(v. t.) To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
(v. t.) To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs.
Example Sentences:
(1) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
(2) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(3) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(4) Of the sampled population, 6.3 per cent exhibited some degree of hypodontia (third molar agenesis excluded).
(5) Comparison of the 50% binding concentrations of the compounds for the various PBPs of the five strains with their antibacterial activity indicates that the different antibiotics are excluded to a greater or lesser degree by the outer membrane permeability barrier and that the exclusion is most pronounced in P. aeruginosa.
(6) To exclude potential interactions with components of the extracellular matrix which contains binding sites for PAI-1, ligand binding to HepG2 cells in suspension was assessed.
(7) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
(8) Antigen of HK-9 strain created in this area a characteristic pattern with all sera containing the specific anti-E. histolytica antibodies and, therefore, EITB can be used for excluding false positive results in ELISA.
(9) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
(10) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
(11) Nevertheless a small proportion of the largest molecules (excluded from Sepharose 2B) was present even in the first extract.
(12) When the results of the different studies are pooled, however, there is a significant difference between those patients with true infarction, and those in whom infarction was excluded, in terms of overall mortality (12% and 7%; P less than 0.0001) and the development of subsequent non-fatal infarction (11% and 6%; P less than 0.05) when the results are analysed for a period of follow-up of one year.
(13) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
(14) Subjects with past history of chronic substance abuse, neurologic disease, or focal findings on MRI or CT were excluded.
(15) These measures excluded unfavourable lethal outcomes even in cases complicated by Gayet-Wernicke encephalopathy.
(16) The possibility of ICH should always be considered and excluded by CT or US in the infants with nonspecific clinical manifestations.
(17) Two of the excluded women refluxed during episodes of hiccough that occurred shortly after induction of anaesthesia.
(18) Patients with polyneuropathy or incomplete diagnostic evaluation were excluded.
(19) In the remaining 4 patients MRI provided support for the diagnosis of MS by demonstrating the cervical spinal cord plaques while excluding other potential causes of myelopathy, such as spinal cord compression and intramedullary tumor.
(20) When achromatic lesions were excluded from the analyses, these differences were not found.
Exclusionary
Definition:
(a.) Tending to exclude; causing exclusion; exclusive.
Example Sentences:
(1) "With the announcement of exclusionary zones for ships and aircraft [off the North's coasts] I would suspect a live-fire missile exercise.
(2) Exclusionary criteria for all groups included cerebrovascular risk factors.
(3) The ribbon procedure appears to be a viable form of timeout, provided that disruptive behaviors during timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout is available when needed.
(4) Empirical evidence suggests that exclusionary understandings of the nation, of Australia and Australian-ness as white and Christian allow for a narrow sense of belonging.
(5) Nineteen (95%) of 20 men met non-exclusionary DSM-III-R criteria for dysthymia and 11 men (55%) met criteria for current major depression.
(6) DNA base composition, which is expressed as molar percentages of guanine plus cytosine (G + C), is fitted for description of a new species and serves exclusionary functions.
(7) Previously criticised for their “exclusionary” developments that ignore “the real Woodstock”, the Dragons ignored my repeated attempts to seek their views on the suburb’s gentrification and their role in it.
(8) Applications of this theory to electrophoretic data on Chamaelirium luteum (L.) shows that in 2255 offspring derived from 273 males and 70 females, only 57 triplets could be unequivocally determined with eight polymorphic protein loci, even though the average combined exclusionary power of these loci was 73%.
(9) None of the exclusionary guidelines would be invoked if the category refers to a demonstrable disease.
(10) Thirteen percent of the patients met criteria described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, ed 3 (DSM-III) for panic disorder (6.7 percent if the DSM-III exclusionary criteria are used).
(11) If the Poisson ratio is less than 0.5, the cells are farther away from one another than a random distribution would predict (exclusionary pattern); if the Poisson ratio is greater than 0.5, the cells are closer to one another than a random distribution would predict (clustering).
(12) Fifty-four children who had initially participated in treatment protocols for obsessive-compulsive disorder (Tourette's disorder was an exclusionary criterion) were reevaluated 2-7 years later with a neurological examination and a structured interview to establish the presence or absence of tics and Tourette's disorder.
(13) Wilson had to compete for airtime with Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries, who boasts often that his frat-boy-infested superstores are " exclusionary ".
(14) Recent findings from the empirical literature on Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) suggest that no clear exclusionary criteria for this organization exist, except that alcohol-dependent individuals who become nonproblem drinkers appear to be less likely to affiliate with or maintain involvement in AA.
(15) Of these, 26 had excessive impulsivity, an exclusionary criterion for IED.
(16) "The proposals for membership of the joint venture remain exclusionary.
(17) The high-efficiency ISRP columns, which are nonadsorptive and exclusionary to serum proteins but allow partitioning of small molecules with an internal peptide bonded phase, maintain high performance after many injections of human serum albumin (HSA), enable the use of short columns, and provide for the resolution of primary ligand from protein binding displacers.
(18) Three hundred and seventy seven sera were reactive by Abbott EIA only and could not be confirmed positive by the ENI ELISA incorporating exclusionary testing, immunofluorescence or Western immunoblot of representative sera.
(19) We evaluated consecutive patients with unexplained pyrexia (documented fever, no exclusionary diagnosis, and constitutional symptoms) in 1 temporary settlement over 1 month.
(20) No wonder he concludes that "National citizenship is inherently exclusionary".