(n.) The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
(n.) A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
(n.) A class to which a certain representation is applicable; kind; sort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.
(2) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(3) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(4) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(5) This paper provides a description of the cerebellar-vestibular-determined (CV) neurological and electronystagmographic (ENG) parameters characterizing 4,000 patients with learning disabilities.
(6) This report represents the first comprehensive description of instantaneous and continous phasic blood velocity at the mitral valve during atrial arrhythmias in man.
(7) Studies of diarrhoeal disease have been limited mainly to descriptive epidemiological investigations.
(8) In our laboratory we have contributed to these studies with the description of: a) the regulatory activity of different neuroendocrine substances on interferon-gamma production; b) the characterization of the immune regulation exercised by the muscarinic cholinergic system; c) the in vitro activity of the indoleamines, serotonin and melatonin on the immune response, and the production of these indoleamines by lymphocytes and monocytes, thus establishing a model of paracrine regulation.
(9) Five psychrophilic and five mesophilic phage were selected for a description of some of their biological properties.
(10) The molar refractivity has been shown to be a superior parameter for the description of the activity of sulphonamides than the sum of electronegativities of atoms making up a heterocyclic substituent in the sulphonamide molecule and molecular weight of the substituent.
(11) However, it was concluded that the biochemical models fail to give a complete description of photosynthesis in plants using the C4-dicarboxylic acid cycle.
(12) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
(13) The calculation, based on analytical expression derived by Cowley, has been shown previously to give an almost quantitative description of kinematical diffraction from linear chain systems.
(14) This short paper includes extracts from the original translations of Leeuwenhoek's descriptions of the histology of teeth, investigates his findings and demonstrates that in addition to describing dentinal tubules, he may have identified the presence of calcospherites within that tissue.
(15) We report a descriptive study of 56 cases of HIV infection in a primary care center to evaluate its impact on the population on care, the practices at risk, the associated infections and the difficulties for control.
(16) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
(17) A brief description of suggested treatment and management regimens for the various forms of AIDS-related psychopathology then follows.
(18) Lazarus' phenomenological theory of stress and coping provided the basis for this descriptive study of perceived threats after myocardial infarction (MI).
(19) A descriptive case study approach was used to analyze findings.
(20) This is the first description of a restriction enzyme from a mycoplasma.
Indefinable
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of samples with indefinable statistics due to a zero denominator can be as high as 30% when the sample sizes are 500 for three, four and five category-state classifications.
(2) A chest X-ray film showed a left hydropneumothorax with an indefinable left diaphragm, that was confirmed by ultrasonography.
(3) There’s a special extra quality you need that is indefinable, and I know I don’t have it.
(4) Diabetes is more than one disease, it is indefinable, probably genetically multifactorial, and presents several facets with varying degrees of heredity and environment in their constitution.
(5) Gonad primordium of Ambystoma mexicanum when grafted at tail-bud stage on Triturus alpestris is indefinately tolerated.
(6) Moyes had suggested that there might be some intangible mental weakness behind his team’s poor start, even an indefinable “something” that goes beyond rational explanation: a bad vibe, a hex, a shadow.
(7) The remaining implantation sites contained either abnormal, very retarded embryos or indefinable embryo remnants.
(8) Kaposi's sarcoma was diagnosed in a 62 year old female at the last stage of an indefined malignant lymphoma.
(9) It is there in Javert's conversion towards the end of the novel: his sense of "some indefinable sense of justice according to God's rules that was the reverse of justice according to man".
(10) There is no doubt that over the last 2 decades medical imaging has changed the diagnostic process, but its influence on the outcome of disease other than infections is less certain and probably indefinable.
(11) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.
(12) These included, in order of their frequency, QTc prolongation (85%), T-wave abnormality (82%), PQ prolongation (19%), widening of QRS with or without bundle branch block pattern (19%), and supraventricular or indefinable tachycardia with wide QRS complexes (8%).
(13) But these are inevitably imperfect efforts to capture in visual form the unique charisma, the indefinable Clegginess of Clegg.
(14) The patients feel a typical, almost indefinable, particuliar crawling sensation reminiscent of the movement of worms.
(15) The majority of oligodendrocytes contain large indefinable heterogeneous electron-dense structures within their perikaryon or processes.
(16) Once Alex and Danielle thought they saw his white pant-leg duck into the bathroom; another time the couple heard an indefinable growling under the bed.
(17) This recording method is especially good for continuing education courses and for detailed storing of certain results, because the method may be reprodused indefinately.
(18) Wetmore and Singer add that some tumors are radioresistant for indefinable reasons.
(19) The problem of defining life is discussed, using as foundation Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, which holds that life is indefineable.
(20) We have to balance our fears of the indefinable, nebulous worlds of crime and terrorism, with the fact that, if we put Tasers in our public servants' hands, at some point they'll use them on us.