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HOMING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Orienting or directing homeward or to a destination
Example:
a homing beacon
Classified under:
Similar:
orientating; orienting (positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb home
Context examples:
Always, as soon as he received his liberty, he fled away, and always he fled north. He was possessed of an obsession that drove him north. The homing instinct, Irvine called it, after he had expended the selling price of a sonnet in getting the animal back from northern Oregon.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The basic map of IgA production includes induction of mucosal B cells in the Peyer's patches, circulation through the bloodstream and homing to intestinal mucosa of IgA-committed plasma cells, and local antibody production for export across the intestinal membranes.
(Intestinal IgA Production Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
For the first time, scientists have shown a relationship between the proportion of key immune cells that display high levels of a gut-homing protein called alpha-4 beta-7 at the time of HIV infection and health outcomes.
(Study links gut-homing protein levels with HIV infection risk, disease progression, National Institutes of Health)
