(adv.) In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely.
Example Sentences:
(1) At present, anyone can bring a legal action for an indefinite period over a posted article.
(2) Comparing measurements of base line and 30 and 60% of Pmmax indicated that the degree of asynchrony, paradox, and variation in compartmental contribution were significantly related to the level of the load; significant abnormalities were observed at even 30% of Pmmax, a target pressure that can be sustained indefinitely.
(3) In contrast, administration of anti-Lyt-2 mAb alone (MST = greater than 47 days) or together with anti-L3T4 mAb (MST = greater than 50 days) caused prolonged or indefinite graft survival in all recipient mice.
(4) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
(5) The authors insist on the interest of the latter prosthesis, made concurrently, easily and solidly fixed, and immediately and indefinitely well tolerated.
(6) It is concluded that maintenance treatment of ulcerative colitis with sulphasalazine should be continued indefinitely unless contraindicated by side effects.
(7) Explicit expressions are derived which describe the binding of a univalent ligand to equivalent and independent sites on each state of an acceptor undergoing indefinite self-association that is governed by an isodesmic equilibrium constant KI.
(8) Upon infection with the adenovirus 12-simian virus 40 hybrid virus, primary human epidermal keratinocytes acquired an indefinite life span in culture but did not undergo malignant conversion.
(9) It stores up a problem: you can spread staff thinner for a short period of time but unless there is a managed staff restructuring a department could struggle to ask colleagues to fill in indefinitely.
(10) Concomitant administration of ART-18 and ART-65 to recipient animals in relatively low doses exerted a strikingly synergistic effect, with 30% of the transplants surviving indefinitely and 50% undergoing late rejection over 50 d. These studies provide evidence that anti-IL-2-R mAbs selectively spare phenotypically distinct T cells with suppressor functions.
(11) IHMS appears complicit in plans to detain children and adolescents on Christmas Island long term (indefinitely),” the doctors write.
(12) Since these cells are of indefinite origin, there is no way to predict which HCO3- transporting system is operable in these cells and, hence, what effect HCO3- will have on the pHin and the response of pHin to mitogens.
(13) Acid fast rods, constituting chemoautotrophic nocardioform bacteria, could be repeatedly cultivated and isolated and propagated indefinitely in vitro from fish actinomycotic macrophage granuloma from the massive epizootics of ulcerative disease syndrome of fish in eastern India during 1988-90.
(14) The other patient may use this technique indefinitely.
(15) With appropriate management, androgen levels can be maintained within the normal range indefinitely.
(16) Statistical analysis of an accelerated storage test by extrapolation of viral degradation indicates that the lyophilized viruses are stable indefinitely at or below room temperature.
(17) It is concluded that, at the present time, antibiotic coverage for an indefinite period of time may be indicated for surgically or functionally asplenic patients.
(18) I think it’s unlikely that they have an H-bomb at the moment, but I don’t expect them to keep testing basic devices indefinitely, either,” said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
(19) Reduced CCT was found in chronic degenerations of leutic, tuberculous or indefinite nature.
(20) We consider that the long-term use of topical mechlorethamine may be a safe form of therapy, but that a continuous indefinite follow-up of patients on this medication should be mandatory.
Torsion
Definition:
(n.) The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
(n.) That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
(2) In testing the contribution of the long, curved stem to the torsional stability of uncemented prostheses by comparing it with other stems, the long, curved stem was the most stable, followed by a shorter straight stem, and a short, proximally curved stem.
(3) The importance of prompt diagnosis of torsion is emphasized.
(4) In this paper, we develop functions suggested by and regression fit to crystallographic data which allow three of these torsion angles, alpha (O3'-P-O5'-C5'), delta (C5'-C4'-C3'-O3') and epsilon (C4'-C3'-O3'-P), to be calculated as dependent variables of those remaining.
(5) An alternative explanation, that there may be a pre-existing defect in spermatogenesis, was tested in 20 post-pubertal males with acute torsion.
(6) We measured the stiffness of comparable configurations (1 or 2 bars) under axial compression, four-point-bending in two planes, and torsion.
(7) (4) The spine becomes less flexible in the presence of preload when it is subjected to axial tension or axial torsion.
(8) On celiotomy, peritoneal effusion was present secondary to torsion of a 10 x 6 cm right ovarian cyst.
(9) Since some of these patients closely resembled cases of idiopathic torsion dystonia, the prior occurrence of asphyxia should be used as a criterion of exclusion for that diagnosis.
(10) These sequences adopt cruciform geometry when the DNA helix is torsionally strained by negative supercoiling.
(11) Gastric volvulus is an uncommon condition in which an acquired torsion of the stomach results in acute or chronic gastrointestinal symptoms.
(12) The adenine moiety is nearly planar and the torsional angle of the glycosidic linkage O(4')-C(1')-N(3)-C(4) is -161.5 degrees.
(13) Using the single criterion of presence or absence of identifiable intratesticular flow, the authors found that color Doppler was 86% sensitive, 100% specific, and 97% accurate in the diagnosis of torsion and ischemia in the painful scrotum.
(14) A single nucleotide structure having an anti adenine-ribose glycosidic torsional angle of -114 degrees was found to satisfy the experimental distance constraints.
(15) In group I (torsion maintained), unilateral torsion of the spermatic cord was maintained until the day of sacrifice; in group II (torsion and untwist), torsion of the spermatic cord was maintained for 8 to 12 hours, then the spermatic cord was untwisted and the testis was retained until the day of sacrifice.
(16) Values for helical torsional angles phi and psi assume a much wider range than anticipated.
(17) We report the clinical findings, diagnostic problems and treatment of a 1-year-old Coloured child (with classic 'prune belly syndrome') in whom the spleen had undergone torsion, thus simulating an intra-abdominal abscess.
(18) Idiopathic torsion dystonia (ITD) is characterized by sustained, involuntary muscle contractions, frequently causing twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal postures.
(19) The effect of increasing torsional stress on the conformation of the composing elements was determined by analysis of the sensitivity to the single strand-specific S1 endonuclease and it was observed that the sites of conformational alterations correspond to the positions relevant for promoter function (upstream activator sequence, TATA sequence, and RNA initiation site).
(20) Intranucleotide proton-proton distances combined with the knowledge of sugar puckers have been used to fix the glycosidic bond torsion angle (chi).