What's the difference between ability and undeveloped?

Ability


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
  • (2) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
  • (3) LPS also abrogated the ability of recombinant interferon-gamma (r.IFN-gamma) to enhance macrophage larvicidal activity.
  • (4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (5) These membrane perturbation effects not observed with bleomycin-iron in the presence of a hydroxyl radical scavenger, dimethyl thiourea, or a chelating agent, desferrioxamine, were correlated with the ability of the complex to generate highly reactive oxygen species.
  • (6) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
  • (7) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (8) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
  • (9) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
  • (10) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
  • (11) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
  • (12) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (13) Despite this alteration in subcellular distribution, the mutant polypeptide retained the ability to induce fibroblast transformation by several parameters, including the ability to display anchorage-independent growth.
  • (14) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
  • (15) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
  • (16) These results suggest that CD4+ protective T cells generated by immunization with vBCG are characterized by the ability to produce IFN-gamma after stimulation with specific Ag.
  • (17) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
  • (18) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
  • (19) The ability of cytoplasmic extracts to induce DNA synthesis in isolated, quiescent nuclei.
  • (20) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.

Undeveloped


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover, the distinct dissimilarities of neural connections between rodents and primates indicate that the rodent's hippocampal formation might somehow have an undeveloped neural system of memory, or a different memory system from that of primates.
  • (2) Although the intellectual base of nursing is believed to be patient care, the role of clinical field studies in master of nursing programs is unstructured and undeveloped.
  • (3) Birds with undeveloped ovaries (immature), developed ovaries but not laying (mature), and after laying 3-8 eggs (laying), were used in the first series.
  • (4) The lower clearances in infant and young rats were considered to be caused by the undeveloped liver function to metabolize phenytoin.
  • (5) The FR 30 cells had irregular shapes and sizes; the amount of undeveloped rough endoplasmic reticulum and the number of lysosomes were increased.
  • (6) The result was not satisfactory in some cases with the undeveloped oval window.
  • (7) Further evaluation and more systematic studies are greatly needed in order to sensitize professionals and society at large to the undeveloped potential of the retarded and their response to this form of intervention.
  • (8) This is a case report of 2-month-old boy who had a peculiar physiognomy with a microcephalus and an undeveloped forehead.
  • (9) A population survey was therefore carried out to determine the prevalence of hypertension and cardiac murmurs in a random sample of people aged 25-64 years living in an undeveloped rural area.
  • (10) Survival of eggs of O. ostertagi and C. oncophora was evaluated by incubation for 24 hours at 20 degrees C of thoroughly washed, treated eggs followed by microscopic examination and differentiation into developed or undeveloped eggs.
  • (11) The present status of the undeveloped branch of high-performance immobilized-metal-ion affinity chromatography (HPIMAC) is reviewed.
  • (12) The developing nations, with all their differences, face strikingly similar problems in administration and nursing administration in particular: emphasis on tertiary hospitals, top-down hierarchies, undeveloped human resources, lack of high performance systems, lack of infrastructures for health service delivery, ineffective rural-urban links.
  • (13) These results suggest that lateral inhibitory processes may be relatively undeveloped or receptive fields do not develop to be as small as those of normal adults.
  • (14) In view of these results, partially fractionated reticulocyte lysates were tested for restoration of protein-synthetic activity in the undeveloped embryo lysate.
  • (15) Supranuclear gaze palsies characteristic of type 3 were noted from early childhood, although the major signs were undeveloped until early adult life.
  • (16) The purpose of the meeting was to explore the undeveloped research opportunities in the area of marine biology for the advancement of our understanding of human health problems and to provide information on the current status of marine biology laboratories.
  • (17) Since active inflammatory trachoma in childhood responds to tetracyclines, erythromycin, and sulphonamides the disease should be attacked in those undeveloped rural areas where it continues to lead to blindness.
  • (18) Abnormal findings such as deficits, undevelopment and metamorphosis, in the shape, size and configuration of nerve cells, myelin sheaths and vessels in consecutive transverse sections stained by Nissl and Klüver-Barrera method were not evident on examination under light microscope, and in cell bodies, dendrites, axons, myelin sheaths, synaptic complexes of nerve cell, neuroglia and vessels in the cerebral cortex, under electron microscope.
  • (19) Total mortality was 25.2%; in most of the fatal cases (90.6%) the fistulas were undeveloped.
  • (20) Sellar, it was widely assumed, would then sell the undeveloped site for a large profit.

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