(n.) That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
(n.) A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
(n.) Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
(n.) Importance with respect to what comes after; power to influence or produce an effect; value; moment; rank; distinction.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(3) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(4) The observed relationship between prorenin and renin substrate concentrations might be a consequence of their regulation by common factors.
(5) Also we found that the lipid deposition in the glomeruli of patients with Alagille syndrome is related to an abnormal lipid metabolism, which is the consequence of severe cholestasis.
(6) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(7) To clarify the functional roles of His40, Glu58, and His92, we analyzed the consequences of several amino acid substitutions (His40Ala, His40Lys, His40Asp, Glu58Ala, Glu58Gln, and His92Gln) on the kinetics of GpC transesterification.
(8) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(9) It is concluded that TRH is a specific activator of enteric excitatory pathways and that duodenal inhibition seen in control animals is a consequence of gastro-duodenal inhibitory reflexes.
(10) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(11) The patoc antigens types reacted with the control group in 7.24, 86.95 and 84.05% of the samples, and consequently were eliminated from the present study.
(12) This study describes the consequences of acute prostaglandin synthesis inhibition on the hemodynamic effects of nitroglycerin in patients with stable angina pectoris.
(13) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(14) In electrophysiological studies with neurons of Lymnaea stagnalis, THA inhibited the slow outward K+ current and consequently increased the duration of the action potentials.
(15) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(16) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(17) In one case an infection of the axillary region developed, which disappeared after removal of the catheter without any consequences.
(18) This is interpreted to be a consequence of the adsorption of Ca2+ on the vesicle bilayers.
(19) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(20) The authors discuss the results of the diagnosis and treatment of abscesses of the right hepatic lobe which were consequent upon ischemic necrosis; they were encountered after cholecystectomy in 0.15% of cases.
Ramification
Definition:
(n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
(n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
(n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
(n.) The production of branchlike figures.
Example Sentences:
(1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(2) Future research and clinical evaluations should focus on the components of the learning and memory processes when the ramifications of temporal lobe ablations on cognitive function are studied.
(3) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
(4) Speaking for the first time since the Qatari royal family abandoned his plans to build 552 new homes on the site of Chelsea barracks, Rogers called for a national inquiry into whether the prince has a constitutional right to become involved in matters such as planning applications which have economic, political and social ramifications.
(5) Thus, the existence of different forms of UBF may have important ramifications for transcription by RNA polymerase I.
(6) B-cells are found between the ramifications of the DC.
(7) On the basis of dendroarchitecture and cell body shape, complemented with morphometry of dendritic ramification, four major neuronal types were distinguished in lamina I of the spinal cord of the rat.
(8) This advance was represented by an increase in the cytoplasmic volume, appearance and development Golgi zones, grouping of the free ribosomes into rosettes, appearance of single synaptic contacts, and a ramification of large-calibre nerve processes that continued during the later stages of the embryogenesis (ED19-ED22).
(9) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(10) In neuropil, which is presented mainly as axo-spinal assymetrical contacts of the I type after Grey, transversal profiles of tightly arranged and collected in fasciculi finest axonal collaterals and terminal dendritic ramifications are revealed.
(11) "This has very serious ramifications with potentially grievous consequences for the country," the military said.
(12) Data from the two procedures are compared and ramifications for the study of body size are discussed.
(13) Thus, these data suggest a novel pharmacological action of HETEs on PLA2 which may have potential ramifications in the regulation of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(14) The possible explanation and ramifications of this finding are discussed.
(15) The paper develops a simple mathematical model for this process, based on experimental observations, and explores several ramifications.
(16) The basic pattern of arborisation shows short primary dendrites which branch close to the soma, forming a distal ramification extending over 600 to 1,200 micrometer from the soma.
(17) It is suggested that knowledge of sexual abuse and its ramifications be addressed at the medical school curriculum level and be taught in the various clinical departments and incorporated into ward teaching rounds and seminars.
(18) Some decisions are quite simple and have minimal, if any, ramifications; other decisions are more complex and can have major ramifications.
(19) (1) The incidence of Type I -A(1) was 13.2%, the highest among the entire Su ramification.
(20) Opinions have varied, and still do, on such matters as to whether or not the diagnosis of glaucoma is contingent upon a field defect, the existence of low tension glaucoma, the ramifications of ocular hypertension, what constitutes a glaucomatous appearance of the disc, field defects versus the appearance of the disc, field defects versus the appearance of the disc, and what constitutes an early glaucomatous field defect.