(a.) Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pathomechanism, how C. pylori facilitates the development of peptic ulcer is since hypothetical.
(2) The model is based on the concept that a cell with hypothetically unlimited replicative potential--i.e.
(3) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(4) The possible roles of the sorbitol pathway and of hypothetical regulatory sites for the glucose molecule ("receptors") are briefly discussed.
(5) By analysis of the three sequences we were able to delineate a hypothetic model for region X domain evolution and discussed the origin of genetic variability within and without strains.
(6) For now, it is a hypothetical danger and England cannot be doing too badly if the worst controversy about Hodgson's squad is who goes as reserve left-back.
(7) On the basis of these data, a hypothetical molecular mechanism of vestibular efferent modulation of the primary afferent pathway is proposed.
(8) A hypothetical scheme is presented that pursues the processes involved in invasion from the biochemical events generated by attachment of the parasite, to the steric rearrangement of red cell membrane proteins, which culminates in invasion.
(9) Samples taken by Monte Carlo means from a hypothetical in vitro population were compared with clonal survival data obtained experimentally.
(10) A hypothetical model is proposed in which prevention of ulcer formation or accelerated healing of ulcers by conventional therapies may be FGF dependent.
(11) In Experiment 1, subjects exposed to a sound representing their heartbeat made greater self-attributions for hypothetical outcomes than did subjects exposed to the same sound identified as an extraneous noise.
(12) The hypothetical pattern is regenerative and shows how epithelial cell patterns where cells divide might arise.
(13) First-year student nurses attributed less pain to the hypothetical patient than third- and fourth-year student nurses and registered nurses.
(14) Problems which have arisen and considerations on the hypothetic future interventions are considered.
(15) The authors surveyed primary care physicians in Missouri to determine the presence and extent of standards of care for 12 hypothetical cases.
(16) A hypothetical view of the relationship between these cell types is presented.
(17) In assessing the autoradiographs, two methods were compared, the circle analysis and the recently described hypothetical grain analysis.
(18) Hypothetically a blockade of the surface of T-lymphocytes by products of the immediate reaction, for example immune complexes, is suggested.
(19) The loss of threshold showed a large inter-individual variability, with a rapid increase above a hypothetic threshold dose.
(20) From the data obtained a hypothetical sequence of phosphorylation and 18O-exchange reactions in myofibril action has been suggested.
Phlogiston
Definition:
(n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the 18th century, the elegant but incorrect phlogiston theory (G.E.
(2) The combined efforts of these analytical minds converted an illogical phlogiston myth into a practical and therapeutic principle.
(3) Between 1775 and about 1800 the Phlogiston theory was replaced by the Oxygen theory.
(4) In refuting the phlogiston theory, he established modern chemistry.