(a.) Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of Alu repeat polymorphism should be useful in construction of a high-resolution map and also in identifying genotypes of individuals for clinical and other purposes because the repeats are ubiquitous and the technique for their detection is simple.
(2) Because TNF mRNA appeared ubiquitous in the organs of control rats examined and because the endotoxin-induced increase in TNF mRNA was relatively small, endotoxin may induce the expression of the TNF protein in serum not only by increasing TNF mRNA levels but perhaps more importantly by a posttranscriptional mechanism.
(3) The distal sequence element which has many properties in common with transcriptional enhancers contains, in addition to Sp1 binding sites, an octamer binding site which mediates activation through interactions with the ubiquitous transcription factor Oct-1.
(4) The latter protein is ubiquitous in the eubacterial kingdom and can be purified in large quantities.
(5) This suggests that the chronotropic effect of PTH is ubiquitous among the terrestrial vertebrates.
(6) These results are consistent with the previous observation in HTC cells that the decay rate of ODC activity in the presence of cycloheximide correlated well with the proportion of ODC present as a complex with antizyme, suggesting the ubiquitous role of antizyme in ODC degradation.
(7) It is hoped that the MSDB will lead to a better understanding of cerebrovascular disease in blacks and possibly to in-depth comparative studies of the ubiquitous problem of atherosclerosis.
(8) Implications for the ubiquitous occurrence of priming through the process of social categorization are discussed.
(9) The effect of ubiquitous clostridial infections on ruminants is discussed.
(10) Thus the innocuousness and ubiquitous availability of dextromethorphan render it attractive for worldwide pharmacogenetic investigations in man.
(11) Subsequently calmodulin, a ubiquitous Ca2(+)-binding protein, was found to be widely distributed in many tissues and to be involved in a variety of Ca2(+)-mediated cellular processes.
(12) All available information indicates that this ubiquitous and tightly regulated DNA replication protein is a central component of the pathway(s) leading to DNA replication and cell division.
(13) Intensive use of pefloxacin selected multiresistant S. epidermidis which became ubiquitous in the hospital environment.
(14) Should workers compensation be extended to provide disability benefits when the aggravating stimuli are ubiquitous, when the employment relationship was brief, when separation from the offending stimuli ends symptoms, or when hyperreactivity can be medically managed?
(15) We have analyzed the binding of Sp1, a ubiquitously expressed transactivator, to the promoter region of the gamma genes.
(16) The hornet investigated is the one ubiquitous in Israel - Vespa orientalis.
(17) The induction is ubiquitous among Schwann cells, irrespective of the type of axon they originally ensheathed.
(18) The biological function and the reason for the ubiquitous distribution of these factors remain unclear.
(19) The gene for von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF1) was recently identified by positional cloning and found to code for a large, ubiquitously expressed protein.
(20) Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) is a ubiquitous soil contaminant that rarely causes disseminated disease in adults regardless of immunological status.
Universal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.
(a.) Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
(a.) Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
(a.) Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
(n.) The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
(n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
(n.) A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(3) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(4) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(5) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(6) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(7) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(9) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(10) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(11) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(12) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
(13) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
(14) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
(15) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
(16) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
(17) By using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we have developed a system for type-specific as well as universal detection of genital human papillomaviruses (HPVs).
(18) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(19) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(20) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.