(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
(n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
(2) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(3) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
(4) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(5) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(6) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(7) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(8) (dG-dA)n, but not to other homocopolymeric sequences such as (dC-dG)n .
(9) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(10) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
(11) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(12) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell surface protein antigen (SpaA) of Streptococcus sobrinus MT3791 (serotype g) was determined.
(13) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
(14) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(15) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(16) Nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNAs for asparagine synthetase (AS) of Pisum sativum has uncovered two distinct AS mRNAs (AS1 and AS2) encoding polypeptides that are highly homologous to the human AS enzyme.
(17) Based on the deduced amino acid sequence, rpL8 has a mass of 28,605 Da, a pI of 11.97, and contains 9.6% Arg and 11.9% Lys.
(18) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(19) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(20) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
Stratified
Definition:
(a.) Having its substance arranged in strata, or layers; as, stratified rock.
(imp. & p. p.) of Stratify
Example Sentences:
(1) Proliferating cells were abundant and scattered throughout the stratified epithelium before the appearance of villi.
(2) Cation concentrations were determined in a stratified subsample (n = 89) of the study group.
(3) It is a pluri-stratified squamous layer which has some epithelial features (desmosomes and tonofilaments), and lacks connective tissue fibers in the extracellular spaces.
(4) Urothelial cells form organoid stratified epithelium.
(5) Lactobacillus strains of numerous species isolated from several animal sources exhibited cellular hydrophobicities that differed from those expected on the basis of their abilities to colonize the keratinizing stratified squamous epithelium in the mouse stomach.
(6) The movement of the heart reduces stratified inhomogeneity.
(7) These studies have therefore identified a constitutive viral promoter which is active throughout stratified epithelium as well as a novel promoter which is induced upon epithelial cell differentiation.
(8) It was previously reported that rat keratinocytes grown at the air-liquid interface on collagen gels or on nylon membranes produce multilayered cultures of uniformly stratified cells, comparable to the epidermis in situ by morphological and biochemical criteria.
(9) A cross-sectional survey of an age-stratified random sample of 619 independently-living adults (307 males, 312 females) aged 60 years and over, living in Toronto was conducted.
(10) This study compares the ages of menarche with ages of first intercourse among adolescent females in 1971 and 1976, stratified by ethnic group and residence (urban versus rural).
(11) There was no significant difference when patients were stratified for diabetes (log rank = 2.213, p = no significance [NS]), operative indication (disabling claudication vs. limb salvage) (log rank = 0.0005, p = NS), or outflow (no profundaplasty vs. profundaplasty) (log rank = 2.011, p = NS).
(12) This difference persisted stratifying women with gallstones and those in the control group for age.
(13) An analysis of all patients, stratified for tumor size, revealed an impact of transfusions on increasing recurrence (P = .007) and decreasing survival (P = .016).
(14) The effect of varying degrees of hyperglycaemia on insulin secretion was studied in newly diagnosed non-insulin dependent diabetic patients, stratified according to the fasting plasma glucose values.
(15) To control for possible confounding variables, the authors repeated the analyses after stratifying by demographic and diagnostic variables that were distributed differently among men and women.
(16) It can be concluded that (i) stratified inhomogeneity in distal alveolar space does not exhibit a limiting factor of oxygen uptake in lungs, (ii) a contribution of stratificational effects to sloping alveolar plateau is expected to be of minor importance.
(17) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
(18) Stratified analyses showed that this increased risk for clinical disease among smokers was evident at all levels of occlusion, even among women with minimal stenotic disease.
(19) Barrett's esophagus is a condition in which the stratified squamous epithelium of the esophagus is replaced by metaplastic columnar epithelium that predisposes to the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma.