(a.) Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.
(a.) Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy; unhallowed; -- said of persons or things.
(a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas.
(a.) Not purified according to the ceremonial law of Moses; unclean.
(a.) Not accurate; not idiomatic; as, impure Latin; an impure style.
(v. t.) To defile; to pollute.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two other impurities are pyrene derivatives but their acyl chains probably are not decanoic acid.
(2) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(3) The UV and IR absorption spectra of compounds present in the eluate were compared with those of model compounds that were assumed to exist in the gel as impurities after the polymerization (monomers and oligomers of hydroxyethyl methacrylate, decomposition products of initiators).
(4) Chloramphenicol, dinitrophenol, and impurities present in some brands of agar all appear to inhibit the growth-medium-dependent branch of excision-repair.
(5) The combined results describe the depth of segregation of DMS blocks in Avcothane, the presence of DMS within the topmost 20 A in Biomer, and similar impurities in the model polymers.
(6) An impure sample of PLC inhibited sperm penetration, while a more purified preparation did not.
(7) A liquid chromatographic (LC) method was adapted for the determination of epinephrine and related impurities in intravenous and cardiac injections; ultraviolet (UV) and electrochemical detectors (EC) were used in series.
(8) The determination of potency or shelf life, impurity limit testing, and study of reaction mechanisms are considered as different aspects of drug stability.
(9) Isolated cytochrome c oxidase was fractionated by native-gel electrophoresis in Triton X-100, and a preparation of enzyme almost completely free of the usual impurities was recovered.
(10) Although these are worst case calculations, a consistent approach should be reconsidered to limit the additional effective dose equivalent from impurities to e.g.
(11) As little as 50 nmol of a protein may be quantified and an impurity peak of molecular weight ca.
(12) Not all impurities were found in every lot of drug investigated, and none of the impurities exceeded a concentration of 1% of the meperidine present.
(13) Skin impurities and fatty hair associated with acne were side effects in 22.5% of 378 patients during the first evaluation and in 10.8% of 369 patients at the second evaluation.
(14) The organic solvent soluble impurities exhibited strong mutagenic activity for TA98 and slight activity for TA100.
(15) Following this order the absorbents can be used for purification of human albumin from non-specific impurities taking into account stronger adsorption of albumin or impurities.
(16) Trace amounts of an impurity commonly produced in the synthesis of 1,2-distearoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine, 1,3-distearoyl-2-sn-phosphatidylcholine, are found to dramatically reduce the rate of loss of small vesicles at 21 degrees C.
(17) It is shown on the basis of calculations of energy sublevels of the hyperfine structure that the effect of the geomagnetic field upon the impurity atoms in the volume of living cells should be considered in relation to the value of geomagnetic field induction pulses delta B.
(18) Contamination of cells by impurity atoms that may leach from electrodes was measured by atomic-absorption spectrophotometry and found to be negligible.
(19) Results presented here indicate that N-nitroso compound impurities are absent from the majority of the products tested.
(20) Eight of the proteins (L9, L11, L13, L21, L22, L35', L37 and L39) had no detectable contamination; the impurities in the others were no greater than 9%.
Impute
Definition:
(v. t.) To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.
(v. t.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.
(v. t.) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
Example Sentences:
(1) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
(2) the ISR can be inhibited by direct neural imput to the pancreas, and this inhibition is mediated by alpha-adrenergic receptors.
(3) In the absence of clinically noticeable symptoms or neurologic signs of central type, more than 65% of the patients showed an increase of slow activities together with a reduction of the alpha activity presumably imputable only to the respiratory pathology.
(4) The author gives a critical account of the development of views regarding the imputability of sexual delinquents and the possibility of protective therapy in sexual deviations.
(5) Sicca syndromes with sometimes lymphocytic infiltrate similar to those of Sjögren's syndrome were occasionally imputed to drug reactions.
(6) While missing data has been handled by a conservative imputation rule, the fact that so many persons are unable to provide an answer to this key question casts doubt on the accuracy of the answers that were given.
(7) Tugendhat described the "imputation" from the NME magazine articles as a "very serious one".
(8) It is argued that this arrangement of afferent imput may afford a convergence of limbic and sensory information in area PG and that this may subserve a significant function in the process of sensory attention.
(9) I argue by illustration that, first of all, it does make good sense to see the option to be lesbian as genuine for women in a fairly common sort of circumstance; that recognizing the genuineness of this option, however, does not impute to such women major control over their lives; that choosing to be lesbian may actually narrow rather than expand one's present options; and that nevertheless it is important to acknowledge such choices for their potentialities, in community, to change the meaning of "lesbian" in liberatory ways.
(10) Increase in cardiac output during cold air (1 degree C) exposure is thus only imputed to the higher heart rate partly due to hypersecretion of catecholamines.
(11) A review of the legal aspects recalls the principles of imputability in cases of cancer and trauma.
(12) These two imputs overlap in the central region of the nucleus.
(13) Yet their anxieties, fears, affects, the nature of their information-seeking and goal-setting, their efforts to deal with reality by controlling imput, and the ways in which they seek help and socialize, are all themes common among other groups of patients experiencing stress as the result of sudden illness or injury.
(14) We find that the method rarely imputes trial-to-trial variation to data sets that have an unchanging signal, while it almost always produces less error than averaging when estimating a varying signal.
(15) NDI is a well recognized complication of primary hyperparathyroidism, generally imputed to hypercalcemia, and promptly reversible after correcting it.
(16) The significance of these sources of afferent imputs to the lateral cerebellar nucleus is discussed.
(17) The purpose of this report is to document the procedures used in the 1988 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to select the sample, weight the data to produce national estimates, impute missing data, and estimate sampling errors.
(18) Using imputability scales made it possible to reduce the cause-effect relationship in 26 p. 100 of the cases.
(19) CAP combination chemotherapy was well tolerated without nephrotoxicity, which can be imputed to the strong saline hydration given.
(20) Imputability to a post-radiology bilateral external carotid thrombosis is evoked, where the diagnosis of tumoral recurrence and Horton's disease have been ruled out.