(n.) A short line of horsehair, gut, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer line.
Example Sentences:
(1) The above results suggest that hormone deficiency in Snell dwarf mice is a result of a defect in the hormone-producing cells in the gland.
(2) Expressions for the parameters are from by the application of Markov's theory of chains which was developed by Kemeny & Snell (1960, Finite Markov Chains, Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand) and Bosso et al.
(3) On addition of monovalent cation to the holoenzyme-ethionine complex, a marked increase occurs in absorption of 508 nm resulting from labilization of the alpha proton with formation of the quinoid form of the pyridoxal phosphate moiety of the enzyme-substrate complex at the catalytic center (Morino, Y., and Snell, E.E.
(4) The chromosomes involved in the T(2;4)Sn (formerly designated T(5;8) Sn) or Snell translocation in the mouse have been identified as numbers 2 and 4 by analysis of the fluorescent banding patterns of quinacrine mustard-stained chromosomes in primary cultures from heterozygous and homozygous embryos.
(5) The concentration of gangliosides in the Snell dwarf mouse cerebrum was monitored from postnatal day 5 to day 40.
(6) Pituitary dwarf mutants of the Snell-Bagg and Ames mouse strains develop severe immunodeficiency of the thymus-dependent system which frequently leads to a fatal wasting syndrome.
(7) If the four known pyruvoyl-dependent HisDCases arise from inactive proenzymes by the mechanism previously demonstrated for the HisDCase of Lactobacillus 30a (Recsei, P. A., Huynh, Q. K. and Snell, E. E. (1983) Proc.
(8) Snell called upon testimony from Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, which he gave in absentia but in unambiguous terms, describing GM as having, through its subsidiaries, “scrapped the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles streetcar systems, leaving the electric train system totally destroyed.” GM, in the face of such harsh accusations, made no recorded public response except to admit to its investment in American City Lines, a company with which National City Lines merged in 1946.
(9) Thus bacterially synthesized hGH behaves identically to pituitary-derived hGH with respect to body length, sulfate incorporation into costal and epiphyseal cartilage, body weight and organ growth of Snell dwarf mice, with one exception: increase of weight of the kidneys, as a function of body weight, was more pronounced after treatment with hGH than with bhGH.
(10) It’s a brilliant mix of backpacking, volunteering and surfing – and what’s even better is you might get a qualification at the end of it,” says Jennifer Snell, 20, from Wiltshire, who combined an office job with working as a fishmonger in Tesco to raise the money.
(11) Refraction effects from planar tissue layer interfaces are analyzed using Snell's law and measured using phantoms.
(12) Congenital deficiency of growth hormone, prolactin, and TSH was first described in Snell dwarf mice.
(13) These diseases are highly infectious, very difficult to treat and can have severe complications, particularly in children, but they are vaccine-preventable,” the South Australian health minister, Jack Snelling, told reporters on Friday.
(14) In the last decade this work culminated in the close study of the Little Mouse with isolated growth hormone deficiency--thus exposing the panhypopituitary model (the human pituitary dwarf, Snell Smith mouse or hypophysectomised rat) as non-optimal models.
(15) Adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH) produced an insignificant stimulation of pregnenolone biosynthesis from endogenous precursors in isolated cells prepared from the rat Snell adrenal carcinoma 494.
(16) Formation of these two products supports a previously proposed mechanism of inactivation (Hayashi, H., Tanase, S., and Snell, E. E. (1986) J. Biol.
(17) The results indicate that dopaminergic A12 neurons in Snell dwarf mice are present and viable.
(18) No differences in metabolism of [7alpha-(3)H]dehydroepiandrosterone or [4-(14)C]pregnenolone were detected between adrenal tissue from Sprague-Dawley, Wistar and Osborne-Mendel rats, but experiments with the Snell rat adrenocortical tumour 494 showed that this tissue had low 5alpha-reductase activity.
(19) While at the museum I spent some time talking to geologist Andrew Snelling.
(20) originally designated (H. Kagamiyama, H. Wada, H. Matsubara, and E. E. Snell, 1972, J. Biol.
Snood
Definition:
(n.) The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.
(n.) A short line (often of horsehair) connecting a fishing line with the hook; a snell; a leader.
(v. t.) To bind or braid up, as the hair, with a snood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stimulation of oocyte maturation by 1-methyladenine causes snoods to disappear, presumably by disassembly, about halfway to the time of germinal vesicle breakdown.
(2) The putatively stressful procedures of sexing, toe trimming, snood removal, beak trimming and injection of antibiotic solution, as performed in a commercial hatchery, elevated blood glucose levels and depressed hepatic glycogen levels in newly-hatched turkey poults.
(3) This argument has more holes than one of my hand-knitted snoods.
(4) In the toms, using TAM advanced semen production by 4 wk (13.5 versus 17.5 wk of age) and increased the size of the snood and testes.
(5) "C all me Gloria," oozed Gloria Price, draping herself around Lloyd Mullaney's neck like a menopausal snood.
(6) By immunofluorescence microscopy of isolated cortices and electron microscopy of isolated cortices and intact oocytes, snood fibers exhibit complex striations with a periodicity of approximately 0.75 micron.
(7) ( £18.99 ) Neckwarmer My best cycling friend is my Buff ( from £15, buffwear.co.uk ) – a windproof modern-day take on the snood.
(8) Three children with wandering spleens were treated by a new splenopexy technique, the splenic snood.
(9) Snood fibers form loops and branches throughout the cortex of a premeiotic oocyte, except at the animal pole where they emanate from a nonstaining zone surrounding the centrosomes.
(10) The large-meshed network resembles a snood (hair net).
(11) The chancellor, in a black skull and crossbones patterned snood at the royal family's favourite ski resort, was the perfect new year image of us all not being in it together.
(12) Snoods are not colocalized with the cortical arrays of microtubules and are unaffected by drugs that disrupt microtubules or microfilaments.
(13) The simplicity and technical ease of the splenic snood operation recommend it as an improved method to avoid splenectomy and safely normalize intraabdominal anatomy in the management of the wandering spleen.
(14) As protesters finally shuffled out of the Westminster Bridge kettle in single file, after seven hours imprisoned in freezing temperatures without food, water, toilets or freedom of movement, I saw several of them look the police in the eye – for that was all they could see, beneath a riot shield visor and a raised black snood – and say, some with humour, some with anger – but all with total defiance, "see you at the next one, mate".