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LIFE CYCLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("life cycle" is a kind of...):
organic phenomenon ((biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("life cycle" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
Context examples:
Besides the MJO life cycle, Taschetto notes that there are many other climate phenomena, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole, which can together affect regional rainfall differently.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
A designation assigned to a particular period during a life cycle, generally defined by chronological parameters.
(Life Stage, NCI Thesaurus)
The parasite life cycle involves hematophagous reduviid bugs as vectors.
(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
Agents used to treat malaria, and are usually classified based on action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human.
(Antimalarial Agent, NCI Thesaurus)
They resemble the cancer cell of origin that has escaped senescence – the natural process of cell ageing and "death" which concludes a healthy cell life cycle.
(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Last year, a fleet of NASA spacecraft got a detailed look at the life cycle of the 2018 global dust storm that ended the Opportunity rover's mission.
(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)
But new ALMA observations provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth.
(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)
This review aims to evaluate and synthesise the scientific evidence on the effect of milk and dairy product consumption in terms of health and prevention of various chronic diseases and all-cause mortality, bearing in mind the importance of maintaining an adequate quality of diet in the different stages of the life cycle.
(Adequate intake of milk and dairy products in different life stages helps prevent chronic diseases, University of Granada)
There are five major types of medicines: • Reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors - interfere with a critical step during the HIV life cycle and keep the virus from making copies of itself • Protease inhibitors - interfere with a protein that HIV uses to make infectious viral particles • Fusion inhibitors - block the virus from entering the body's cells • Integrase inhibitors - block an enzyme HIV needs to make copies of itself • Multidrug combinations - combine two or more different types of drugs into one
(HIV/AIDS Medicines, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)
