(a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
(a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
(a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
(a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
(a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
(a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
(a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
(n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) No relationship was found with the absolute value of either peak or area GH.
(4) The guanethidine treatment resulted in an 86% absolute reduction in cell number in the superior cervical ganglia of 15 day old rats.
(5) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
(6) Lipoprotein electrophoresis on agarose gel has been modified to allow estimation of the absolute quantity of each fraction.
(7) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.
(8) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
(9) This stimulation is mediated by one receptor with an apparent affinity of 3.3 X 10(-6) M. The hydroxyl group in the para position on phenylethanolamine was absolutely necessary to obtain an agonist whereas the meta hydroxyl group or the presence of a catechol almost suppressed the activity.
(10) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
(11) From this it is clear that either an absolute increase in radiographic density or structural failure are the earliest radiological features.
(12) So far, attempts to produce linolenic acid deficiency in mammals have not revealed an absolute requirement for n-3 fatty acids.
(13) "We absolutely regret the setbacks Kim Dotcom has had since MegaUpload was taken offline, but we hope he as an entrepreneur will understand our side of the story and the decisions deliberately taken."
(14) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
(15) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(16) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(17) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(18) Methods are in development that will allow determination of absolute blood flow in pertinent vessels via IV-DSA.
(19) When using pair stimula, barbamil shortens the period of absolute nonexcitation and the second phase of depression in the cycle of restituted H-reflexes to the second stimula in the pair.
(20) Immune complex- and A23187-induced 20:4 release was absolutely dependent on extracellular Ca2+.
Profound
Definition:
(a.) Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
(a.) Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
(a.) Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
(a.) Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
(n.) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
(n.) An abyss.
(v. t.) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
(v. i.) To dive deeply; to penetrate.
Example Sentences:
(1) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
(2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(3) Our positive experiences with IMACS discussed above should be even more profound and profitable for the larger medical institutions.
(4) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(5) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
(6) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
(7) However six equivocal studies were observed in profoundly jaundiced patients with bilirubin levels above 400 mumol l-1 due to difficulties in differentiating extrahepatic obstruction from severe intrahepatic cholestasis.
(8) After a 2-day incubation with IL-4, expression of IL-2R p55 was markedly induced, but expression of IL2-R p70-75 was profoundly suppressed in a dose-dependent manner.
(9) "For those people who are able to use the laws, the change is profound."
(10) Most striking finding was his difficulty in identifying common objects and colours along with a profound alexia.
(11) This BOA technique was used to test the hearing of 82 profoundly involved handicapped children.
(12) These tools will allow us to manipulate the mammalian immune response in a variety of different ways that will have a profound impact both on our understanding of immunology and on medicine in the future.
(13) Based on the fact that all hibernators, at their regulated minimal body temperature, display a uniform turnover rate, related to body weight, the hypothesis is developed that cold tolerance of mammals is generally limited by a common specific minimal metabolic rate, which larger organisms, because of their lower basal metabolism, already attain in less profound hypothermia.
(14) Insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) is present at high levels in fetal and early neonatal rat plasma, and decreases profoundly following birth.
(15) The reduction in level of activity and adverse changes in body composition caused by SCI have profound metabolic consequences that may influence the progression and severity of coronary artery disease.
(16) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(17) In the paper life-threatening diseases which may be accompanied by profound unconsciousness are explained from the laboratory-chemical point of view.
(18) However pneumonia to PC points to a poor prognosis because they are always associated with a profound deficit or cellular immunity.
(19) Thus, it is possible that the loss of these dendritic cells may contribute to the profound immunological abnormalities seen in AIDS.
(20) They produce a more profound effect on clinical and biochemical aspects of rheumatoid arthritis than do the aspirin-like non steroidals.