(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.
Passible
Definition:
(a.) Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
Example Sentences:
(1) The degree of the filling up and the dilation of the gall bladder, its functional state as well as the passibility of d. cysticus are evaluated by ultrasound examination and computer determination of the surface and dimensions of the gall bladder.
(2) Gemeprost treatment increased free passibility (the size of the largest dilator which could be passed without encountering resistance) (P < 0.01), reduced the forces required to dilate the cervix (P < 0.01) reduced blood loss (P < 0.05), reduced the collagen concentration (P < 0.01) and was associated with a modest neutrophil influx (P < 0.02) as compared to placebo.
(3) Such finding is assessed, and the possibility that the diarrhea frequently found in animals infested by such parasites may be caused by the action of their own prostaglandins on the intestinal smooth musculature of the animals, as well as the passibility that the agents inhibitory of the prostaglandin synthesis may be used in the treatment of such parasitosis are expressed.
(4) The test allows the assessment of the functional state of the gall bladder, the passibility of d. cysticus, the degree and mechanism of the filling up of the gall bladder and the bile ducts with bile.