(n.) The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.
(n.) The deposition of material in successive layers in the growth of a cell wall, thus giving rise to a stratified appearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) An important stratification factor, however, was related to tobacco usage.
(2) As retinal stratification continued, more cells were observed to have elaborated membrane systems for GABA uptake with varying degrees of affinity.
(3) Since T-antigen expression is correlated directly with impairment of stratification and differentiation, it is interesting that treatment of SVK14 with a single growth factor.
(4) We discuss advantages and disadvantages of total randomization, of Zelen-type randomization procedures, of Efron-type procedures vs more classical blocking procedures to control the balance between groups, and of Simon-Pocock-type procedures vs more classical stratification for controlling possible biases in prognostic factors.
(5) Heavy birthweight was 50% more frequent among Natives than non-Natives (relative risk 1.47, 95% confidence limits 1.35 and 1.59), after stratification by week of gestation.
(6) After allowance for the fact that regression analyses suggested that the proportion of tremolite in dust was probably 2.5 times higher in Thetford Mines, Quebec, than in Charleston, the results from both matched pair and stratification analyses of tremolite fibre concentrations in lung were almost the same as for chrysotile.
(7) Two prognostic stratification schemes were developed on the 1973 population which identified low and high risk groups with meaningfully different four-month cardiac death rates.
(8) 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.
(9) The co-stratification of the two kinds of DS ganglion cell is consistent with the sharing of some inputs in common, including some cone bipolar cell inputs.
(10) Because hemicysts originated by detachment of squamous cells from the basal layers but not from adjacent squamous cells, they were considered to indicate stratification in the cultures.
(11) The value of invasive electrophysiologic testing for risk stratification in the general postinfarction patient population remains unclear.
(12) Although there is general concern about the psychological effects of gender stratification, we know relatively little about the particular aspects of inequality that affect men and women's mental health.
(13) The study used a cohort of elderly people randomly divided into two groups after stratification for sex.
(14) The recognition that tumor grade is the dominant prognostic variable has resulted in the more common use of a grading system, and a more uniform reporting and stratification of end results.
(15) Stratification of patients by either high or low predominant histologic grade is recommended in future GBA treatment studies.
(16) Extra-cellular recordings from single cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii, were made to find out whether the stratification of the nucleus could be correlated with the receptive field properties of units.
(17) Based on dendritic stratification within the inner plexiform layer (Famiglietti and Kolb, '76), the somatostatin-immunoreactive large cells were found to include both on-center cells and off-center cells, but were predominantly of the off-center type.
(18) Finally, we found that the changes in integrin expression that occur on initiation of stratification in vivo could be reproduced in organ cultures of developing skin; such cultures therefore provided a useful experimental model for further studies of the role of integrins in epidermal stratification.
(19) Patients with T1 squamous cell carcinomas had, in fact, the best prognosis (26.5% recurred) among the subgroups obtained by stratification of T number and cell type together; loco-regional failure as exclusive modality of relapse had a 5-year rate of 19.7% and metastatic failure of 30.0%.
(20) In 70% of cases the osseous adhesion is formed at the level of disks which demineralized osseous sawdust was introduced to (adhesion was formed, mainly, as perifocal osseous stratifications).
Vegetation
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.
(n.) The sum of vegetable life; vegetables or plants in general; as, luxuriant vegetation.
(n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves of the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
(5) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(6) An sdh-specific transcript of about 3,450 nucleotides was detected in vegetative bacteria.
(7) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
(8) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(9) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(10) Equal numbers of handled and unhandled puparia were planted out at different densities (1, 2, 4 or 8 per linear metre) in fifty-one natural puparial sites in four major vegetation types.
(11) We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
(12) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(13) Using morhological, neurohistological and histochemical methods the author studied different areas and anatomical structures of the central and peripheral somatic and vegetative nervous system in 4 patients who had died during different periods of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 27, 48, 51, and 60.
(14) The Xenopus Vg1 gene encodes a maternal mRNA that is localized to the vegetal hemisphere of both oocytes and embryos and encodes a protein related to the TGF-beta family of small secreted growth factors.
(15) This site is present in both vegetative cells and postaggregation cells.
(16) Sterile vegetations were produced in rabbits by placing catheters in the inferior vena cava, tricuspid or aortic valves, and thoracic or abdominal aorta and then were infected by the intravenous inoculation of Streptococcus sanguis.
(17) In the third part, the practical application of this knowledge to processed foods is shown using milk and vegetable protein as examples.
(18) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(19) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
(20) Headache, vegetative und neurological symptoms are frequent but not necessary companions.