nidus

How To Use nidus In A Sentence

• What this means is that for one to find you, it must have been flying around, in which case you'd hear it, or they're nesting, in which case you'd hear them coming out of the filthy nidus.
• Innate immune mechanisms may also be important in preventing infections that have a nidus in the oral cavity.
• Central venous catheters, often used to deliver parenteral nutrition to preterm infants, can act as a nidus for infection.
• Tyndall had shown that in the moving particles of fine dust discovered by a ray of light in a dark room the germs of low forms of life, which would cause putrefaction, were ever present, and ready to spring into life when a favorable "nidus" for the development of the organism was provided. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
• Debride necrotic debris and the hyperkeratotic rim as they are niduses of for infection. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• The words used to designate such fittings are: _nidus_; _forulus_, or more usually _foruli_; _loculamenta_; _pluteus_; _pegmata_. The Care of Books
• There were three ideal forms, as we saw, gradually shaping themselves in the development of the story of Demeter, waiting only for complete realisation at the hands of the sculptor; and now, with these forms in our minds, let us place ourselves in thought before the three images which once probably occupied the three niches or ambries in the face of that singular cliff at Cnidus, one of them being then wrought on a larger scale. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
• Joni had been the central nidus of her misery from Form One to Form Three.
• Such expanded, compassionate use programs with monitoring using the system we suggest could be the nidus of a transformation in the willingness of patients, companies, the FDA, Congress and society at large to support phase IV trials, albeit in innovative more cost-effective new ways, such as what we suggest. Sunil Chacko: Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care
• With Helen at the core, his nidus, Don's shiniest facet was as a family man.