(n.) A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Example Sentences:
(1) 55, 357 (1983)] and later expanded upon by Tofts and Wray.
(2) A monoclonal antibody (MAb), designated PR-6, produced against chick oviduct progesterone receptors [Sullivan, W. P., Beito, T. G., Proper, J., Krco, C. J., & Toft, D. O.
(3) Critical pundits are unconvinced by it all – Mark Lawrenson pledges to shave his moustache off if they stay up – but January signings Stig Tofting, Fredi Bobic and Youri Djorkaeff help defy the odds and secure 16th place.
(4) The Active Learning Trust, which oversees five schools, has paid £16,943 to a company owned by trustee, Marilyn Toft.
(5) Over the past two decades, a great deal of evidence has accumulated in favor of the hypothesis that steroid hormones act at the level of nuclear DNA to regulate gene expression (Jensen EV, Suzuki T, Kawashima T, Stumpf WE, Jungblut PW, DeSombre ER, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1968; 59:632-638; Gorski J, Toft D, Shyamala G, Smith D, Notides A, Rec Prog Horm Res 1968; 24:45-80; O'Malley BW, Means AR, Science 1974; 183:610-620; O'Malley BW, Roop DR, Lai EC, Nordstrom JL, Catterall JF, Swaneck GE, Colbert DA, Tsai M-J, Dugaiczyk A, Woo SLC, Rec Prog Horm Res 1979; 35:1-46).
(6) Incubation of molybdate-stabilized L cell cytosol with a monoclonal antibody directed against the 100-kDa glucocorticoid-binding protein causes the immune-specific adsorption to protein A-Sepharose of both the 100-kDa glucocorticoid receptor and the 90-kDa murine heat shock protein (hsp90) (Sanchez, E. R., Toft, D. O., Schlesinger, M. J., and Pratt, W. B.
(7) Both examiners examined the patients using a Toftness Electromagnetic Radiation Receiver (EMRR) and by manual palpation (MP) of the spinous processes.
(8) Two years later, former Bolton bouncer and third Mitchell brother Stig Tofting was sacked by his Danish club AGF for alledgedly chinning four of his team-mates.
(9) Incubations of 5.9S antiestrogen-receptor complexes with antibodies against nontransformed steroid receptor-associated proteins (the 59 and 90 kDa proteins) did not result in the interaction of this larger antiestrogen-receptor complex with these antibodies (obtained from L. E. Faber and D. O. Toft, respectively).
Tuft
Definition:
(n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
(n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
(n.) A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
(v. t.) To separate into tufts.
(v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
(v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
Example Sentences:
(1) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
(2) The observed damage was similar: a decrease of the total length of the dendritic segments of the apical tuft and the basal arborization.
(3) The cell density in the tufts was 120 and 70 per cent greater than controls in AGN and RPGN, respectively.
(4) Approximately one-fourth of the cells contained cytoplasmic fibrillar bodies and amorphous fibrous tufts around the nuclear envelope.
(5) Stereociliary tufts in the tectorial region differ from those in the free-standing region in several ways.
(6) Severe mesangial insudation of material containing fibrinogen derivatives resulted in segmental tuft necrosis with almost complete replacement and destruction of the mesangial matrix.
(7) The anaxonic granule cell of the olfactory bulb is believed to inhibit mitral and tufted cells through reciprocal dendrodendritic synapses.
(8) Detached ciliary tufts (DCTs) have been observed in sputum, in cervicovaginal smears and, rarely, in fluid from the pouch of Douglas.
(9) Among the 58 Helicobacter-negative cases, similar changes were not observed in the ulcer edges, except for two cases which exhibited some cellular tufts.
(10) Monocytes were the predominant cell type among stained cells in glomerular tufts and crescents.
(11) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
(12) The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance (TAMP) was administered to 69 children (ages 6-18 years, X = 12.1, SD = 3.9) and 137 adults (ages 19-83 years, X = 46.7, SD = 20.0) with neurological and musculoskeletal impairments.
(13) The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had The time I tried to give myself a touch-up with clippers and shaved out a whole tuft of hair.
(14) Surface areas of tufts and crescents were separately determined by photographing glomeruli, projecting and tracing outlines of tufts and crescents, and cutting out and weighing the tracings.
(15) S. sanguis I strains adhered better than S. sanguis II strains and peritrichously fibrillar strains generally adhered better than tufted strains.
(16) An adhesion is considered as a nidus for segmental sclerosis; as the adhesion progresses, the related tuft regions turn into sclerosis.
(17) The terminal tuft of the distal phalanx is destroyed by pressure erosion.
(18) That's probably why Tufts has reneged on its agreement with the government on how it plans to deal with sexual assault on campus – administrators know it's unlikely that they'll have their funding pulled as a result of their non-compliance.
(19) They found, in the articulation of the upper limbs, in addition to generic signs of arthrosis, zones of bone reabsorption (vacuoles), especially as regard the wrist and hands, and irregularities of the tufts.
(20) Several stages of collagen assemblies were observed: intracellular packing of SLS-like aggregates surrounded by membrane containing areas with a clathrin coat; fine non cross-striated filaments connecting the cell membrane at 1 pole of the cells and collagen fibrils; tufts of filaments directly linked to collagen fibrils.