(1) The data suggest that proinsulin, normally processed in secretory granules and released via the regulated pathway, may also be processed, albeit less efficiently, by the constitutive pathway conversion machinery.
(2) But mention the words "eurozone crisis" to other Finns, and you could be rewarded with little more than a confused, albeit friendly, smile.
(3) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
(4) This resulted in the appearance of a proliferative peak, albeit smaller than normal, 2 days after hepatectomy.
(5) Seemingly unrelated conditions, such as atherosclerosis, bacterial endocarditis, and trauma, can all produce similar radiographic appearance of aneurysmal dilatation within the kidney, albeit through differing mechanisms.
(6) In this case that just didn't happen, and when the database was targeted – albeit in a determined criminal attack – the security measures in place were simply not good enough.
(7) These things are happening, albeit they are moving slowly."
(8) Virtually, all unsuccessful cases of mycoses treated with some of the recently exploited antifungal drugs, albeit scarce to date, would obviously be attributable to the occurrence of secondary resistance.
(9) This week our government committed itself to the removal, albeit slowly, of cigarette displays in shops.
(10) Three of the patients with Cushing's disease exhibited a circadian rhythm of cortisol albeit on an elevated level.
(11) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
(12) Memories of the conflict – in which up to 3 million people may have died – remain very much alive in the country of 160 million, the world's third largest Muslim state, albeit one with a broadly secular political culture.
(13) The 18 nucleotide sequence, where the transcription terminates on the rDNA in rice and mice are homologous albeit in the reverse orientation.
(14) Decades of steady, albeit slow, progress on equality is being dismantled, as cuts to women's jobs and the benefits and services they rely on, turn back time on women's equality."
(15) From the standpoint of an augmented version of the World Health Organization model of disablement, the life satisfaction of persons with spinal cord injury appears to be influenced, albeit indirectly, by selective aspects of their social role performance (handicap), but not by their degree of impairment or disability.
(16) This isn’t so much the old push-and-run Spurs as push-and-run-and-snipe-and-hustle, albeit in a controlled kind of way.
(17) Our experience suggests that, for selected women with severe mental retardation, hysterectomy, albeit controversial, may improve the quality of life.
(18) Further analysis of drg mRNA and protein in adult mouse tissues and various cell lines of different origins indicated that it is expressed widely, albeit at low and variable levels.
(19) The Giant Left Atrium (GLA) is a well-known, albeit rare, complication of mitral valve disease.
(20) As a consequence, a significant, albeit weak, negative correlation (r = -0.483, P less than 0.05) was observed between the individual hippocampal AVP content and the response latency during acquisition.
Except
Definition:
(v. t.) To take or leave out (anything) from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit.
(v. t.) To object to; to protest against.
(v. i.) To take exception; to object; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by against; as, to except to a witness or his testimony.
(prep.) With exclusion of; leaving or left out; excepting.
(conj.) Unless; if it be not so that.
Example Sentences:
(1) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(2) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(3) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
(4) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(5) 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.
(6) When the concentration of thrombin or fibrinogen was altered systematically, mu T and mup were found to mirror each other except when the fibrinogen concentration was increased at low thrombin concentrations.
(7) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
(8) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
(9) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(10) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
(11) Except for IAP in hypopharyngeal carcinoma, these values were significantly higher than those of controls (IS, P less than 0.01; IAP, P less than 0.05).
(12) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
(13) In all cases, endocrine cells immunoreactive to only one of the paired antisera were detected except for anti-glucagon and anti-glucagon-like peptide 1, which always immunostained the same cells.
(14) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
(15) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
(16) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
(17) There was no difference in triglyceride content or phospholipid species between WKY rats and untreated SHR, except for a higher cholesterol content in SHR.
(18) All of the above factors except female sex were related to one year mortality.
(19) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
(20) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.