(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
(n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
(n.) The side of a level or drift.
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.
Example Sentences:
(1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
(2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(3) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(4) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
(5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(7) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(8) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
(9) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(10) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
(12) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(13) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
(14) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
(15) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
(16) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(17) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
(18) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
(19) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
(20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.
Waly
Definition:
(interj.) An exclamation of grief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also, we’ve had a number of people want to donate directly to the asylum seekers we’re following for this series - Said and Wali Khan Norzai .
(2) Ahmed Wali Karzai was the head of the provincial council in Kandahar, Afghanistan's second biggest city, and had been the target of previous assassination attempts.
(3) Senior tribal leaders, including Karzai's powerful brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, had gathered for the funeral in keeping with the Islamic tradition of burying the dead within 24 hours.
(4) And in March the Washington Post quoted an unnamed US military official who said he had personally threatened Ahmed Wali with entering his name on a Nato list of suspects who can be legally captured or killed.
(5) For the next two years, Khakrezwal said, he and other commanders would vouch for their men and send them to Ahmed Wali, who would supply them to the Kandahar Strike Force, a paramilitary unit working in tandem with the CIA.
(6) A tribal elder in Kandahar province also confirmed the death of Ahmed Wali Karzai.
(7) "When people had problems that the governor or the police chief could not solve they came to Ahmed Wali Karzai," he said.
(8) Some foreign policy analysts have broken the silence however, most notably Steve Coll, a former journalist and respected observer of Afghanistan , who wrote last month that Ahmed Wali "is the most visible, most intractable symbol of the corruption and the corporate self-interest of the Karzai government in southern Afghanistan".
(9) "Who is capable of replacing Ahmed Wali on the provincial council?
(10) Witness Shah Wali had just stepped out of a taxi to go to the bank when the attacker struck.
(11) Al Ahram's current editor, Mamdouh al-Wali, was appointed as part of a process known as the "Brotherhoodisation" of key institutions.
(12) Ahmed Wali Karzai , the powerful half-brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has been killed by one of his security guards inside his own house in Kandahar, according to the local chief of border police.
(13) But Ahmad Wali was assassinated in 2011, and Mahmoud has been dogged by his connection to failed the Kabul Bank scandal, leaving Qayoum the most obvious family contender to stay on in the presidential palace.
(14) Ahmed Wali Karzai , who was gunned down in his home in Kandahar by a bodyguard, was in many ways the personification of modern-day Afghanistan – corrupt, treacherous, lawless, paradoxical, subservient and charming.
(15) Years later, Wali Muhammad, one of Ali's cornermen in Manila, acknowledged: 'After the 14th, Ali came back to the corner and told us, "Cut 'em off".
(16) His most likely successor is either the former governor Gul Agha Sherzai or Ahmed Wali's brother-in-law, Aref Noorzai.
(17) Haji Padsha, an elder of the Alikozai tribe, said Ahmed Wali Karzai had been shot on his return from a meeting with foreigners at the former house of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the fugitive leader of the Afghan Taliban.
(18) The tribal elder said Gulbadin's new commander tried to help patch up the relationship between the two men and to persuade him to go back to work for Wali.
(19) Ahmed Wali Karzai was born in the small southern Afghan town of Karz, son of a senior leader of the Popalzai tribe and well-known politician who was later killed in exile by the Taliban.
(20) Ahmed Wali Karzai , the powerful half-brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has been killed by one of his security guards inside his house in Kandahar, raising the prospect of turmoil in a city widely seen as the key to the war in Afghanistan.