(n.) Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have cloned the phr gene that encodes DNA photolyase from Salmonella typhimurium by in vivo complementation of Escherichia coli phr gene defect.
(2) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(3) Sixteen patients (27%) manifested anomalies of the urinary tract: 12 had markedly altered kidneys, 8 of which were unilateral and ipsilateral to the diaphragmatic defect.
(4) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(5) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(6) Mechanisms by which a defect in the synthesis of dolichol-oligosaccharides might alter the degree of beta-1,6 branching in N-linked carbohydrates are discussed.
(7) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(8) Ventricular septal defect types were perimembranous (six), malalignment (seven), supracristal (three), midmuscular (one), and inlet (one).
(9) Defects of several membrane proteins were found with sodium dodecyl sulfate--polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(10) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
(11) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
(12) They presented their clinical observations on 4 brothers from the 'G Family' who shared a constellation of findings with a generalised tendency to midline defects.
(13) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(14) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(15) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
(16) Both models showed the expected wound-healing defects of the diabetic rats.
(17) Intercistronic complementation of these mutants with pm1493 and dl121, two SV40 mutants that are defective in agnoprotein but encode wild-type T antigen, results in an increased synthesis of agnoprotein in the infected cells.
(18) Cells defective in gpa2 fail to produce cAMP in response to glucose stimulation.
(20) This paper reports on observations of five families suffering from distinct thrombophilia due to a protein C defect.
Renunciation
Definition:
(n.) The act of renouncing.
(n.) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Written, oral and video statements of self-incrimination and self-renunciation by the detainees, apparently induced by the authorities, have been released through official media channels (for example, lawyer Zhang Kai was induced to make such a statement, which he later retracted).
(2) Nick Lowles, director of Hope Not Hate, which campaigns against extremism, said: "We celebrate Quilliam's efforts here but only a complete renunciation of the violence and hatred the EDL leaders have promoted, and a turning away from the anti-Muslim rhetoric they have championed, will be enough for the many thousands who have suffered from the EDL's ugly actions over the past three years."
(3) The systemic elaboration of anterior phases (individuation, couple) allows an integration of the new role and renunciation of the symptom.
(4) 7 StGB and a reduction respectively a renunciation of minimal period of revocation should give possibility to courts and reprieval authorities to ensure the inclusion of a large number of persons suitable for additional training and in cases of total abstinence traffic authority should regard the aptitude for participation in traffic as regranted.
(5) But Mazowiecki’s renunciation stabilised the eastern frontiers of the European Union.
(6) But it is no use the Guardian preaching renunciation.
(7) It is possible to renounce any information but renunciation of information assumes a basic knowledge of both possible kinds of treatment.
(8) That will require the formal and public renunciation of many of the policies on which the leadership election was won and the construction of a viable economic policy – a wholly legitimate process in a party which prides itself on being a broad church.
(9) From the giving up of smoking on the eve of his wedding, via the renunciation of his nominal religion and dropping of his name, to the abandonment of his career, Philip has proved himself the consummate royal wife.
(10) The further development, however, showed that the responsible and successful surgery in a special field-in the case of Kehr the surgery of the bile ducts-could only be performed with a far-reaching renunciation of other surgical activities.
(11) The renunciation of a sealer is the advantages of the procedure.
(12) "Essentially, it has to do with the renunciation of citizenship.
(13) What are probably his two best-known pieces of writing, his 1940 novel Darkness at Noon and his contribution to Richard Crossman's 1949 essay collection, The God That Failed , were both inspired by his painful renunciation of communism.
(14) In-depth interviews and participant observation was conducted with 14 Hindu religious renunciates, 70 years or older.
(15) The remedicalization of psychiatry does not mean the return to a reductionistic biomedical model of psychiatry or the renunciation of psychotherapy and psychodynamics.
(16) We cannot meet the secretary of state's public renunciation of violence, but it would be given privately as long as we were sure that we were not being tricked."
(17) Unprepared learning, which is often accompanied by failures on the first steps of learning, is suggested to produce renunciation of search, which decreases learning ability, suppress retention, and increase REM sleep requirement.
(18) (I have, incidentally, done a straw poll among my octogenarian contemporaries, and have found that the majority were as ignorant and shocked by the renunciation as I was.
(19) Presumably, the function of REM sleep is to compensate for renunciation of search in the waking period.
(20) There can be no voluntary renunciation of sovereign immunity, just as no person can sell himself into slavery.