A piston is a relatively long posterior 'tentacle' with an exaggerated capacity for rapid and repeated contraction and is, so far, known only in two genera (Erythropsidinium and Greuetodinum) [ 29].
It is well documented that neoplastic cells derived from multiple human tumour types show an exaggerated capacity for haeme precursor synthesis following 5-ALA exposure relative to normal cells, although the exact contribution to tumour development remains unclear (Collaud et al, 2004).
Foster youth, filling beyond the exaggerated limits of our capacity to house them, are bursting with the desire to be loved, to be home, and to be part of a family.
Macrophages from mice deficient in 11β-HSD1 show delayed acquisition of phagocytic capacity and exaggerated production of IL-6 and other cytokines after activation with lipopolysaccharide (9, 16).
What makes "The Incredibles" work, however, is not the velocity of the plotting, or the latest improvements in animation — these are so regularly cried up, with every Pixar release, that we greet them with yawns of contented acceptance — but the more prosaic fact that the folks at the movie's heart are exaggerated way beyond our capacities but not quite beyond our imaginings.
Most of the foreign policy establishment and media in the U.S. cannot understand this, since they see the world through the lens of U.S. power, much as they did during the Cold War; they have an exaggerated sense of American importance, capacity, and benevolence; and they do not care much about the self-determination of other nations.
D1 BUSINESS DAY C1-12 Enron and Qwest Had a Deal Enron and the telecommunications giant Qwest Communications struck a deal last fall to swap fiber optic network capacity and services at exaggerated prices in an effort to improve each company's financial picture, executives said.
The poverty so often pleaded by the poet is undoubtedly exaggerated; apparently his genius for spending kept pace with his capacity for earning.
Cell respiratory capacity declines with age, and this decline is exaggerated in neurodegenerative mitochondrial diseases.
Pepe then gave an exaggerated account of the fight against the Fifth Column, perhaps relishing his capacity to startle the two women.
Sequencing identified a homozygous p.R329Q mutation, which impaired the capacity to bind nonmuscle actin filaments, and might lead to exaggerated germ-cell apoptosis and POI.
