A chain of three tiny bones transmits sound waves across the middle ear.
Surge drums between equipment provide a measure of stability in that fluctuations are not transmitted along a chain of equipment, including those fluctuations that are characteristic of control instruments of normal sensitivity.
Dynamic stress-induced mechanisms, involving changes in the apoplastic pool of ABA, are transmitted by a chain of phosphatases and kinases, resulting in the expression of stress inducible genes.
"The president is giving an order which is transmitted down a chain of command.
For example, TOCSY interactions are transmitted through a chain of neighboring protons.
A chain of auditory ossicles in mammals transmits vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the internal ear; simpler devices occur in the cold-blooded land vertebrates.
Such causality is governed by a chain of biochemical reactions through which extracellular signals are transmitted from membrane receptors to transcription factors (i.e., reporters) via protein protein interactions (Bu and Callaway, 2011).
The Weberian apparatus consists of a chain of one to four ossicles that transmit oscillations of the swimbladder in the sound field directly to the inner ear.
Another hypothesis proposes that unsterile injections serially transmitted SIV from a bushmeat handler to other humans in a chain of acutely infected people, improving its adaptation to the new host [4], [23], [24].
The church has a chain of command from the Vatican all the way to the local parish that is capable of transmitting information, ideology and material goods throughout the world. .
