(n.) A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.
(n.) The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence.
(n.) The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.
(n.) The state or method of being derived; the relation of origin when established or asserted.
(n.) That from which a thing is derived.
(n.) That which is derived; a derivative; a deduction.
(n.) The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration.
(n.) A drawing of humors or fluids from one part of the body to another, to relieve or lessen a morbid process.
Example Sentences:
(1) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(2) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(3) Leumorphin is a 29-amino-acid peptide derived from preproenkephalin B. Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.)
(4) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(5) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(6) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(7) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(8) PMNs could be primed for PMA-triggered oxidative burst by muramyl peptide molecules (MDP) and two of its adjuvant active nonpyrogenic derivatives.
(9) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(10) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(11) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(12) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
(13) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
(14) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(15) Northern blot analysis with an 18-mer radiolabelled oligonucleotide, derived from an ALP specific cDNA clone, revealed a specific mRNA of about 700-800 nucleotides in HS-24 tumor cells.
(16) The mortality data were derived from the reports by Miyagi Prefectural Government.
(17) Ferrocene derivatives, in general, show a degree of versatility, coupling the electron-transfer reactions of many enzymes.
(18) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
(19) This doxorubicin derivative did not bind to Sepharose which was conjugated with cardiac actin.
(20) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
Etymology
Definition:
(n.) That branch of philological science which treats of the history of words, tracing out their origin, primitive significance, and changes of form and meaning.
(n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one can point out from some languages, living as well as extincted ones, the words for time are derived etymologically from several roots or stems, respectively, which mostly represent different meanings.
(2) The psychodrama aims to the liberation of the human being alienated in his individuality thus giving him back a creative and relational spontaneity owing to the cathartic value of the collective game and drama (taken is its etymological sense).
(3) But I would prefer to sound like a regular adult human being, so I will just point out soberly that – as so many stentorian denunciations of word usage do – it lacks all historical and etymological justification.
(4) And let us hope that we will all enjoy fulfilling the symposium in its entire etymological meaning this evening.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to restore the concept of "handicap" to its original etymologic meaning as a term that identifies a relationship rather than a property concerning only one subject.
(6) The truth about Isis is much worse | Scott Atran Read more Etymology can often mislead.
(7) We didn't want to hide behind 'erotica' – because it's not etymologically accurate for one thing, and I'm very fussy about that kind of stuff, and there's a class element to it.
(8) Etymologically and semantically bound to nursing, little is known about the term nurturance.
(9) Oxford Dictionaries don’t seem to have questioned the etymology of post-truth: “post-” means “after-”, but post-truth is not after-truth, it’s anti-truth.
(10) While there are many holes to pick in this statement, one of the more fundamental is to do with the etymology of the word itself.
(11) The etymology of the word "tic" still remains mysterious.
(12) According to etymology, the word means 'loss of mind'.
(13) It seems preferable to make Brexit feminine,” it said, “since etymologically, the component exit has a corresponding Italian noun, ‘ uscita ’”, which is feminine.
(14) Etymological channels about green and red are studied for many words belonging to the pharmaceutical vocabulary and the authorized dying matters.
(15) Etymologically Sufi, as an Arabic word, means woolen-clad.
(16) "Algeria in Arabic is al-jazâ'ir , which is both very similar to al-jazîra and, etymologically speaking, is in fact simply a variation of the word, which means 'island'.
(17) The listed terms have been used in German veterinary and special veterinary anatomical hand- and textbooks since 1774; etymological remarks are made on some unusual words.
(18) A study of the etymology and pathology of metastasis leads to the conclusion that the essential feature is transportation and not distance.
(19) Both etymologically and in literal meaning the term "oviductal" is overwhelmingly preferable to "oviducal."
(20) Moreover, passion is suffering according to its etymology: until the XVIth century, the word "passionate" meant somebody who suffered physically.