(a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of injected bovine insulin and glucose were assessed using an ethopharmacological methodology applied to social encounters by isolated male Swiss mice with docile anosmic opponents.
(2) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
(3) offense in subjects paired with docile anosmic opponents.
(4) The sufficient force and length of this transfer, associated with its direct course by redirection through the interosseous membrane make it a docile, reliable motor unit as shown by the 16 cases studied.
(5) The animal is docile and easy to care for; it has an ideal heart size, a high cardiac output and a long life expectancy.
(6) An upper bound is imposed on altruism by the condition that there must remain a net fitness advantage for docile behavior after the cost to the individual of altruism has been deducted.
(7) I wasn’t there for riding lessons and the instructions I was given were limited to how to start, aim and stop the docile beast.
(8) A docile substrain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) causes a persistent infection in adult C3HeB mice and induces a severe anemia, which, unlike the viremia, eventually resolves.
(9) Severity and duration of immunosuppressiveness depended upon the LCMV isolate and the mouse strain used: LCMV-WE and LCMV-Docile were most, whereas LCMV-Armstrong was in general least immunosuppressive.
(10) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
(11) We have previously shown that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes regulate susceptibility to lethal disease due to infection with the LCMV-docile isolate derived from the LCMV-UBC strain.
(12) The other virus, termed docile, killed few mice after the standard intracerebral inoculation, and could persist in the mice for 6 mo or more.
(13) He secured the appointment of a docile prime minister, Abu Mazin, who he hoped was ready to do what Arafat was not - go to war against the Islamic militants without any assurance that in return the Israelis would make any worthwhile concessions in the peace-making.
(14) A multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures with the factors SEX, SES, and TIME yielded two interactions for "rebellious-distrustful (FG by sex x health) and "self effacing-masochistic" (HI by time x health) and three main-effects for "agressive-sadistic" (DE by sex), "self-effacing-masochistic" (HI by SES) and "docile-dependent" (IK by time).
(15) Because docility-receptivity to social influence-contributes greatly to fitness in the human species, it will be positively selected.
(16) How did Britain turn so docile, so passive, so obedient?
(17) The promoters have long since cottoned on to the commercial potential of protest music; you’d have to be very determined and energetic to make yourself authentic and visible without them.” The decline of radical politics in the 1990s alongside the rise of New Labour undoubtedly contributed to folk music’s new docility, the genre offering little in the years when the Occupy movement and anti-Iraq war demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest.
(18) After 3 wk, a group of the five highest ranking cows from each lot were combined into a new aggressive lot; two groups of subordinate cows formed a docile lot.
(19) Resistance to the acute lethal disease caused by the docile strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) virus varies widely between different mouse strains.
(20) "We have had the classic docile, obedient, feminine look and we are all sick to the back teeth of it."
Pliable
Definition:
(v.) Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.
(v.) Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; -- sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth.
Example Sentences:
(1) For removal of catheter fragments from vessels of small diameter, such as the subclavian vein, or vessels in which the catheter has to take an acute bend to enter, such as the right or left pulmonary artery, a smaller, more pliable Bean-Smith-Mahorner biliary stone helical basket was adapted by extending the length of wire to 100 cm.
(2) In this theory the isoprenoid chain of the retinal is considered a structurally pliable molecular entity that can generate charge redistributions and can be subsequently achieve intermediate conformations or various isomeric states to minimize the energy of the new protein structure generated by light.
(3) The plug is made of a soft, pliable plastic material with open cells, containing a carbon filter which allows flatus to pass odour-free.
(4) A patient's epiglottis became trapped between the pliable grates in the mask portion of the laryngeal mask and partially obstructed his airway.
(5) In regard to valvular anatomy, 67 had calcified valves, 58 had pliable valves and only mild subvalvular disease, and 75 had flexible valves but extensive subvalvular disease.
(6) Add as much of the sparkling water as you need to make a smooth, pliable mixture.
(7) As he checks the woman’s heart with a stethoscope, he explains exactly what is about to happen to her – the nurses will hook her up to an EKG machine, among other procedures – and gets the woman to lie down, still muttering at the original nurse but pliable.
(8) The splitting of several calcareous nodules on a valve made it more pliable.
(9) Explanted valves showed no tissue thickening or shrinkage, problems seen with earlier valves made with untreated autogenous tissue, and the leaflets remained pliable, free of the degenerative changes usually seen in the sheep model.
(10) A pliable, easy to place, double pigtail, internal ureteral stent made of elastomeric polyurethane is described.
(11) The operation resulted into a normally looking penis through the creation of a wide neourethra starting with a meatus at the apex of the glans and covered by a pliable elastic hair-less skin.
(12) In contrast to the pectoralis major myocutaneous flap, the pectoralis major muscle flap is light and pliable.
(13) Cabinet members speedily agreed to hefty cuts in 2010 and proved so pliable that the "star chamber", which hears appeals from ministers against the Treasury, never met once.
(14) It remains pliable until light is applied, allowing adjustments in shape for a well-fitted implant without time constraints.
(15) The Wallstent (Medinvent SA, Lausanne, Switzerland), a pliable, tubular stainless steel mesh, is the metallic stent of choice for treatment of malignant strictures and can be implanted in a single session resulting in a shortened hospital stay for patients undergoing palliation of irresectable biliary tumours.
(16) Optimal results may be expected in patients in normal sinus rhythm, with pliable mitral leaflets, and with no severe subvalvular disease identified by echocardiography, who undergo dilation with large effective balloon dilating areas.
(17) Clonidine has been incorporated into a small, pliable adhesive cutaneous delivery device designed to provide therapeutically effective doses of drug at a constant rate for at least 7 days.
(18) The hypopharyngeal mucosa is a thin, pliable lining, which often needs replacement after tumor excision, stenosis and fistulae.
(19) The data suggest that LICS act as pliable fluid reservoirs that empty and collapse on stimulation of Cl secretion.
(20) The many difficulties associated with bladder stimulation include simultaneous sphincter contraction, pain, electrode and insulation difficulties, and fibroplasia due to movement of electrodes placed in pliable tissues.