(n.) The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things.
(n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling.
(n.) Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing.
(n.) Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter.
(n.) Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency.
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) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
(3) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(4) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(5) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(6) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(7) An inverse relationship between the pumping capacity of the heart and vascular resistance was confirmed at different stages of examination and treatment of the patients.
(8) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(9) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
(10) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(11) In addition to esophageal manometry, we also performed acid-clearance studies and examined salivary output, acid-neutralizing capacity, and bicarbonate concentration.
(12) This capacity is expressed during incubation of the bacteria with the substrate and needs a source of carbon and other energy metabolites.
(13) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(14) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
(15) The absolute level of ventilatory capacity resembles that of Nepalese children and differs from that of some other groups.
(16) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
(17) The immunodetectable PKC level in hypothyroid liver was elevated 7.7-fold, whereas the phorbol-ester binding capacity and the immunodetectable alpha-PKC level were increased 2.4- and 2.6-fold, respectively.
(18) An operant delayed-matching task was used to assess the role of proactive interference (PI) effects on short-term memory capacity of rats.
(19) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(20) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
Qua
Definition:
(conj.) In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
Example Sentences:
(1) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(2) Beta cell deficiency is a sine qua non of Type 2 diabetes.
(3) Second, the evidence about the sensitivity of the brain during the first three years to early environmental input is now beyond dispute, making this the period sine qua non, in terms of investing limited resources to optimise outcomes, particularly for the disadvantaged children exposed to multiple risks.
(4) All you really need to know right now is this: over the last decade I've rounded up a few skills that can be applied to my new life qua organisational leader.
(5) The specialized instruments are the sine qua non of the procedure.
(6) Still, I like to believe that these small-scale ventures, too, make some contribution to a conversation without limits or proscriptions; the sine qua non of the sort of society that knows to keep the solemn and the pious at bay.
(7) Suspicion may be lacking because of absence of the upper mediastinal hematoma considered to be the sine qua non for the diagnosis of aortic rupture.
(8) Establishment and maintenance of correct partitioning of proteins and RNA molecules between nucleus and cytoplasm in a sine qua non of the viability of eukaryotic cells.
(9) An intensive co-operation with all medical departments is a conditio sine qua non.
(10) This suggests that supersaturation of hepatic bile with cholesterol is not the sine qua non for the production of cholesterol gallstones.
(11) This supports the influence of competition qua competition on performance, a point further bolstered by other findings of of behavioral contrast presented here.
(12) Pressure is the sine qua non in the etiology of pressure sores; however, ischemia, denervation, edema, and infection also have been implicated.
(13) Conditio sine qua non is a precise diagnose without any lost of time.
(14) Cosmetic and functional restoration of the fractured mandible in the great majority of cases is the sine qua non of therapeutic success.
(15) The presence, on the one hand, of a chronic hepatitis among the patients who cleared their HBsAg and, on the other hand, its absence in some of the HBsAg carriers suggest that HBsAg persistence is not a sine qua non condition for the development of the chronic liver disease.
(16) The basic pattern of preparatory (TA and QUA) and executional (TS) activity was preserved in most patients with Parkinson's disease.
(17) Atherosclerosis has been considered a disease primarily concerned with lipid metabolism by regarding the intramural caseous material of atheromatous arteries as the sine qua non of the disease.
(18) Some of our recent cases provide evidence of the need for precise dissection, a condition sine qua non to avoid surgical failures.
(19) On the whole, our observations indicate that the cell-extracellular matrix junction is a sine qua non for graviperception in statolith-free Chara internodal cells and we suggest that the gravireceptor is located in this region.
(20) If Cameron's apparent enthusiasm for integration is to mean anything, merging of commissioning budgets for NHS and social care provision at local level is the sine qua non.