(a.) Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.
(a.) Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(2) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
(3) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
(4) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(5) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
(6) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(7) Immature follicles are practically devoid of receptors for this hormone.
(8) The high concentrations of gonadotropins present in immature female rats by the end of the second week of life were suppressed by treatment with an antagonist against luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH-A; Org.
(9) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
(10) DR(+) cells, however, showed no change in percentage and a lesser drop in absolute numbers, suggesting an increase with advancing disease of DR(+), Ig(-) null cells, which may represent immature B cell precursors.
(11) However, the blasts formed mixed colonies consisting of erythroblasts, granulocytes, macrophages, and immature blasts when cultured in methylcellulose with PHA-leukocyte conditioned medium.
(12) I’m probably still far too immature, but maybe as I get older I could consider it.
(13) These findings may indicate the loss of the receptor in the course of CML with increasing immaturity of cells released from bone marrow.
(14) At the external wall of the host's gut, parasitic cysts of this nematode with immature stages inside were also observed.
(15) TdT determination indicate would the presence of immature cells that are not detected in the normal lymphnode; molecular analysis of the rearrangements of these genes would reveal the presence of even a small monoclonal population of both T and B lineages in the lymphnodes.
(16) Glucose utilization and lactate production were inadequate with respect to the immature cell population.
(17) The variations of the elastic properties and the density around the circumference of both the immature osteopetrotic femur and the unaffected femur were found to be similar to those previously measured on normal adult bovine femora.
(18) In the kidney, binding was associated with immature as well as mature glomeruli.
(19) A monoclonal antibody specific for columnar epithelium (RGE 53) gave a positive reaction in endocervical columnar cells and in some immature metaplastic cells but was negative in subcolumnar reserve cells, squamous (metaplastic) cells, dysplastic cells, and most cases of carcinoma in situ.
(20) The results from gel filtration of glycopeptides indicate that there is a higher content of large molecular weight, sialic acid-rich oligosaccharide units in the glycoprotein of immature myelin.
Underdeveloped
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The experience in Hungary should encourage physicians in other underdeveloped areas of the world to organize similar programs for the care of cancer in children.
(2) These data reject the possibility that albino central vision is similar to normal peripheral vision, but the results are predictable on the hypothesis that the central retina of albinos is a spatially magnified (underdeveloped) version of the normal fovea.
(3) The diagnosis of overriding mitral valve should be suspected in any patient with significant conotruncal anomalies and underdeveloped left ventricle, especially the patient with double outlet right ventricle, and in the patient with endocardial cushion defect, hypoplasia of the left ventricle, and obstructive anomalies of the aortic arch.
(4) The vascular anomaly, in turn, causes underdevelopment of optic nerve tissue and involvement of the bony orbit.
(5) Although the stapes, the interossicular joints, and the subarcuate fossae were slightly underdeveloped in the majority of cases, the other structures in the middle ear were almost normal.
(6) It is supposed that the changes in Thy 1 expression in nude animals are caused mainly by the underdevelopment of late developing brain regions due to thermoregulatory problems and other postnatal strains occurring in the mutants.
(7) Pathological changes of the placenta were more frequent than underdevelopment of the endometrium among the o.c.
(8) However, MDT is most unfortunately quite expensive and therefore inapplicable in most countries with high prevalence, since they are poor and underdeveloped.
(9) The design of this program, with its emphasis on teaching, may prove helpful for establishment of similar teaching programs in other medical disciplines in underdeveloped countries.
(10) None of the patients demonstrated sexual underdevelopment.
(11) It consisted of an underdeveloped humerus, a duplicated ulna, several carpal bones, a partially duplicated metacarpal bone and three digits with three hoofs.
(12) Postmortem findings include underdeveloped cerebellum, a thymus with moderate depletion of thymocytes, a large PDA, ASD, small adrenal, and fatty change of the liver.
(13) Three recommendations were derived from the symposium: (1) more complete and objective documentation of the impact of new technologies on the cost and outcomes of health services is urgently needed, (2) technical specifications for imaging instruments need better definition in terms of the medical problems to which they are applied, and (3) radiologists and radiologic societies in industrialized countries should support more generously the local training in radiology in underdeveloped countries.
(14) Deafness, cataract, muscular atrophy, skeletal abnormalities, retardation of growth, underdeveloped secondary sexual characteristics, and electrocardiographic abnormalities are the features of a new, probably hereditary syndrome.
(15) Ultrasound examination of the brain showed a very wide subarachnoid space and CT confirmed cerebral and cerebellar underdevelopment.
(16) Buhera is a relatively underdeveloped district, with health services provided by a district hospital, 2 rural hospitals, 12 health centers and 50 mobile clinics.
(17) The fact that this patient demonstrated an underdevelopment of the alveolar process in spite of the formation of almost normal crowns, is taken as evidence that the bone stimulating principle in tooth buds are not to be found in the enamel organ proper, but must be related to Hertwig's epithelial sheath, root development and tooth eruption.
(18) In a phenotypic (XY karyotype) eunuchoid female aged 24, external genitalia were represented by completely fused underdeveloped scrotolabial folds and a 1-cm-long phallus with phallic urethra.
(19) We believe that underdeveloped countries should develop clear programmes for the treatment of chronic renal failure and in addition initiate screening for renal diseases in the population so that early detection of renal disease, for instance in relation to urinary tract infection, can prevent progression to renal failure.
(20) Their flying car, Vaculik said, could eventually become a regular mode of transport for commuters and middle-distance travellers, especially in countries with underdeveloped road infrastructure.