(adv.) In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment was divided into two categories named arbitrarily "no therapy" (general supportive measures) or "therapy" (causal treatment based on active drugs or measures aimed at affecting the cause of the disease).
(2) In order to verify whether or not all the POMC neurons are equally affected by sex steroids, we arbitrarily divided the arcuate nucleus rostro-caudally into four equal portions and used an in situ hybridization technique to evaluate POMC gene expression in these different regions of the arcuate nucleus in the female rat.
(3) The data indicate that considerable error can result from arbitrarily applying to exercising or resting subjects a correction factor which does not fit the conditions of the data to be corrected.
(4) Our findings indicate that response to continuous exposure to 100 per cent oxygen can be divided arbitrarily during the first 7 days into three different phases.
(5) Two weeks ago, the production quotas for all colony brigades was arbitrarily increased by 50 units.
(6) After formation of a cell lawn and addition of cytostatics of the arbitrarily selected medicaments vinblastin, bleomycin, cis-DDP, actinomycin D the reaction of the cells on the drugs was judged light-microscopically and electrophysiologically by measuring the transmembrane potential 24 hours after the application of medicaments.
(7) The intralaboratory reproducibility of the disk test was also good, with 91% of the replicate tests (n = 234) agreeing with each other within an arbitrarily chosen value of 4 mm.
(8) Islet size was arbitrarily defined as large (greater than 0.45 mm) or small (smaller than 0.12 mm).
(9) Patients were arbitrarily divided into three groups: acute (group I), intermediate (group II), and chronic (group III) based on the interval between the first EVS and death.
(10) Patients were arbitrarily defined as having active (58%) or healed (42%) endocarditis.
(11) Transient aphasics were arbitrarily defined as cases who had presented with more or less evident aphasic syndrome in the acute stage, but almost completely recovered in the chronic stage.
(12) These preliminary results demonstrate that, in a metabolic ward setting, it is possible to maintain the spontaneous food intake of obese individuals at levels sufficient to preserve body weight and arbitrarily to decrease those levels of intake by 25% or more through covert changes in the caloric density of the diet.
(13) The enzyme is arbitrarily designated as cycloinulo-oligosaccharide fructanotransferase.
(14) Symmetry-related molecules are located in the electron density map calculated in space group P1, with the phases derived from a model that is correctly oriented but arbitrarily positioned in the unit cell.
(15) Secretory cells were arbitrarily categorized as light, medium or dark based on their granule content.
(16) Twenty severe trauma patients, age 19-70 years, presenting with an initial APACHE II score of greater than or equal to 10 were arbitrarily divided into two groups to define severity of injury: Group A, initial APACHE II of 10-18 (n = 11) and Group B, initial APACHE II of 19-25 (n = 9).
(17) The ability to use these various frames of reference interchangeably allows the designer of treatment design software to present appropriate task-specific user interfaces for arbitrarily complex tasks, and thus reduce the cognitive burden on users of the software.
(18) In order to compare the areas determined by the two methods, area-distance functions from the pharynx to the trachea were arbitrarily divided into 9 divisions at interval of 2.8 cm.
(19) Infarcted dogs were arbitrarily divided into 3 groups by percentage of necrotic area: Group 1 (less than or equal to 15%, N = 5), Group 2 (15 to 30%, N = 10) and Group 3 (greater than or equal to 30%, N = 7).
(20) These groups have been provisionally numbered from 1 to 8 in an arbitrarily chosen order.
Arbitrarity
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On the opposite, in the 7 days old rat and in the 21 days old foetus, it is only possible to arbitrarely define one uptake system corresponding to the following apparent values: in the 7 days old rat, Km= 5 X 10(-7) and Vmax=2 X 10(-10), in the foetus, Km=0,2 X 10(-7) and Vmax=0,15 X 10(-10).