(n.) That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; -- used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
(n.) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
(v. t.) To do injury to; to hurt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Structurally altered polymorphic variants with reduced activity, such as tetrameric interface mutant Ile-58 to Thr, may produce not only an early selective advantage, through enhanced cytotoxicity of tumor necrosis factor for virus-infected cells, but also detrimental effects from increased mitochondrial oxidative damage, contributing to degenerative conditions, including diabetes, aging, and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
(2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(3) The striking improvements in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic Aborigines after a temporary reversion to a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle highlight the potentially reversible nature of the detrimental effects of lifestyle change, particularly in young people who have not yet developed diabetes.
(4) A murine model system was developed to determine whether ionizing radiation has a detrimental influence on thymic epithelium, cell function.
(5) The aim of this study was determine if functional adaptation of NHP and HB position to these detrimental conditions could be observed, using Bonferonni probabilities, in a cephalometric comparison of 38 SAS adults in the wakeful state and a control group of 38 healthy adults.
(6) Together, they dispel the myth that changing initial responses more often is detrimental than beneficial.
(7) Also, studies on the simulated cumulative effect of background radiation during storage failed to find any detrimental effect when embryos were exposed to the equivalent of about 2000 years of background radiation.
(8) The author then describes new approaches to improving the vocational integration of persons with epilepsy, by focussing on the one hand on extending the range of occupational assessment, and the adoption of new job placement assessment, and the adoption of new job placement strategies on the other, which concurrently seek to influence those factors that are detrimental to the occupational outlook of the person with a seizure disorder (notably frequent seizures, psychiatric problems, low educational levels, negative employer attitudes).
(9) The rationale for the inclusion of Mg in cardioplegic solutions therefore lies not in its cardioplegic properties, but in its ability to influence other cellular events such as the loss of Mg and K and perhaps to counter the detrimental effects of ischemia by antagonizing calcium (Ca) overload.
(10) Alternatively, increasing this ratio may permit embryos to reduce the concentration of a substance detrimental to their growth.
(11) Because NMDA receptor antagonists impede certain kinds of learning, and because motor recovery after sensorimotor cortex injury in the rat is dependent on post-lesion experience, we hypothesized that treatment with MK-801 after focal brain injury would be detrimental.
(12) Student participation in school-based suicide prevention programs, however, was associated with a detrimental effect on state teenage suicide rates.
(13) Aggressive or improper toothbrushing techniques may have a detrimental impact on the gingiva.
(14) On this basis we tried to change the milieu on a 26-bed therapeutic community ward which proved to have pseudo-groups and a detrimental ward atmosphere.
(15) In a pediatric critical care environment with skilled ongoing nursing care, the axillary artery can be used as a site for intraarterial monitoring in pediatric patients without a detrimental effect on concurrent or future blood pressure monitoring.
(16) These data suggest that sCR1 inhibits the Arthus reaction by interrupting the activation of the C cascade, hence limiting the detrimental immune complex-induced tissue damage in vivo.
(17) Unreasonable expectations and expansion of the health sector have spawned counterproductive effects which are to some extent detrimental to public health.
(18) Falls among hospitalized patients are common occurrences and can have detrimental effects on patient outcomes.
(19) Nylon drains are available in any operating room, and have no detrimental effects on the grafted skin.
(20) Focal cerebral ischemia initiates multiple detrimental effects in the brain.
Expense
Definition:
(n.) A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
(n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.
(n.) Loss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(2) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(3) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
(4) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
(5) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(6) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
(7) These preliminary results suggest that IGIV may be more beneficial and less expensive than plasmapheresis in treatment of GBS.
(8) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
(9) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
(10) A senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
(11) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
(12) Its use is economical of tissue, time, and expense to the patient.
(13) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
(14) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
(15) As the older people have died, younger people have come into the more expensive houses,” he said.
(16) It increases the duration and quality of life without prolonging the time spent in hospital, and it reduces health expenses by 50 to 70%.
(17) The resulting medium is less complicated to maintain, less expensive and supports the growth of human bladder tumor cell lines better than the standard clonogenic assay.
(18) In the muscular bioptates of patients with Duchenne's myopathy as the disease progresses there is a gradual smoothening of the diameter of preserved elements at the expense of almost complete disappearance of hypertrophysed filaments.
(19) Her family paid the [hospital] expenses until she got well," said her friend, Lisa Moussa, 17.
(20) Simultaneously, bone ingrowth at the expense of the ceramic is observed.