(1) However, no evidence could be discerned to support its validity as a measure of a patient's treatment outcome.
(2) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.
(3) This was apparent by standard flux techniques only in low (65 mM) Na solutions, but was readily discernible in normal Na (125 mM) with the "lanthanum-residual" technique.
(4) By this method two types of granules have been discerned according to their different contrasts.
(5) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(6) Significant increment in lipid peroxidation was discernible in brain, liver and muscle.
(7) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(8) Furthermore, individual AgNOR dots were much more readily discerned in cell imprints than in sections, and this appears to be the method of choice if pathologists wish to at least approach absolute rather than relative AgNOR counts.
(9) In order to assess the sensitivity of these techniques, and to discern minimal criteria for their conduct, a survey of 113 human lymphocyte cytogenetic surveillance studies conducted between 1965 and 1984 has been undertaken.
(10) Changes in the secretory process were discernible as of day 1 in all three tumors, with a dramatic reduction of exocytosis and intracellular accumulation of PRL-immunoreactive granules.
(11) The advent of cyclosporine A provides the dermatologist with a new therapeutic strategem in the management of psoriasis, although the long-term safety of such interventional therapy remains to be discerned.
(12) Histologically, no discernible changes in the hair cells or sensory hairs were found with a scanning electron microscope at about 6 hours after 10 krad irradiation, while with a transmission electron microscope, the outer hair cells in the basal coil of the cochlea were found to be mostly destroyed.
(13) However, by phase microscopy, no changes are discernible within the first 12-18 h. Since the primary NGF receptor appears to be a membrane receptor, it seemed likely that some of the initial responses to the factor may be surface related.
(14) Whereas no discernible differences on survival were documented on a long-term basis, when patient who ultimately recurred in each group were compared, a substantial and statistically significant prolongation of the free-of-disease interval from surgery to recurrence and of survival from recurrence to death are revealed.
(15) The results suggest that TGF-beta 1 has powerful anti-inflammatory effects, mimicking in some respects the beneficial effects of immunosuppressive drugs in these experimental models of autoimmune disease, but without discernable adverse effects.
(16) Temporal differences in the expression of sugar-binding proteins and different patterns of staining of the component cell types of human placenta were discerned, especially pronounced for alpha-fucoside-specific binding in the trophoblast and alpha-glucoside-specific binding in fetal and maternal macrophages.
(17) They’re all basically the same, but the tiny, barely discernible differences between them consume vast amounts of energy and generate heartache for everyone involved.
(18) Judged radiographically, partial obliteration (pulp chamber not discernible, root canal markedly narrowed but clearly visible) had occurred in 44 teeth (36%).
(19) Starch ingestion had no discernible effect on postprandial lipemia.
(20) We conclude that long-term prophylaxis with TMP-SMZ does not produce discernable hematologic, renal, or hepatic toxicity in renal transplant recipients nor does it augment nephrotoxicity with cyclosporine or increase the risk of rejection.
Uncanny
Definition:
(a.) Not canny; unsafe; strange; weird; ghostly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(2) Many claims made against them echo with uncanny precision those once made against Jews and Catholics.
(3) Here, too, Capote displayed uncanny journalistic skills, capturing even the most languid and enigmatic of subjects – Brando in his pomp – and eliciting the kinds of confidences that left the actor reflecting ruefully on his "unutterable foolishness".
(4) Not only were all the paraphernalia and substances depicted with uncanny accuracy rare on television but the reactions of the drugged executives were also utterly credible.
(5) The English riots were described as a tidal wave of copycat disorder that swept across towns and cities with uncanny repetition.
(6) As a portrait of modern society, it is startlingly astute – a scene with two schoolgirls arguing at a bus stop is uncanny in its depiction of south London slang, and speech mannerisms, and all the more notable because this is so rarely done accurately and with empathy.
(7) "But am I alone in thinking that David Moyes is beginning to bear an uncanny resemblance to Frank Spencer?"
(8) Although the soloists change, the basic orchestration continues creating an uncanny sense of déjà entendu.
(9) GP Sounders stuck in the long grass There’s something uncanny about watching games this year at CenturyLink Field, replete with freshly laid field turf of the variety Portland Timbers also use (though you suspect that wasn’t considered as a particularly attractive selling point by the Sounders hierarchy).
(10) Resulting from old cleaning ceremonies and preventing or treating uncanny effects in children, it was been usual to lick forehead of newborn and children crosswise.
(11) Of course the Sunday People couldn't help investigate some of these claims and took "The Test in Bucharest" – they managed to find "a dead ringer for Pippa" and a young woman with "an uncanny likeness to Kate", both of whom had "excellent English".
(12) Bacillus Calmette-Guérin has demonstrated an uncanny capacity for effectiveness as therapy for human diseases.
(13) But while he has shown an uncanny ability to be flexible – in recent weeks he has softened his rhetoric dramatically – few believe he will be able to change enough to satisfy creditors when debt-stricken Athens re-engages in gruelling negotiations to stay afloat.
(14) They call it the “uncanny valley” – the point at which humans become uneasy at a robot’s humanness.
(15) Tom Watson is a formidable political operator with an uncanny knack for being at the centre of Labour party dramas.
(16) When it was opened more than a century ago, however, the Chhatrapati Shivaji railway terminus, which bears an uncanny resemblance to London's St Pancras, was the T2 of its time.
(17) Some way further down the list is Woodford Investment Management, run by Neil Woodford, a figure held in awe in London for his uncanny ability to make money.
(18) Blair has long been fascinated by the "uncanny" parallels between New Labour and the Liberal Party of Campbell-Bannerman and Asquith (his summer reading in 1996, during a holiday at Geoffrey Robinson's Tuscan villa, was George Dangerfield's classic The Strange Death of Liberal England).
(19) Although his playing days with Chelsea and Tottenham are long over, the uncanny knack of undoing Newcastle has clearly survived Poyet's transition from pitch to technical area undiminished.
(20) Reading between the lines, in the context of the Spurs' almost uncanny teamwork in these last two games, what James is really telling his team-mates is that they have to be more like the Spurs.