(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.
Remodel
Definition:
(v. t.) To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.
Example Sentences:
(1) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(2) In 5 of the 7 patients with an initially abnormal pituitary fossa, serial radiological studies revealed remodelling in 3.
(3) Statistical analysis of the findings indicates that there is no significant difference in bone-remodeling activity between similar sites on alternate ribs.
(4) The chemical composition of the grafted veins was different from that of the nongrafted, controlateral saphenous veins suggesting a molecular remodeling of the grafted veinous wall.
(5) The results are indicative for the existence of synaptic remodeling and turnover in rats subjected to one-way active avoidance training.
(6) Fractures of the neck of phalanx showed no remodelling at all and if deformity is not corrected it is probably permanent.
(7) The sites of growth and remodeling, and the associated changes in cortical bone structure, have been studied in the chimpanzee mandible and compared with those previously reported in the human and macaque mandibles.
(8) In B-cell malignancies, abnormal bone remodeling is an early event linked to specific bone involvement.
(9) Human macrophages have been implicated in connective tissue remodeling; however, little is known about their direct effects upon collagen degradation.
(10) Also, there was some new collagen deposition associated with remodeling of the ZI, while no demonstrable synthetic activity occurred in relationship to ZCI.
(11) Both resident and inflammatory mesangial phagocytes secrete factors that remodel the mesangial matrix, stimulate mesangial cell proliferation, alter glomerular basement membrane permeability, and regulate blood flow.
(12) Thus, our data indicate that enzymatically formed dansyl-PAF is completely remodeled into dansylalkyl-2-acyl-GPC by the sequential action of PAF acetylhydrolase and CoA-independent transacylase.
(13) Although studies directed at attenuating left ventricular remodeling after infarction are in the early stages, it does seem that this will be an important area in which future research might improve long-term outcome after infarction.
(14) Recent experiments indicate the initial reaction that produces lyso-PAF in the remodeling pathway of PAF biosynthesis is under the control of a CoA-independent transacylase that is capable of catalyzing both the hydrolysis of the acyl moiety of the alkylacylglycerophosphocholine precursor and its transfer to another lyso-phospholipid.
(15) The ability of MCP to hydrolyze three classes of peptides decreased in parallel indicating that the 20 S protease is not significantly remodeled during red blood cell maturation.
(16) These findings are noteworthy in that they help to explain the characteristics of life-spans of cohort labeled red cell populations in small animals, and provide a possible example of a cell's remodeling process within the spleen.
(17) The venue was originally home to Marlesford Lodge school, which was remodelled as a boarding school in 1884.
(18) Light-microscopic findings revealed that osteogenesis gradually became dominant after transient osteoporosis, leading to a disproportional state of the bone remodelling.
(19) The fact that short term use of other drugs might modify infarct remodelling should be considered in studies attempting to assess efficacy of one particular drug.
(20) In the area where the collagen was disorganized, and also near the periosteum, woven bone was first formed, which was then remodeled into lamellar bone.