(n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The data has been discussed in connection with abiogenesis of two major types of biopolymers, proteins and nucleic acids.
Lifeless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was put on a gurney and he was lifeless,” she said.
(2) It all started with a problem Wolf was having in her own sex life; the quality of her orgasms suddenly changed from being full of light and colour and what she describes in terms of transcendental experience, to something dull and lifeless.
(3) Southall and coworkers have demonstrated in a recent study that attacks of lifelessness with sudden and severe hypoxemia and cyanosis are caused by a combination of respiratory arrest in expiration, and a right-to-left shunting of the blood through the lungs due to increased pulmonary vascular resistance.
(4) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
(5) From start to finish, maybe apart from the first five minutes, it was a pretty lifeless performance,” Muscat said.
(6) The mastiff fell lifeless and Stapleton was swallowed in Grimpen Mire.
(7) Perhaps, the evolution of medicine has eclipsed what was once sensational, disturbing, interesting, and marketable, leaving only the dry and lifeless bones of stories--remnants of what once they were.
(8) It is physiology's responsibility to put together the lifeless pieces of the molecular biologist into living systems.
(9) Several men from the local fire department and EMT department are already there, hovering around the seemingly lifeless body of a 31-year-old man on the living room floor in a soaking wet T-shirt and jeans.
(10) The latest tragedies follow the death of a Syrian toddler whose lifeless body was photographed washed up on a Turkish beach last week, becoming a heartwrenching symbol of the plight of asylum seekers fleeing war.
(11) Hidalgo, currently deputy mayor of Paris and the pollsters' favourite to win the municipal election in March, caused a storm when she announced she wanted to transform Avenue Foch, which some critics have described as a "lifeless urban motorway", into a "green corridor" leading straight to the neighbouring Bois de Boulogne public park.
(12) In a variety of new situations under the beaker (presence of a lifeless object, of a grouped mouse or of an isolated mouse), the isolated mice were more reactive than the grouped mice.
(13) Aggressive treatment, including emergency room thoracotomy, is justified for lifeless and deteriorating cardiac injury victims.
(14) Now that I’m rewilding my once-lifeless garden, I’m hoping to be surprised.
(15) These laws will be used to stamp out plurality and difference, to douse the exuberance of youth, to pursue children for the crime of being young and together in a public place, to help turn this nation into a money-making monoculture, controlled, homogenised, lifeless, strifeless and bland.
(16) The US can either use the lifeless tissue for transplants or for other research or it can throw it away.
(17) Early Thursday morning, one penguin was spotted floating lifelessly in the pool.
(18) But soon after returning, “there is no energy and you are lifeless and you are dull”.
(19) Emergency room thoracotomy was performed in 17 "lifeless" patients, 4 of whom survived.
(20) Economic turmoil, a lifeless advertising market and print publications folding across the industry - it is a strange time to launch a magazine.