(n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
(n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
(n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.
(n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(2) The other 3 groups all had smear patterns similar to controls.
(3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(4) Four study groups were investigated using the Kato faecal smear method.
(5) Distribution of cells in these smears was found to be random.
(6) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
(7) All cases of MCT were correctly diagnosed on cytology, and amyloid could be demonstrated in the cytologic smears in three cases.
(8) Hosts showed vaginal opening within 5 days and cornified vaginal smears by 9 days.
(9) The absence of hemorrhagic manifestations with persisting low platelets counts led to a re-examination of peripheral blood smear and to the diagnosis of pseudothrombocytopenia.
(10) At diagnosis 25% showed malignant cells in the bone marrow smears.
(11) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
(12) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
(13) Tissue imprints of rabbit liver and spleen and smears of human venous blood were stained and controlled microscopically.
(14) The unsatisfactory smear showed atypical spindle cells.
(15) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(16) Using control blood smears, we compared the results of the Fetaldex kit with those results obtained by the Betke-Kleihauer technique.
(17) Fever was also associated with a higher incidence of lymphopenia, hyponatraemia, hypoalbuminaemia and many acid-fast bacilli on sputum smear.
(18) At necropsy 1 of the 21 animals exhibited tuberculous lesions, and acid-fast microorganisms were identified on direct smears of lymphatic tissue of a second animal.
(19) T lymphocyte subsets were identified with monoclonal antibodies and pattern of alpha-naphthyl-acetate esterase (ANAE) staining pattern in the case of peripheral blood and ANAE staining pattern with thyroid aspirate smears.
(20) Both patients had high levels of circulating capsular polysaccharide, and one patient had visible diplococci on a smear of the peripheral blood.
Stripe
Definition:
(n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe.
(n.) A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colors, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
(n.) A strip, or long, narrow piece attached to something of a different color; as, a red or blue stripe sewed upon a garment.
(n.) A stroke or blow made with a whip, rod, scourge, or the like, such as usually leaves a mark.
(n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like.
(n.) Color indicating a party or faction; hence, distinguishing characteristic; sign; likeness; sort; as, persons of the same political stripe.
(n.) The chevron on the coat of a noncommissioned officer.
(v. t.) To make stripes upon; to form with lines of different colors or textures; to variegate with stripes.
(v. t.) To strike; to lash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(2) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(3) The striped expression of the Drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu in alternate parasegments of the early embryo is controlled by the 740 bp zebra element.
(4) Mutant plants are characterized by reduced height, defective yellow striping on leaves, and aborted kernels on ears.
(5) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
(6) Although the drugs did not cause a desegregation of the eye-specific stripes, treated retinal axon arbors covered about half the area covered by untreated arbors or arbors treated with inactive analogs of the drugs.
(7) In the outer stripe only those proximal straight tubules (P3 segments) farthest from the vascular bundles were damaged.
(8) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(9) The two major proteins found in plants infected with rice stripe virus (RSV), coat protein and a major nonstructural protein (major NS), were purified and their partial amino acid sequences were determined.
(10) Urea production from arginine was studied in vitro in the kidney of normal rats in tubule suspensions of the four different renal zones (cortex, outer and inner stripe of outer medulla, and inner medulla), and in individual microdissected nephron segments.
(11) In monocularly enucleated monkeys, patches are larger and darker above and below the ocular dominance stripes of the remaining eye than in the alternate stripes.
(12) (2) The interstitium of the cortex and of the outer stripe of the outer medulla is significantly widened in most cases of ARF.
(13) With it sank my suitcase of clothes and my striped prisoner uniform, including my hat, coat, shirt and a knife.
(14) Linkage crosses and X-autosome translocations were used to assign short antenna to the right arm of chromosome 3 about 45 map units proximal to stripe (st+), and melanotic was located on chromosome 2 near the centromere.
(15) We have mapped the entire system of OD stripes in the New World monkey Cebus, by means of cytochrome oxidase histochemistry after monocular enucleation.
(16) These are localized in the outer stripe of the renal medulla and are functionally coupled to adenylyl cyclase inhibitor (Gi) G-proteins.
(17) The level of COXII protein is also specifically reduced in the striped plants relative to that of control plants.
(18) Potentiation of heart muscle stripes of the right ventricle was investigated in normal rats (NT-group) and in rats stressed by swimming (HT-group).
(19) The data of 29 subjects totaling more than 21,000 stripe detection events showed that coated photochromic prescription lenses performed better by day and poorer by night compared to uncoated white crown prescription lenses, and that a multiple-layer coated, tinted lens (Neo Multicoat) performed at least as well, day or night, as did the uncoated white crown lens.
(20) With an ambient potassium concentration of 2.5 mM, collecting tubules obtained from the inner stripe of the outer medulla of KD animals absorbed significantly less total CO2 than control tubules.