ema
- noun
- /ˈeɪmə/
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- Visitors to the shrine wrote their wishes on an ema and hung it on the wall.
Examples
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She carefully crafted a small ema with her hopes for the new year written on it.
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As part of the festival, many people brought ema to the temple to pray for good fortune.
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The understaffing proposed under the EMA contract will affect the quality of our water.
Blog text (20) -
Our results show that the mucosa of untreated CD patients is a site of production of EMA, since EMA was detected in all the biopsy cultures of untreated patients.
Academic text (1999) -
Thus, we can envisage a situation in which gliadin, in genetically predisposed individuals, causes an immunological recognition of the EMA antigen.
Academic text (1999) -
As part of a special "Roots Cause" committee established by right-wing U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox, Pugh and Brown signed a Nov. 8 recommendation for total separation of DWSD from the city to allow the implementation of the EMA contract regardless of the Council vote.
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After a raucous three hours of public comment, the Council voted against a contract with the Miller Canfield law firm, co-author of the now-dead Public Act 4, as well as the EMA contract that would cut 81 percent of the water department's workforce.
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Thus, an encounter with one antigen (gliadin) leads to rapid production of antibodies specific for an apparently unrelated (EMA antigen) autoantigen.
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EMA are normally IgA, although in CD patients with selective IgA deficit, IgG EMA are detected, thus suggesting that they are probably synthesized at the mucosal level.
Academic text (1999)
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word ema comes from the Japanese parts e 'picture' and uma 'horse', because people once gave real horses to shrines and later began painting horses on small wooden boards. That's why an ema is a small wooden plaque where you write a wish or prayer and hang it at a shrine.
