(v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
(n.) A wall; an inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Capillaries and cells were "immured" with fibrillary substance which was produced by the tumour cells themselves.
(2) At the same time, the Observer believes Mr Cameron's renowned lack of attention to detail, and a casual disregard for consequences (perhaps his wealth has immured him from the habit), means that the very values that the big society is intended to inculcate and cherish are being rapidly undermined, widening inequality and accelerating social injustice.
(3) It is literally an immuring within prison walls – on the grounds, not of credible public danger, but of imputed morality, or revenge (“a just desert”).
(4) The locally ill-defined tumor in the fatty tissue of the renal pelvis immured small arteries and veins as well as an interlobar artery, and caused damage to the vascular walls accompanied by the development of aneurysm, perforation and fistulation into the renal pelvis, by mechanisms open to various pathogenetic interpretations.
(5) For the cases when granulation does not lead to the formation of a membrane or when the membrane growth is too slow, the present author developed a method of immuring a foreign body - a silk thread - into the granulation layer for as long as 6 to 8 days.
(6) Nevertheless, progressing fibrosis has a considerable influence on cell shape as the surrounded cell complexes are quasi immured, and their supply and transport procedures impaired.
(7) Almost all of his work was painted for king and court and stayed exactly where it was made, long after his death in 1660, immured in the Spanish royal palaces.
(8) After the sprays become immured in dentine matrix, the stems are removed.
(9) The much-doubted goalkeeper Paul Robinson then organised a defensive wall before, in effect, leaving himself immured by standing unsighted directly behind it.
(10) (c) The recent integrative position in which instead of the systems' self-immured isolation or the nonspecifics' paralyzing equivalence of all therapies, a synthesis of specific approaches within a larger nonspecific theory or practical strategy is attempted.
Immute
Definition:
(v. t.) To change or alter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The finding that spontaneous changes in this dimension are relatively common raises the possibility that classical attitudes concerning the immutability of osseous relationships in the symphyseal region during growth may be inappropriate.
(2) This indicates that the immutability of the condylar path under varying clinical conditions is questionable.
(3) We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America.
(4) The plaque is not a static immutable structure, but is subjected to growth with consequent stenosis of the lumen and continuing modification and remodelling which involve all the 3 coats of the arterial wall.
(5) Such events are quite discordant with classical cytogenetic theories, which assume all chromosome rearrangements to require at least two breaks and consider centromeres and telomeres as immutable structures rather than structures determined by mutable DNA sequences.
(6) SI neuron functional properties conventionally regarded as immutable [e.g., directional selectivity, and distribution of sensitivity within the receptive field (RF)] also modify with repetitive stimulation.
(7) It is an immutable law of economics that the rich have to keep getting richer, otherwise the whole system collapses and then what happens?
(8) It is apparent that there is no immutable evidence to date to indicate that cholecystokinin cholecystography is an accurate technique to determine which patients in this category will benefit from cholecystectomy.
(9) In other words, we have not settled immutably on one system because we are still searching for the best.
(10) Even if that is true, No 10 knows there is one immutable fact.
(11) The concept of blood-brain barrier has moved over the past years from a passive and relatively immutable structure to a more dynamic interface between blood and brain tissue.
(12) Although both rad mutants are immutable to about the same extent, the rad9 strains tend to be less sensitive to the lethal effect of chemical mutagens than rad6 strains.
(13) Our mission is to persuade them to do so.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tony Blair compares Brexit to a bad house swap He argued people’s opinions were not immutable and debate about the wisdom of Brexit should not be stifled.
(14) Our experiments suggest that beta-receptor expression does not follow an immutable program, but may be regulated by density-dependent cell-cell interactions.
(15) As a result, their responses do not bear an immutable relationship to the nature of the stimulus or other variable being modified; stimuli and activities that are rewarding in certain circumstances are avoided in others.
(16) Such findings have bolstered what is currently the most popular theoretical approach to retarded functioning-namely, the view that all retardates suffer from some specific defect which inheres in mental retardation and thus makes the retardate immutably "different" from normals, even when the general level of intellectual development is controlled.
(17) Political positions that appeared for years to be immutable have suddenly started to shift.
(18) "I think the authority that we enjoy comes from the depth of our reporting and that is immutable.
(19) After those three years I was no longer the same person with the same heart and mind, I was immutably changed forever.
(20) The indications for implanting depend on certain immutable criteria (total deafness, auditory response to electrical stimulation of the round window, patient's motivation), but other criteria are also described and discussed (socialization level, cochlear ossification, and preoperative electrophysiologic data).