(n.) The quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings.
(n.) Mankind collectively; the human race.
(n.) The quality of being humane; the kind feelings, dispositions, and sympathies of man; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness.
(n.) Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.
(n.) The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
(3) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(4) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(5) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(6) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(7) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(8) 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.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(12) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(13) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(14) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(15) Detergent-solubilized HLA antigens were isolated from a human lymphoblastoid cell using an anti-beta2-microglobulin immunoaffinity column.
(16) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(17) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(18) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(19) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(20) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
Inhumanity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.
Example Sentences:
(1) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(2) The measures to be adopted are also stressed in view of a more strict control and protection of human and animal health together with environmental hygiene from Salmonella infection and other Enterobacteria which are increasingly met inhuman and animal pathology.
(3) He was big, maybe 18st [114kg] when I last saw him but he looks thinner in the face in the video.” Muthana added: “What they [Isis] are doing is inhuman, this is not the son I brought up.
(4) Trying to discourage me from my passion is inhuman – it’s not possible!” The crowd cheered and applauded.
(5) On Monday, the UN refugee agency also called on the Libyan government in Tripoli to close its refugee detention centres , describing conditions as inhumane and shocking.
(6) Because of exposure to violence and other acts of inhumanity common today, there is a danger that the dentist could lose sensitivity for members of society and some sense of what it means to be human.
(7) Her friends have been arrested and subjected to what they describe as cruel and inhumane treatment .
(8) I never knew a nation this great could treat its people so inhumanely.
(9) One of its board members is retired Major General Andrew James “Jim” Molan, co-architect of Tony Abbott’s “Operation Sovereign Borders,” the draconian program relying on the remote island detention centres condemned as cruel and inhumane by multiple respected human rights organisations.
(10) Pope decries 'inhuman' conditions for migrants on US-Mexico border Read more Last Christmas, though, the Jesuit reverend who runs Kino discovered that a very powerful man is paying close attention.
(11) Special attention should be given to the interactions between man and machines to exlude difficulties arising from "inhuman engineering".
(12) White House renews call for gun control after Virginia TV shooting Read more There will be another video to shock us and fulfil our collective voyeuristic instincts – maybe even, as happened on Wednesday in Virginia, a first-person documentation of another person’s brutality and inhumanity, filmed from the only end of a gun on which we’re supposed to want to stand.
(13) One of the first demands is that the bombardments by the regime and its [Russian] backers must end.” Merkel condemned the air raids on Syria’s second city as “inhumane and cruel”.
(14) It must be compatible with the human rights convention's protections against inhuman or degrading punishment .
(15) So far, only Corporal Donald Payne has served one year in prison for inhumanely treating civilians following a court martial hearing into the circumstances of Mousa's death.
(16) A corporal admitted inhumane treatment, but no one was convicted of killing Mousa.
(17) Britain was able to satisfy the court that deporting the radical cleric to the country of his birth would not breach his rights under article 3 of the European convention, which prohibits inhuman or degrading treatment.
(18) The audit of 65,000 employees follows accusations by China Labor Watch , an independent labour rights group based in New York, which alleged in August that Samsung suppliers hired children and used "inhumane" working conditions , and in September that there was illegal discrimination in hiring polices at some Samsung suppliers.
(19) The seventh, Corporal Donald Payne, became the first member of the UK military to plead guilty to a war crime when he admitted one charge of inhumane treatment.
(20) The grand chamber's ruling on Wednesday said the extradition of Aswat, who is currently detained in Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital, would amount to inhumane treatment because his detention conditions were likely to exacerbate his paranoid schizophrenia.