(a.) Incapable of doing either harm or good, as some medicines.
Example Sentences:
Neither
Definition:
(a.) Not either; not the one or the other.
(conj.) not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more coordinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(2) Neither spermidine nor spermine (0.5 mM) significantly altered [Ca2+]i.
(3) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
(4) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
(5) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(6) Neither were any significant differences found in blood carboxyhemoglobin nor serum thiocyanate.
(7) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
(8) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
(9) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(10) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(11) Neither secretin preparation caused a change in plasma glucose, glucagon and SRIF levels.
(12) Neither environmental nor bacteriological factors seemed to be involved in the etiology of the disease.
(13) Infusion of 1 unit of 25-HCC per hour for 6 hours induced an antiphosphaturia only when administered with 0.2 units of PTH per hour, while neither agent alone changed phosphate excretion.
(14) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
(15) We found that neither single-amino-acid change alone resulted in temperature sensitivity.
(16) Taken together with our previous studies showing that MDMA substitutes for the phenylisopropylamine stimulant (+)amphetamine, but that neither MDE nor N-OH MDA substitute for (+)amphetamine or for the phenylisopropylamine hallucinogen 1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenyl)-2-aminopropane (DOM), the present results [i.e., MDMA-stimulus generalization to MDE, N-OH MDA, but not to (+)amphetamine] suggest that 1) MDMA produces effects other than those that may be considered amphetamine-like, and 2) MDE and N-OH MDA are MDMA-like agents with even less of an amphetamine-like component of action than MDMA itself.
(17) In contrast, the average reduction in mean EEG amplitude with isoflurane was only 0.3% and there were neither periods of suppression nor any correlation between EEG amplitude and MAP.
(18) Basal plasma levels of oxytocin were found to be low in sodium-deficient adrenalectomized rats and in intact animals treated daily with desoxycorticosterone acetate, both of which groups drank large amounts of NaCl solution, whereas basal plasma levels of arginine vasopressin were neither stimulated nor suppressed.
(19) Neither light nor electron microscopy revealed significant morphologic alterations in the cochlear elements of the exposed offspring.
(20) The interaction was specific for the DNA-binding activity of receptor, since H1 histones inhibit neither T3-binding activity nor core histone-binding activity of receptor.