(v. t.) To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further studies are required to elucidate specific roles of the steroid-induced proteins in the effects of glucocorticoids on HTM and HS cells.
(2) To elucidate the mechanisms by which indomethacin lowers proteinuria, we studied 20 patients with the nephrotic syndrome.
(3) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(4) The data shows a dissociation between ferritin synthesis, cellular accumulation and secretion for which the mechanisms have still to be elucidated.
(5) An attempt was made to elucidate possible participation of low molecular weight nuclear RNA's (LMWN RNA's) in the transcription process.
(6) Although lipopolysaccharides seem to play a significant role in the final assembly of the trimeric porins, the details of the targeting process still remain to be elucidated.
(7) This situation highlights the potential importance of molecules with different inheritance patterns in elucidating complex cases of reticulate evolution.
(8) Glucan (mol wt 3000) structure was elucidated by methylation and periodate oxidation techniques.
(9) The relative importance of each of these growth factors in the in vivo situation will have to be elucidated by future studies using specific receptor antagonists or neutralizing antibodies.
(10) Although numerous studies have documented the effects of the renal nerves on kidney function, the mechanisms involved in the diuresis have yet to be elucidated.
(11) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
(12) To elucidate the role of arterial baroreceptors in the acute regulation of arterial pressure in the conscious animal, arterial pressure was lowered and raised in intact, conscious dogs, and in dogs after bilateral section of both carotid sinus and aortic nerves (total arterial baroreceptor denervation, TABD).
(13) It appears that irrespective of the elucidation of the nature of the putative aetiological factor (presumed to be viral) in MS, the arrest and reversal of T cell-related events within the CNS in this devastating condition represent feasible goals and should remain a major target for some time to come.
(14) Interaction between aromatic diamidines (pentamidine, propamidine, and stilbamidine) and nucleic acids were studied to elucidate the mechanism underlying renal toxicity included by pentamidine in patients.
(15) Experiments elucidating the mechanism behind this effect are described.
(16) Until further elucidation of the causes of altered thiopental metabolism is available to identify patients more likely to have elevated concentrations of pentobarbital, monitoring of blood drug concentrations in patients receiving thiopental should include determination of both thiopental and pentobarbital concentrations.
(17) The constitutent fatty acids were elucidated by gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to be beta-hydroxy isodecanoic acid, beta-hydroxy decanoic acid, beta-hydroxy isoundecanoic acid and beta-hydroxy anteisoundecanoic acid.
(18) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(19) We reviewed our experience with 245 thyroidectomies to define the spectrum of hypocalcemia, elucidate the mechanisms of hypocalcemia, and formulate a rational basis for its management.
(20) Effect of electroconvulsive shock (ECS) on central serotonin (5-HT) receptor function was studied in order to elucidate its antidepressive mechanism.
Enunciate
Definition:
(v. t.) To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
(v. t.) To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.
(v. i.) To utter words or syllables articulately.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gove has accused the Germans of adhering to such social Darwinist ideas, but he should know that these were widespread across Europe, and that one of their fullest enunciations came from Herbert Spencer, an Englishman.
(2) As regards auscultation, a plea is made for differentiation between obstructed and non-obstructed consolidation of lobes, a point recognized by some clinicians, but not enunciated with clarity by teachers.
(3) Presently, by applying the considerations of Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, the Langevin function is shown as the appropriate and justifiable sigmoid (instead of the conventional hyperbolic tangent function) to depict the bipolar nonlinear logic-operation enunciated by the collective stochastical response of artificial neurons under activation.
(4) The review discusses a number of reasons why guidelines should not be enunciated for behavior modification, e.g., the procedures of behavior modification appear to be no more or less subject to abuse and no more or less in need of ethical regulation than intervention procedures derived from any other set of principles and called by other terms.
(5) We try to present Benveniste's and Culioli's Enunciation Theory and Irigaray's works.
(6) It’s the strong plan that I enunciated at the Press Club this week and we are determined to get on with it – and we will.” Liberal sources said Bishop’s promise to Abbott was that she would not vote for the spill – which would have also declared her deputy leadership position vacant – and suggested she may have been verballed.
(7) The pathological features of differential diagnosis were discussed and enunciated the literary review of the etiology and prognosis.
(8) She mentions the basic elements and components of a national policy on science and technology, enunciates the principles that contribute to the establishment of a set of objectives, and states a number of premises that ensure the attainment of those objectives.
(9) As a result of the 1984 Data Protection Act, British health authorities have been reviewing and revising their policies and codes of practice on confidentiality and associated issues to conform to the standards enunciated in the Act.
(10) That the Court did not remand the case to the trial court for further evidentiary proceedings and that the author of Wade v. Roe, Justice Harry Blackmun, was chosen to write the opinion, means that the majority of the Court went out of its way to once again reaffirm the principles enunciated in Roe.
(11) One issue will become inflamed as soon as the votes are counted – the notorious West Lothian question named after the constituency of its then MP, Tam Dalyell, who first enunciated it – the question of Scottish MPs voting on specifically English issues and conceivably even determining the result.
(12) The significance of this statement is enhanced by the fact that the opinion is being increasingly enunciated that there is no such disorder as conversion hysteria.
(13) If we want to enunciate the damaging potential of a bullet fired from a gun we have to express ourselves right from the outset in terms of destructive work, that is to say not only destruction of the structures the bullet passes through, but also, above all, destruction of the homeostatic condition.
(14) The criterion enunciated by Kass for interpreting the quantitative examination of urine is critically reappraised.
(15) Over the next eight years, he enunciated many of the themes that were to characterise his presidency, but was ineffective in turning words into action.
(16) It is not difficult to find enunciators of extreme, violent and bizarre views in any party; no such opprobrium has been heaped upon individual members of the "three main parties", although there, too, are rich pickings for anyone in search of what is transformed into mere "eccentricity" by the hallowed status of tradition.
(17) Overprepared and enunciated, constantly ready for her closeup.
(18) The short term and medium term results are better than the usual palliative management but case selection should be on criteria enunciated below.
(19) The term 'stimulus-secretion coupling' has, since first enunciated, been held to involve the mobilization of cytosol Ca2+, which in turn is sufficient to trigger exocytotic secretory processes in metabolically competent cells.
(20) Illustrative cases of each technique are described and the applicable principles are enunciated.