(a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
(a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
(a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
(a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
(a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(2) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
(3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
(4) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
(5) Seven patients died, six because of distant metastases within one year.
(6) Local or distant metastases presented in 6 patients.
(7) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
(8) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
(9) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
(10) The national study accrued 216 patients with measurable or evaluable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with either unresectable stage III, or distant metastasis (stage IV).
(11) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
(12) Although a high rate of local control can be expected, distant metastases continue to be a problem.
(13) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
(14) Concomitant immunity (CI) is defined as the lack or retardation or proliferation of a secondary tumor implant at a distant site; it has been given an immunological interpretation.
(15) Children with osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma rarely have bone disease distant from the site of their primary bone lesion at presentation.
(16) The effect of combined treatment was studied in 97 patients with nonseminomatous testicular tumors with regional and distant metastases with regard to the blood serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein and chorionic gonadotropin.
(17) At diagnosis, 15 (16.5%) patients had regional metastases and six (7%) had distant metastases.
(18) The PPi-dependent Pfk of potato is only distantly related to the ATP-dependent enzymes.
(19) Sequences homologous to Inp are present in multiple copies in the N. plumbaginifolia and the N. tabacum genome but not in more distant species.
(20) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.
Equidistant
Definition:
(a.) Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) We counted all type I fibers and determined type I and II mean fiber areas in eight equidistant sections taken along the length of control and overloaded MG. Increase in muscle weights (31%), as well as in total muscle cross-sectional areas (37%) and fiber areas (type I, 57%; type II, 34%), attested to a significant hypertrophic response in overloaded MG. An increase in type I fiber composition of MG from 7.0 to 11.5% occurred as a result of overload, with the greatest and only statistically significant changes (approximately 70-100%) being found in sections taken from the most rostral 45% of the muscle length.
(2) The rocky islets lie roughly equidistant between the Japanese and South Korean mainland in a stretch of water referred to as the East Sea by Koreans.
(3) The first formula is based on three simultaneous pressure measurements performed at equidistant points; the remaining three equations are original, and make use of only two of the three pressure measurements together with a no-flow condition at the terminal tube section.
(4) Microelectrode techniques were used to measure in vitro action potential and refractory period durations of the canine proximal right and left bundle branches equidistant from the distal bundle of His.
(5) Movements of equal amplitude were made in eight directions on a planar working surface, from a central point to targets located equidistantly on a circle.
(6) From its representation on the spherical surface it was unfolded into the plane using a polar azimuthal radially equidistant projection.
(7) But it is very important for VKontakte to be an independent company, equidistant from any ideological position or belief.
(8) The research was focused on the presence of Salmonella serovars in samples collected from 2 stream sites equidistant from a cold storage plant and slaughterhouse, one downstream, and the other before the source of pollution.
(9) Replication seems to be blocked at specific points, which are equidistantly spaced along the circular kinetoplast DNA molecules.
(10) Segmental analysis was done in the right anterior oblique projection using a long axis with three perpendicular, equidistant chords.
(11) The distribution of flux rates for ghosts treated with a limiting perforin concentration showed equidistantly spaced peaks suggesting that subpopulations of ghosts with 0, 1 and 2 pores were resolved.
(12) DNase I footprinting analyses demonstrated that HMG-T protects two regions almost equidistant from the center of the (AT)12 sequence, indicating that HMG-T is a sequence-specific DNA binding protein.
(13) Attempts at quantifying the area of vision for given isopters have been limited to area measurements on visual field charts, which are azimuthal equidistant polar map projections of the inside surface of the perimetry bowl.
(14) While the residual anisotropy (at 1 ms) in contraction is much closer to that in relaxation than in rigor, the initial anisotropy (at 1 microsecond) is approximately equidistant between those of rigor and relaxation.
(15) Thus, the lifetime data suggest that the NCI site is approximately equidistant from each of the agonist sites.
(16) Sleep measures (for the nap subjects), oral temperature, performance on several tests, and Stanford Sleepiness Scale ratings were obtained at 10 equidistant intervals throughout the 40-hr period.
(17) These detectability differences, at loci equidistant from the fovea, could not be accounted for by any known variation in retinal spatial resolution or by differential lateral masking effects of the target by nearby nontarget patterns.
(18) The gating mechanism could consist of the radial translation of the neighbouring proteins or in their axial rotation under the influence of the torque that would act on a pair of approximately equidistant but oppositely directed alpha-helices.
(19) Cool white light generated less CO from human serum albumin and NADPH than equidistantly placed blue and green phototherapy light sources.
(20) For normal subjects with good stereopsis the equidistance (stereoscopic distance matching) horopter shape was altered with the application of lateral prism.