(a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(2) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
(3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(4) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(5) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
(6) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(7) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
(8) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
(9) We have done well in our last games against them but this German team is much better than the previous sides we have faced.
(10) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
(11) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
(12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
(13) "We estimate that German arrivals will be down by about 25% by the end of the year."
(14) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
(15) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
(16) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
(17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(18) The presentation of the phagocytic theory of immunity, proposed by Metchnikoff in 1883, was immediately attacked by German pathologists and microbiologists.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Although my primary degree is from a German university, I did my postgraduate and general practice training in the UK.
(20) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.
Germanium
Definition:
(n.) A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except for one control group, the other three groups were subdivided into six groups and administered three different kinds of germanium (inorganic germanium, organic germanium, and natural organic germanium) one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, respectively.
(2) Although the actual mechanism involved is not clear, the evidence of the inhibition of senile amyloidosis by organic germanium may give a light to elucidate the pathogenesis of amyloidosis.
(3) This review examines the toxicity and accumulation of germanium and silver in selected microbial species.
(4) However, if an electric field is applied across the membrane, germanium reflection elements would be preferred because of their low electric resistance (approximately 50 omega cm).
(5) In high concentrations, germanium was toxic to the limpets and killed them.
(6) The incidence of intestinal cancer in the control group (dimethylhydrazine only) was 91 percent; in groups provided with inorganic germanium one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, and during dimethylhydrazine treatment only, it was 91 and 78 percent; in groups provided with organic germanium one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, and during dimethylhydrazine treatment only, it was 64 and 64 percent; in groups provided with natural organic germanium one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment and during dimethylhydrazine treatment only, it was 50 and 45 percent.
(7) It has turned out that good adhesion of uncharged and negatively charged model membranes to germanium plates is achieved when they are coated with a monomolecular layer of aminopropylsilane.
(8) After a brief recall of toxicological data about germanium compounds, the authors relate subacute and subchronic oral toxicities of beta bis carboxyethyl-germanium sesquioxide in rats.
(9) A germanium-gallium generator producing EDTA-free Ga-68 would permit the synthesis of a broad range of Ga-68 radiopharmaceuticals and thus facilitate the widespread application of positron tomography.
(10) Selenium(Se) has been determined in skin by neutron activation analysis applying selective irradiation and cooling time, followed by measurement of the activity on a high resolution germanium lithium (Ge(Li)) detector.
(11) Non-platinum-group metal antitumor agents are represented by inorganic and organometallic compounds which contain either main-group metals such as gallium, germanium, and tin, or transition metals such as titanium, vanadium, iron, copper, and gold.
(12) Germanium can substitute for boron in carrot cell cultures.
(13) In tumor imaging studies, breast tumor masses as small as 4 mm in diameter were clearly localized on a whole body scan using 131I-labeled BLMRL-HMFG-Mc5 antibodies with a High-Purity germanium gamma camera.
(14) A high-purity germanium spectroscopy system and a beam of 120 kV constant potential x-rays were used to determine the linear attenuation coefficient from 18 to 110 keV.
(15) A data-acquisition system designed for x-ray medical imaging utilizes a segmented high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector array with 2-mm wide and 6-mm thick elements.
(16) The spectra of diagnostic x-ray beams were measured with a germanium semiconductor dectector.
(17) Electronically collimated counts were acquired from the objects rotated to 20 or 40 angular positions in front of the germanium detector to simulate a cylindrical scanning system.
(18) Germanium oxide alone did not affect the frequency of sperm-head abnormalities.
(19) The results demonstrate that, within this class of compounds, (1) potent biological activity does not require the presence of germanium in the structure; (2) in vitro cytotoxic activity does not appear to be a direct result of the inhibition of macromolecular synthesis, and (3) macrophage function can be modulated in vitro at non-cytotoxic concentrations.
(20) The presence of aluminium, beryllium, lead, potassium in the examined air don't stand on the way of determining the concentration of germanium.