What's the difference between function and functionless?
Function
Definition:
(n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
(n.) The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
(n.) The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
(n.) The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
(n.) A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
(v. i.) Alt. of Functionate
Example Sentences:
(1) Activity of Na,K-ATPase activity was measured as a functional marker for synaptosomal membranes.
(2) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(3) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(4) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(6) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(7) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
(8) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(9) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(10) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(11) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(12) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
(13) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(14) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
(15) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(16) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(17) We maximize an objective function that includes both total production rate and product concentration.
(18) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(19) 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.
(20) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
Functionless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the great majority of cases, the corresponding kidney was dysplastic and radiographically functionless.
(2) Nine cases of unilateral renal tuberculosis (functionless) with the concomitant opposite side calculus of the upper urinary tract and hydronephrosis were analysed.
(3) Out of a series of 1,734 pacemaker patients, the clinical course of 46 patients was reviewed in whom a functionless endocardial electrode was retained.
(4) 78% of endocrinologically active tumours did not reach the chiasm (stage A) whereas 72% of functionless adenomas compressed the chiasm or grossly the third ventricle.
(5) Placebo response to a functionless machine was tested in 58 patients with chronic pain.
(6) We suggest that the first-line treatment for patients with functionless pituitary tumours should be transsphenoidal surgery, even when large suprasellar extensions are present.
(7) Therapy consists of the maintenance of homeostasis, minimization of spread, correction of uraemia and prevention of renal hypertension from a contracted functionless kidney by elective nephrectomy after 4--6 months.
(8) In vitro binding of [125I]Tyr11-SRIH to cell membranes was evaluated in four functionless and three GH-secreting adenomas removed from seven of the patients.
(9) Increased secretion of LH is known to occur in functionless pituitary tumours.
(10) Danazol therapy of the two patients with an electrophoretically normal, functionless C1 inhibitor (phenotype 3) also resulted in a clinical remission associated with development of a significant increment in functional serum C1 inhibitory activity and C1 inhibitor protein.
(11) These findings demonstrate that 7B2-like material is secreted by pituitary adenomas in explant culture with the highest level from functionless tumour cultures.
(12) Poorly chosen or poorly executed treatment may lead to a functionless finger at best, impairing total hand function.
(13) This prompted us to investigate whether this compound could be used for external imaging of functionless pituitary adenomas displaying SRIH receptors.
(14) On the other hand, it is most important to realize that an operative procedure will not stimulate an individual to begin to use a previously functionless limb.
(15) In a little more than a decade (1954--1965), the pineal gland was demonstrated to be an active neuroendocrine transducer in contrast to a functionless vestige as earlier supposed.
(16) The rete ovarii of the adult does not appear to be a functionless vestige as has been previously reported.
(17) At operation 12 patients had apparently functionless pituitary adenomas which failed to immunostain for prolactin, one had an epidermoid cyst and one a Rathke's pouch cyst.
(18) Fifteen cases of pituitary adenomas were examined; these included five GH-secreting adenomas, four prolactinomas, four ACTH-secreting adenomas and two null-cell ('functionless') adenomas.
(19) The features of a baby with lethal perinatal osteogenesis imperfecta (OI II), owing to a frameshift mutation that resulted in the production of a truncated and functionless carboxy terminal propeptide of the pro alpha 1(I) chain of type I procollagen, were studied.
(20) We have therefore measured 7B2 immunoreactive equivalents in the 24-h medium of explant pituitary cultures prepared from 17 functionless, 20 somatotropic, 16 PRL secreting and 8 corticotropic adenomas.