(a.) Incapable of being defined or described; inexplicable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of samples with indefinable statistics due to a zero denominator can be as high as 30% when the sample sizes are 500 for three, four and five category-state classifications.
(2) A chest X-ray film showed a left hydropneumothorax with an indefinable left diaphragm, that was confirmed by ultrasonography.
(3) There’s a special extra quality you need that is indefinable, and I know I don’t have it.
(4) Diabetes is more than one disease, it is indefinable, probably genetically multifactorial, and presents several facets with varying degrees of heredity and environment in their constitution.
(5) Gonad primordium of Ambystoma mexicanum when grafted at tail-bud stage on Triturus alpestris is indefinately tolerated.
(6) Moyes had suggested that there might be some intangible mental weakness behind his team’s poor start, even an indefinable “something” that goes beyond rational explanation: a bad vibe, a hex, a shadow.
(7) The remaining implantation sites contained either abnormal, very retarded embryos or indefinable embryo remnants.
(8) Kaposi's sarcoma was diagnosed in a 62 year old female at the last stage of an indefined malignant lymphoma.
(9) It is there in Javert's conversion towards the end of the novel: his sense of "some indefinable sense of justice according to God's rules that was the reverse of justice according to man".
(10) There is no doubt that over the last 2 decades medical imaging has changed the diagnostic process, but its influence on the outcome of disease other than infections is less certain and probably indefinable.
(11) "I have not come as a taskmaster," she said, her eyes elevated towards the room's ornate sunlit ceiling as if focusing on some indefinable spot.
(12) These included, in order of their frequency, QTc prolongation (85%), T-wave abnormality (82%), PQ prolongation (19%), widening of QRS with or without bundle branch block pattern (19%), and supraventricular or indefinable tachycardia with wide QRS complexes (8%).
(13) But these are inevitably imperfect efforts to capture in visual form the unique charisma, the indefinable Clegginess of Clegg.
(14) The patients feel a typical, almost indefinable, particuliar crawling sensation reminiscent of the movement of worms.
(15) The majority of oligodendrocytes contain large indefinable heterogeneous electron-dense structures within their perikaryon or processes.
(16) Once Alex and Danielle thought they saw his white pant-leg duck into the bathroom; another time the couple heard an indefinable growling under the bed.
(17) This recording method is especially good for continuing education courses and for detailed storing of certain results, because the method may be reprodused indefinately.
(18) Wetmore and Singer add that some tumors are radioresistant for indefinable reasons.
(19) The problem of defining life is discussed, using as foundation Herman Dooyeweerd's philosophy of the Cosmonomic Idea, which holds that life is indefineable.
(20) We have to balance our fears of the indefinable, nebulous worlds of crime and terrorism, with the fact that, if we put Tasers in our public servants' hands, at some point they'll use them on us.
Undefinable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These methods can be applied to the purification and characterization of the as yet undefined secretory and circulating forms of PTHrP.
(2) The data dissociate two 1,25(OH)2D effects, direct attenuation of activation of Ns via the PTH receptor and interference with the as yet undefined mechanism(s) of GC augmentation.
(3) Differences in the degree of inhibition of the binding of the two MABs by individual anti-A or -A,B samples indicate that polyclonal reagents are composed of varying proportions of up to 3 (or more) different antibody specificities, each recognizing a distinct epitope: PL41-like, AL62-like and a third (as yet undefined) category of antibody.
(4) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(5) Thus, IVBAT appears to be a low-grade malignant mesenchymal neoplasm, composed of poorly differentiated mesenchymal cells, whose exact nature remains undefined with the currently used cell-type markers.
(6) This result suggests the presence on the peptidoglycan of gram-negative bacteria, of other undefined antigenic determinants.
(7) Genetic and biochemical evidence indicates that the product of the ros locus is a negative regulator of Ti plasmid genes and is related to undefined chromosomally encoded functions that are involved in the mutant phenotype.
(8) This enzyme was originally found as an undefined protein kinase, which could be activated by limited proteolysis by a Ca2(+)-dependent neutral protease, calpain.
(9) The nature of these undefined opioid binding sites is discussed.
(10) L3T4 may be an early component of the system that transduces the activation signal from the T-cell receptor complex to the cytoplasm, a cell-surface receptor for a yet undefined natural ligand that delivers a negative signal to the killer T cell, or it may modulate the avidity of the antigen-specific T-cell receptor through a direct physical association with it.
(11) Although, their insensitivity to low Cd2+ concentrations and sensitivity to Ni2+ ions would support the involvement of T-type calcium channels, the lack of effect of amiloride suggests that they belong to a yet undefined class of calcium channels.
(12) If, as a result of recent accomodations between man and the group A streptococcus, the risk of rheumatic fever is less, an undefinable risk nevertheless remains.
(13) The pathological events leading to the formation of an intracerebral hematoma following the evacuation of a chronic subdural hematoma still remain undefined.
(14) The data point to the presence of an as yet undefined CD4+ T cell-derived granuloma-inducing factor and favor the hypothesis that CD8+ T cells, in collaboration with circulating phagocytes, mediate immunity by rapidly liberating listeriae from permissive cells or protecting them from becoming infected.
(15) It is proposed that serum myoglobin is a reliable measure of myocardial necrosis and serves to detect a hitherto undefined population of small-size acute myocardial infarction, with its attendant clinical and prognostic implications.
(16) The generation of the stimulatory factor(s) present in glucocorticoid-conditioned medium is apparently dependent upon undefined cellular alterations which result from the subcultivation-procedure; confluent or low-density quiescent cultures did not generate media stimulatory to cell growth in the presence of glucocorticoids.
(17) Comparison of these data versus the known structure-activity relationships of alpha-MSH related to CNS bioactivities suggests the existence of nonclassical alpha-MSH receptor-mediated pathways or, perhaps, a yet undefined endogenous neuropeptidergic pathway(s) having different selectivities for alpha-MSH analogs.
(18) A normal electrical control activity frequency was present in three patients, one with a proven neuropathy and two with undefined pathology.
(19) These latter antibodies may recognize HLA DR or another as yet undefined gene product within, or closely associated to, the human MHC.
(20) Activation of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D formation may be secondary to hypophosphatemia or other, as yet undefined, factors.