(a. & pron.) One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
(a. & pron.) Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.
(conj. Either) precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
(2) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(3) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(4) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
(5) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
(6) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(7) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
(8) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(9) However, dexamethasone was more effective than either prednisone or cortisol (P less than 0.001).
(10) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(11) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(12) We conclude that only one of the alleles was amplified and that either allele could be amplified with respect to both the SphI and PvuII polymorphisms.
(13) A quadripolar catheter was positioned either at the site of earliest ventricular activation during induced monomorphic ventricular tachycardia or at circumscribed areas of the left ventricle.
(14) Further analysis with two other synthetic peptides (212Cys to 222Glu and Cys X 221Ile to 236Glu) indicated that the dodecapeptide Ile-Glu-Phe-Gln-Lys-Asn-Asn-Arg-Leu-Leu-Glu mimicked either the whole or a major part of the neutralization epitope.
(15) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(16) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
(17) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(18) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(19) The enzyme, when assayed as either a phospholipase A2 or lysophospholipase, exhibited nonlinear kinetics beyond 1-2 min despite low substrate conversion.
(20) Other intestinal cells immunostained with either GLP or somatostatin-34 antiserum.
Hither
Definition:
(adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
(adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
(a.) Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
(a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Panel Discussion at the "Hither neurology" Symposium included neurologists, a speech therapist, a geriatrician and a sociologist.
(2) "When little girls say they like it because it's more sparkly, that's all fine and good but, subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come-hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version.
(3) 8.40pm BST 39 min: Scotland give the old tiki-taka a go, passing it hither and yon across the back like, and pinging a couple of little triangles down either flank.
(4) On Bedloe’s Island, the centre of attraction, a large platform decorated with bunting in which the tricolour was conspicuous, was erected, and hither after the parade was over President Cleveland and the most distinguished American and French representatives were conducted.
(5) Common indications for antibiotic prophylaxis are: operations involving a high chance of contamination and those that have hither to be clean but in which the implications of infections would be highly threatening.
(6) We conclude that tobacco 19S particles represent small cytoplasmic complexes, possessing biochemical and structural characteristics similar to the hither-to known prosomes of animal cells.
(7) With a second injection a much shorter but usually hither monophasic response was produced.
(8) Everyone knows the best players stand for the entire match in the centre circle dictating play, walking no more than five yards hither and yon, with a massive beer belly hanging over the belt of their shorts.
(9) This case report demonstrates the problems and shortcomings in the management of DV and documents a hither to unreported cause.
(10) Concentrations of Ca, P and activity of ALP hither on young animals are related to the needs of bone growth.
(11) Contrary to hitheric common "mapping" of electric activity of the brain, it is thus easier to detect pathological changes in the EEG frequency spectra.
(12) These determinants can be recognized by serology, and evidence is presented that some of them are coded for by a hither to unrecognized locus Ag, which is very closely linked to the MLC determinants of the D locus can be recognized with the help of the MLC test using unprimed cells, homozygous for the MLC determinants, so-called typing cells primed against one MLC determinant in the PLT test.
(13) ER content in myoma tended to be hither than that in myometrium, but the difference was not significant.
(14) From this study and data in the literature we conclude that hither-to a thymic precursor cell carrying the interleukin-2 receptor as is the case for the murine thymus has not been found in man.
(15) A long throw is hoiked in towards Huth, who flings himself through the air and barges into various defenders, sending them scattering hither and thither, before Shawcross prods the ball home from the resulting carnage.
(16) Step forward, then, Charlotte Lucas, you magnificently clear-eyed, steel‑spined, iron-willed creature who, while everyone else is mooning over dance partners, parsing glances and bobbing curls hither and thither, is taking a cold, hard, dispassionate look at her situation and making a reckoning of the fates to come.
(17) It was used for all patients discharged from the acute psychiatric ward in Hither Green Hospital over a 10 month period.
(18) The hither to wellknown movable fixateur such as that from Cleyburn have the disadvantage that the mounting of the apparatus can first be carried out after the reduction of the radius-fracture.
(19) For services to Young People through Guiding in Hither Green, Bexley and Sidcup, London.
(20) In the clinic for paediatrics of the Medical Academy of Dresden malformations of respiratory organs, situated below the larynx, were demonstrated in 18 per cent of patients who had been referred hither in the course of 20 years for bronchopulmonary diagnostics.