(v. t.) To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
(n.) That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
(n.) Reputation.
(n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
(n.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
Example Sentences:
(1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(2) Inhibition of thymidine uptake is attributed to an observed decrease in thymidine kinase activity caused by growth in 1 mM dibutyryl cyclic AMP, and possibly to a simultaneous alteration in membrane permeability.
(3) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
(4) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(5) Our study suggests that a major part of the renal antimineralocorticoid activity of spironolactone may be attributable to minor sulfur-containing metabolites or their precursors having a high renal clearance that affords access to their site of activity via the renal tubular fluid.
(6) In vitro studies in cardiac Purkinje fibers suggested that reversal of amitriptyline-induced cardiac membrane effects by sodium bicarbonate may be attributed not only to alkalinization but also to increased in extracellular sodium concentration, diminishing the local anesthetic action of amitriptyline and resulting in less sodium channel block.
(7) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(8) Most survivors reported a range of problems that they attributed to having had cancer: 35%, proven or perceived infertility; 24%, sexual problems; 31%, health and life insurance problems; 26%, a negative socioeconomic effect; and 51%, conditioned nausea, associated with visual or olfactory reminders of chemotherapy.
(9) Their best evaluations were in medical care, personal attributes and communication.
(10) Many of the pathophysiologic effects of bacterial endotoxin have recently been attributed to a monokine, tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
(11) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
(12) In Study 4, attributional biases and deficits were found to be positively correlated with the rate of reactive aggression (but not proactive aggression) displayed in free play with peers (N = 127).
(13) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(14) The following results were obtained: 1) In normal subjects, the changes in ABR waveforms according to the changes of the rise-time, interstimulus interval and frequency of the stimulus were mainly attributed to component wave C. 2) In patients with central disorders, component wave C were initially affected.
(15) The decrease in cyclic AMP response to TSH induced to TSH was reversible, was not associated with a similar decrease to cyclic AMP response to PGE1, and could not be attributed to increased phosphodiesterase activity or to decreased adenyl cyclase activity.
(16) Line broadening detected in several of the high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectra was attributed to cis-trans isomerization.
(17) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
(18) Cardiac bradyarrhythmias in hypoxia have been attributed to an increased formation and release of adenosine.
(19) Those small problems which exist can be attributed to detector sampling problems, especially in the axial direction, which is a consequence of the geometry of these scanners, which are designed primarily for 2D data acquisition.
(20) These properties of the tissue culture-derived scrapie agent were identical to those of brain-derived scrapie agent and thus cannot be attributed to secondary effects of tissue pathology, since the infected cell cultures show no cytopathic effects as a result of infection.
Hypostatize
Definition:
(v. t.) To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.
(v. t.) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increasingly, secondary pneumonias are observed in poststenotic areas, areas of infarction, in hypostatic areas, after aspiration, and in previously damaged lobes.
(2) There were 53 cases of fistulae, 25 cases of hypostatic abscess, eight cases of meningitis, five cases of flaccid paralysis, 12 cases of spastic paresis, three patients with paresis of the upper extremities, and three with paresis caused by cauda damage.
(3) He believes that the patients tolerate well one-stage operation which has some advantages as compared to multi-stage operations: only one exposure to narcosis, psychic trauma and unpleasant sensations of the postoperative period; this type of intervention affords motility of the patients and makes it possible to start the functional treatment early and to prevent development of contractures and hypostatic complications.
(4) It is proposed to distinguish 6 main forms of pneumonia in patients burns: "shock lung", bronchogenic, aspiration, atelectatic, toxicoseptic, hypostatic.
(5) A sufficiently stable fixation of the fragments allows to make an early activation of the weakened patients, which is necessary for the prevention of hypostatic complications.
(6) It does not appear to be necessary to eliminate (I) from recessive white broiler stocks, but it would be economically advantageous to remove hypostatic (c) from dominant white lines.
(7) Postmortem hypostatic staining as an indicator of position has assumed increased importance since prone sleeping has been shown to be a major risk factor for SIDS.
(8) This treatment simultaneously represents a prophylaxis against the development of thrombophlebitis, thrombosis, leg ulcers and hypostatic congestion dermatoses.
(9) A striking association of low-flow infarctions, ischemic ophthalmopathy, and hypostatic transient ischemic attacks was found with vasomotor reactivities of less than 34% or even paradoxical reactions.
(10) It would appear from this study that l-cysteine, glycine and dl-threonine in combination are of value in promoting would healing in hypostatic leg ulceration.
(11) They eventually died of ketosis, hypostatic pneumonia and complications due to dystocia.
(12) However, this method is connected with a long period of bed rest, a danger of the development of hypostatic complications, and requires a long rehabilitation period.
(13) The results of the genetic analysis based on sire-dam-offspring combinations seemed to indicate that the antigen under examination was controlled by a gene hypostatic to the gene controlling the previously described K1 allotype.
(14) A patient with classical hypostatic dermatitis-related autoeczematization was found to have an elevated ratio of helper to suppressor T lymphocytes and increased circulating activated T cells in the absence of detectable levels of circulating interferon.
(15) The palomino gene, c cr, on the other hand, is hypostatic to black and blue dun.
(16) These shifts in rheological blood features during combined therapy of breast cancer were probably of favourable nature as complications (hypostatic pneumonia, thromboses, necroses of displaces of skin grafts) in the postoperative period were absent.
(17) A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was carried out in 22 patients with hypostatic leg ulceration.
(18) Our examinations on an unselected group of corpses have led to the result that extravasations on the ridges between the ligature turns can be produced many hours after death, even outside the hypostatic area.
(19) Mutations in this gene are hypostatic to mutations in arcA, suDpro and suEpro genes which are responsible for regulation of synthesis of arginine catabolic enzymes.
(20) Scoring RHC for linkage as an autosomal dominant against blond and as hypostatic to dark hair gave a lod score of z = 5.50 at theta = 0.05 in males and theta = 0.24 in females for the MNS blood group system; this assigns a major locus for red hair to chromosome 4.