(a.) Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(2) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
(3) The nature of the cystatin C-immunoreactive substance in some of these vascular lesions is uncertain, but it might conceivably play an additional important role in the pathogenesis of brain hemorrhage in these cases.
(4) It is conceivable that this overall enhancement of the immune response induced by beta-IFN could contribute to reduce HTLV-I infection in vitro.
(5) The vertebrate body may be thus conceived as composed of 2 growth types, viz., the neural-extensive and the cellular-divisional (mitotic).
(6) "You wouldn't conceive such random movements could produce such metronomic sounds: you get this der-der-der-der-der-errrr, der-der-der-der-der-errrr.
(7) It is conceivable that the retroviral sequence contains an intragenic enhancer which is also functional in the anti-sense orientation.
(8) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(9) The decreased Vmax observed in platelets from hypertensive patients and reproduced by ouabain inhibition could conceivably be linked to the presence of a circulating ouabain-like factor in hypertension.
(10) It is conceivable that pristane could play a role in the development of certain malignancies in higher mammals since it is commonly found in the diet.
(11) With the rapidly mounting cost of medical care in hospitals, physicians must seek alternative forms of therapy for illnesses that could conceivably be treated by less confining methods.
(12) The first reason is that our culture has difficulty in conceiving of women as autonomous human beings with needs and desires that don't relate to men.
(13) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(14) The receptors activated by muscimol (GABA-A) are clearly not the same as the ones activated by baclofen (conceivably GABA-B).
(15) It is conceivable that the lymphatic dilatation of the small intestine in Behçet's disease may be related to increased flow of lymph due to excessive vascular hyperpermeability and may not be related to a block of lymphatic system which has been considered to be a cause of enteric protein loss in intestinal lymphangiectasia.
(16) It is conceivable that, in the future, antibiotic therapy will have to be combined with antiphlogistic agents.
(17) Fewer multiparous cows given two injections 14 d apart and inseminated after estrus conceived than did cows given two injections and a progesterone intravaginal coil inserted 8 d after the first injection (42 vs. 66%).
(18) The almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979 [...] I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary invasion" than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.
(19) The transplantation of a reduced liver was conceived to circumvent this problem.
(20) This is the scrubber that Comer paid for, Lackner conceived and Wright built.
Thinkable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it would be also thinkable that it is an accidental combination of diseases, the number of which increases at growing age.
(2) These ultrastructural findings might be interpreted to the effect that an angioblastically determined mesenchymal cell, a so-called endothelioblast, was thinkable and was discussed as the precursor cell of atypical vascular and spindle cell proliferation in Kaposi's sarcoma.
(3) Casting is the most delicate, secret part of movie production: once a decision has been made, it is in everyone's interests to pretend that this was destiny, and no other actor would be thinkable.
(4) A further focal point of the international development are systems for the replacement of functions and organs, in which case new biomaterials considerably enlarge the volume of thinkable implantable solutions.
(5) Possibly only patients with cellular immunologic defects are susceptible of a favourable response, moreover it is thinkable that the quality of Transfer Factor and the dosage administered must play a role.
(6) Indeed, her indictment of Eichmann reached beyond the man to the historical world in which true thinking was vanishing and, as a result, crimes against humanity became increasingly "thinkable".
(7) According to German media reports, such drastic action had previously only been thinkable when dealing with "pariah states like North Korea or Iran".
(8) It is thinkable that this behaviour is related to the different roles of the determined parameters in fat and energy metabolism.
(9) The idea of restoring it struck Limon while he was doing his PhD thesis in the late 70s, but it wasn't until the fall of communism that the idea of digging for the old theatre – and raising a new one – became thinkable.
(10) "It was not even thinkable that the pope would come to an Island like this one," resident Andrea Pavia, who came out with his tearful wife and daughter to watch the pope drive by, told the Associated Press.
(11) Normally so competent in policing the borders of the sayable and the thinkable, the process is largely accepted as a realistic containment of "common sense" within "acceptable" limits.
(12) When the UK is leaving the European Union it is not thinkable that at the end the whole euro business is managed in London.
(13) A third thinkable pair with no optical activity, but different sum concentrations in both cells, does not exist in this special circuitry, but can be obtained in a slightly changed arrangement.
(14) Only by thinking the unthinkable can we define what's thinkable.
(15) They are helping ensure that previously unthinkable conversations become thinkable.
(16) We have carried out the first study in Italy on the cognitive remediation by a new computerized system developed by IBM and called THINKable.
(17) With the development of the concept of retinal correspondence and the fusion of the retinal images in the brain (Huygens 1667, Newton 1704) a cerebral mechanism of disparity detection became thinkable.