(a.) Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye; within sight or view.
(a.) Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
(a.) Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming; as the apparent motion or diameter of the sun.
(n.) An heir apparent.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
(2) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(3) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
(4) Cyclic AMP stimulated phosphorylation by [gamma-32P]ATP of two proteins of apparent Mr = 20,000 and 7,000 that were concentrated in sarcoplasmic reticulum, but the stimulation was markedly dependent on the presence of added soluble cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase.
(5) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
(6) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(7) ASF-II was purified to apparent homogeneity by using concanavalin A-agarose affinity chromatography, DEAE-cellulose chromatography, alumina gel adsorption, and isoelectric focussing techniques.
(8) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(9) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(10) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(11) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(12) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
(13) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
(14) In normal seminal vesicle, the reaction product was apparently more abundant in columnar and basal cells than in other cell types.
(15) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(16) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(17) At 100 microM-ACh the apparent open time became shorter probably due to channel blockade by ACh molecules.
(18) For SP and NKA the decrease was apparent in all brain regions and both in the right and left hemispheres.
(19) Glucocorticoids have been shown in in vitro systems to inhibit the release of arachidonic acid metabolites, namely prostaglandins (PGs) and leukotrienes, apparently, via the induction of a phospholipase A2 inhibitory protein, called lipocortin.
(20) The authors examined an eye obtained post-mortem from a patient with chronic granulomatous disease of childhood and clinically apparent chorioretinal scars.
Apparition
Definition:
(n.) The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
(n.) The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
(n.) An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom.
(n.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Richard arose as himself again, a dreadful apparition cavorting.
(2) It seems to be very likely that the apparition of these secondary tumors is due to the failure of the shole defence systems of the body, favoured by the relative long survical of these patients and the surgical opening of the brain envelops.
(3) (ii) The male liver, offering, an ideal experimental control of "zero" background, we followed-in the liver of male trout--the kinetics of induction of Vg mRNA by hybridization with Vg cDNA, after E2 stimulation, and (iii) the apparition of Vg in the serum by using an original rocket immuno-electrophoretic technique.
(4) The apparition of cyclosporine, immunodepressive drug, has largely improved the organ transplantations.
(5) The BLEL could be considered as the pseudotumoral form of an isolated GS which could be completed after many years with the apparition of auto anti-bodies.
(6) All these factors influence the apparition of adjustment difficulties or disorders.
(7) The diminution of NK activity during the preleukemic period could favour preleukemic cells apparition.
(8) When H antigen is absent on the O red blood cells, there is no apparition of new I and i antigenic sites.
(9) Furthermore, several points deserve attention such as apparition of teeth (21 weeks), calcaneum (24 weeks).
(10) We report a case in which the late apparition of arterial hypertension expressed as an acute aortic coarctation syndrome pointed out the diagnosis.
(11) The phantom kidney is a "kidney-like" apparition which may be seen in dynamic renal scintigraphy typically in post-nephrectomy patients or in patients with unilateral renal agenesis.
(12) A correlation between the ovary stages and apparition, number and ultrastructural aspects (paracrystalline arrangement) of the inclusions is established.
(13) The time of apparition of the first outline, as a derivative of the roof of the third ventricle, was fixed at 3 days.
(14) Signs suggestive of thrombosis were inconsistant and the diagnosis was made on the association of severl of the following features: -- systemic embolism (44%); -- radiographic signs of left ventricular failure (51%); -- absence of opening click, variable A2 -- opening click intervals, apparition or aggravation of a systolic regurgitant murmur or a distolic murmur suggestive of obstruction on the phonocardiogramme; -- delayed opening of the mobile component or the presence of abnormal echos between the ball and anterior cage echo on the echocardiogramme; -- a gradient of over 12 mmHg across the prosthesis.
(15) Among these factors, straw bedding quantity seems to be the more important one: a low quantity of straw, even in herds where prophylaxis against mastitis is largely used (teat dipping, dry cow therapy, disinfection), is a favouring factor for apparition of mastitis just after calving.
(16) The absence of ER in normal skin appendages suggests that its apparition is a feature of specialized differentiation of breast epithelium.
(17) After the apparition of bulbar signs ans cachexia she died at 45.
(18) With early detection, new therapies for the prevention of the disease could be experimented on the higher risk women before the apparition of clinical symptoms or signs.
(19) The hyoid bone plays a role in speech articulation and may have been a factor in its apparition.
(20) Nevertheless, the prolongation of hemodialysis treatment duration over 7 years has led to the apparition of destructive arthropathies which are very painful and handicapping.