(n.) A straight and slender stick; a wand; hence, any slender bar, as of wood or metal (applied to various purposes).
(n.) An instrument of punishment or correction; figuratively, chastisement.
(n.) A kind of sceptor, or badge of office; hence, figuratively, power; authority; tyranny; oppression.
(n.) A support for a fishing line; a fish pole.
(n.) A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar.
(n.) An instrument for measuring.
(n.) A measure of length containing sixteen and a half feet; -- called also perch, and pole.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NORPLANT-2 rod system on the other hand consists of only 2 rods.
(2) Since resistance is mainly mediated by R plasmids, we undertook to investigate the characteristics of R plasmid-determined beta-lactamase in 6 Gram-negative rods.
(3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(4) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(5) Changes in protein phosphorylation induced by phagocytic challenge were identified in cultured rat retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) following exposure to isolated rat rod outer segments (ROS) or to polystyrene latex microspheres (PSL).
(6) Thirty-six investigations were made using a number of lithium fluoride micro-rods for each investigation.
(7) After intravenous or dorsal lymph sac injections of 3H-22:6, most of the retinal label was seen in rod photoreceptor cells.
(8) The antigenic determinant defined by 5E9 was also shown to be present in a 87000 molecular weight polypeptide located in the proximal part of the flagellum of Crithidia oncopelti in which a paraflagellar rod is not detectable at the ultrastructural level.
(9) Chloride caused a significant concentration-dependent shortening of myosin rods due to destabilization of the alpha-helical double coiled rod structure.
(10) Rod adaptation was abnormal in both families, but the time course of adaptation differed between patients with the two mutations.
(11) Electron microscopy shows that at neutral pH, CEA particles consist of homogeneous, morphologically distinctive, twisted rod-shaped particles, about 9 X 40 nm.
(12) RCA-1, which is specific for D-galactose, showed patchy fluorescence on the basal and distal portions of the outer segments of the cones and rods, whereas neuraminidase-treated sections had uniform fluorescence throughout the tissues.
(13) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(14) The territory’s chief executive Leung Chun-ying, has become a lightning rod for the protesters’ anger .
(15) Beyond intraoperative recognition and removal of the rods, effective strategies to prevent this neuronal loss have yet to be developed.
(16) Sensitivities to gentamicin, sissomicin, tobramycin, and amikacin were compared in 196 gentamicin-resistant Gram-negative rods and in 212 similar organisms sensitive to gentamicin, mainly isolated from clinical specimens.
(17) It should be considered as a causative agent in culture-negative cases of endocarditis and also when a gram-negative rod is isolated which is sensitive to all antibiotics.
(18) Rats permitted to recover for 13 weeks and then sacrificed had lost almost all their rods (p less than 0.001) while the cones were reduced by about 50% (p less than 0.01).
(19) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(20) Rod adaptation had no reliable influence on response to rapid onset in cones or bipolar cells.
Rud
Definition:
(n.) Redness; blush.
(n.) Ruddle; red ocher.
(n.) The rudd.
(v. t.) To make red.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining ESD parameters (i.e., mean values for the translation, the direction angles of the ESD axis, and the intercepts of this axis with the planes of motion), the minimum separation between the FEM and RUD axes, and the coordinates of the midpoint of this separation were not statistically different (p greater than 0.05) among the normal, rheumatoid, and implant groups.
(2) The motion of the hand segment relative to the forearm segment, corresponding to the positions exhibited during flexion-extension motion (FEM) and radial-ulnar deviation (RUD), was described using the equivalent screw displacement (ESD) concept.
(3) The neuroichthyosis with hypogonadism must be considered Rud's syndrome.
(4) Live snails were found in 4 foci, namely, the main focus, the upper Karun River, the lower Karkheh River, and the Bala Rud watershed; in addition, dead snails were found in 3 other foci.
(5) It’s perhaps that that encouraged Musk to use an acronym, RUD, which might be unfamiliar to most rocket scientists, but significantly more recognisable to some gamers.
(6) Dynamics of the infection with pathogen trematodes of Brachyphallus crenatus (Rud., 1802) and Lecithaster gibbosus (Rud., 1802) in larvae and juvenile herring reared in experimental conditions and in those which were caught in the sea has been observed.
(7) The formation of cysticercoids of the diplocyst type in three species of cestodes of the genus Aploparaksis: A. bulbocirrus Deblock et Rausch, 1968, A. furcigera (Rud., 1819) and A. groenlandica (Krabbe, 1869) at the experimental infection of oligochaetes (Lumbriculus sp.)
(8) Histochemical studies on the body wall of Haemonchus contortus (Rud.)
(9) Rud's syndrome is a neuroichthyosis with hypogonadism, associated with mental deficiency and epilepsy.
(10) Rud syndrome is a rare disorder of childhood characterized by ichthyosis, mental retardation, epilepsy and hypogonadism.
(11) The mean magnitudes of ESD rotation for both FEM and RUD were statistically different (p less than 0.05) among the normal, rheumatoid, and implant groups.
(12) Most of the DRG cases (15 out of 20) and half of the RUD (eight out of 16) presented reflux greater than 1.5%, while of the 11 Moynhihan, ten presented reflux less than 1.5% and all the asymptomatic volunteer subjects less than 1%.
(13) Fifty-four patients were divided into groups according to their clinical presentation; seven asymptomatic volunteers, 20 patients with duodenal-gastric reflux gastropathy (DRG), 16 patients with recurrent ulcers of the duodenal bulb (RUD), and 11 patients with Moynihan's disease.
(14) Endoscopy revealed the presence of bile in the stomach of 16 out of 20 DRG and four out of 16 RUD, while ten out of 11 patients with Moynihan's disease had clear gastric juice.
(15) Most of the characters tally with Raphidascaris chirocentri Yamaguti, 1935, Paranisakis pastinacae (Rud., 1819) Baylis, 1936 and Paracamallanus theraponis Kalyankar, 1970, but differs from it body measurements, oesophagus length, location of the nerve ring, length of the tridents, possession of striations, shape and position of the vulvar process and size of the eggs.
(16) sp., fourth species of the genus, is frequent and associated with the morphologically similar species, D. gracile (Rud., 1809); D. robini differs from D. gracile by structure of caudal lappets of female, vagina, microfilaria and area rugosa.
(17) The authors report a family with this autosomal recessive disorder, review the clinical and dermatopathological findings, and contrast Rud syndrome with the other major neuro-ichthyosiform dermatoses.
(18) The growth and development curves and the sexual development of our patients (with exception of a patient with Rud's syndrome) have been normal.
(19) The spermatogenesis, spermatozoon differentiation and fine structure of Acanthobothrium filicolle benedenii Loennberg, 1889 and Onchobothrium uncinatum (Rud., 1819) were studied by means of light and electron microscopy.
(20) Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk , euphemistically referred to as “RUD” – that’s “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly”.