(n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
(n.) Anything resembling such a nail in shape.
(n.) An ear of corn or grain.
(n.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis.
(v. t.) To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks.
(v. t.) To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it.
(n.) Spike lavender. See Lavender.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) The pons, on the other hand, has a bioelectrical activity of its own during PS, i.e., the ponto-geniculo-occipital spikes (PGO).
(3) The spikes likely correspond to VP3, a hemagglutinin, while the rest of the mass density in the outer shell represents 780 molecules of VP7, a neutralization antigen.
(4) In this series there were 45 patients (40%) with independent focal interictal EEG epileptic abnormalities over frontobasal cortex (with or without independent spiking over interomedial temporal region).
(5) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(6) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(7) By this action, oxytocin is believed to increase the probability of successful regenerative spikes and thereby initiate electrical activity in quiescent preparations, increase the frequency of burst discharges, the number of spikes in each burst, and the amplitude of spikes in individual cells.
(8) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(9) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(10) Our hypothesis is that phase unlocking may be one of the induction mechanisms of spike-burst activity.
(11) The threshold of epileptic spiking varied inversely with the area of cortical damage inflicted by the electrode.
(12) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(13) The best understood fusion mechanism is that of influenza virus, for which sequences involved in pH-dependent fusion can be correlated with the crystallographic structure of the spike protein.
(14) Single shocks applied to medullary pressor sites evoked a train of spikes in the interneurons.
(15) Many subjects have a negative spike in the beginning of a saccade in electro-oculographic signals.
(16) This enhancement of laminin synthesis corresponds to the mesangial expansion and to the development of laminin-containing spike formations of the glomerular basement membrane at week 8.
(17) A train of conditioning stimuli to either of the midbrain nuclei produced inhibition of evoked population spikes recorded in the CA1 pyramidal cell layer of the hippocampus.
(18) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
(19) They discharged one or two spikes only at the beginning of depolarizing current pulses.
(20) An increase followed by a decrease in the number of spikes per burst and a reduction in the peak activity were observed.
Unspike
Definition:
(v. t.) To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inter-assay coefficient of variation ranged from 8.6 to 9.5% for the unspiked urine samples and from 2.0 to 5.2% for the spiked samples.
(2) In spleen and vertebrae, lead levels continued to rise in fish returned to natural (unspiked) sea water from lead-spiked sea water.
(3) This possibility, however, was rejected as the reactivity of Me-beta-CD-spiked purified B. pertussis strain 3803 LPS, compared with unspiked samples, remained unchanged.
(4) All subsamples, including unspiked subsamples, were analyzed by the Spot Test (3 or 9 replicates) and disc assay (9 replicates).
(5) Analysts participating in a multi-laboratory comparative study were asked to identify 4 chlorobiphenyls (CBs) supplied in neat form, to measure the amounts of these present in spiked and unspiked fish oil, to measure other CBs and organochlorines in the unspiked fish oil, and to compare results for their own standard solution and those for standard solutions prepared from the supplied CB compounds.
(6) Concentrations of the cytokines TNF-alpha and IL-1 beta were determined by ELISA and were similar in all baseline and unspiked samples.
(7) The analytical method was tested on eight different urine samples spiked with known amounts of the analytes near the target levels, at 10 times the target levels, and blank (unspiked) urine samples.
(8) A peak assigned to the phenacyl ester of 3-hydroxymyristic acid appears in the chromatograms of extracts of celluloses that have been spiked with endotoxins and not in those of unspiked celluloses.
(9) The samples analyzed in the study were unspiked swordfish, unspiked and spiked lobster, and unspiked and spiked tuna.
(10) EDTA plasma consistently produced unexplained lysis of L929 cells in both heated and unheated unspiked samples.
(11) Current FDA Guidelines consider a PSC valid providing the value of the "unspiked" product extrapolated from the regression line of the PSC is less than 10% of lambda, the lowest endotoxin concentration used to construct the standard.
(12) Endotoxin-spiked samples were shown to be significantly different from unspiked samples.
(13) By spiking enzyme incubates with known quantities of cyclic AMP and AMP and measuring peak heights in the MIKE spectra of both spiked and unspiked samples, the concentrations of cyclic AMP and AMP in solution at the end of a series of enzyme incubations have been estimated.
(14) Precisely controlled thermal decomposition experiments were conducted on sludge spiked with mixtures of hazardous organic compounds, on mixtures of pure compounds without sludge, and on unspiked sludge.
(15) The blood collection procedures described in this paper did not induce any of the six cytokines in the unspiked blood.