(a.) Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined results describe the depth of segregation of DMS blocks in Avcothane, the presence of DMS within the topmost 20 A in Biomer, and similar impurities in the model polymers.
(2) Kate Middleton, it has been disclosed this month , will ride to her wedding with the future King William in a mere motor car, only to be transported away at the end in the shimmering glory of a state coach – symbolising her transformation from commoner to iconic ingredient in the topmost rank of British society.
(3) The topmost activity after incubation however is present in the nodular melanoma.
(4) College students were handling vinegar to help neutralize the effects of tear-gas; medical students were bandaging the wounded; the owners of the posh mansions of the Morumbi neighborhood were in front of their villas, handling water and vinegar to passersby; Anonymous Brazil hacked several websites and Twitter accounts in order to motivate people to take the streets and even Gloria Kalil, Brazil's topmost fashion guru, dedicated an entry on her weblog on how to dress properly for the riots, in order to be better protected from tear-gas and rubber bullets.
(5) With the notable exception of the topmost twentieth, income groups in the top half were net gainers from the changes.
(6) Fresh human cadaveric ligamentous spine segments (T12-sacrum) were potted and clinically relevant loads applied through the loading frame attached to the topmost vertebra of the specimen.
(7) With 8.5% of all occupational poisonings in Poland organophosphate poisonings hold one of the topmost positions.
(8) Yes, there were iconic shows from the US like Kojak and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but these were just well made entertainments at the very tippy-topmost peak of a mound of dross.
(9) The removal of the topmost cell layers of the epidermal stratum corneum by stripping initiates a series of biochemical events which alters the normal homeostatic control of and results in the acceleration of the cell cycle in basal cells which are ten to twenty cell layers removed from the site of stripping.
(10) In the computer-derived data, the relative risk of 'death' or 'hypertension' was greatest in the topmost quintile.
(11) And she was a model also for every writer coming from the back of beyond, demonstrating – as she so signally did – that you can be a nobody from nowhere, but, with talent, courage, perseverance through hard times, and a dollop of luck, you can scale the topmost storyheights.
(12) Topmost temperatures were significantly hotter than temperatures reached at other sites.
(13) On the average, NH4+ oxidizers were 540-fold more abundant in the topmost 1 cm of sediment than in the water, and NO2- oxidizers were 250-fold more abundant.
(14) "When it really comes to the poor and women's issues, she definitely gives it the topmost priority.
(15) After topical treatment of enamel pieces cut from bovine incisors, the chemical composition of the solution phases and of the topmost layers of enamel were determined by special techniques of elemental and surface analysis.
(16) The device consists of polyethylene tubes froming two perpendicular loops joined and fixed and their topmost point by ligature.
Uppermost
Definition:
(a.) Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
Example Sentences:
(1) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
(2) The authors, in other words, obtained information on expression of keratin 10, normally occurring in all suprabasal keratinocytes, as well as of the basal proliferation keratin 16 in the uppermost vital cell positions of PC lesion.
(3) A net of blood capillaries located in the uppermost part of the tunica propria occupies these grooves.
(4) Variation in risk in association with sugar and starch intake was also insubstantial, while for fiber, there was a nonuniform reduction in risk at the three uppermost fifths of intake.
(5) The nature of the horny layer which, as the uppermost barrier takes over the main part of the protective function of the skin against all locally applied substances, is shortly outlined.
(6) Pure-tone audiometry was performed before and after a 30-minute period of positioning the patient horizontally with the affected ear uppermost.
(7) A significant difference between the dependent and the uppermost triceps brachii was recorded.
(8) So, although the larger and more newsworthy constitutional clash in this case is about whether the law should apply to the heir to the throne – and thus about the wisdom or not of the prince’s way of lobbying ministers – this wasn’t the uppermost issue for the court today.
(9) This investigation compared teams at the two uppermost levels of men's volleyball in Canada for differences in physical, physiological and performance characteristics.
(10) On the skin surface, cytomembranes of the uppermost corneocytes frequently had unilateral, very slightly flat-elevated, zonal areas along the junctions between the corneocytes.
(11) ESCA analysis of the uppermost 5-nm point layer revealed the presence of N on silver points removed from failed treatments.
(12) Cholesterol 3-sulphate (CS) is a component of the intercellular lipid found in the uppermost layer of human epidermis (the 'stratum corneum') and is thought to play an important role in tissue cohesion.
(13) In BP, degenerated keratinocytes adjacent to the blister roof, may, after undergoing a filamentous change, drop off into the dermis and subsequently form homogeneous, fibrillar bodies in the uppermost dermis when reepithelization is completed.
(14) In the Commons, Cameron said continuation of the current system of regulation was "not an option" and that the victims of phone hacking needed to be uppermost in people's minds.
(15) There were no significant difference between the two groups in the mean time from the injection to recovery from analgesia in the two uppermost segments (121 min versus 107 min).
(16) In addition to a swelling that is generally only slightly tender to pressure, the most important symptom is usually a long-standing, intermittent, dull pain in the upper sternum, the claviculae and the adjacent uppermost ribs.
(17) The marking of the medial lip segment of the Millard rotation advancement procedure for repair of the unilateral cleft lip has been altered in the uppermost portion by utilizing tissue from the columellar base.
(18) Using immunocytochemistry and fluorography of newly synthesised collagens, we report that surface articular chondrocytes (which occupy the uppermost 10-15% of the tissue depth) from normal human cartilage initiate de novo synthesis of both type X collagen and alkaline phosphatase when maintained in suspension culture.
(19) Using ruthenium tetroxide as a secondary fixative, we are able to demonstrate stacks of lamellae filling the intercellular spaces in the uppermost layers of the stratum corneum.
(20) Electron microscopy of the nonvesiculated early erythematous skin showed small vacuoles and lacunae along the uppermost portion of the dermis.