(v. t.) To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(v. t.) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three types of survey procedure were adopted and blood samples were taken for examination.
(2) The spatial spread or blur parameter of the blobs was adopted as a scale parameter.
(3) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(4) It is the route the authorities are now adopting, after the wave of taxpayer bailouts in2008-09.
(5) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(6) Mixing experiments were performed to test the putative inhibitory effects of allotype-suppressed spleen cells from the first adoptive transfer (stage I) on the antibody response of normal spleen cells in a second adoptive transfer (stage II).
(7) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(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) Legislation governing adoption has attempted to make the adoptive family the equivalent of a consanguinal one, with varying degrees of success.
(10) A detailed stereochemical analysis of known protein structures has been made which shows that: (1) irregular regions of proteins consist of a limited number of standard structures formed by three, four of more residues; (2) an amino acid residue of a protein can adopt one of the six sterically allowed conformations designated here as alpha, alpha L, beta, gamma, delta, and epsilon.
(11) Different approaches can be adopted in preventing virus infections.
(12) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(13) On the basis of weekly ultrasound scans, a conservative approach was adopted.
(14) The analytical model was the same as that adopted in our previous study on colorectal cancer screening (Tsuji et al.
(15) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
(16) Children and adopters are encouraged to meet with foster carers after placement to show the child they are well.
(17) A facility for keeping chickens free of Marek's disease (MD) was obtained by adopting a system of filtered air under positive pressure (FAPP) for ventilation, and by imposing restrictions on entrance of articles, materials and personnel.
(18) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(19) EAAU could adoptively be transferred by sensitized and in vitro stimulated CD4 T-lymphocytes.
(20) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
Reassume
Definition:
(v. t.) To assume again or anew; to resume.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aim of the present study was to reassume the chromatin changes occurring in lymphoid tissues of mice treated with alkylating agents of the nitrogen-mustard type in relation to recent evidence on the nucleosomal organization of chromatin and to our new data on the regular character of chromatin degradation in lymphoid tissues of irradiated mice.
(2) Tollner told ABC local radio he was “keen to get back to work” and reassume the role of treasurer.
(3) All infants were able to reassume neck and spinal extension following active and passive flexion of the neck.
(4) Experiments using cycloheximide, after a treatment with colchicine, have demonstrated that Ochromonas cannot reassume its normal shape without new protein synthesis.
(5) Simultaneously the apical junctions and cell surface microvilli reassumed the organization characteristic of the morula stage.
(6) Previous experimental studies that have used a bite-block cemented to the maxillary dental arch have shown that the direction of growth of the maxillary complex is redirected in a superior and anterior direction for approximately 12 weeks but reassumes a normal inferior and anterior direction after that time.
(7) However, an initiative has been taken recently to reassume the series.
(8) All three types of radiation produce appreciable amounts of ;damaged' (not completely inactivated) molecules which are prevented from reassuming an active configuration by the addition of 5.5m-urea; thiol reagents have a similar effect after bombardment with u.v.
(9) 15 min after injection, PVoc and the ocular perfusion and blood pressures were even slightly more reduced, whereas Pio had reassumed its pre-injection level.
(10) (iii) Reassuming of rat chromosome and globin gene products synthesis in hybrid cell indicates that the originally pyknotic nuclei of late erythroblasts could be reactivated to assume functional activity after cell hybridization.
(11) The intraocular pressure (Pio) was increased by an average of 3.2 mmHg directly after the 5-ml injection, whereas after 15 min the Pio had reassumed its preinjection level.
(12) At its cessation the spontaneous firing rate was reassumed immediately.
(13) (6) The response to bombesin frequently lasted for hours after washing before reassuming the original state.
(14) Although both mRNAs are already present in cryptobiotic embryos, the levels of the 5200 base mRNA decrease after development is reassumed, being undetectable after hatching of the nauplii.
(15) The most interesting phenomenon was the difference in time necessary to rehabilitate the swallowing reflex only after which it was possible to reassume oral alimentation.
(16) Because fibrinogen is found much more commonly than fibrin in the connective tissue of a variety of human malignancies, attention might reassumably be directed to determining the possible contribution of this molecule as well as of fibrin to tumor progression.
(17) During the recovery phase glycogen, lipids and mitochondria reassumed normal structure.
(18) A weakness of existing control methods is their emphasis on maintaining adequate gas exchange while poorly accommodating the patient's efforts to reassume control of the delivery pattern.
(19) It was upon demobilisation in 1918 and 1919 that colour reassumed its discriminatory implications for Australia’s black diggers.
(20) The cells of the surrounding perineurium appear to reassume a lamellar organization and to reestablish contacts with each other with the formation of junctional complexes.