(n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
(n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
(n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
Example Sentences:
(1) The two-color method originally described by Van Rood et al.
(2) Rood (1980) stated that many people want a "womb with a view," so that they remain protected and yet passively observe the outside world.
(3) (R. G. Duggleby, H. Kinns and J. I. Rood, A computer program for determining the size of DNA restriction fragments.
(4) The current study expands exploratory findings of S. W. Brown with Rood in 1982 and Yakimowski in 1987, using confirmatory factor analytical procedures.
(5) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
(6) The catQ gene contained internal HindII, HaeIII, and DraI restriction sites and was distinct from the catP gene, which was originally cloned (L. J. Abraham, A. J. Wales, and J. I. Rood Plasmid 14:37-46, 1985) from the conjugative C. perfringens R plasmid, pIP401.
(7) Although references to Saint Apollonia are common on the Continent, references to the saint are extremely rare in Britain--with the exception of representations in rood screens or elsewhere in churches.
Roop
Definition:
(n.) See Roup.
Example Sentences:
(1) T., Idler, W. W., Roop, D. R., and Steinert, P. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(2) It was written by Hugh Griffiths, who heads the Stockholm institute's program on countering illicit trafficking, and Roope Siiritola, a research intern.
(3) IF are major cytoskeletal and karyoskeletal components of eukaryotic cells (Steinert and Roop 1988).
(4) A., Mehrel, T., Idler, W. W., Roop, D. R., and Steinert, P. M. (1987) J. Biol.
(5) Together with the previously published sequence of the mouse 59-kDa type I keratin (Steinert, P. M., Rice, R. H., Roop, D. R., Trus, B. L., and Steven, A. C. (1983) Nature 302, 794-800) these data allow us to make comparisons between two keratins which are coexpressed in an epithelial cell type and which coassemble into the same IF.
(6) Comparison of the predicted amino acid sequence of a cDNA encoding a portion of the 230-kDa bullous pemphigoid antigen (Stanley, J. R., Tanaka, T., Mueller, S., Klaus-Kovtun, V., and Roop, D. (1988) J. Clin.
(7) Over the past two decades, a great deal of evidence has accumulated in favor of the hypothesis that steroid hormones act at the level of nuclear DNA to regulate gene expression (Jensen EV, Suzuki T, Kawashima T, Stumpf WE, Jungblut PW, DeSombre ER, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1968; 59:632-638; Gorski J, Toft D, Shyamala G, Smith D, Notides A, Rec Prog Horm Res 1968; 24:45-80; O'Malley BW, Means AR, Science 1974; 183:610-620; O'Malley BW, Roop DR, Lai EC, Nordstrom JL, Catterall JF, Swaneck GE, Colbert DA, Tsai M-J, Dugaiczyk A, Woo SLC, Rec Prog Horm Res 1979; 35:1-46).
(8) Blouin, I. Royal, A. Grenier, A. Loranger, D. R. Roop, and N. Marceau, Differentiation, submitted for publication, 1992).
(9) Curiously, this protein displays major differences from the recently described mouse loricrin (Mehrel, T., Hohl, D., Nakazawa, H., Rothnagel, J.A., Longley, M.A., Bundman, D., Cheng, C.K., Lichti, U., Bisher, M.E., Steven, A. C., Steinert, P.M., Yuspa, S.H., and Roop, D.R.
(10) At that time, the early 1970s, the primary pathway for steroid hormone action was defined as follows: steroid----(steroid-receptor)----(steroid-receptor-DNA)----mRNA----fu nct ional response (O'Malley BW, Roop DR, Lai EC, Nordstrom JL, Catterall JF, Swaneck GE, Colbert DA, Tsai M-J, Dugaiczyk A, Woo SLC, Rec Prog Horm Res 1979; 35:1-46.
(11) This result was supported by the in situ roop method.