(a.) Falling or striking upon, as a ray of light upon a reflecting surface.
(a.) Coming or happening accidentally; not in the usual course of things; not in connection with the main design; not according to expectation; casual; fortuitous.
(a.) Liable to happen; apt to occur; befalling; hence, naturally happening or appertaining.
(a.) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
(n.) That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence.
(n.) That which happens aside from the main design; an accidental or subordinate action or event.
(n.) Something appertaining to, passing with, or depending on, another, called the principal.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
(2) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
(3) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(4) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(5) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(6) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
(7) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(8) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
(9) In a random sample of 1,000 neonates from a Delhi Hospital the incidence of jaundice was 53% and of hyperbilirubinaemia (HB) 6%.
(10) Peak incidence is found among 40 to 49-year-old and 60 to 64-year-old women.
(11) The high incidence of infant astigmatism has implications for critical periods in human visual development and for infant acuity.
(12) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
(13) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
(14) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(15) We have not had another incidence of fetal scalp infection associated with intrapartum monitoring.
(16) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
(17) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(18) In addition, recent increase of the annual incidence of the above both groups was clarified.
(19) We found that, although controlled release delivery of ddC inhibited de novo FeLV-FAIDS replication and delayed onset of viremia when therapy was discontinued (after 3 weeks), an equivalent incidence and level of viremia were established rapidly in both ddC-treated and control cats.
(20) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
Transmittance
Definition:
(n.) Transmission.
Example Sentences:
(1) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(2) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
(3) Media made hyperosmotic with sucrose increase the frequency of spontaneously released quanta of transmitter, or miniature excitatory postsynaptic potentials (MEPSPs).
(4) Ruthenium red (RuR) inhibits Ca2+ uptake and transmitter release in synaptosomes, and produces flaccid paralysis when injected intraperitoneally (IP) and convulsions after intracranial administration.
(5) These findings suggest that AAT participates in the synthesis of transmitter aspartate in the medulla oblongata of the rat.
(6) Transmitter uptake capabilities were also affected by developmental exposure to SLP, as was tyrosine hydroxylase activity.
(7) Assays of isolated single sympathetic neurones show that their transmitter functions can be either adrenergic or cholinergic depending on growth conditions.
(8) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(9) It is concluded that catechol potentiates excitatory transmission at the LOT-superficial pyramidal cell synapse, possibly by increasing evoked transmitter release.
(10) These include the transmitter at intraganglionic synapses, transmitters of the pair of inhibitory and the two pairs of acceleratory fibers, and neurohormones released from the pericardial organs.
(11) Today's identification of four types and various sub-types of 5-HT receptors has revealed the extraordinary eclecticism of this transmitter which within migraine's clinical expression underscores that migraine sufferers are characterized by a marked sensitivity to all the drugs capable of acutely or chronically interacting with serotonin metabolism and binding with many serotonin receptor types and sub-types.
(12) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(13) The results are taken to support a transmitter role for AVP in the rat hippocampus.
(14) GABA-immunogold reaction has revealed the presence of this inhibitory transmitter in most axon terminals containing ovoid-pleomorphic vesicles within the molecular layer, including those resembling climbing fiber-terminals.
(15) The fast effect is inhibited by raised Ca(2+), which does not inhibit transmitter release evoked by depolarizing pulses.
(16) Congenital generalized lipodystrophy is considered to be a diencephalic syndrome with disturbance of hypothalamic transmitters.
(17) The results suggest that substance P is the transmitter mediating the NANC contraction.
(18) Since cholinergic transmission is probably insignificant in the cerebellar cortex, the esterase itself might serve as a transmitter or modulator.
(19) Our results suggest that severe hypoxia decreased the release of transmitter from the pre-synaptic terminal.
(20) These results indicate that transmitter GABA plays an important role in retinocollicular transmission.