(v. t.) To take away, separate, or remove, in numbering, estimating, or calculating; to subtract; -- often with from or out of.
(v. t.) To reduce; to diminish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 2,800-molecular-weight oligosaccharide was a constituent of the hemagglutinin, and treatment of this large oligosaccharide with specific exo-glycosidases demonstrated the presence of terminal galactose and fucose and allowed the deduction of a general structure for this component.
(2) In addition to the image of the soft tissue and alveolar bone provided, this procedure makes the deduction of the ideal fixture site possible.
(3) This deduction was supported by an exploratory dose-seeking study that spanned five years in 20 patients with recurrent (non-gall stone) acute or chronic pancreatitis and confirmed by a 20-week double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial of the successful combination (daily doses of 600 micrograms organic selenium, 0.54 g vitamin C, 9000 IU B-carotene, 270 IU vitamin E and 2 g methionine) in a further 20 cases.
(4) Donald Trump has continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s support for election recounts in three states, claiming he won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.
(5) How many of those will he give before deducting a point?
(6) Government-funded health insurance programs that claim to provide comprehensive funding of their clients' demands have commonly adopted a purposive (deductive) approach to the problem of health care funding.
(7) This deduction was based on the subepithelial growth pattern and the presence of in-situ carcinoma showing a glandular or squamous pattern at the location of the esophageal gland duct.
(8) Review negative gearing Federal Labor and the Greens have proposed a rethink of negative gearing, the practice of property investors claiming their losses as a deduction against their taxable income.
(9) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
(10) The Swiss authorities tax these lending units as if they were required to pay large, tax-deductible interest bills – even if they have no such cost.
(11) Comparison of genomic and cDNA clones allowed the correct deduction of the intron boundaries and the 3'-end cleavage site of this gene.
(12) Both Red Star and Partizan began the next season with a six-point deduction because of the previous season's events [along with eight other clubs].
(13) These results with fura-2-loaded platelets indicate that mobilisation of internal Ca2+ can contribute a substantial proportion of the early peak [Ca2+]i evoked by thrombin directly confirming the deductions from previous work with different loadings of quin2.
(14) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
(15) The number of uninsured was estimated deductively from the coverages of those insurance companies doing business in the state, with an additional factor for persons with more than one policy coverage.
(16) Researchers have indicated that the single-case study experimental design may be of value in chiropractic clinical practice, allowing for the formulation of deductive conclusions derived from each case.
(17) The inheritance levy, thought to be £20,000, would be deducted from the estates of older people when they die, replacing a system that forces many pensioners to sell their family homes to fund nursing home bills.
(18) Final deductions, however, must be followed by careful checking of all individual histories.
(19) Available data do not, at present, permit deduction as to whether additional selenium intake in man, exposed to mercury vapor or mercuric mercury, will have any effect, beneficial or adverse.
(20) Histological observations correlate well with tensiometry deductions.
Substract
Definition:
(v. t.) To subtract; to withdraw.
Example Sentences:
(1) The urinary inactive kallikrein excretion was determined indirectly by substracting active kallikrein activity from total kallikrein activity.
(2) A dual isotope technique was evolved with a ratio substract system.
(3) The Type 2 and 3 cytosomes were the ultrastructural substract of Wright-Giemsa stained blue granules.
(4) The results indicate that bovine brain has a specific PACAP receptor, whose apparent molecular weight is 57 k (substracting the molecular weight of [125I]PACAP27 from 60 k).
(5) The mean threshold light sensitivity on Humphrey automated perimetry (Program 30-1) of one eye was substracted from the fellow eye total to yield the interocular visual field difference (VFD).
(6) We studied the role of fibronectin as a mediator between the substract and the endothelial cell.
(7) TTPs were substracted by differential recording and stimulation through matched micropipettes (one in the brain and one in contiguous electrolyte) and in addition were reduced by pressure ejection of electrolyte.
(8) The effects of selective attention on ERPs to standard tones were isolated as negative difference waves (Nds) by substracting ERPs to non-attended stimuli from ERPs to the same signals when attended.
(9) Standardization of the results was obtained by pair-wise substraction, log RFPi-log RFSTi.
(10) Of these, 95 (89%) exhibited a minimal degree of geometric distortion and could be successfully substracted.
(11) "Ischemia" of a slice was achieved by substracting both glucose and oxygen from the perfusing medium.
(12) Diagnostics (perfusion scintigraphy with Tc-DTPA, digital substraction angiography) demonstrated hypoperfusion of the graft, caused by a steal syndrome due to the A-V fistula in the groin.
(13) Binding of synthetic substracts, such as p-nitrophenyl-2-acetamido-4-O-(2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D -glucopyranosyl)-beta-D-glucopyranoside (NAG-Gluc-varphiNO(2)), has also been studied by the magnetic resonance technique described.
(14) The substract acetate and ATP could be replaced by propionate and dATP, repectively.
(15) In all, photographic substraction, a simple technique, appears to be of value in gastrointestinal angiography essentially in the arteriographic study of the pancreas and of spleno-portal and mesenterico-portal venous return.
(16) Hemofiltration is a method suitable for rapid substraction of plasma water that generally allows reduction of circulating levels of norepinephrine.
(17) Remember that the oclusal adjustment is an irreversible media of dental structures substraction that can be made as a unique type of treatment before the operative dentistry and prostodontics.
(18) Imaging procedures were mainly real-time ultrasonography and thallium-technetium substraction scintigraphy with sensitivities of 50.8% and 46.7% and specificities of 86.3 and 76.3% respectively.
(19) Cutting scores differentiating normal from pathological performance were determined substracting 2 standard deviations from the means of normals subjects subdivided into four educational groups.
(20) On the basis of a comparative study of 100 angiograms, the authors stress the value of photographic substraction in gastrointestinal angiography.