(a.) Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached; as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two-thirds of the cytoplasmic water is inaccessible to sucrose and is designated c2.
(2) These are usually located in the intracranial part of the vertebral artery and less frequently in the lower basilar artery, and are therefore inaccessible to prophylactic vascular surgery.
(3) Unfortunately, transitional cell carcinoma may involve other regions of the prostate that are inaccessible by cystoscopy.
(4) Acquisition of Ab inaccessibility occurred very efficiently in this cell-free system (approximately 50% of total cell-associated 125I-BSST became inaccessible) and could be inhibited by anti-clathrin mAbs and by antibodies directed against the cytoplasmic domain of the transferrin-receptor.
(5) Inaccessibility of essential health information to the women most affected, and the physical as well as economic and sociocultural distance separating health services from the vast majority of women, are only part of the problem.
(6) It also provides important details about potential surgical routes to this relatively inaccessible region.
(7) Bypass of surgically inaccessible stenoses or occlusions appears to be a logical technique to prevent future stroke but there is much uncertainty about the clinical indications for surgery and even the natural history of the lesions being bypassed.
(8) In 2019, the long-awaited Crossrail project is due to open, but up until a few weeks ago, seven of the 38 stations on the route were set to remain inaccessible.
(9) Because of the mild and focal nature of the inflammatory infiltrates and involvement of regions inaccessible to the bioptome, sampling error contributes appreciably to false-negative results in endomyocardial biopsy tissue from patients with myocarditis.
(10) The dissociation constant of ATP from the unligated enzyme, a constant that has previously been experimentally inaccessible, has been measured for wild-type and several mutant enzymes.
(11) We must urgently tackle this culture of inaccessible politics.
(12) The problems faced in the prevention and control of malaria include problems associated with the opening of land for agriculture, mobility of the aborigines of Peninsular Malaysia (Orang Asli) and inaccessibility of malaria problem areas.
(13) However, in less than 15 sec, LTB4-treated PMN lose the ability to respond further to LTB4; decrease the affinity and number of high affinity receptors available for binding LTB4; sequester LTB4 in plasmalemma-associated sites that are inaccessible to a releasing buffer regimen; and begin internalizing LTB4.
(14) The species-specific inactivation in concluded from various lines of evidence to be ATP-site-directed and is attributed to alkylation of an amino acid residue of the rabbit enzyme which in the pig and carp enzymes is absent, inaccessible, or less reactive.
(15) Because the three major proteins of the Karp and Gilliam strains are accessible to antibody in unextracted organisms, it is possible that the exteriorly exposed epitopes of these three polypeptides are strain specific and that their common determinants are normally buried in the membrane or otherwise inaccessible.
(16) This decrease in PI-PLC sensitivity may reflect an alteration in the PI-glycan anchoring structures, or in a general membrane property, which renders the PI-anchored proteins inaccessible to the enzyme.
(17) A deficit in, or the inaccessibility of, J chain protein appears to facilitate hexamer formation.
(18) We have already introduced a vacuum drainage system, which is a special drainage system through a machine that removes water, but we cannot do anything about the climate of the Amazon.” Bastos went on to outline the problems with maintaining a pitch in such an inaccessible part of Brazil.
(19) We discuss the possibility that a shift in equilibrium between accessible and inaccessible transporters is operating.
(20) One of the physiological consequences of these interactions is that polymorphonuclear leukocytes stimulated with either chemoattractants or TNF form protected compartments at their interface with fibrinogen-coated surfaces and that elastase released into these compartments is inaccessible to protease inhibitors present in the plasma.
Opacity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.
(n.) Obscurity; want of clearness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
(2) The results showed that dogfish lenses developed superficial opacities due to near-UV exposure.
(3) We examined 84 eyes with different lens opacities, the visual acuity was analysed in relation to the axial, cortical and capsular cataract.
(4) Presence of aspecific lens opacities also did not correlate with the risk of having inherited the DM gene.
(5) The opacity changes resulting from storage in water can be reduced by increasing the polymerization time.
(6) Correlation with high-resolution computed tomography in two patients indicated that this opacity represented a sagittal orientation of the anterior minor fissure, with resultant inferomedial curving of the right upper lobe of the lung along the right border of the heart.
(7) Complications of trachoma (trichiasis and opacities) were common in this age group compared to those under 6 years of age.
(8) In conclusion, obliteration of the inner margin of the central vein and the opacity that decreased the radiolucency extending to the peripheral side of the upper lobe bronchus are strongly suggestive of interlobar lymph node enlargement.
(9) Experiences with surgical treatment of chronic endogenous uveitis in human patients have shown that vision-impairing axial opacities in the vitreous body can be removed by pars plana vitrectomy, and that a considerable decrease in the frequency and severity of uveitic relapses results.
(10) There is all sorts of opacity which makes it easy for an employee to suffer retaliation.” Despite recent reforms to improve transparency and accountability, the organisation remains impervious to public scrutiny, with no established mechanism for freedom of information – a right which more than 100 governments around the world have enshrined in law, and is openly advocated by UN bodies such as Unesco.
(11) These include fibrosis with or without consolidation (n = 12), ground-glass opacities (n = 7), widespread bilateral consolidation (n = 2), and bronchial wall thickening with areas of decreased attenuation (n = 2).
(12) Breaks responsible for rhegmatogenous retinal detachments in 78 eyes could not be seen preoperatively owing to opacities in the media, previous buckling or other causes.
(13) Opacities increased with increasing concentrations of NaLS from 5 X 10(-4) M to 5 X 10(-2) M, but at 5 X 10(-1) M all corneal preparations showed a decrease in opacity.
(14) In an increasingly digital society, the justification for opacity in trade negotiations has met its demise, and it's time that we see modern legal instruments negotiated in a transparent and inclusive manner in order to get the best outcome for our country.
(15) However, liver function tests and eye examinations for possible lens opacities are advised, and further long term studies in larger groups of patients are necessary before the side effect profile of lovastatin will be clearly established.
(16) Electron microscopy of L1210 cells exposed a short time (90 min) to 0.21-21 microM DHAQ reveals segregation of nucleoli; the segregated granular portion shows increased electron opacity.
(17) Lenticular lesions were present in all but two of the 18 patients with detailed ocular examination, whereas corneal opacities were found more often in type II than type I disease.
(18) Each control animal also developed a local lens opacity at the site of the capsular tear, as did half the animals treated with the discrete pattern.
(19) A critical discussion of the different opinions on the significance of histological findings in relation to pulp tolerance is presented, and finally the significance of water uptake and radiological opacity is discussed.
(20) Concomitantly there were opacities seen on chest X-rays.