Sentence examples for a lay expression from inspiring English sources

In local use, the root poultice is believed to cause "boil ripening", a lay expression for enhancement of pus accumulation in the boil thought to indicate that the infection has been surmounted.

A possible solution may be to create a lexicon containing these lay expressions.

Internationally, the most commonly used measure of health literacy is the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine and its shortened version; these assess an adult patient's ability to read common medical terms and lay expressions for body parts and illnesses [ 8– 10].

Perhaps you feel uneasy because your contributing to a Democrat is a kind of lie, an expression of admiration for someone you actually disdain.

Another important functional application of Cy3 and Cy5 lies in expression microarrays for analysis of gene expression [ 9].

In Arabic, we have an expression: 'If you lay a hand on a Muslim, the Muslim will never let you go.' " It was in Fahaheel, in a parking lot near a fish market, that a Canadian man was shot and killed in the first weeks of the crisis, in a crime that Kuwait authorities suspected had been committed by Muslim militants.

We limited the present data analysis to a subset of 23,768 well-annotated genes, because our main interest lies in expression changes involving proteins or regulatory RNAs with potential roles in the transformation process.

In between those two extremes lies the expression of all the fear, hope, joy, desperation, enlightenment and heartache of living with people who are supposed to love you.

For establishment insiders, an opportunity to lie is an expression of loyalty to the operational code, and those willing to articulate it in its most difficult setting are embraced as leaders.

Optimization of Google Scholar search expression lay outside the scope of this research.

(2009) note that emotional expression lies on a continuum from inhibition, to appropriate expression, to exaggeration of emotional response.