(n.) A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds of other kinds. Also used figuratively.
(n.) A bed or layer artificially made; a course.
Example Sentences:
(1) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(2) Intraepidermal clefting starts at the junction between the basal and epidermal layers, and later involves all of the levels of the stratum spinosum.
(3) After application to the skin, oxiconazole is rapidly absorbed into the stratum corneum, maximum concentrations often being attained within 100 minutes.
(4) The lower lipid content, expressed as weight per unit weight of tissue, in palmo-plantar stratum corneum as compared to non-palmo-plantar stratum corneum may be related to the fact that a larger portion of the intercellular space of the former tissue is occupied by desmosomes.
(5) Emollients can increase the water content in the stratum corneum by delivery of their water to the skin, and by occlusion.
(6) Since DG I belongs to the group of transmembrane desmosomal proteins that is believed to constitute the link between the intracellular parts of desmosomes of opposing cells, it is concluded that desmosomes may play an important role in plantar stratum corneum cell cohesion, and that degradation of desmosomes may be an important step in desquamation in plantar epidermis.
(7) The stratum superficiale consists during this phase of tall columnar cells.
(8) Sheet preparations of the stratum granulosum from the epithelium of the ventral surface of mouse tongue permit examination of cell replacement of this maturation compartment of the tissue.
(9) A less extreme drop occurs in stratum radiatum 0.4 mm from the subiculum border, without obvious histological correlate.
(10) For this purpose, the author relies on the observations of a group of doctors during a 5-year attempt to interest neurotic patients in this stratum in a psycho-therapeutic discussion at a medical ambulant clinic.
(11) However, AGC and AC in their hydrogenated form also caused aggregation and stacking of the stratum corneum lipid liposomes.
(12) Although their numbers are greatest in the polymorph region of the fascia dentata (FD) and in the principal cell layers stratum pyramidale (SP) and stratum granulosum (SG), GAD immunoreactive (GAD-IR) cells are numerous in other strata that contain mostly dendrites and scattered cells.
(13) mGluR1 alpha, a 142 kd protein, is enriched within the olfactory bulb, stratum oriens of CA1 and polymorph layer of dentate gyrus in hippocampus, globus pallidus, thalamus, substantia nigra, superior colliculus, and cerebellum.
(14) In an electron microscopic study, we found transitional cells between the stratum granulosum and stratum corneum that were increased in CRP.
(15) Following micropressure application of glutamate (500 microM) in stratum lacunosum-moleculare (L-M), inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (glut-IPSPs) were recorded in CA1 pyramidal cells.
(16) For the skins without stratum corneum, the permeation rates and permeation amounts of l-NG and dl-NG were higher than those for the intact skin (P less than 0.01), but no significant difference was seen between l-NG and dl-NG.
(17) Most of the GABA-negative calretinin-immunoreactive neurons were located in the hilus of the dentate gyrus and in stratum lucidum of the CA3 subfield.
(18) A null zone and associated sudden phase-reversal of RSA were observed in stratum lucidum of CA3.
(19) However, when the stratum corneum was removed by tape stripping, the respective permeability coefficients were increased greater than 30-fold, establishing the stratum corneum as the principal barrier to their skin permeation.
(20) Moisture on the skin was shown to increase the discharge to a standard stimulus, probably by its softening effect on the stratum corneum.
Trouble
Definition:
(v. t.) A fault or interruption in a stratum.
(v. t.) To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
(v. t.) To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex.
(v. t.) To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter.
(a.) Troubled; dark; gloomy.
(v. t.) The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity.
(v. t.) That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
(2) Based on a large, ongoing empirical research effort to determine factors associated with the successful community adjustment of troubled adolescents leaving residential treatment, this paper focuses on multiple indicators of success measured at multiple points of time in the treatment process.
(3) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(4) Its current troubles are in part due to the fact that Colt lost out on the M4 US army contract to FN Herstal in 2013.
(5) FC Terek Grozny, the newly energised team based in the troubled Caucasus republic of Chechnya , is hoping a slew of high-profile international acquisitions will help it make waves in the Russian premier league, which kicked off last weekend.
(6) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
(7) They can genuinely believe their partner provoked them to commit the abuse, just so they could get them in trouble.
(8) Here's something else you've worked out: Anthony's name is made up, in order to stop my interviewee from getting in trouble with his employer, and I can't be too specific about his living arrangements.
(9) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(10) Concerning the etio-pathogenic study, as we tried to show, the authors agree in simultaneous and contemporary appearance, between the 4th and the 6th month of the intra-uterine life of oculo-cerebro-renal troubles of Lowe's Syndrom and in the existence of a common factor, probably a genetic one.
(11) The very low number of African members is particularly troubling, because more than one third of projects take place in that region.
(12) "When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating – as we saw last August," said Darra Singh, chair of the panel.
(13) Arvind Kejriwal, leader of a new populist political party "dedicated to improving the lot of the common man", announced on Monday that he would form a government to run the sprawling, troubled and increasingly wealthy city of 15 million people.
(14) While Brown – finally fit again after appalling knee trouble that very nearly ended his career –began a home game for the first time since January 2012, Poyet only found room in Sunderland's starting XI for five of the 14 summer signings secured by Roberto De Fanti, the club's director of football.
(15) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.
(16) Flying in Soyuz was “ real teamwork ” she said, adding: “Tim will have no trouble with that.” David Southwood , a senior researcher at Imperial College, and a member of the UK space agency steering board, has known Tim since he joined the European Space Agency in 2009.
(17) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
(18) Britain’s troubled relationship with the EU has provided Boris Johnson with nothing but fun since he first made his name lampooning the federalist ambitions of Jacques Delors as the Daily Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent in the early 1990s .
(19) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
(20) They were compared to two groups: normal elderly subjects with no memory trouble and no attention dysfunction (12 subjects, mean age: 66) and elderly subjects with minor trouble in STM and little attention disturbance (6 subjects, mean age: 68.5).