order to protect the recurrent laryngeal nerve and the blood supply to the parathyroid glands.
(8) On proctoscopic examination, an anal remnant, measuring approximately 3 cm from the anal verge, could be demonstrated.
(9) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(10) The binding of 125I-labeled epidermal growth factor (EGF) was compared in acini isolated from the regenerating remnant following 90% partial pancreatectomy (ppx) and from the pancreas of sham-pancreatectomized (sham-ppx) rats.
(11) As shown in one patient, close follow-up is necessary in any case because remnant tumor tissue may start growing again after a long period of rest.
(12) The in vitro reconstruction of the zonula occludens proceeds from remnants of the former zonula occludens.
(13) The properties of the recognition sites for alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2-macroglobulin receptor; low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein) and beta-migrating very low density lipoprotein (beta-VLDL) (remnant receptor) on rat parenchymal cells were directly compared to analyze whether both substrates are recognized and internalized by the same receptor system.
(14) With the increased interest in autotransplantation of splenic remnants following splenectomy, we expect that this complication may be reported with increasing frequency.
(15) We report on two cases of bladder outlet obstruction caused by massive dilatation of persistent müllerian duct remnants.
(16) If purified nuclei were heated for 45 min at 37 degrees C, the final matrix exhibited well-recognizable nucleolar remnants, an inner network and a peripheral lamina.
(17) To analyze relating factors to early repairment of the surgical margin of the remnant liver we measured plasma fibronectin (FN), coagulation factor XIII (XIII), polymorphonuclear leukocyte elastase (PMNE), platelet counts (Plt), prothrombin time (PT%) before and at the first, third, 7th and 14th days after liver resection in 25 patients.
(18) Compensatory growth of the remnant kidney appeared not to be dependent on increments in renal blood flow; captopril decreased RVR and increased ERPF but had no effect on kidney weight, while indomethacin had no effect on ERPF and augmented remnant kidney weight.
(19) Remnants of each atrial specimen were chopped and added to the tissue bath.
(20) Remnants after "classic" Subtotal Thyroidectomy are of constant size in constant position.
Vestige
Definition:
(n.) The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Conservatives are offering the gay community no new measures to remedy the remaining vestiges of homophobia and transphobia .
(2) Cells and cell lines from malignant rat mammary tumours of increasing metastatic potential and from malignant areas of human ductal carcinomas largely fail to yield fully differentiated myoepithelial-like or alveolar-like cells in culture; however, weakly metastasizing rat cells yield variants which may retain a vestige of the myoepithelial phenotype.
(3) Many bacterial vestiges were probably retained in eukaryotes, mostly those related to the dominant and lasting role of small replicons in all their bacterial precursors.
(4) The pledge to meet the international aid target is one of the few remaining vestiges of the pre-government, compassionate Conservative Cameron.
(5) This was a design clearly untroubled by the least vestige of aesthetic ambition.
(6) The results suggest that the Bhil frequencies include vestiges of the ancestral genepool of a more widespread aboriginal population whose influence is detectable in the gene frequencies of some other populations in India.
(7) This is a case report of a rare tumour of the ovary originally developing from the embryonal vestiges of the Wolffian duct and becoming a pure mesonephrotic carcinoma.
(8) These 18 amino acids may either constitute the unique vestige of a divergent evolution between the B domains of factors V and VIII or reveal the convergent evolution toward a critical epitope involved in the activation of both procofactors.
(9) After a variable and partially overlapping time period, these fibers enter the cortical plate while the subplate zone disappears leaving only a vestige of cells scattered throughout the subcortical white matter.
(10) Romney, dispensing with the last vestiges of respect for the office of the president, said: "You will get your chance in a minute.
(11) The library did not deem it appropriate to pay citizen Burovaya [Skorodumov widow] for the erotic literature, broadsheets and magazines, as this literature presents neither scientific nor historical value to the library’s readers, and is an especially harmful vestige of bourgeois ideology,” he wrote.
(12) "This is a world-first initiative designed to remove the last vestige of glamour from tobacco products," she told parliament.
(13) The cane mouse apparently is unique among the animals challenged so far in these ways in that it seems to have no vestige of reproductive photoresponsiveness.
(14) In all likelihood, however, few PAAs will be shown to produce a single "pure" activity and because there are some similarities in the different SARs (even though there are some very clear differences) it is not unreasonable to assume that many PAAs will produce more than one type of effect or will display vestiges of one or more different components of action.
(15) But there was a nervousness among some senior Tories that Osborne had abandoned the last vestige of compassionate Conservatism and bet the farm on such an unflinching approach to the deficit.
(16) The method is also useful for the evaluation of chronic ankle instability, follow-up examinations, and for the detection of vestiges of previous trauma of the contralateral ankle.
(17) We hypothesize that this pathway represents vestiges of a more primitive C pathway.
(18) The data are compatible with the notion that suppression of clonal expansion represents the primary mechanism of tolerance maintenance (induction), and that the infrequently observed serum reactivity in such tolerant mice represents a vestige of the means whereby-cell mediated suppression was induced.
(19) Just outside the university, vestiges of recent counter-protests littered the pavements – scattered leaflets and bold red banners reading "say no to Occupy Central" affixed to the guardrails.
(20) Along the path runs a silhouetted Pip, the last vestiges of sunlight again twinkling off the water as he passes two unoccupied gallows, a sorry bunch of dry flowers in one hand, clouds smeared across the sky like oil paint.