(a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
(a.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
(2) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(3) Both SAA and non-SAA enhanced ammonium excretion but only non-SAA enhanced organic anion excretion, an indicator of incomplete oxidation of organic acids.
(4) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.
(5) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
(6) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(7) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
(8) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(9) It is emphasized that the knowledge of the behavior and regulation of SO is incomplete and that this should be remembered when criteria for SOD are applied.
(10) That is cystoid macular edema is associated with incomplete PVD with vitreous contraction.
(11) Frequently, however, only incomplete data on confounders can be obtained from sources such as next-of-kin or co-workers.
(12) Patients with polyneuropathy or incomplete diagnostic evaluation were excluded.
(13) The expression of genes for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and of deo operon is regulated by rho dependent attenuators with attenuation being lifted incomplete medium.
(14) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
(15) N-heterocyclic aromatics are environmentally important carcinogenic pollutants produced by incomplete combustion of organic material.
(16) This variation in risk remained when allowance was made for the incomplete nature of some of the reproductive histories.
(17) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
(18) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
(19) In contrast, the control traumatic cases showed an incomplete recovery and a persistent residual neurological deficit.
(20) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
Pendent
Definition:
(a.) Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf.
(a.) Jutting over; projecting; overhanging.
Example Sentences:
(1) Poly(vinylbenzo-18-crown-6), a water-soluble polymer endowed with ion-binding crown moieties as pendent groups, forms insoluble complexes with polyadenylate in the presence of K+; the corresponding monomeric benzo-18-crown-6, does not form a precipitate under the same conditions.
(2) In fact for this last condition the heart and kidney fragments, when are transplanted after 48 hours in "pendent drop", result rarely surviving.
(3) A graft copolymer having poly(L-lysine) (PLL) as the backbone and monomethoxy poly(ethylene glycol) (MPEG) as pendent chains was synthesized.
(4) Radical copolymerization of a 4:1 mixture of methacrylic acid and N-[4-(phenylazo)-phenyl]methacrylamide afforded a copolymer of methacrylic acid bearing 10.4 mol% pendent azobenzene units.
(5) The standard oligonucleotide workup also exposed the pendent amino group, which was found to react with either fluorescent labelling agents or, as detailed below, a photoactivatable cross-linking agent.
(6) None proved practicable until the disintegration of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 left the Russian Federation with, initially, relatively weak frontier controls between it and the newly inde- pendent Baltic republics.
(7) This change was more marked in obese subjects with pendent breasts.
(8) The copolymer was sensitive to irradiation by virtue of the photochemical trans-to-cis isomerization of the pendent chromophore.
(9) Although the number of paw-shake cycles combined during swing varied greatly from 2 to 14, average cycle periods, burst durations, and intralimb synergies were similar to those previously reported for spinal cats tested under conditions in which the trunk was suspended and hindlimbs were pendent (23, 27).
(10) Regardless of slim or obese trunk, subjects with pendent breasts showed the highest degree of breast form "correction" from wearing the brassière.
(11) The mitral valve appears altered in a great proportion of coronary patients the most notorious characteristics being: a decrease in the EF pendent; an increase of the F index.
(12) There are particularly energetic ones winding across The Fairy Feller , which Dadd describes in "Elimination": Turn to the Patriarch & behold Long pendents from his crown are rolled, In winding figures circling round.
(13) These stalkless mutants were resistant simultaneously to both DNA and RNA phages and did not possess pili and DNA pendent stalkless mutants.
(14) In this study HPMA copolymers bearing pendent galactosamine residues (1.0-11.6 mol%) were injected intravenously into rats and their rates of blood clearance and liver accumulation were measured.
(15) Pendent nests of the wasp Microstigmus comes from Costa Rica contained up to 18 adults each.