(a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
(a.) Pertaining to the function of an organ or part, or to the functions in general.
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.
Lisp
Definition:
(v. i.) To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
(v. i.) To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, as a child learning to talk.
(v. i.) To speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid.
(v. t.) To pronounce with a lisp.
(v. t.) To utter with imperfect articulation; to express with words pronounced imperfectly or indistinctly, as a child speaks; hence, to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
(v. t.) To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially; as, to lisp treason.
(n.) The habit or act of lisping. See Lisp, v. i., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
(2) He feels self-conscious about the way he looks and about the slight lisp the gap in his teeth produces.
(3) One group performed the task after listening to a tape recording of a young woman reading contextual material with a simulated lateral lisp.
(4) These data indicate that the lateral lisp is probably a speech defect and suggest that the practice of eliminating school speech services for children whose only speech difference is a lateral lisp should be reconsidered.
(5) Results indicated that both groups of tongue thrusters with and without interdental lisp scored significantly more poorly than did normal children (t = 4.68, P less than .001; t = 5.00, P less than .001), respectively.
(6) The algorithm can be implemented using a language such as C, PASCAL or LISP and runs on small machines.
(7) Trees and recursivity allow a very efficient codification into LISP or PROLOG.
(8) No significant differences in LMS between males and females with lisped speech, or between normal speaking males and females were found to exist at 5 age levels.
(9) In the LISP technique, a plateau of maximum Polybrene activity was found.
(10) In the trailer to a fraught, much-delayed documentary about MIA, leaked this summer by its director, Steve Loveridge, we see footage of a younger, lisping Maya talking to a camcorder.
(11) It is a microcomputer-based decision support system written in LISP and utilizes a hybrid frame and rule architecture.
(12) The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between lingual muscular strength (LMS) and articulatory proficiency in 45 normal and 45 lisping speakers utilizing a Lingual Force Scale designed specifically for this investigation.
(13) After Flight Of The Conchords, she played Paul Rudd 's crudely ambitious assistant in the Steve Carell comedy Dinner For Schmucks and has just voiced characters for Toy Story 3 and the next Shrek movie (one in the eye for the high-school voice coach who said to her, "Oh my God, you have a terrible lisp!").
(14) Several lines of evidence suggested that IgD-secreting cells could not be generated from LISP lymphocytes in vitro.
(15) This was merged with Reddit, and Reddit was rewritten from the Lisp programming language into Python, using Swartz's web.py framework.
(16) Human helminths were not recovered from Lispe leucospila (Wiedemann), Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) or the housefly Musca domestica L. In an urban slum area of Kuala Lumpur city, filariform larvae identified as the hookworm Necator americanus (Stiles) occurred in the intestines of the face-fly Musca sorbens Wiedemann (22 larvae per 100 flies) and of Chrysomya megacephala (4.5 larvae per 100 flies).
(17) In order to study the dynamics of protein and nucleic acid conformations, a molecular folding-unfolding system (FUS written in Lisp) has been developed.
(18) SENEX is being developed through object-oriented programming in a portable programming environment supported by COMMON LISP and the COMMON LISP INTERFACE MANAGER.
(19) This system encodes the input findings into the network expressions, which are represented as the list form in the LISP computer language.
(20) A prototype expert system called CAREPLAN, developed for use in an obstetrical environment, was built using Personal Consultant Plus, a software tool based on the LISP language.