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Definition of Domains
1. domain [n] - See also: domain
Medical Definition of Domains
1. 1. Homologous units of approximately 110 to 120 amino acids each which comprise the light and heavy chains of the immunoglobulin molecule and which serve specific functions. The light chain has two domains's, one in the variable region and one in the constant region of the chain; the heavy chain has four to five domains's, depending upon the class of immunoglobulin, one in the variable region and the remaining ones in the constant region. 2. A region of a protein having some distinctive physical feature or role. Origin: Fr. Domaine, fr. L. Dominium, property, dominion (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Domains
Literary usage of Domains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Emerging Electronic Methods for Making Retail Payments by Judith S. Ruud, Philip Webre (1996)
"Number of domains Registered on the Internet as of January Each Year Thousands
... By any of several measures—the number of domains, the number of messages ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Loss of Power of Recognition or Identification in Acoustic domains Here the
auditory acuity is great enough to permit of the recognition of the meaning of ..."
3. Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing As a Process by Carol B. Olson (1996)
"Teaching the domains of Writing By Nancy McHugh Director, Writing Competencies,
Los Angeles Unified School District Dividing the "universe of discourse" ..."
4. A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life by Frederic Austin Ogg (1908)
"The royal domains of the Frankish kingdom, already extensive at Charlemagne's
accession, were considerably increased during his reign. ..."
5. History of Prussia by Herbert Tuttle, Herbert Baxter Adams (1883)
"One of the most important sources of revenue continued to be the crown domains.
It was in fact rather as a land-owner than as a laud-ruler that the King ..."
6. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"In order to promote still more the sale of the national domains, it was decided,
in creating the Great Book, that the inscriptions of annuities in that book ..."
7. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society by American Mathematical Society (1919)
"cise certain points of the latter theory, notably that which pertains to the form
of the domains. We may speak of the domains of Weierstrass, or the domains ..."
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