(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.
Unapparent
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We report three cases of clinically unapparent syringoma found incidentally on horizontal frozen tissue sections from patients undergoing Mohs micrographic excision of basal cell carcinoma (BCC).
(2) The increase may be due to swelling of the cell in the subplasmalemmal space or may be mediated through structurally unapparent alterations in the cytoskeleton.
(3) These normally unapparent mechanisms become accessible to investigations in a number of pathological dysregulations.
(4) The occurrence of clinically unapparent or atypically exposed myocardial ischemia, as well as discrepancies in effort angina, provide evidence that the release of a nociceptive stimulus does not guarantee pain perception of the same proportion.
(5) (3) The resulting forms of the oedipal complex and the castration complex, whether man or woman, imply a visible or unapparent violence with regard to the original 'call' of desire.
(6) The relationship of this partial immunity to the epidemiology and chemotherapy of the disease in endemic areas is of importance, in that these infections in semi-immune persons provide a continuing and unapparent source of reinfection of the community.
(7) Among 82 persons who were passively immunized too late or not at all, 20 fell clinically ill with hepatitis A and 3 were unapparently infected.
(8) ERG appears to be an useful investigation for ill-defined, congenital and unapparent form of disease, in affected families.
(9) Unapparent hyperprolactinemia appears infrequent in normoprolactinemic patients.
(10) Moreover, they emphasize the frequency and clinical importance of cases with unapparent symptomatology and demonstrate that extrinsic eye movement is a very important factor for prognostic evaluation.
(11) Pulse oximetry improves patient safety through the detection of clinically unapparent episodes of desaturation and can allow a reduction in the number of blood gas analyses utilized without adverse effects to the patient.
(12) At first mammography, 67 cancers were detected, 37% of which were clinically unapparent, 62.3% staged T1A, and 52% N--.
(13) To demonstrate the utility of pulse oximetry in detecting clinically unapparent episodes of arterial desaturation in postoperative cardiac surgical patients and to evaluate the effect of pulse oximetry on ordering arterial blood gas analyses.
(14) Diagnostic quadrantectomy is suggested for clinically unapparent lesions showing a radiologic pattern which has a high probability of finding a cancer or preneoplastic lesion (severe epitheliosis).
(15) Among 147 persons examined, 20 clinical cases of hepatitis A were diagnosed (9 adults, 11 children), 5 more children were unapparently infected.
(16) Radiography shows advanced osteoarticular remodelling but the subtle lesions are often unapparent.
(17) The putative agents that initiate atherosclerosis might include ubiquitous viruses that produce clinically unapparent infections in many animal species.
(18) The high proportion of clinically unapparent hepatitis affections and HBs carriers favors the endemic spread of hepatitis B in dialysis wards.
(19) The quite clinical appearance may make its infectious etiology unapparent.
(20) The ratio of apparent to unapparent disease was nine to four.