(v. i.) To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.
(n.) A hissing noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the negative correlation of SIS occurrence with the theta rhythm in normal rats, abolishing the theta rhythm by medial septal lesions did not affect the suppression of SISs during REMS as compared to SWS.
(2) To more adequately accomplish these functions, we suggest that five specific categories of information will be essential: (1) reports of recent advances in Science Information Management methods; (2) original reports of Science Information Syntheses (SISs) providing information immediately applicable for QA; (3) previously published reports of "classic" SISs relevant to QA; (4) reviews of new technologies and products immediately applicable to quality management; (5) cumulative indexing of the above methods and products.
(3) The persistence of SISs in terms of hours and days suggests the involvement of long-term potentiation.
(4) In conclusion, changes in hippocampal SISs were closely time-locked to an AD, and not to evoked behavioral seizures.
(5) Hippocampal SISs probably reflect an excitability change that is more local than that necessary for evoking behavioral convulsions.
(6) Hippocampal spontaneous interictal spikes (SISs) were recorded during the course of daily tetanization (kindling) of afferent fibers to the hippocampal CA1 region.
(7) Spontaneous interictal spikes (SISs) were recorded in the hippocampus in freely behaving rats following hippocampal stimulations that resulted in afterdischarges (ADs).
(8) Hippocampal SISs were detected after an average of 5 (range 2-10) daily ADs.
(9) The rate of SISs typically increased minutes after a tetanus, and then decayed with time constants of approximately 70 min and 1.5 days.
Swiss
Definition:
(n.sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Switzerland; a Switzer; the people of Switzerland.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Switzerland, or the people of Switzerland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
(2) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(3) A sex difference in postanaesthetic mortality after fluroxene anaesthesia was found in Swiss Webster mice.
(4) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(5) Light microscopic histochemical procedures and morphological assessments were performed on sections of "Swiss rolls" of small and large intestine.
(6) In Experiment 3, five daily 30-min exposures to the more novel environment minimally raised resting corticosterone levels of ICR Swiss mice.
(7) Nine-week-old Swiss male white mice were divided into groups killed after time intervals of force application of six h, and one, three, five, seven, ten, 14, 21, and 28 days.
(8) In Geneva, the Swiss chief prosecutor, Olivier Jornot, said he had launched an undisclosed number of investigations and said his office was paying very close attention to new information as it emerged.
(9) The effects of perinatal malnutrition on behavioural development and adult shuttle-box avoidance performance were studied in Swiss white mice.
(10) Fasting caused a decrease in both plasma and tumor extracellular fluid triglyceride concentrations in CBA, as well as in Swiss-Webster mice.
(11) Addressing the clampdown on Swiss bank accounts, which George Osborne had factored into the government's estimated income last year, Troup confirmed reports from last month that officials had collected significantly less than expected.
(12) Hollande ended up defending until to the bitter end Jérôme Cahuzac , a finance minister responsible for fighting tax evasion who turned out to have used a secret Swiss bank account to avoid paying taxes in France.
(13) Swiss 3T3 cells were labelled for 36 hr with high levels of [3H]-myo-inositol and the radioactivity in nuclear inositol phospholipids was measured.
(14) The results revealed that: (1) There were few genetic variants on allelic constitutions of Chinese KM mouse colonies, and the genetic distance among KM subcolonies is 0.008-0.027 positively related with the time the colony closed; (2) The unique position of S: KM mouse was shown in phylogenetic diagram of 4 KM subcolonies, which agrees with the result from mandible analysis; (3) The allelic constitutions of KM mice differs from NIH mice a Swiss derivative colony at Es-3, Es-10, Glo-1, Gpt-1, Got-2 and Mpi-1 loci and the average genetic distance between KM and NIH colonies is 0.131 + 0.011, which indicates that Chinese KM mice is one of non-Swiss derivative subspecies.
(15) In a previous experiment a group of 15 specified pathogen free (SPF) cats were experimentally infected with a Swiss isolate of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV).
(16) When twenty Swiss albino mice (male) were fed a vitamin A deficient diet for 18-24 months, Mallory bodies (MB(s] were observed.
(17) MFH was administered in drinking water continuously for life to Swiss mice and Syrian (golden) hamsters.
(18) This is what inspired Jon Underwood to create the non-profit death cafe in 2011, based on the Swiss Cafe Mortel movement.
(19) They added: “Mr von Opel … is a Swiss national and a Swiss resident since 1973.” This has not stopped him from financing British politics.
(20) The Swiss foreign minister, Micheline Calmy-Rey, said on Sunday that she took the pressure from Britain, Germany and the United States "very seriously".