(a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
(a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
(a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
(a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
(v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.
Example Sentences:
(1) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(2) The ApU analogues ApT, Apcl5U, Apbr5U, Apa5U and Apno5(2)U were synthesized with the aid of ribonuclease U2 starting from 2',3'-cyclic Ap and the respective uridine derivatives.
(3) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
(4) We describe immunofluorescence microscopic studies of the amebal-plasmodial transition (APT) in Physarum polycephalum.
(5) The most promising clinical application of APT so far has been the monitoring of gastric emptying.
(6) Damage which is apt to be most cytotoxic is probably less effective as an inducer of skin cancer than is more subtle damage, which is tolerated but can initiate malignant transformation.
(7) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.
(8) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
(9) A patient with an anal lesion, however, was more apt to develop small bowel disease simply because the small bowel was a far commoner site of Crohn disease in this series.
(10) Although most vitreous seeds were necrotic tumor cells, some were almost intact tumor cells which were apt to be situated along blood vessels.
(11) Recurrences, which are apt to be more common after PTA versus carotid subclavian bypass, are easily managed with repeat dilatation.
(12) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
(13) Expression of the APT gene is under the control of lambda bacteriophage PL promoter.
(14) We are apt to know what the current situation is after ten years have passed.
(15) The author considers the loss of opportunities in life as an apt criterium of the vital impact of different permanent health impairments.
(16) Applied potential tomography (APT) or electrical impedance imaging has received considerable attention during the past few years and some in vivo images have been produced.
(17) The stronger the smoking habit, the less apt the smoker is to quit or maintain a nonsmoking status.
(18) Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey.
(19) The groups with low right-left ear ratios were less likely to have a somatosensory disorder than the other two groups, but they were more apt to have a language problem.
(20) As our understanding of the biochemical and cellular mechanisms of APT improve, a number of key clinical issues may be clarified: (1) risk factor assessment for APT, (2) criteria for early diagnosis of APT, and (3) improved therapeutic approach to patients with APT.
Suitable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
(2) This approach is suitable for the quantitative detection of proteins.
(3) The image was altered in the expected way, which means that the device is suitable for investigating the possibilities of different filters to improve the diagnostic ability.
(4) 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.
(5) A one point dilution enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure suitable for determining immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) in community seroepidemiological surveys is described.
(6) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
(7) A number of variables which could influence the test has been evaluated and standardized in a way suitable for the routinary use of the technique described.
(8) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
(9) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(10) The relatively high incidence of nephroblastoma in the Nb rat using transplacentally administered ENU appears to represent a suitable basis for developing a rodent model of human nephroblastoma or Wilms' tumor.
(11) Currently there are no IOC approved definitive tests for these hormones but highly specific immunoassays combined with suitable purification techniques may be sufficient to warrant IOC approval.
(12) This method is not suitable for visualising PGA patterns in serum due to low PGA concentrations.
(13) The term acute allergic colitis seems to be more suitable taking into account the distribution, the cause and the development of this disease.
(14) Review of the records of five patients with CPSE treated with radiologic occlusion procedures showed that these are suitable alternatives to surgery.
(15) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(16) Based on these results we conclude that the outer membrane preparation seems to be more suitable for the serodiagnosing of H.pylori-specific antibodies.
(17) The commercially available chromogenic p-nitroanilide substrates Pro-Phe-Arg-NH-Np (S2302 or chromozym PK), Glp-Pro-Arg-NH-Np (S2366), Ile-Glu-(piperidyl)-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2337), and Ile-Glu-Gly-Arg-NH-Np (S2222) were tested for their suitability as substrates in these assays.
(18) The results obtained in a pilot study (42 patients with 74 lesions), a multicenter trial (254 patients with 553 lesions) and a prospective study still outstanding (29 patients with 38 lesions) allow to consider this system as suitable for clinical application.
(19) It is concluded that heart and lung transplantation is a suitable treatment for selected patients with end stage chronic lung disease.
(20) GC using the capillary columns proved suitable for mapping of the carbohydrate profile of human seminal fluid and for the analyses of organic compounds accumulating in human adipose tissue.