(v. t.) To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(3) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(4) The lengths and heights of the scalae tympani in ten pairs of serially sectioned temporal bones were measured by an adaptation of the serial section method of cochlear reconstruction.
(5) Their adaptive problems became worse while growing older until the age of 20.
(6) A more radical surgery is recommended but with the limitation that the operative method must be adapted to the operative finding.
(7) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(8) Second, this report can be adopted and adapted by the entire health service, from dental practices to ambulances, from GP surgeries to acute hospitals.
(9) The morphology and physiology of the large adapting unit (LAU: Fig.
(10) We therefore conclude that the hyperphagia of chronic exercise in humans may be linked with significant gastrointestinal adaptations.
(11) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
(12) Other experiments and results concerning spontaneous tumour frequency suggest that the strain is well adapted to standard environmental conditions, and could be useful for biomedical research.
(13) 98, 309-319] was adapted for the measurement of the asialoglycoprotein receptor in rat liver.
(14) During the first three weeks of adaptation drastic changes in the parameter were seen.
(15) The architecture of the aortic wall is highly organized, for adaptation to changes of blood pressure.
(16) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(17) Previous FTIR measurements have identified several tyrosine residues that change their absorption characteristics between light-adapted BR and dark-adapted BR, or between intermediates K and M [Dollinger, G., Eisenstein, L., Lin, S.-L., Nakanishi, K., Odashima, K., & Termini, J.
(18) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(19) A plaque hybridization assay was adapted to rotavirus.
(20) The data suggest that the hypothalamic beta-E containing neurons were unable to adapt to nicotine's repeated effects on this system.
Adept
Definition:
(n.) One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient; as, adepts in philosophy.
(a.) Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
(2) All critical care physicians should be adept at medical management of the airway, including basic and advanced life support measures.
(3) In contrast, NAD+ (which could act as a source of NADH) and NRH could avoid the shortcomings of NAD(P)H, and act as suitable cofactors for an enzyme in an ADEPT system.
(4) The use of this model enabled the resident to become more adept with the instruments for valve incision and construction of small vessel anastomosis.
(5) It may be that Westwood is simply adept at masking deep-rooted hurt when in public.
(6) As an example, Project ADEPT (Alcohol and Drug Education for Physician Training in primary care) at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is described.
(7) But she is clearly adept at smoothing his writerly way.
(8) The fetal brain may be quite adept in the use of ketone bodies.
(9) The strike calls were part of the negotiating position and Crow was adept at wading through the anti-union legislation introduced by Margaret Thatcher and largely left by Labour, which was one of his reasons for falling out with the party.
(10) In order to get the best possible results, the plastic surgeon should be adept at alternative methods and should not be restricted to one technique or one prosthesis.
(11) Physicians using extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy must also be adept at percutaneous, ureteroscopic, and standard surgical stone removal methods to deal with complex clinical stone presentations.
(12) We don’t have time to try to do the things that we’re not adept at doing.
(13) Today's veterinary professional must not only be medically adept but must also possess good communications and client relations skills.
(14) Through thousands of years of starvation and poor nutrition, the human body has become adept at storing scarce nutrients.
(15) Mefloquine was more adept than artesunate at clearing residual parasites.
(16) These adept students often find it difficult to admit others into their efficient program of academic survival.
(17) His father was a national ice hockey champion, but the "phenomenally bright" son proved more adept in the classroom, winning a scholarship to Christ's Hospital school in Sussex.
(18) Staff date themselves on the internal directory, "GCWiki", by their "internet age", a measure of how many years they have been adept on the web.
(19) He added: “I am not adept at social media.” Nunberg took pains to emphasize that postings from more than a half-decade ago predated his association with the current Republican frontrunner.
(20) Ramsey has all the criteria to make him a big TV hit (think the new Russell Howard), but he's adept at picking out the social more and tics that have that "I thought that too!"