(n.) That which is contributed; -- either the portion which an individual furnishes to the common stock, or the whole which is formed by the gifts of individuals.
(n.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
(n.) Payment, by each of several jointly liable, of a share in a loss suffered or an amount paid by one of their number for the common benefit.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
(3) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(4) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(5) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
(6) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(7) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
(8) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(9) They suggest that an endogenous retinoid could contribute to positional information in the early Xenopus embryo.
(10) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
(11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(12) The diseases of airways had the highest contribution to the coefficient of morbidity.
(13) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
(14) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(15) It was concluded that the spheno-occipital complex has a close relationship to the skeletal facial pattern and contributes to the facial formation.
(16) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(17) We investigated the possible contribution made by oropharyngeal microfloral fermentation of ingested carbohydrate to the generation of the early, transient exhaled breath hydrogen rise seen after carbohydrate ingestion.
(18) In addition, recent studies have not confirmed previous observations that diuretic-induced hypokalaemia increases ventricular ectopy or contributes to sudden death.
(19) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
(20) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
Noncontributory
Definition:
(a.) Not contributing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sacroiliac joints appear to be relatively noncontributory to problems following lumbar disk surgery.
(2) If special stains are noncontributory, the diagnosis may hinge on supporting evidence from a series of electron micrographs of a properly selected and prepared tumor.
(3) In most of these patients local signs were absent, laboratory investigations were noncontributory, and antibiotic treatment was ineffective.
(4) Although plain CT is usually considered noncontributory in the diagnosis of venous thrombosis, it enabled the differentiation of recent thrombus in these four patients.
(5) Computed tomography has proved most helpful in the initial evaluation of this disorder, especially as roentgenographic plain films have been essentially noncontributory in the past.
(6) No obvious local or systemic etiology was found in our series, and follow-up of 2 to 5 years has been noncontributory.
(7) All the other markers remained negative in both conditions and were thus noncontributory for differentiating xanthoma disseminatum from histiocytosis X.
(8) Otherwise, this view was either noncontributory (95%), of doubtful assistance (3%), or misleading (1%).
(9) Cochlear and labyrinthine studies and neurologic investigations were noncontributory.
(10) In the evaluation of a patient suspected of having lymphoma, lymphocyte marker studies may be essential for a correct diagnosis, helpful but not essential, or entirely noncontributory, depending on the specific clinical setting and histological differential diagnosis.
(11) Diagnosis in all patients was entirely clinical, and serologic investigations were noncontributory.
(12) We conclude from this study that ultracytochemistry is very useful in providing definitive diagnosis and accurate subclassification of some AML FAB M-1 cases, particularly when light microscopic cytochemistry, cytogenetics, and flow cytometric markers are noncontributory.
(13) Faulty needle placement was judged noncontributory in all but one case.
(14) Roentgenographic examinations were noncontributory.
(15) Angiography was noncontributory; computerized tomography (CT) was the main diagnostic test.
(16) Noncontributory data only occurred with cytogenetic analysis in cases that demonstrated normal karyotypes.
(17) Those patients with other infertility factors were included in the study only if the factors were correctable and ultimately determined to be noncontributory.
(18) All other dental findings were unremarkable and their medical histories were noncontributory.
(19) All diagnostic variables were evaluated in each case and were labeled essential, ambivalent, supportive, or noncontributory.
(20) Past medical history was noncontributory with the exception of a bicycle accident at age eight, which resulted in minor facial trauma.