(a.) Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique was applied to a discriminant function model using selected electroencephalographic sleep measures (sleep maintenance, percentage of rapid-eye-movement sleep, and percentage of indeterminate non-rapid-eye-movement sleep) in elderly patients with major depression or dementia of the Alzheimer type.
(2) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(3) Two complementary tests were used: a radioimmunoprecipitation assay (RIPA) and a HIV EIA recombinant assay (ENVACOR) to check 53 of these indeterminate sera.
(4) After complete, high quality x-ray mammography, a palpable mass or nonpalpable mammographic abnormality may remain indeterminate in etiology, and ultrasound may be useful as an adjunctive diagnostic modality.
(5) For the antibody-negative specimens, 90.3% of the results were interpreted as negative, 1.3% as positive, and 8.4% as indeterminate.
(6) David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation and a man you should always take seriously, believes there is a "small but indeterminate category of national security-related claims" in which closed hearings would be justified.
(7) Until recently it has been difficult to counsel blood donors with human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1)-indeterminate Western blot results due to a lack of information concerning the significance of this finding.
(8) Among Group 3 two target lesions could not be identified on specimen radiographs and one was indeterminate.
(9) As each microregion contains an unknown amount of embedding medium, this quantity generally lies indeterminately somewhere within the wide range between mmol of element per kg of hydrated tissue and mmol of element per kg of dehydrated tissue.
(10) Of the 12 children with continued indeterminate HIV-1 status, eight showed neither slgA nor serologic evidence of infection and four showed slgA antibodies.
(11) In the third case, which on gray-scale imaging appeared as an indeterminate cystic structure of the cord, color Doppler imaging demonstrated a complex abnormal vascular pattern suggestive of an angiomyxoma.
(12) Twenty six type strains were readily grouped, the oxidase positive, the oxidase negative, and the oxidase indeterminate groups.
(13) Clinical results included 18 cures, 3 improvements, 2 indeterminates, and 6 failures.
(14) No serum specimen collected after 2-11 months from individuals with indeterminate Western blot results was positive by EIA or Western blot.
(15) Of 198 patients who had colectomy or proctocolectomy because of inflammatory bowel disease, 52% had ulcerative colitis and 37% had Crohn's disease, 11% were indeterminable according to histologic evaluation of the surgical specimens.
(16) Physicians have generally remained passive or intransigent as the society in which they function attempts to compensate for the indeterminate nature of these clinical questions.
(17) Sixty-six patients had normal lung scans, 29 had high-probability defects suggestive of PE, and 21 had indeterminate-probability of PE.
(18) The cumulative patency rate at 5 years was 80% in the atherosclerosis group, 89% in the FMD group, and 74% in the indeterminate group.
(19) The results suggest that Chagas' disease in rhesus monkeys reproduces the acute and indeterminate phases of human Chagas' disease.
(20) In a large number of cases the initial manifestations are those of the indeterminate form and, in an even larger number of cases, of the tuberculoid pole.
Infinity
Definition:
(n.) Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.
(n.) Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.
(n.) Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.
(n.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.
(n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple doses of cholestyramine significantly altered HCTZ kinetics, including reductions in Ae(0-24) by 35% (P less than 0.02), AUC(0-infinity) by 32% (P less than 0.01), and Cmax by 31% (P less than 0.01).
(2) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(3) In the interim, Gough had also played a devious old friend of the Doctor – by now, Peter Davison – in the 1983 story Arc of Infinity.
(4) The rate constants and steady-state values for m were in agreement with the Hodgkin-Huxley equations except that the experimental relationship of m(infinity) (3) against V was shifted 10-15 mV in the negative direction.
(5) 115 mM-TEA reduced the amplitude of [I(m)(0) - I(m)(infinity)] by about 85%.3.
(6) Some spoke of access to on-site rooftop infinity swimming pools and top of the range company cars.
(7) The final expression is mathematically accurate to 1% and is valid for image radii ranging from 20 to 500 mum and for exposure times from 30 ms to infinity.
(8) The data from the other 15 subjects showed small differences, which did not achieve statistical significance between the formulations with respect to Cmax, Tpeak and AUC0-infinity.
(9) We introduce the following functions of alpha m and beta m. (sequence in text) where VH, td and tau p stand for holding potential, constant delay time of 10 microseconds, and transit time of the transition velocity of alpha m (or beta m) from its initial value alpha om (or beta om) to its final steady value alpha infinity m (or beta infinity m), respectively.
(10) A second technician was arranged and claimed that BT often sells Infinity 2 for lines that can’t support the guaranteed speed.
(11) In adult myocytes, when EGTA (10 or 20 mM) or bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid (BAPTA, 10 mM) were included in the pipette solution, contractions were rapidly abolished, while a small (4 mV) shift of f infinity to more positive potentials was seen.
(12) By contrast, BT signed up 400,000 subscribers to its fibre product, Infinity, with 95,000 added in the last quarter.
(13) In the time-dependent transfer of a lipid from a donor to an acceptor vesicle population a(t) is the amount transferred to the acceptor vesicles at time t, a infinity is the equilibrium transfer value and a0 is the value at zero time.
(14) In the last quarter, 131,000 signed up for the BT Infinity fibre-to-the-cabinet product, which offers speeds of up to 76mbps and is being priced on a par with the fastest copper lines, meaning BT now has more than half a million fibre customers.
(15) We’re focusing on that right now with Infinity War while we’re breaking into those movies, [to see] which characters we can pull to the forefront who potentially haven’t had their own ‘A’ story arc to this point.
(16) After pulsed excitation with a polarized light, the fluorescence anisotropy ratio of DPH in membranes rapidly decreased and gave a final value (r infinity).
(17) The area under the plasma concentration-time curve from t = 0 to infinity (AUC infinity) of S(-)-mepivacaine was almost double that of R(+)-mepivacaine.
(18) From the results of intravenous injections one can deduce linear ibuprofen pharmacokinetics within the considered dosage range, with corresponding AUC0-infinity values of 3786 micrograms * min ml-1 and 7260 micrograms * min ml-1 for the 200 mg and 400 mg doses, respectively.
(19) The voltage dependence of the use-dependent block produced by cocaine isomers did not overlap with the activation of Na+ channels but did overlap with the steady-state inactivation (h infinity), indicating that cocaine can bind directly to the inactivated state of Na+ channels before channel opening.
(20) Following administration of 1000 mg MPA the areas under the plasma concentration-time curves (AUC 0-infinity) were calculated to (mean and S.E.