(a.) Not contained in or belonging to a body; external; outward; unessential; -- opposed to intrinsic.
(a.) Attached partly to an organ or limb and partly to some other part/ -- said of certain groups of muscles. Opposed to intrinsic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four showed bronchodilation after a deep breath, indicating that this response can occur after extrinsic pulmonary denervation in man.
(2) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(3) The cytotoxicity was complement independent, as demonstrated by studies with heat-deactivated serum devoid of extrinsic complement.
(4) Effects of both tricyclic and non-tricyclic drugs on the extrinsic Cotton effects of dicumarol bound to human alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) have been investigated.
(6) Injections with extensive spread of horseradish peroxidase show that many cells of lamina 4B and the large pyramidal neurons of upper lamina 6 also project extrinsically but their terminal sites have not been identified.
(7) Extrinsic pathway inhibitor (EPI) is a Kunitz type serine protease inhibitor.
(8) Reconstitution of the depleted membrane fragments with the extrinsic proteins led to rebinding of the three proteins, to a 63% recovery of the control rates of O2 evolution, and to the reappearance of the larger multimeric particles.
(9) These shape changes may become irreversible and, in fact, they may be encountered in different types of haemolytic disease, suggesting that the echinocytic and stomatocytic shape changes represent two fundamental ways in which red cells react to intrinsic and extrinsic insults.
(10) AHH-active PCB congeners (intrinsic effects) and PCBs in general (extrinsic effects) appeared to be the only contaminants at the concentrations measured in eggs, capable of producing the effects that were observed at Green Bay.
(11) Gangliosides can amplify the responses of neurons to extrinsic protein factors (neuronotrophic factors) that are normal constituents of the neuron's environment.
(12) A case of atypical extrinsic allergic alveolitis in a 13-year-old is reported.
(13) We measured the plasma levels of TXB2, a stable metabolite of TXA2, and 6-K-PGF1 alpha, a stable metabolite of PGI2, in 28 asthmatics (16 of extrinsic type, 12 of intrinsic type) during symptomatic period and asymptomatic period respectively with radioimmunoassay.
(14) The effect of 4.4 mg azelastine administered orally on airway responsiveness, skin prick testing, daily peak expiratory flow rates and symptoms of asthma was compared with placebo in a 7 week double-blind, parallel group study of 24 patients with extrinsic asthma.
(15) Across conditions intrinsically motivated subjects worked harder than did extrinsically motivated subjects; all of them worked harder under conditions of regulation of reinforcement matched to their motivational orientation (i.e., intrinsically motivated subjects under self-regulation, extrinsically motivated subjects under externally imposed reinforcement) than under the contrary condition.
(16) DADs may reach a magnitude in which extrinsic interventions may not adequately terminate sustained triggered activity.
(17) We have studied some aspects of the atopic syndrome in this population of Southern Italy: frequency of allergic sensitization according to endogenous and extrinsic factors (particularly Parietaria officinalis, a characteristic pollen of the Southern Italian Flora), etc.
(18) These clinical observations confirm the existence of an 'extrinsic', IgE-mediated type of AD in a minority of patients, in which the IgE sensitization against specific allergens plays a causal role for the skin disorder.
(19) Since these cultures should be devoid of all afferent or other extrinsic neuronal inputs, it is concluded that there are VIP, enkephalin, substance P and somatostatin containing neurons intrinsic to the intestinal wall.
(20) Surgery confirmed the extrinsic compression of the two vessels by an aberrant fibromuscular bundle resembling an arcuate ligament.
Inessential
Definition:
(a.) Having no essence or being.
(a.) Not essential; unessential.
Example Sentences:
(1) A -1 frameshift eliminating the inessential 122 C-terminal amino acids is a surprising loss-of-function mutation.
(2) SPR6 is inessential for sporulation; mutants that lack SPR6 activity sporulate normally and produce viable ascospores.
(3) Rearing in DC light was equally effective as FR, so visual contrasts per se are apparently inessential.
(4) Cadmium is an inessential trace metal which accumulates in human tissues from contamination of food, water or air.
(5) Cephapirin has no and cephacetril only inessential advantages.
(6) The best stories there remove all inessentials, and what you're left with is something extremely efficient.
(7) We can therefore conclude that the terminus region is composed mainly of expressable, albeit inessential, protein-encoding genes.
(8) Analysis of chromosomal rearrangements and transformation with deletion clones identified 342 N-terminal and 124 C-terminal residues as inessential and localized a C-terminal region required for nitrogen metabolite repressibility.
(9) The contrast between the effects of the inessential elements Cd and Pb on the potential corresponds to the difference between their paths of uptake.
(10) The order of magnitude of the observed effects indicates that the contribution of the electrostatic interaction to the observed isotopic effect may be considered inessential.
(11) The basic decision to medical activity -- active striving for a rapid, exact diagnosis or waiting when the diagnosis is uncertain -- does not inessentially influence the standpoint in the controversy about the emergency endoscopy.
(12) The word suggests that the second term is inessential, merely adding to the first term, which is primary, full, self-sufficient.
(13) Thus the main actions of this alternate day therapy with corticosteroids were apparently on total peripheral cell numbers, and perhaps on activated cells and effector mechanisms too, and its thymic effects were inessential.
(14) If doctors and hospitals were motivated by a desire for profit and they knew their patients were backed by the taxpayers' open cheque book they would have a perverse incentive to err on the side of prescribing inessential and costly treatments.
(15) ran1+ is normally essential for vegetative cell reproduction but is inessential in cells which have abnormally high levels of cAMP-dependent protein kinase.
(16) From the experimental point of view was demonstrated the inessential character of the nerve supply for the survival of the kidney.
(17) This report should be viewed as a good start for what changes need in the end to be made.” But the report’s assessment that the bulk collection had an inessential relationship with domestic counterterrorism provides a tailwind to a legislative effort supported by Wyden, the USA Freedom Act, to end it.
(18) We conclude that SPR3 expression is a valid monitor of early meiotic development, even though the gene is inessential for the sporulation process.
(19) having a function) from possibly inessential ones (i.e.
(20) First, inessential differences, such as prominence of systemic upset, indicate need for clinical drug trials.