(a.) Inclined to imitate, copy, or follow; imitating; exhibiting some of the qualities or characteristics of a pattern or model; dependent on example; not original; as, man is an imitative being; painting is an imitative art.
(a.) Formed after a model, pattern, or original.
(a.) Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms of minerals are imitative.
(n.) A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
(2) 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”.
(3) It imitates the conventional percussion massage of the thorax by introducing high-frequency gas oscillations (300 impulses per minute) into the tracheobronchial system.
(4) Joints are originally created by the author as an imitation of TMJ and mandibular ramus.
(5) In Rhodotorula, peroxisomes are characterized by the same "bean" configuration and paired arrangement imitating "copulation" as mitocondria.
(6) When imitation examination was carried out using pontamine blue dye solution in 7 kinds of syringes for the use of cartridge, dye reflux was observed in all of them.
(7) The heterogeneity was imitated by parallel connection of two papillar muscles with different mechanical properties.
(8) Analysis of error patterns shows the least number of errors for the recognition task and greatest number for the spontaneous production task, with imitation holding the intermediate position (R less than I less than P).
(9) Neither of these tests was significantly correlated with an ideomotor apraxia test (imitation of movements).
(10) This chapter also reviews the social response to AA including early research on AA, the generally favorable response to AA, criticism of AA, and the widespread imitation of AA by other problem area groups.
(11) I think we’re finally at a place in culture where a character being gay or lesbian isn’t taboo, especially for teenagers – the target audience for a lot of these summer blockbusters,” says screenwriter Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game .
(12) When imitative prompts and reinforcements were used to teach compound sentence structure, correct use of simple sentences declined and correct use of compound structure increased.
(13) A nonverbal boy, enrolled in a special education preschool, was taught to imitate reliably six words in 46 15-minute sessions.
(14) Tics are modified by multiple psychological contents (aggressive or sexual impulses, imitation of others) which tend to become independent of their origin.
(15) He learned many of the other crucial skills that were either lacking, or absent: the ability to point, and imitate; the habit of commenting on his surroundings; how to divert his energy away from tantrums into productive activity.
(16) In contrast to other studies, it was concluded that the sequential therapy does not imitate the usual endometrium alterations of a normal cycle.
(17) Sixteen autistic children with WISC Performance IQs of 70 or above were analyzed to determine their conceptions of spatial relations, size comparisons, and gesture imitations through the use of the WISC, an originally devised Language Decoding Test (LDT), and a modified Gesture Imitation Test (GIT).
(18) The effects of 8-Br cyclic AMP were not mimicked by cyclic AMP applied extracellularly but were imitated by intracellular injections of cyclic AMP.
(19) A previously unreported case of a synovial cyst of a temporo-mandibular joint imitating a parotid tumour is described.
(20) It could be imitated by caffeine and blocked by tetracaine and thus was, most likely, initiated by release of calcium.
Mimetic
Definition:
() Alt. of Mimetical
Example Sentences:
(1) Local infusion of high concentrations of GABA or GABA mimetics into the striatum, septum or substantia nigra failed to modify 5-HTP accumulation in these areas.
(2) A possible cellular basis for dopaminergic sensitization by long-term dopamine mimetics was examined in rat brain striatum.
(3) Selective beta-mimetic drugs are the most frequently used agents for arresting preterm labour.
(4) The results are interpreted on the basis of the chemical structure and conformations of the ionophores in membrane mimetic media.
(5) We studied a role of TXA2 in the development of PAF-induced nonspecific airway hyperresponsiveness in guinea pigs using a TXA2 synthetase inhibitor (OKY-O46.HCl) and a stable TXA2 mimetic agent (STA2).
(6) In order to confirm these findings, we have studied the effect of GABA mimetics on extracellular DOPAC in the locus coeruleus (a reliable index of noradrenergic neuronal activity) of the rat through the use of in vivo voltammetry with carbon fibre electrodes.
(7) Vanadate possesses insulin-mimetic effects, and has been reported to correct the metabolic imbalances in streptozotocin-induced diabetes.
(8) With regard to the ST-depression, a possible physiological adaptation to the beta-mimetic drug is described.
(9) The novel antibacterial peptide mimetic alaphosphin (l-alanyl-l-1-aminoethylphosphonic acid) selectively inhibited peptidoglycan biosynthesis in both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria.
(10) Two series of 1,2,4-triazolo[4,3-a]pyrazine derivatives with human renin inhibitory activity have been synthesized which incorporate the transition-state mimetics (3S,4S)- and (3R,4S)-5-cyclohexyl-3,4-diaminopentanoic acid ((S)- and (R)-CDAPA), and (4S)-4-amino-5-cyclohexyl-2,2-difluoro-3-oxopentanoic acid (ACDFOPA).
(11) A novel selective PDE V inhibitor, SK&F 96231, reversed the bronchoconstriction induced in anaesthetised guinea pigs by histamine, a thromboxane-mimetic or by ovalbumin challenge.
(12) The effect of lowering total plasma and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia type IIa (FH) on platelet function, thromboxane (TX) formation and platelet sensitivity against iloprost, a stable prostacyclin mimetic, was studied in platelet-rich plasma ex vivo.
(13) Blockade of these beta-mimetic effects resulted in a fall in uterine blood flow as the perfusion pressure was reduced.
(14) The majority of the remaining damage could be blocked, in a dose-dependent manner, by superoxide dismutase (SOD) or a SOD-mimetic copper complex, identifying a fraction of damage to intracellular DNA dependent upon extracellular O2-.
(15) Dopamine (DA) and DA-mimetics (apomorphine, midantan, piribedil) have a dual effect on Na, K-ATPase of the rat brain striate synaptosomes: activating at micromolar concentrations and inhibitory at higher concentrations (less than or equal to 30 microM).
(16) The lymphatics were mounted in tissue baths, and isometric contractions were induced by increasing concentrations of the thromboxane A2 (TXA2) mimetic U-46619.
(17) BAY u3405 was a potent, and competitive, antagonist of the TXA2-mimetic U46619-induced contractions of human, guinea-pig, rat and ferret airway smooth muscle with pA2 values between 8.0 and 8.9 and with no inherent contractile activity (10(-9)-10(-4) M).
(18) The overall pattern of decreased glucose use seen with progabide was different from that noted with previously studied GABA-mimetic drugs, such as muscimol, except for those changes observed in the extrapyramidal and sensory-motor areas for which similar dose-response relationships occurred.
(19) Peptides of portions of loop 2 (the "toxic" loop) of snake venom curare-mimetic neurotoxins (alpha-bungarotoxin and king cobra toxin b) and of a structurally similar region of the rabies virus glycoprotein were synthesized.
(20) Relaxation to bradykinin of rings contracted with the thromboxane A2 mimetic U-46619 was not affected by L-NMMA and was only minimally inhibited by methylene blue.