(a.) Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is an inborn error of the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of fatty acids.
(2) Fibroblasts cultured from the skin of a patient with metachromatic leukodystrophy have been found to manifest the biochemical defect of this inborn error of metabolism, a deficiency of arylsulfatase A. Diseased cells had less than five per cent of normal arylsulfatase-A activity, while activities of other lysosomal enzymes-including arylsulfatase B, beta-galactosidase, beta-glucuronidase, and beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase-were comparable to those in control cells.
(3) Defects in this enzyme are responsible for one of the most common inborn errors of metabolism in humans.
(4) The current major indications for prenatal diagnosis are Down's syndrome (Trisomy 21), numerous rare inborn errors of metabolism, and neural tube closure defects.
(5) The authors discuss the problem of administration and amount of fluids and electrolytes in neonates after operations of inborn developmental defects and during the postoperative period.
(6) Hurler syndrome, a lethal inborn error of lysosomal metabolism, results from the systemic accumulation of glycosaminoglycan.
(7) Prognosis of this "inborn error of metabolism" is not favorable due to calcium-oxalate depositions in kidney and other organs.
(8) Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency is a common inborn error of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation.
(9) The child was also shown to be a genetic carrier for ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, an x-linked inborn error of urea cycle metabolism.
(10) These patients appear to have deleterious inborn enzymatic abnormalities of a type originally postulated by Garrod.
(11) The surgery also impaired the corrective movements, especially if their direction was opposite to the inborn unconditioned reaction.
(12) It appears that most patients with well recognized disorders are not being diagnosed, and it is our conviction that there are new, as yet unidentified, inborn errors of metabolism in this population of patients.
(13) Inborn and learned ability to detect mild, nonpainful distension of the sygmoid colon was examined in 22 patients who underwent colonostomy one year or more before the investigation.
(14) And so we consider psoriasis to be an inborn fault in the metabolism of epidermal and other cells, which is only provoked by secondary influences (drugs, allergic reactions, local traumas).
(15) The hypothesis is advanced that both phenomena represent inborn dialectical logical instruments of evolution-like human identity creation and maintenance.
(16) Jack Ashley provided the political language and the inborn fighting skill, but she would labour to help him find the killer facts.
(17) We want to modify the albino definition as a hereditary and congenital inborn error of metabolism related to the pigment cell, and resulting in a systemic disorder that is characterized by anomalies of eyes, and hypopigmentation in most cases or absence of pigment in skin, hair, and eyes, and of which the neuro-anatomical consequences are the most characteristic.
(18) In a 5-year period, 476 consecutive live and inborn neonates weighing less than or equal to 1000 gm were studied.
(19) We believe that it is particularly suitable for the rapid and acute diagnosis of inborn errors of metabolism, especially the organic acidurias, and for acute pediatric clinical care, when rapid monitoring of major metabolic alterations is required in a time scale suitable to influence directly and immediately the therapy of the patients concerned.
(20) Serum levels of 7 alpha-hydroxycholesterol, 7 beta-hydroxycholesterol and 26-hydroxycholesterol were determined in several groups of patients: normals, untreated patients suffering from cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, patients suffering from cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis and treated with either chenodeoxycholic acid or cholic acid in an effective dose, patients suffering from cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome, patients suffering from hypercholesterolemia and treated with cholestyramine for prolonged periods and one patient presumed to be suffering from an inborn error of metabolism in bile acid synthesis.
Inherent
Definition:
(a.) Permanently existing in something; inseparably attached or connected; naturally pertaining to; innate; inalienable; as, polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection.
Example Sentences:
(1) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(2) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(3) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
(4) Control incubations revealed an inherent difference between the two substrates; gram-positive supernatants consistently contained 5% radioactivity, whereas even at 0 h, those from the gram-negative mutant released 22%.
(5) The results strongly suggested that the rate of learning depended largely on factors inherent within the individual animals.
(6) These observations indicate that radiosensitivity is retained in vitro and is an inherent property of the testicular tumour cells.
(7) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(8) The interresponse-time reinforcement contingencies inherent in these schedules may actually mask the effects of overall reinforcement rate; thus differences in response rate as a function of reinforcement rate when interresponse-time reinforcement is eliminated may be underestimated.
(9) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
(10) Where Jim Broadbent stands as an inherently warm screen presence, his co-star's image is rather more flinty.
(11) Methodological difficulties inherent in incidence and prevalence studies of native Canadians are examined.
(12) Because of the inherent limitations of computed tomography in the visualization of posterior fossa structures, MR imaging should be considered the initial screening procedure in the assessment of patients with trigeminal neuralgia.
(13) It is shown that when a constant current is applied such that a stable equilibrium and rhythmic firing are present, the following predictions are inherent in the HH system of equations: (a) Small instantaneous voltage perturbations to the axon given at points along its firing spike result in phase resetting curves (when new phase versus old phase is plotted) with an average slope of 1.
(14) Continuous postoperative follow-up of the patients (from a few months to 14 years) and analysis of the early and late results allow to regard the combined technique of Coffey II-Nesbit-Goodwin as the method of choice having the slightest risk of peritonitis, intestinoureteral reflux and other complications inherent in other procedures.
(15) Psychiatric testimony to ultimate questions at law is limited by the inherent contextual variables of psychiatric clinical and experimental knowledge and practice.
(16) To study the inherent radiation sensitivity of vulvar carcinoma, we tested three new vulvar carcinoma cell lines and the long-established cell line A-431 by using a 96-well plate clonogenic assay, earlier shown by us to be suitable for survival studies of SCC.
(17) Numerous factors influenced its activity: method of spore production, inherent spore resistance characteristics, alkalination, storage time and storage temperature.
(18) Thus, many of the reported behavioral differences between normals and retardates of the same mental age are seen as products of motivational and experiential differences between these groups, rather than as the result of any inherent cognitive deficiency in the retardates.
(19) These data demonstrate that monocytes from subjects with psoriasis are altered and suggest an apparent inherent metabolic disorder.
(20) Hitherto performed abdominoperineal or sacroperineal procedures entailed major traumatizing surgery with an inherent risk of complications.