(n.) One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.
(n.) A pressure gauge; a water gauge, as for a steam boiler; an apparatus or instrument for showing the working of a machine or moving part
(n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the piston rod of the engine. See Indicator card (below).
(n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc.
(n.) The part of an instrument by which an effect is indicated, as an index or pointer.
(n.) Any bird of the genus Indicator and allied genera. See Honey guide, under Honey.
(n.) That which indicates the condition of acidity, alkalinity, or the deficiency, excess, or sufficiency of a standard reagent, by causing an appearance, disappearance, or change of color, as in titration or volumetric analysis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(3) Isotope competition studies indicated that the pathway was regulated by isoleucine.
(4) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(5) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(6) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(7) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(8) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
(9) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(10) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(11) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(12) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
(13) The data from this experience as well as others previously reported can yield prognostic indicators of survival in cases of accidental hypothermia.
(14) The data indicate that ebselen is likely to be useful in the therapy of inflammatory conditions in which reactive oxygen species, such as peroxides, play an aetiological role.
(15) This induction is sensitive to actinomycin D but not to protein synthesis inhibitor puromycin, indicating an effect of estradiol at the transcriptional level, possibly mediated by the estrogen receptor.
(16) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(17) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(18) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.
(19) 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.
(20) These results indicate that astrocytes possess bradykinin receptors and that these are predominantly of the B2 subtype.
Indicatory
Definition:
(a.) Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.
Example Sentences:
(1) The inferences summarize the importance of the whole Proteus group as hygiene-indicatory microorganisms, producing enzymes of essential importance for the quality and biologic value of food products.
(2) Except mild and local myocardial lesion expressed by transient increase of indicatory enzymes we did not observed any other complications directly related to the ablation procedure.
(3) However, some changes in the activity of liver indicatory enzymes may be one of the first symptoms of this organ's damage.
(4) They have observed a linear relation between the PPA (wedge) and PPA values in patients with mitral stenosis and the total scores indicatory of submucous venous congestion.
(5) Changes in the activity of indicatory enzymes may be better expressed in the dose-response arrangement.
(6) Microbial quality of mechanically deboned beef (MDB), which was obtained by the discontinuous hydraulic horizontal separator, type Inject-Star (firm LASKA, Austria), was analyzed for the presence of indicatory microorganisms (coliforms and enterococci), pathogenic and conditionally pathogenic microorganisms.
(7) It determined the necessity of establishing an outpatient department of "AIDS and AIDS-indicatory infections" which represented a new organizational form of AIDS service.
(8) The formation of aflatoxicol both in vitro and in vivo may be an indicatory of species sensitivity to aflatoxin-induced carcinogenesis and may be useful in the prediction of human susceptibility.
(9) Chronic exposure to low concentrations of nitric oxides and chlorine induces, apart from local lesions in conjunctivae, pulmonary lesions leading to respiratory acidosis compensated by metabolic alkalosis, or liberation of indicatory enzymes through impaired cells.
(10) The significance of pression value in pulmonar artery is discussed from the scope of indicatory strategy as to provide an urgent surgery, i.e.
(11) As has been shown by Roaf (48) and by Kaufer and Hayes (33), the type and location of the lumbar spine injury can frequently and indicatory of load application.
(12) In spite of its suitable indicatory properties as to ascertain cell mediated immunity state, the LMT with the BCG were of no use as a tuberculin skin test correlate.
(13) Biosynthesis of enzymes, catalyzing amino acid conversion in food products, and deposition of end products of protein metabolism is a current problem for hygiene-indicatory microorganisms.
(14) Therefore, they estimate this surgical modality of treatment to be justified and appropriate in respect with contemporary indicatory criteria as well as other therapeutic modalities known to exert influence on gastroduodenal ulcers.
(15) Due to recent developments in modern interventional cardiology for the majority of patients with multi-vessel disease an indicatory and therapeutical grey-zone between bypass surgery and coronary angioplasty has arisen.
(16) The indicatory measures to vascular operations are delimited altogether summarizing the main criteria of successful grafting.
(17) Therefore its indicatory function (bleeding) and the ability to prevent the patient having biliary peritonitis or local abscess has to be put in doubt.
(18) These growth inhibitory (human) and stimulatory (mouse) effect of bestatin was found to be independent of adherent cells (macrophage and dendritic cell), indicatory directly working to T or B lymphocytes.
(19) Authors referred to indicatory criteria based on surgical management of gastroduodenal ulcer.
(20) Use of the appropriate high-titered blocking antisera unadequate to the indicatory system of MHT permits the detection of different species-specific and tumor antigens on the surface of the liver tissue culture cells with the use of heterologous unabsorbed immune sera.