(a.) Not mutable; not capable or susceptible of change; unchangeable; unalterable.
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).
Mutable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
(1) However, at the aprt locus the repair-deficient cells were much more highly mutable (9-15-fold) than the repair-proficient AT3-2 cells.
(2) It is postulated that the cartoon serves to stabilize the more mutable portrayals of psychiatrists in other media.
(3) However, this mutant was only slightly mutable by MNNG in comparison with the wild-type strain.
(4) Analysis of the bases neighboring the mutations appeared to be related to the mutability of the base pairs with the sequence of 5'-purine-G-G-3' being the most frequently mutated.
(5) Facts were mutable, and didn’t need to displace a good yarn.
(6) The uvrA- strain was more sensitive to induction of mutations by CMNU than the wild and polA- strains, but the recA- strain was hardly mutable by CMNU.
(7) Three UVS mutants were characterized by greatly increased mutability in all analysed loci; slight mutability was found in seven mutants.
(8) Multicopy plasmids carrying either the umuDC operon of Escherichia coli or its analog mucAB operon, were introduced into Ames Salmonella strains in order to analyze the influence of UmuDC and MucAB proteins on repair and mutability after UV irradiation.
(9) The P1CMrec plasmid was also involved in the creation of new mutant genes within the E. coli genome (not carrying recA), some mutabilities being very high upon extended incubation.
(10) The existence of gam3 and gam5 mutants indicates that at least two common steps control both nuclear DNA repair and the mutability of particular alleles of the mtDNA.
(11) Gene mutations in phage PZA were induced by hydroxylamine and their frequency was compared with the evolutionary mutability.
(12) The presence among wild mice of a haplotype (H-2u21) that appears to be very similar to a haplotype (H-2v) carried by an inbred strain (B10.SM) has some interesting implications for considerations of H-2 gene mutability.
(13) In excision deficient cells the effect of the plasmid on survival was less pronounced while cell mutability was increased.
(14) Similar type of different mutability was found in mutagen-sensitive strain mus-201G1 and in the control 3-4 strain having the same genetical background as mus mutation.
(15) In non-UV-mutable umu and lexA strains, UV mutagenesis can be demonstrated if delayed photoreversal is given.
(16) The chronology of genetic events leading to the discovery of mu implicates, but does not prove, the insertion of a "foreign" DNA segment as the basis of mutability.
(17) High mutability, disturbance of the development of the life cycle and genetic instability are traits which resemble hybrid dysgenesis in Drosophila and meiotic dysgenesis in Phycomyces.
(18) No marked effect of the mutation on UV-mutability at lower doses was apparent.
(19) Previous studies have shown the non-mutability of Haemophilus influenzae either by UV irradiation of the cells or by irradiating the transforming DNA and transformation of competent cells.
(20) With respect to mutability the BC1 descendants of both types could be divided into two classes.