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properdin
properdin , protein found in the blood serum of humans and some of the higher animals that appears to participate in certain specific immune responses. It is associated with the engulfing of foreign particles and invading cells by phagocytes and with tissue inflammation (see blood ; immunity ). Pr...
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Caribbean Community and Common Market
Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), organization founded by the Treaty of Chaguaramas (Trinidad; 1973, revised 2001) and including Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti (suspended 2004-6), Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Luci...
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Tomás Estrada Palma
Tomás Estrada Palma , 1835-1908, Cuban revolutionist and first president (1902-6) of Cuba. An active participant in the Ten Years War (1868-78), he became a general (1876) and was captured by the Spanish (1877). Released and exiled, he spent some time in the United States, where he helped win...
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Joseph Orville Shelby
Joseph Orville Shelby 1830-97, Confederate cavalry commander in the American Civil War, b. Lexington, Ky. He made a considerable fortune in rope manufacturing in Kentucky and Missouri. While in Missouri he participated in the Kansas-Missouri border war on the proslavery side. When the Civil War bro...
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threonine
threonine , organic compound, one of the 22 α- amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l -stereoisomer appears in mammalian protein. It is one of several essential amino acids needed in the diet; human beings cannot synthesize it from simpler metabolites. Young adults need ...
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aspartic acid
aspartic acid , organic compound, one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in animal proteins. Only the l -stereoisomer participates in the biosynthesis of proteins. Its acidic side chain adds a negative charge and hence a greater degree of water-solubility to proteins in neutral solution and h...
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Catholic University of America
Catholic University of America at Washington, D.C.; the national university of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States; coeducational; founded 1887 and opened 1889. It includes a college of arts and sciences as well as schools of engineering and architecture, law, library and information sci...
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chorale
chorale , any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in the liturgy. Early chorales were mainly translations of Latin hymns set to folksong...
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Christadelphians
Christadelphians [Gr.,=brothers of Christ], small religious denomination founded in the United States in 1848 by John Thomas. Its members live by the Scriptures and await the second coming of Jesus on earth, who, they believe, will establish a theocracy with its center in Jerusalem. There is no ord...
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Commonwealth games
Commonwealth games series of amateur athletic meets held among citizens of countries in the Commonwealth of Nations . Originated (1930) as the British Empire games, the series is held every four years and is patterned after the Olympic games; women have participated since 1934. In their early stag...
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