(a.) Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
(a.) Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(2) Human urine or male mouse plasma could substitute for purified EGF, yielding growth commensurate with the levels of EGF in these biological fluids previously measured by others using radioreceptor and radioimmune assays.
(3) The use of a reasonably sensitive and specific case definition commensurate with available diagnostic resources should facilitate AIDS surveillance in developing countries.
(4) The average mitochondrial volume is increased fourfold in the peripheral and midzonal regions with a commensurate decrease in the number of mitochondria per cell.
(5) Poor readers did not resemble younger children in their awareness of variables that affect memory but exhibited knowledge commensurate with that of good readers in the same grade.
(6) The specific activity of BLM hydrolase was 70% higher in the resistant subline, commensurate with a 50% increase in protein content in these cells.
(7) In all groups, plasma NE, CDI, and NE pressor dose were reduced in parallel (by 35 to 75%; P less than 0.05 to less than 0.001), and the relation between stepwise increasing plasma NE and BP changes during NE infusion was commensurably displaced to the left (P less than 0.01).
(8) Public transport costs have risen commensurately with fuel prices, while traders are preparing for price hikes across the board.
(9) The PTPases identified exhibit high affinities for substrates and high activities in cells, which is commensurate with the PTPases being important in vivo in controlling or reversing autophosphorylation-induced regulatory or signalling events.
(10) The left ventricular weight to systolic blood pressure ratio was equivalent in all three groups, so that the reduction of left ventricular mass in diltiazem-treated rats was commensurate with the reduction of blood pressure.
(11) The net alanine formation in ischemia was approximately a stoichiometric glutamate decrease; the increase in the tissue malate content corresponded to the aspartate----oxaloacetate----malate anaplerotic flux, the succinate production being commensurable to alpha-ketoglutaric acid formation in the alanine aminotransferase reaction.
(12) Meanwhile, new recruits to the workforce were told they had to get a degree – and a shedload of debt – to get ahead, only to come out and find there weren't the commensurate jobs for them.
(13) The probable role of the precentral and postcentral insular areas and their related paths to the contraction of the muscles (sometimes called the agonists) on the side of an extremity in the direction of movement of that extremity and the commensurate relaxation of the muscles (sometimes called the antagonists) cooperating with them on the other side of the extremity is discussed.
(14) The report acknowledges these communities' concerns about a midwifery project, notes problems in determining accurate perinatal data for these locales, and indicates the need for comprehensive maternal-child care which is commensurate with these peoples' customs and beliefs.
(15) The P100 latency in both CBVEP and GVEP was prolonged before L-dopa therapy, usually commensurate with the degree of motor disability.
(16) After a 72-h preincubation, IGF-I cell binding remained increased 2-fold with commensurate enhancement of IGF-I-stimulated [3H]AIB uptake.
(17) Gel filtration of pairs of PS and LS from four individuals revealed IgM, IgA, and IgG to elute in positions commensurate with pentameric IgM, secretory IgA, and monomeric IgG.
(18) Statistical analysis with the use of several statistical techniques for between- and within-drug group comparisons revealed that pimozide and fluphenazine were equally effective in maintaining control of symptomatology of chronic schizophrenics at a level commensurate with or better than that provided by their previous medication.
(19) The presence of branching with or without a commensurate increase in the polarity of the 5(6)-substituent adjacent to the benzimidazole ring (alpha-position) resulted in a loss of activity.
(20) Drug prescriptions per capita in the United States have more than doubled since 1950 without a commensurate improvement in health.
Coterminous
Definition:
(a.) Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the presence of 3'-OMeGTP, nearly homogeneous populations of 3'-coterminal elongation complexes were positioned at the first G residue of the template.
(2) The two remaining RNAs are leftwardly transcribed and are 5' and 3' coterminal.
(3) The most prominent in vitro translation products of ORF-206 are the full-length p206 and a shorter N-coterminal 150-kDa protein.
(4) B19 differed from other parvoviruses in the initiation of all transcripts at a strong left side promoter (p6) and the absence of a functional internal promoter; the presence of short 5' leader sequences of about 60 bases and very large introns for RNAs encoded by the right side of the genome; two separate transcription termination sites, in contrast to cotermination at the far right side of the genome for other parvoviruses; the probable utilization by three transcripts of a variant polyadenylation signal (ATTAAA or AATAAC) in the middle of the genome; and the abundance of two unique transcripts from the middle of the genome which did not code for capsid proteins.
(5) We found that the rate of ADR1 protein synthesis increased 10- to 16-fold within 40 to 60 min after glucose depletion, coterminous with initiation of ADH2 transcription.
(6) Three coterminal proteins of differing sizes and three subdomains of the individual molecules can be recognized.
(7) Evidence is presented here that all three HCMV GCR genes are transcribed during infection, that they are transcribed as two sets of 3'-coterminal mRNAs, and that their transcription is restricted to the late phase of infection.
(8) The two virion sense transcripts were 3' coterminal at nucleotide 1114 but had 5' termini at nucleotides 2682 and 163 respectively.
(9) It is coterminous with a spatial distribution of wealth and power, which is sometimes too simply called “the north-south divide”.
(10) The P and V proteins are amino coterminal and have 164 amino acids in common.
(11) We consider that this region contains 12 genes, which are expressed by mRNAs which have separate promoters, but may share 3'-termination sites, so that all but two mRNAs belong to one of four 3'-coterminal "families": 79% of the sequence is considered to be polypeptide coding.
(12) In the AcMNPV, a nested set of seven overlapping transcripts ranging from 2.2 to 5.3 kb was found, each with coterminal 3' ends.
(13) When the coterminous United States was divided into three horizontal tiers of states, we found a strong effect of geography on age at onset.
(14) The true late viral mRNAs are 3' coterminal with the 3.1-kb mRNA.
(15) The truncated RNA (Po RNA) is 147 to 148 residues long and is coterminal with the 3' ends of intact S20 mRNAs.
(16) The major product of 147 residues is obtained in 60 to 70% yield, is coterminal with the 3' end of the substrate, and is identical to an mRNA fragment previously characterized in vivo (G. A. Mackie, J. Bacteriol.
(17) In addition, their genome organization and expression strategy, which involves the synthesis of a 3'-coterminal nested set of mRNAs, are comparable.
(18) The mRNAs from the five ORFs were found to coterminate at a single site downstream of ORF 5.
(19) His implication that progressivism and the coalition are synonymous or coterminous is simply untrue, and even cheap.
(20) The distribution of 15,145 deaths from NP cancer over the years 1950-1979 revealed clustering in the 119 ESRs that was not detected in analyses of distribution by the 48 states, 506 state economic areas or 3,056 counties or combinations of counties of the coterminous United States.