(a.) Being away from a place; withdrawn from a place; not present.
(a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent.
(a.) Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air.
(v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.
(v. t.) To withhold from being present.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(3) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
(4) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(5) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
(6) In preparations from older animals this effect was absent or there was a potentiation of the responses.
(7) Isoenzyme LDH4 was absent in the human pancreas in all the studied periods of embryonic development.
(8) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
(9) The region is distinctive in that the sequence is absent from the homologous domain of the erythroid alpha chain and diverges from the normal internal repeat structure observed throughout other spectrins.
(10) The pathway of ketogenesis in renal cortex must differ from that of the liver, as beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl-CoA synthetase is virtually absent from the kidney.
(11) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(12) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
(13) Allelic complementation was not observed, despite testing of a large number of allele pairs, and alleles suppressible by the ochre suppressor SUP11 were absent from a sample of 48 spontaneous mutants and occurred infrequently (7%) among a sample of ultraviolet-induced mutants.
(14) This phenomena is strongly marked in spastic and mixed types of drowning and is absent in aspiration and reflex types.
(15) For CT scans, these periventricular changes were graded according to their extent as absent, or partly involving the white matter, or extending up to the subcortical region.
(16) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
(17) Intact wild-type cells, or those of a mutant in which the core region of the lipopolysaccharide was absent, were equally resistant to pronase treatment.
(18) Following the surgery, one patient continued to exhibit PLEDs but clinical seizures were absent PLEDs recurred in the second patient due to inadequate anticonvulsant medication.
(19) Moreover, it was more apparent in less differentiated tumors in which the granular pattern was often absent or inconsistent.
(20) The characteristic heart rate deceleration shown immediately prior to the aversive stimulus by control subjects was absent in the schizophrenic group.
Ubiquitous
Definition:
(a.) Existing or being everywhere, or in all places, at the same time; omnipresent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of Alu repeat polymorphism should be useful in construction of a high-resolution map and also in identifying genotypes of individuals for clinical and other purposes because the repeats are ubiquitous and the technique for their detection is simple.
(2) Because TNF mRNA appeared ubiquitous in the organs of control rats examined and because the endotoxin-induced increase in TNF mRNA was relatively small, endotoxin may induce the expression of the TNF protein in serum not only by increasing TNF mRNA levels but perhaps more importantly by a posttranscriptional mechanism.
(3) The distal sequence element which has many properties in common with transcriptional enhancers contains, in addition to Sp1 binding sites, an octamer binding site which mediates activation through interactions with the ubiquitous transcription factor Oct-1.
(4) The latter protein is ubiquitous in the eubacterial kingdom and can be purified in large quantities.
(5) This suggests that the chronotropic effect of PTH is ubiquitous among the terrestrial vertebrates.
(6) These results are consistent with the previous observation in HTC cells that the decay rate of ODC activity in the presence of cycloheximide correlated well with the proportion of ODC present as a complex with antizyme, suggesting the ubiquitous role of antizyme in ODC degradation.
(7) It is hoped that the MSDB will lead to a better understanding of cerebrovascular disease in blacks and possibly to in-depth comparative studies of the ubiquitous problem of atherosclerosis.
(8) Implications for the ubiquitous occurrence of priming through the process of social categorization are discussed.
(9) The effect of ubiquitous clostridial infections on ruminants is discussed.
(10) Thus the innocuousness and ubiquitous availability of dextromethorphan render it attractive for worldwide pharmacogenetic investigations in man.
(11) Subsequently calmodulin, a ubiquitous Ca2(+)-binding protein, was found to be widely distributed in many tissues and to be involved in a variety of Ca2(+)-mediated cellular processes.
(12) All available information indicates that this ubiquitous and tightly regulated DNA replication protein is a central component of the pathway(s) leading to DNA replication and cell division.
(13) Intensive use of pefloxacin selected multiresistant S. epidermidis which became ubiquitous in the hospital environment.
(14) Should workers compensation be extended to provide disability benefits when the aggravating stimuli are ubiquitous, when the employment relationship was brief, when separation from the offending stimuli ends symptoms, or when hyperreactivity can be medically managed?
(15) We have analyzed the binding of Sp1, a ubiquitously expressed transactivator, to the promoter region of the gamma genes.
(16) The hornet investigated is the one ubiquitous in Israel - Vespa orientalis.
(17) The induction is ubiquitous among Schwann cells, irrespective of the type of axon they originally ensheathed.
(18) The biological function and the reason for the ubiquitous distribution of these factors remain unclear.
(19) The gene for von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis (NF1) was recently identified by positional cloning and found to code for a large, ubiquitously expressed protein.
(20) Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) is a ubiquitous soil contaminant that rarely causes disseminated disease in adults regardless of immunological status.