(v. & n.) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.
(v. & n.) Repetition.
Example Sentences:
(1) A large number of recently isolated bacterial pathogens were tested for susceptibility to cephalexin and cephaloglycin by the replica inoculating method.
(2) Due to low numbers of animals in Replica 1, the reduced Leydig cell volume was not significant after TCDD treatment; however, in Replica 2 there was a dose-dependent reduction (P < 0.01) in volume per testis of Leydig cell cytoplasm, nuclei, or total Leydig cell volume.
(3) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(4) We have made an electron microscopic study of replicas of frozen-fractured BHK21 cells (from tissue culture) and of brown fat cells of newborn mice.
(5) Mucosal blood supply in the rat small intestine was studied by the injection replica scanning electron microscope method.
(6) In freeze-fracture replicas the ER was seen to consist of both short and long tubules, some of the latter forming anastomoses with each other.
(7) Subsequent developments discussed include complementary replicas, replica interpretation with stereo micrograph and reversal negatives, replica reinforcement, and control of resistance evaporation.
(8) The replica casting tested was obtained from a human cadaver and indicated some plaque formation along the main lumen and branch.
(9) The bitterling spermatozoon has been examined by electron microscopy using sectioned material and freeze-fracture replicas.
(10) Impressions of randomly selected areas (n = 103) were taken before and after airpolishing and positive replicas were prepared for scanning electron microscopy (SEM).
(11) Examination of apposed replicas and deep-etched specimens indicated that at least some of the IMPs extend through the T. pallidum outer membrane and are exposed on the surface of the organism.
(12) For these purposes, the changes in microvascular structure of the fibrotic pancreas, produced by ligation of the pancreatic duct in mongrel adult dogs, were investigated by microangiography and injection replica scanning electron microscopic methods.
(13) Ten-year-old condensation silicone elastomer impressions and epoxy replicas made in 1979 were compared in a scanning electron microscope at 5 kV with different magnifications up to x200.
(14) Developing chick myotubes in tissue culture were freeze-fractured to yield complementary replicas of large areas of membrane.
(15) Cortical patches and replicas of eggs incubated with sperm for 10-15 min provide evidence that cortical microfilaments may be intimately associated with penetrating spermatozoa.
(16) These findings coincide with the ultrastructure of amyloid fibrils obtained from replicas made by a rapid freezing method.
(17) In freeze-fracture replicas with adherent cortical fiber membranes, MP70 was immunolocalized in the junctional plaques which closely resemble the gap junctions in other tissues.
(18) The secretory activity was established, in tissue sections and freeze-etch replicas, by estimating the volume of the nuclei, the density of the nuclear pores, and the frequency of exocytotic phenomena.
(19) Cilia, primarily of the lamellibranch gill (Elliptio and Mytilus), have been examined in freeze-etch replicas.
(20) The distribution of neoantigens in the surface membrane of avian tumor virus-infected chicken embryo fibroblasts was examined on carbon replicas of cell cultures using hemocyanin-labeled antibody.
Simulacrum
Definition:
(n.) A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theoretically parents go off and let their children navigate this simulacrum of a city state, which looks more like a shopping centre than a city.
(2) I am sure I am not alone in feeling rather "had" by the simulacrum of sex that contemporary culture is whacking out the whole time.
(3) Even more brilliantly, the lie-dream invocation in the trope of flagwaving global unity emerging from feuding multiplicity sunders the ideologically freighted hyperreal construction of a sporting simulacrum that will be familiar to readers of philosopher Jean Baudrillard.
(4) The tourists kept up with their penitential circuit of the site on the prescribed route, while I examined the broken ground where the old visitor centre and the foot tunnel under the abandoned road are being returned to a simulacrum of the natural.
(5) Sure, there's a sacrifice in leaving real tobacco behind for a mere simulacrum.
(6) But even to my non-medical eye, I can see that this travesty, this sub-Barbie, has been transformed into a fair simulacrum of what Zaria had been born with.
(7) He once appeared as a cartoon simulacrum of himself in The Simpsons along with writers Tom Wolfe, Michael Chabon, John Updike and others; and also played himself in Family Guy and a US senator in Tim Robbins' movie Bob Roberts .
(8) Human rights campaigners consider the plan an unacceptable simulacrum of actually closing the facility, as it retains indefinite detention without charge for the residual 56 detainees, the practice that spurred them to oppose Guantánamo in the first place.
(9) "My fear is it's a simulacrum of meaningful reform," said Sascha Meinrath, a vice president of the New America Foundation, an influential Washington think tank, and the director of the Open Technology Institute, who also attended.