(v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
(v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
(v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
(v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
(n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
(2) Axonal regeneration with the ANG was equal to SAGs as measured by axonal diameters, physiological, and functional methods, although the SAG demonstrated statistically higher axonal counts.
(3) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(4) Guanacline, but not guanethidine or SAG, produced fluorescent lipopigment in all species examined.
(5) For cross-linked alpha alpha, however, the curve sags at temperatures somewhat below the region of principal cooperative loss of helix, the latter occurring at higher temperature but with the same steepness as in the non-cross-linked case.
(6) Myosin ATPase staining showed that about 80% of the LGM consists of type II A fibres, whilst the remainder are type II B. Physiological determination of the contractile properties of motor units indicated two classes of units: those that were relatively fatigue resistant and did not show a sag property (like fast-twitch, fatigue-resistant fibres or FR) and those that were relatively fatigable and did show a sag property (like fast-twitch, fatigable fibres or FF).
(7) The time-dependent sag elicited by hyperpolarization was reduced when Na+ or K+ was removed from the normal bath solution but was abolished with the removal of both Na+ and K+.
(8) In his bid to revitalise Spain's sagging monarchy, Felipe VI must be willing to show that he will handle things differently to his father, said Urreiztieta.
(9) By lacking possibilities of the comparison of equivalent (produced under the same preparation and storage conditions) concentrates of erythrocytes the higher transfusion efficiency of the SAG-S concentrates of erythrocytes to be expected could not be verified.
(10) This domed white building is now a magnet for national expectations, and many wonder whether it will sag under the weight of so much anticipation.
(11) Superantigens (SAg) interact with T lymphocytes bearing particular V beta sequences as part of their T cell receptor (TcR).
(12) Both produce substantial labeling of PC but [14C]SMG gives rise to the highest proportion of TG and the lowest of PA and PI, whereas [14C]SAG yields the opposite pattern.
(13) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(14) As the temperature of the tarts increases a race will start between the sag of melting fat and the drying of the structure-forming gluten network.
(15) Several species were treated chronically with varying doses of guanethidine, guanacline or SAG; the superior cervical ganglia were examined light microscopically for neuronal destruction and for osmiophilic fluorescent lipopigment accumulation.
(16) An important exception concerned SE to which an equal antibody response is produced in high and low lines of sAg selection.
(17) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
(18) A statistically significant improvement was observed, on the SAG score obtained during the follow-up, in patients (n = 16) who were not admitted to hospital in the 12 month period following discharge.
(19) Jannetta has summarized this concept as follows: "As we age, our arteries elongate and our brains 'sag'.
(20) The observation that ingrowth of SAG neurites to presumptive sensory areas of the inner ear preceded cytodifferentiation of those receptor cells suggested a causal relationship.
Sig
Definition:
(v. t.) Urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of tumor cells in all lymphosarcoma cases were of the centroblastic type, and in two cases in which the presence of SIg was assayed, the majority of tumor cells were SIg-positive.
(2) The proportion of SIg carrying cells within the population forming EA-rosettes was between 11 and 26-4%.
(3) Nylon-adherent cells were highly enriched for surface immunoglobulin (SIg) bearing B lymphocytes (95.5%) and nonadherent cells for SIg negative non-B cells, presumably T lymphocytes (96.3%).
(4) We have investigated the possible physical interactions between CR, receptors for the Fc gamma R and surface Ig (sIg) on the surface membrane of murine B lymphocytes.
(5) A subpopulation of appendix sIg-negative, RTLA-negative cells has a relatively high concentration of RT2.
(6) SIg-positive lymphocytes (B cells) and T lymphocytes were not effective in mediating ADCC against either CRBC or Chang cell targets.
(7) Modulation of surface immunoglobulin (sIg) with anti-mu, an early membrane activation event, occurred normally on B cells from the spleens of PC-mice.
(8) Those TIL expressing activation antigens were CD2+, SIg-.
(9) This treatment did not affect the proportions of Lyt-2+, L3T4+, or sIg+ cells in the population, however, indicating that the augmentation in PFC was not due to changes in the ratio of T to B cells.
(10) The results of lymphocyte subpopulation studies revealed a decrease of CD4+ cells and a decrease of surface immunoglobulin (sIg)-positive B lymphocytes.
(11) In SLL, 55 were M-rosette positive (67.07%) and 72 SIg positive (87.8%), with weak fluorescence in 63 and strong fluorescence in 9 cases.
(12) The expression of kappa and lambda light chains in surface immunoglobulin (sIg) molecules on B lymphocytes differentiating from murine pre-B cell clones in vitro was analyzed.
(13) With CRBC targets MICC was mediated by polymorphonuclear leukocytes, macrophages, sIg-positive lymphocytes (B cells), and sIg-negative lymphocytes.
(14) Among the B-CLL, cells with high SIg content were either T1+ or T1- and more likely FMC7+.
(15) Antibody N297 (DQ specific), previously shown to react with an epitope expressed on human B cells but not on mitogen-induced T cells, reacted only with sIg+ cells in 42 of 53 horses tested.
(16) At this time, the proportions of low mobility (LM) and SIG-bearing lymphocytes (B cells) were reduced respectively to 28% (control 54%) and 20% (control 45%).
(17) A sudden increase in the number of mitogen-reactive, sIg+ B lineage cells occurs within 24 h between days 16 and 17.
(18) The significance of this spontaneous appearance of fetal sIg cells is discussed.
(19) The finding of sIg light chain in pre-B cell leukemias and in the REH cell line, suggests that these leukemic cells are further differentiated along the B-cell lineage than was previously believed.
(20) The malignant cells of WM patients differed from those of MM in the reactivity with FMC7, being positive in 10 out of 11 cases, and in their high expression of B1, Ia and SIg with a predominant mu+ phenotype.